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=The Old-Fashioned Girl= by Louisa May Alcott

This book isn't really what you'd expect a teenager to be reading, but if you love books, (like me!!) then it doesn't matter! The "Old-Fashioned Girl" takes place in England, and is basically about this country girl called Polly Milton who goes to visit her fashionable friend Fanny Shaw in the city, for a couple of months. The Shaws aren't what you would call a happy family, even though they don't know it; there's money-making Mr. Shaw, the fussy (and sometimes selfish) invalid, Mrs Shaw, there's Tom Shaw, who's a rascal and an irritant, there's Fanny Shaw, a fashionable young lady, who worries about her makeup and her impressions, and there's Maud Shaw, the baby of the family, who always needs attention and can't pronounce the letter "R" yet. But here comes old-fashioned, helpful, cheerful Polly as an angel in disguise and helps the Shaw family realize, as the children grow up, that there's more to life than money, fashion, boys and makeup; that there's a thing in the world more important still: a strong and loving family. I really liked this book as it made me realize that love as a family is more important than anything in the world.

Shilpa ;)