Daddy-Long-Legs - Jean Webster (1912)

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From poor lonely orphan to sophisticated young woman, Jerusha Abbott can hardly believe her good fortune.
All her life, Jerusha has lived in the dingy John Grier Home for Orphans. Now seventeen, his time there is up and his future prospects are bleak. But suddenly, an anonymous benefactor sends her to a posh northern women's college. All Jerusha has to do in return is write to the man she nicknames Daddy-Long-Legs and tell him of her progress.
And what progress there is! Jerusha (now Judy because she's always hated her name) reads everything from Mother Goose to Plato, joins the basketball team, buys her first pair of socks, writes a novel, wins a scholarship, lives with two roommates who couldn't be more different; and, for the first time in his life, he falls in love.
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Philanthropists, Letters, Youth fiction, Fiction, Drama, University women, Women authors, Boarding schools, Schools, Young women, Benefactors, Orphans, Universities and schools, Children's fiction, Orphans, fiction, Universities and schools, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Authors, fiction, Young women, fiction, Family, fiction, Children's and youth fiction, Fiction, general, Schools, fiction, University stories, Authors, Women, Orphanages, Girls Showing 11 featured editions. See all 299 editions?
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Chinese with pinyin.