tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post4710561600794308663..comments2024-03-21T21:37:03.772-05:00Comments on Series Books for Girls: Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High SchoolJennifer Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10405593758228423001noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-54316653393799173702018-08-25T11:39:54.266-05:002018-08-25T11:39:54.266-05:00A couple of things about this Grace Harlowe story:...A couple of things about this Grace Harlowe story:<br /><br />1) Henry Hammond has to be the dumbest villain in all of juvenile fiction. He's a swindler. One would think that swindlers would be ingratiating to make people trusting and comfortable with them. In his second conversation with Grace, he speaks of hating her in a completely crude fashion. Even if he has no suspicion that Grace is the nemesis who will thwart his scheme, it just doesn't seem bright for someone in his profession to make anyone suspicious. <br /><br />2) At one point Grace says of Eleanor Savelli, "She comes of a race who swears vendettas." That seems a perfect example of the kind of ethnic stereotyping has long since ceased to be acceptable. But as I think about some of the things that have happened on the Sicilian side of my family, maybe it's more of a matter of a truth it is no longer fashionable to tell. (It should be noted that at least in this volume -- not the only one in which Eleanor appears -- it is not stated that her ancestry is Sicilian.)Albert Aliotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14144975763185168090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-57134196086283826652010-11-30T07:01:21.542-06:002010-11-30T07:01:21.542-06:00In the Marjorie Dean high school series, I believe...In the Marjorie Dean high school series, I believe there's an unreformed bad girl at one point. There's also one whose reformation doesn't result in her becoming BFFs with Marjorie et al. <br /><br />I might have mentioned it elsewhere on here, but of the Altemus books, you might also like Madge Morton - she runs into some actual mysteries more often than Grace does.beautifulshellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760056686654842882noreply@blogger.com