I was reading Bookburger a few weeks ago and I saw Allegra Maud Goldman mentioned as a book Laura Ruby had liked as a teenager. I’ve read a lot of YA and this was not a book I recognized, so I reserved it through the ILL system. OMG awesome.
This is one of the BEST YA books I’ve read in a long time. One of the best “coming of age” type stories about girls growing up in the shadow of male privilege, pre WWII. Much of Allegra Maud Goldman still speaks to what it’s like to grow up a girl today. Which is really too bad, isn’t it?
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