Kelly shares the history and context of the first true YA book, Maureen Daly’s Seventeenth Summer.

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Show Notes

Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly

Literary Ladies Guide: Maureen Daly

“Fond du Lac was the birthplace of young adult novels: Celebrating Maureen Daly”

“On The Solid Side”

Girls in Bloom: Coming of Age in the Mid-20th Century Woman’s Novel  by Francis Booth

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