Donna Parker: Special Agent by Martin Marcia - 1957

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial hard cover, very good , clean, tight copy, pages slightly browned with age. Great copy. Donna's and Ricky's interests begin to diverge as they begin ninth grade. While Ricky wants to join the drama club, Donna prefers to join the journalism club, which puts out the school newspaper, The Summerfield Sum-It-Up. She makes many new friends there, including the club advisor, Miss Fischer, but worries that she and Ricky are not as close as they used to be. She also runs afoul of several different people: Mr. Brown, the surly new janitor; Joyce Davenport, who is elected editor of the Sum-It-Up, and who thinks she "knows it all" because her father is the editor of the Summerfield Daily Bulletin; and Miss Merwood, the extremely eccentric cooking teacher. It is an exciting year as she helps the club compete in a journalism contest and becomes involved with encouraging people to vote in local elections. To compound her problems, her mother's youngest brother, Roger Norcross, who left home when he was in high school, suddenly returns. Donna doesn't know what to make of this man, and even has suspicions that he might not be her uncle. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 282 pages .