Helen Leah Reed

“ Miss Reed’s girls have all the impulses and likes of real girls as their characters are developing, and her record of their thoughts and actions reads like a chapter snatched from the page of life. It is bright, genial, merry, wholesome, and full of good characterizations.—Boston Herald. ”

“ She builds upon clearly thought-out convictions, and the influence of the book will be wholly for good, tending toward a sane, wholesome view of life generally. There is a deal of fun in it too. In short, this is one of the few books written for young people into the making of which has gone a vigor and grace such as one asks for in a good story for older people. ”

“ Equal to the best of the recent books of school life about boys. Lively and amusing, revealing a shrewd understanding of girl nature, and containing considerable Boston local history.—The Congregationalist.
Unless we greatly err, this is a story which the girl of the times who is fortunate enough to read it will pronounce “perfectly fine.”—Brooklyn Times. ”