![]() ![]() The conflict in this story is when the mother phones to announce she is getting married again and they will be coming to take Julie to live with them. Everybody in the story is fine with this. Julie's mother left her for six years, returning to visit at Christmas each year, while she lives in a big city in the North working as an Interior Decorator. It is the late '60s and feminism was in the air and I can only think that had some influence on this book. The flip side of the story is confusing to me and I can't really tell where the author is coming from in this. Generally, she is a very content little girl and we follow her not so exciting, but interesting events in life. ![]() Julie loves the plantation, the nature surrounding her, school life, rural life, her grandparents, and can't wait until the pet dog has puppies because she has been promised first pick of the litter this time. Her father died when she was little and her mother left her with his parents when Julie was two. ![]() The story is contemporary, set at the time of writing, late '60's. On the one hand, we have 8-year-old Julie who lives with her grandparents on a small plantation in South Carolina. This is the first time that Eleanor Francis Lattimore has presented a story I'm not thrilled with. ![]() Reason for Reading: I am in the process of trying to read and review all of the author's books, since little else is otherwise available on the internet. ![]()
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