![]() Both Iris and Marie blossom in the care of the Nesbitts. In a sense, she is like the battered stray dog Marie that arrives when Iris does. Iris is hurt, but soon finds the warmth and support with the Nesbitts that she never received in her own home. Avery Nesbitt to be a live-in caretaker for his elderly mother. Iris discovers by accident that her father is planning to send her away for the summer. The only one Iris really has to talk to is her friend Leroy, who, two years older than Iris, even had to tell her the facts of life when she was thirteen! In fact, her father barely interacts at all with Iris, preferring to spend time at his successful shoe store and with his latest (and much younger) girlfriend, Celeste. ![]() ![]() She barely remembers her, especially because her father will not talk about her. Iris Baldwin’s mother died when she was 5. ![]() For those of you who, like me, love the character of Mattie in A Northern Light and Anne (“with an e”) of Anne of Green Gables, I think you will also love fifteen-year-old Iris in this lovely coming-of-age story set in 1926 Missouri. ![]()
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