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Pat Marlowe #2

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This sequel to First Love, True Love finds Pat Marlowe a high school senior adjusting to life without Tim Davis, her fiancee, who has gone away to college. The separation gives Pat time to mature and consider what she wants of life.

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Published January 1, 1972

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Anne Emery

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Anne Emery was born Anne Eleanor McGuigan, in Fargo, North Dakota, and moved to Evanston, Illinois, when she was nine years old. Miss McGuigan attended Evanston Township High School and Northwestern University. Following her graduation from college, her father, a university professor, took the family of five children abroad for a year, where they visited his birthplace in Northern Ireland, as well as the British Isles, France, Switzerland, and Italy. Miss McGuigan spent nine months studying at the University of Grenoble in France. She taught seventh and eighth grades for four years in the Evanston Schools, and fourth and fifth grades for six more years after her marriage to John Emery. She retired from teaching to care for her husband and five children, Mary, Kate, Joan, Robert, and Martha.

Anne Emery wrote books and short stories for teen girls throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Her understanding of the lives of teenaged girls creates believable stories and characters that are readable and re-readable!

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February 19, 2024
A very young Pat Marlowe has one major goal....to marry Tim Davis! With Tim leaving for college, Pat and Tim decide to date others to test their relationship. During her senior year of high school, Pat develops an intense interest in drama, an interest that Tim neither appreciates or understands. Pat begins to question their marriage plans. This book is the second of three books in the Pat Marlowe series.
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March 28, 2024
The second of the three Pat Marlowe books. I like Pat because she grows and matures in each of the books. Anne Emery is one of my favorite of the 1950s "Malt Shop" teen novelists.
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January 22, 2015
Pat Marlowe has one major goal---to marry Tim Davis when she graduates from high school. With Tim leaving for college, Tim and Pat agree to date others to make sure their relationship is solid. During her senior year, Pat develops an intense interest in drama, an interest that Tim neither appreciates or understands. Pat begins to question her marriage plans.

Second book of the Pat Marlowe series---
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March 20, 2008
Hey, Constance, here's a high school play book for you--but the play aspects are not really that well done.
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