Betty Gordon and Bob Henderson leave Oklahoma to return east to Washington. Betty is to attend Shadyside School, and Bob is to attend Salsette Military Academy, which is just across the lake from Shadyside. Betty's friends, Bobby, Louise, and Libbie Littell, and Betty's friends, Norma and Alice Guerin, are also to attend Betty's school.
Alice B. Emerson was a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Betty Gordon and Ruth Fielding series of children's novels. The writers taking up the pen of Alice B. Emerson were: Josephine Lawrence (Betty Gorson series #1-4, 7, 9), W. Bert Foster (Ruth Fielding series #1-19, Betty Gordon series #5,6), Elizabeth M. Duffield Ward (Ruth Fielding series #20-22, Betty Gordon series #8), Eunice W. Creager (Betty Gordon series #10-15) and Mildred Benson (Ruth Fielding series #23-30).
I found this book in an antique store and couldn’t resist. It’s over 100 years old, completely predictable, and absolutely adorable. I’d never heard of the series but now I have to find the rest of the books..!