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Donna Parker TAKES A GIANT STEP - Whitman Girl's Series
Marcia Martin
1964 1561897847 Abourt Donna Parker - she was more like most of us girls growing up in the 50s and 60s. She had no horses to gallop off on, her mother insisted she eat a healthy breakfast every morning, her little brother was a torment rather than cute like Bobby Belden, the biggest event in her life most of the time was facing a new schoolday. Her adventures—even though she managed on one occasion to accompany a friend on a chase after industrial spies—were decidedly of a tamer sort than Nancy Drew's or the Bob Whites of the Glen: who was living out in the old house in the woods? Why was her best friend Ricky suddenly distant to her? I'm sure some girls found Donna boring. She wasn't the impulsive sort, didn't run into crooks and thieves around every corner, did well in school and liked to go to nice parties of the sort parents approved of in those days, was mostly neat in her habits. Sometimes I found her too patient, too forbearing, too darn neat and so depressingly feminine.Synopsis: The "giant step" is Donna's first year of high school; unable to make the school cheerleading squad because of Ricky's mistake, she volunteers to sell programs for the football team and comes under the wing of Janie Ingersoll, a girl infatuated with the team's star player, Rudy Hinkle. Meanwhile, the Parkers' houseguest, Jeff Stanhope, son of family friends who are moving to Summerfield in a few months, becomes very popular at Donna's school and starts a movement to build a teen center after house parties in Summerfield become targets of marauding teens from a neighboring town. Note: Donna Parker has her own website, where you can read about all the other six books in the series by Marcia Martin. This book published in 1964 by Whitman. The book is in very good condition, the pages are yellowing with age and there is shelf-wear around edges. Some peeling of the book cover. 282 pages. Whitman Publishing
Hard Cover Very Good Condition Racine Wis. This Edition out of Print
Price:
29.70 USD
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