What one reviewer at amazon said about An Old Fashioned Girl:
For all the fans of Louisa May Alcott and her works, and also others as well, this book is a story that would spark your interest. Here, Ms. Alcott keeps the humor, friendship, morals, and the realistic personality of her characters going, like her other novels. The story starts as 14 year-old Polly Milton, a good natured country girl, comes to stay a month at her friend's house. But she soon comes to realize that Fanny Shaw, her friend, acts and dresses like a young lady, compared to her simple old-fashioned ways. Tom, Fanny's brother keeps most of the boyish humor in the book, mischievous, cunning, but good hearted, he feels that he is rather neglected in the family. Polly with her innocent ways, changes the relationship of the family by and by, with plenty of touching parts, and humourous pranks along the way, and through out the book, and becomes precious to the Shaw family, while dealing with her own troubles. Six years after Polly's first visit, Fanny, Tom and herself are grown to be young adults, and finds them selves dealing with tragety, but also love. And all deal with decisions, and hard troubles, while the friends' relationship gets closer as Polly's good and old-fashioned ways gets them through their troubles, and towards the happy end. A wonderful book, truly showing that glamour, fashion, gossip, or anything of that sort does not matter much, but true and an innocent heart is important in life. Happy reading, God Bless.
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