Just Patty

"Just Patty" by Jean Webster is a novel written in the early 20th century. This work centers around a spirited schoolgirl named Patty Wyatt, focusing on her lively interactions with friends and teachers as they navigate their boarding school life. Themes of friendship, self-discovery, and the humorous challenges of adolescence permeate the story, engaging readers with its lighthearted and whimsical tone. The opening of "Just Patty" introduces us to Patty and her friends as they express their dismay over being separated from their long-time roommates at St. Ursula’s School. Their colorful personalities shine through as Patty, Conny, and Priscilla discuss their new roommates, whom they view with a mix of skepticism and comical intrigue. Patty specifically tells tales about her new roommate, Mae Mertelle, revealing Patty's irreverent humor and her determination to bring about a "reformation" within the school. As the girls plot to influence their new companions, the stage is set for a series of humorous adventures that promise to explore the complex dynamics of friendship and the challenges of adolescent societal norms. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Jean Webster was the pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster, an American author whose books include Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.