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Patty's Summer Days

Carolyn Wells

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .t proves you a true barbarian.”

“I think it’s lovely,” said Patty, looking at her gay-coloured beads. “I don’t care if I do like crazy things. Ethel likes these beads, too.”

“That’s all right,” said Mrs. Allen. “Of course you like them, chickadees, and they look very pretty with your light frocks. It’s no crime, Patty, to be barbaric. It only means you have youth and enthusiasm and a capacity for enjoyment.”

“Indeed I have,” said Patty. “I’m enjoying all this so much that I feel as if I should just burst, or fly away, or something.”

“Don’t fly away yet,” said Ethel. “We can’t spare you. There are lots more things to see.”

And so there were. After the concert they walked on, and on, continually seeing new and interesting scenes of one sort or another. Indeed, they walked so far tha. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I just love the Patty books! The remind me of Anne of Green Gables sometimes, except Patty is a more wholesome girl. In this one, Patty exhausts herself getting through her graduation and is ordered to have a relaxing summer. This sweet story of times gone past was wonderful

Patty's Summer Days, part of a series of novels for girls originally published over a hundred years ago, is entirely plotless. After I had read about two thirds of it I realized I could throw out most of the chapters and they wouldn't have any negative effect on the story at all because there was no

Patty is exhausting - even to herself. In this book she attends her father's wedding, graduates school a year early, puts on a play, nearly has a nervous breakdown, goes on a motoring holiday, meets even more people, nearly gets hit by a train in a storm, picnics, attends a quilting party with 14 di

Felt a bit like it was two books in one. The first half, Patty is trying to cram two years of school into one, so that she can be done with it. (While she likes to read, she doesn't really like to study and would just as soon be done with her formal education.) Unfortunately, everybody at this point

This is the 4th in a series of books about Patty Fairfield. My mother received this series of books when she was a child growing up, in the 1930's so I often think of her reading this book. I was able to get the series from Amazon through Kindle. In this book Patty is trying to cram 2 years of schoo