She could pretend to be sick, and leave in the middle of the evening. Sawyer out with the car to come for her alone… She’d have to think some way out. She would not! But even worse would be to rout Mr.
What about coming home? She wouldn’t walk home with Chunky and Anne. Then a really horrible thought swept her. Spending the weekend of the dance with the Sawyers “in town” and dress shopping with Anne and her mother is all that Julie dreamed it would be… until Anne gets asked to the dance by the improbably-named Chunky Spencer. Ferguson, and so she takes it upon herself to bestow womanly fashion advice upon Julie, as the girls prepare for the Freshman Frolic, for which Julie has been given permission to buy a long dancing dress. Julie feels left out of Anne’s new circle of friends, who all seem to have something special about them, although Cavanna notes that these qualities aren’t good looks, but confidence and special talents of their own.Īnne’s mother was also the best friend of the late Mrs. She is similarly worshipful of Anne Sawyer, a childhood friend who has become a popularity queen, widely acknowledged as the prettiest girl in their class. Opening near the end of her freshman year of high school, Julie still has one foot in her tomboy phase, and is waaaaaaay more interested in in the pregnant prize collie that comes to board at the farm than giggling about boys over Cokes at the local drugstore.īut she is sensitive about the way her father teases her for looking like “ a picked chicken” and resents a long-ago comment about how “she’s not a bit like Margaret”, her long-dead artist mother whose talent Julie practically worships. The Plot: Following two years in the life of shy Julie Ferguson, living with her widowed father on a farm outside Philadelphia, Going On Sixteen is as much a dog-story as it is a girl-story. Published from the 1940s through the 1960s, these books often focus on girls trying to walk that delicate balance between fitting in and cultivating their unique talents in order to stand out. Fervently Julie whispered to the mirror, “I hope.”īetty Cavanna was one of the queens of the Malt Shop genre: gentle coming-of-age stories featuring young heroines facing teenage crises and growing up.
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