Franny and her sister Valentine are invited to spend the summer at their Aunt Theodora's New York apartment for the summer. While there, they are to be chaperoned by Clover and experience everything New York City has to offer. Aunt Theo is to arrive at the end of the summer. Franny is 14 and Val is 17 and this is a summer of first love and discovering who they are.
I though this was kind of an odd book. I am assuming that is a contemporary but Aunt Theo was quite old fashioned and thus the girls wore dresses all summer. It was hard for me to imagine the lifestyle portrayed and I imagine it would be hard for my students to relate to it. For my students, who only go up to 5th grade, this was too mature.
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