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Pepper Pot
191 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1965
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February 26, 2020
I dearly love maltshop books- you know the kind: written in the 40s, 50s, early 60s with a female teen heroine with all the angst of a teen. They usually meet their crowd of friends in the maltshop for ice cream sodas and that sort of thing. This is one of those kind of books. However, I didn't like it as much as most. For one thing it left the reader with an unfinished story. What happened to the little sister, Kitten, who is referred to as "retarded" and cannot speak. Did they send her away to a boarding school? Did she learn to speak?
Melanie gets the nickname "Pepper Pot" only when her temper, too near the surface, flares. She and her family have relocated to the traditional secluded New England town of Quarry Falls from Paris, where her grandfather literally runs the town. Her father accepts a job as a minister there. Melanie must learn to like her cousins. She has trouble fitting in at school because she always puts her foot in her mouth about how unsophisticated the town is. There is a minor mystery.
Melanie gets the nickname "Pepper Pot" only when her temper, too near the surface, flares. She and her family have relocated to the traditional secluded New England town of Quarry Falls from Paris, where her grandfather literally runs the town. Her father accepts a job as a minister there. Melanie must learn to like her cousins. She has trouble fitting in at school because she always puts her foot in her mouth about how unsophisticated the town is. There is a minor mystery.
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