Going on Sixteen
by Betty Cavanna
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Fourteen-year-old Julie tries to escape her own sense of inadequacy and her friends' talk of boys and parties by devoting herself to raising an orphaned collie pup.Tags
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An awkward girl finds confidence and realizes that everybody else has the same sort of self-doubt and uncertainties that she faces. It's done in a very sweet way (as expected for something written in the 1940s!).
Unexpectedly, the basic story was actually about a girl and her dog. Well done, not too sentimental, and I could easily relate to it.
Unexpectedly, the basic story was actually about a girl and her dog. Well done, not too sentimental, and I could easily relate to it.
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Rough collies -- children's/young adult fiction
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81+ Works 2,020 Members
Series
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Vintage Scholastic (T0146)
Scholastic T (146)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Going on Sixteen
- Original publication date
- 1946
- People/Characters
- Julie Ferguson
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Teen, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 808.899 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures Collections of literary texts from more than two literatures Collections by and for groups of people Literature for and by groups of people with specific attributes, residents of specific areas
- LCC
- PZ7 .C286 .G — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 135
- Popularity
- 241,031
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.69)
- Languages
- English, Finnish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 8
