Seventeenth Summer

Title: Seventeenth Summer
Author: Maureen Daly
Publication date: 1942
Number of pages: 285
Genre: Young Adult fiction/romance

Geographical Setting: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Time Period: early 1940s
Series: N/A

Plot Summary: After the summer, Angie Morrow is going off to college in Chicago. Her mother has never really allowed her to go out much but then Angie meets the handsome Jack Duluth. They start dating and the feelings of falling in love begin to stir in Angie for the first time. But she only has three months until college and along with the excitement of romance the tears of the end of her seventeenth summer may also come.

Subject Headings: romance, first love, summer, girl meets boy, the 1940s

Appeal: author credited with launching young adult literature, written when author was 2o and in college, young people’s experience in the 1940s, young woman’s life during the summer before college, Midwest experience in the 1940s, writing is diary-like, coming of age

If you liked Seventeenth Summer, you might enjoy:
Judy Blume’s Forever. Dandi Daly Mackall’s Eva Underground. Sarah Dessen’s Just Listen. Madeleine L’Engle’s And Both Were Young and Camilla.