Kategoria BISAC: Young Adult Fiction >> Girls & Women

Daddy Long Legs is a classic that still amuses and inspires. An epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha -Judy- Abbott, through her college years. She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen. Most people, writes Jerusha Abbot to Daddy-Long-Legs, run life as a race, at the end of which they are too tired to be happy. -I've decided to sit down by the way and pile up a lot of little happinesses.- Here is a charming novel of an orphan who, through pluck and good cheer, wins the patronage of an...

Cornelia Greene is fed up with gossip about her mother. Caty Littlefield Greene was once a beautiful young bride who lifted the troops' spirits at Valley Forge, but Cornelia knows that rumors of Caty's past indiscretions hurt Nathanael Greene, Cornelia's adored father. Yet Caty claims that she's just a flirt, and that flirting is a female necessity--a woman's only means of power.

Cornelia's concern with her mother's reputation abruptly fades to the background when she learns that Nathanael Greene may not be her father. As she searches for the truth, she makes unexpected discoveries...

'Olivia's Secret Love' is the sequel to 'Olivia's Teenage Challenge'. Olivia is the oldest in a family of four children in Canberra, Australia. Now, aged fourteen and a half, she continues to enjoy the companionship of her four girlfriends and the many activities they share together. But for Olivia a new and exciting friendship seems to be developing with the older brother of one of her girlfriends. Or is it all in her imagination? Is it just wishful thinking on her part? That is the main theme of this story, but you will also read about a risky Internet adventure, Olivia's ongoing...