Melissa

by Ina B. Forbus

Here is a richly textured story that vividly re-creates the life of a large family in a small city early in the twentieth century, and commands genuine affection for a girl as real as the reader's best friend. Thirteen-year-old Melissa, orphaned as a baby, has come to live with her cousins, the Babcocks.

190 pages, Hardcover

First published November 19, 1962

About the author

Ina B. Forbus was born in Scotland and moved to the United States when she was a child. She became a citizen upon her marriage to Sample Forbus in 1931. Forbus attended the University of Rochester and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1935 she and her husband bought an old grist mill on Cane Creek and converted it into a summer home. Mrs. Forbus often used the grist mill as a setting for her stories.

Reviews

[Julia]

This is my Mom's book she really likes it cause the little girl in the book has the same name as her.

[Wicca · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of my favorites when I was about 10 years old. Enough of a favorite that I still have my copy.

[Micaela · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this book at the annual library book sale, knowing little about it. And I must say, I found it to be a fascinating little book!

I highly recommend it!