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The Losing Game: A Sue Morgan Story (The Sue Morgan Stories, Volume 2) by Anne Emery
This sequel to The Popular Crowd follows Sue Morgan through her junior year of high school. No longer interested in being one of the popular crowd, Sue turns her efforts to her studies and her special interest, journalism. Writing about honesty and integrity for the school newspaper gives her a new perspective and leads to some hard decisions when friends are discovered cheating. Don, whom she is dating, is an individualist with a charming personality, but Sue has seen him cheat on a test. Hank, the quiet, attractive editor, says cheating is a losing game, no matter who does it. When she is assigned an article to write on the subject of cheating, Sue has to define some difficult Can the ends justify the means? . . . What do you do about your friends? . . . Despite your own opinions, can you make decisions for other people? But every time Sue makes a decision, there's another one waiting around the corner. . .
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First published January 1, 1965
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Anne Emery
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Anne Emery was born Anne Eleanor McGuigan, in Fargo, North Dakota, and moved to Evanston, Illinois, when she was nine years old. Miss McGuigan attended Evanston Township High School and Northwestern University. Following her graduation from college, her father, a university professor, took the family of five children abroad for a year, where they visited his birthplace in Northern Ireland, as well as the British Isles, France, Switzerland, and Italy. Miss McGuigan spent nine months studying at the University of Grenoble in France. She taught seventh and eighth grades for four years in the Evanston Schools, and fourth and fifth grades for six more years after her marriage to John Emery. She retired from teaching to care for her husband and five children, Mary, Kate, Joan, Robert, and Martha.
Anne Emery wrote books and short stories for teen girls throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Her understanding of the lives of teenaged girls creates believable stories and characters that are readable and re-readable!
Anne Emery was born Anne Eleanor McGuigan, in Fargo, North Dakota, and moved to Evanston, Illinois, when she was nine years old. Miss McGuigan attended Evanston Township High School and Northwestern University. Following her graduation from college, her father, a university professor, took the family of five children abroad for a year, where they visited his birthplace in Northern Ireland, as well as the British Isles, France, Switzerland, and Italy. Miss McGuigan spent nine months studying at the University of Grenoble in France. She taught seventh and eighth grades for four years in the Evanston Schools, and fourth and fifth grades for six more years after her marriage to John Emery. She retired from teaching to care for her husband and five children, Mary, Kate, Joan, Robert, and Martha.
Anne Emery wrote books and short stories for teen girls throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Her understanding of the lives of teenaged girls creates believable stories and characters that are readable and re-readable!
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November 15, 2025
Good theme
January 13, 2019
Sue Morgan copes with election fraud at her high school, her father's job demotion and her family's new business venture in this teen novel set in the 1960s.
April 13, 2016
The Losing Game, or Sue Morgan: Why Arranged Marriages Can Be A Good Thing
September 10, 2018
Sue is such a drip.
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