"When adversity came, Adele rose bravely to the test, and in the anxious, busy days that followed the loyal "Sunnyside Club" rallied around its leader. Vineyard Valley Farm proved a blessing, the secret panel furnished an absorbing interest, and romance walked through every chapter."
Grace May North-Monfort was born in Utica, New York, and between 1919 and 1931 wrote a number of books under her own name as well as her personal pseudonym, "Carol Norton." In addition to writing three volumes in the X Bar X Boys series for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, she also wrote a short series of western stories for young children, called the "Southwest Stories for Children," unpublished at the time of her death in San Luis Obispo, California.