Just Patty

Patty, Conny, and Priscilla are the terror of Miss Winslow's Boarding School, not because they're cruel, but because they refuse to accept things as they've always been. When Patty decides the cafeteria help deserves better wages, she doesn't just complain: she organizes a labor union. When the neighbors need furniture, she and her friends simply rehome some from the school. Their schemes are always well-intentioned, often hilarious, and occasionally on the right side of history. Webster captures something precious: the electricity of teenage friendship, the joy of outsmarting authority, and the particular thrill of believing your ideas matter, even when you're sixteen and the adults in charge think you're just being difficult. This is a prequel to When Patty Went to College, and it shows a young woman already becoming the indomitable spirit who would later conquer college and beyond. For readers who loved Anne of Green Gables, themoors, or any story about girls who are troublemakers with hearts of gold.