Needless to say, there are a great deal of references which today's girls might not understand (or possibly even think are funny) however, I still think that many of the overall messages in this novel are timeless! I thought this book was just precious, and I could have really "used" a book like this and a character like Jane when I was becoming interested in boys.įIFTEEN was originally published in 1956 which makes it old enough for my mom to have read when she was a young girl. This book is a true classic for young girls, and I'm so sad to say that I missed it when I was a pre-teen/teenager. I recently read another book for the Shelf Discovery Challenge - FIFTEEN by Beverly Cleary. It is hard to think of any other American writer who has so successfully put on paper the sorrows and joys and absurdities of girlhood. Cleary's earlier stories and whose warm understanding carries it to a new height. How Jane emerges from the agonizing awkwardness of adolescence is the theme of a book whose humor matches that of Mrs.
So will everyone who has ever been fifteen. Because Jane's problems are their own, girls approaching fifteen will take her to their hearts. No reader can fail to share Jane's breathless excitement or the shattering ups and downs of her friendship with Stan. And then one evening the telephone rings. I'm just not the type to interest an older man.
But I'll never see him again, Jane tells herself despairingly the next day.
Stan appears just in time to prevent Sandra, by a skillful use of pig Latin, from emptying a bottle of ink onto the Nortons' blond living-room carpet. Jane is baby-sitting for Sandra Norton, the toughest assignment in town. Then she meets Stan: tall, good-looking, resourceful and sixteen years old-all she ever dreamed of. No one has ever asked her for a date except George, an unromantic boy who is an inch shorter than she is and talks of nothing but his rock collection. Summary: Jane Purdy is fifteen and a sophomore in high school.
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