Brief description:
From the dust jacket:
Girls who have delighted in the exciting adventures of Penny Parrish, her wonderful family and her friends will find this story of al crucial time in Penny's life especially rewarding. Those who have never met Janet Lambert's popular characters will flnd this story complete and satisfying without reference to the other books.
In GLORY BE! Penny and her friend Carol encounter more serious grown-up problems, but they never lose any of their charm, wit, and sense of excitement with life.
The story opens with Penny's eighteenth birthday party, which is followed by a shopping trip into New York with Carrol. The carefree time of the girls is interrupted, however, by thee tragedy of Pearl Harbor. From that fateful day, events move fast or the Parrish. and Houghton families. The lives of the girls are suddenly transformed and they need all the character and courage they have built up to face the uncertainties and heartbreaks that war brings. With a unique understanding of a young girl's heart, Janet Lambert shows how the girls meet tragedy and come through with a deeper maturity.
The book leaves Penny still certain that the theater will offer her the life she wants, and one feels that she is probably headed for stardom in spite of other interests involving orange blossoms and many yard of tulle.
Girls who have delighted in the exciting adventures of Penny Parrish, her wonderful family and her friends will find this story of al crucial time in Penny's life especially rewarding. Those who have never met Janet Lambert's popular characters will flnd this story complete and satisfying without reference to the other books.
In GLORY BE! Penny and her friend Carol encounter more serious grown-up problems, but they never lose any of their charm, wit, and sense of excitement with life.
The story opens with Penny's eighteenth birthday party, which is followed by a shopping trip into New York with Carrol. The carefree time of the girls is interrupted, however, by thee tragedy of Pearl Harbor. From that fateful day, events move fast or the Parrish. and Houghton families. The lives of the girls are suddenly transformed and they need all the character and courage they have built up to face the uncertainties and heartbreaks that war brings. With a unique understanding of a young girl's heart, Janet Lambert shows how the girls meet tragedy and come through with a deeper maturity.
The book leaves Penny still certain that the theater will offer her the life she wants, and one feels that she is probably headed for stardom in spite of other interests involving orange blossoms and many yard of tulle.
Publication
Grosset & Dunlap, (1943) Later,Hdbk,DJ,,Good
Series
Original publication date
1943