Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs
This is one of my all-time favorite books--I read it many, many times in childhood and beyond--so I was super excited that it was FYA's July book (even though it's not really a YA book! It's a classic girls' college book!). Jerusha is one of the funniest, sweetest, most exuberant characters ever, and the epistolary format really works here. She's also occasionally wickedly sarcastic; I love all her little digs at women not being able to vote. PLUS, I found a Kindle edition that has the adorable illustrations! This is truly a classic book and it sucks that Webster died in childbirth before she could write many more. Stupid early 1900s.
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