Winter Reading

TITLE: Two Little Women on a Holiday

AUTHOR: Carolyn Wells

COPYRIGHT: 1917

NUMBER OF PAGES: 171

PLOTLINE: In this well-written sequel to Two Little Women and Treasure House, Dotty Rose and Dolly Fayre are invited to spend a week in New York with their friend Bernice. They will be staying with Bernice’s uncle, who collects and sells valuables to museums.

Also staying with the girls is the frivolous and flighty Alicia Steele, Bernice’s older cousin. From the first day in New York, she and Dolly have a testing relationship, which comes to an exciting climax when Dolly accidentally overhears Alicia making plans to elope!

This book has many wonderful twists and turns, and everything is resolved most beautifully at the ending, when the four girls find out what Mr. Forbes’ big secret is, if Alicia is really going to elope or not, and who stole the precious antique earring from upstairs . . .

*****

“Leave it to me. I’ll engineer the conversation and all you girls need to do is chip in now and then.” - Two Little Women on a Holiday