Beverly Gray's Return

Beverly Gray #9

by Clair Blank

Genres: Young Adult

251 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1939

About the author

A year after her high school graduation in 1933, Clair Blank's first four books in the Beverly Gray series had been published -- she was a published author at the age of 18. In 1935, she wrote The Adventure Girls at the K Bar O and was immediately asked by the publisher for two additional stories so that it could be made into a series.

Clair Blank lived in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She graduated from college, became a typist and secretary, and during World War II worked as a volunteer for American Women’s Voluntary Services, a group that drove visiting Army officers around locally. She married George Elmer Moyer, a welder, in 1943 and had two sons.

Series:
* Beverly Gray
* The Adventure Girls

Reviews

[Kaitlyn Dunnett · Rating 4 out of 5]

The writing continues to improve with each book in this series as, I imagine, the writer matured. The plot is better constructed, too, although there are actually two story lines in this one, one completed and one left hanging for a future book. There were markedly fewer examples of passive voice, so the English teacher/writer in me was happier. On to the next one.

As an aside, I own all the books in this series except the rare World's Fair, and I've read that one. I bought it, read it, and sold it at a profit more than ten years ago. As I recall, it was a pretty good story, but not good enough to make me keep a $500 book in the house.

[Dave E · Rating 4 out of 5]

Set in the 1930s, Beverly Gray never fails to entertain with all the coincidences, situations and mysteries that fall into her lap in this youth-oriented series.