Sarah Orne Jewett — better known for her adult fiction — wrote Betty Leicester: A Story for Girls with the same quiet precision and warmth she brought to all her work. Betty, a well-travelled girl accustomed to cosmopolitan life, spends a summer in a small New England town and discovers unexpected depth, friendship, and adventure in a quiet place.
Jewett’s prose is as graceful here as in her celebrated adult novels, and the book’s portrait of small-town New England life is drawn with characteristic tender accuracy. Download the free EPUB for a charming and understated girls’ novel from one of America’s finest literary voices.