TITLE: Depend on Katie John

AUTHOR: Mary Calhoun

COPYRIGHT: 1961

ORIGINAL PUBLISHER: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.

NUMBER OF PAGES: 181

PLOTLINE: The highly entertaining sequel to Katie John is just as good, if not better than its predecessor.

Katie John’s family has just turned their home into a rooming house, and Katie is excited. She’s going to help with the housework, find boarders and everything!

Unfortunately, the excitement soon fizzles out when Katie John realizes that living in a rooming house isn’t as much fun as she thought it would be. The boarders are fussy, and the housework is hard. She can’t even escape to fun when she goes to school, because she’s still a new girl among the other kids, and no one pays any attention to her. But maybe, she reasons, if she changes herself from a tomboy to a lady, things will be different.

“Things” don’t exactly turn out the way Katie had expected, but in the end, she discovers that it’s all for the best.

Depend on Katie John is an interesting book about a funny almost-eleven-year-old girl.

*****

“They were playing checkers on Cousin Ben’s bed, or at least they were supposed to be playing checkers, but mostly Cousin Ben was talking.” - Depend on Katie John





























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