A novel, 1912
Daddy-Long-Legs
Jerusha Abbott grows up in the John Grier Home, an orphanage, and longs for life beyond it.
How it begins
The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day—a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste.
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About the book
Length
1 chapter and 8 sections
First published
1912
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- A Little PrincessSeven-year-old Sara Crewe leaves India with her devoted father, Captain Ralph Crewe, to attend Miss Minchin's school in London.
- FrecklesFreckles, a lonely young man with one hand and no family history he considers his own, asks McLean for work guarding timber in the Limberlost swamp.
- A Girl of the LimberlostElnora Comstock wants an education and a life beyond her impoverished home near the Limberlost swamp.
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