by Margaret Vandercook
This book continues the ranch girls series. Previous entries on the series can found here.
The ranch girls are a early series of books that depict a family of
girls in the non-traditional role of running a ranch. In this book the
girls; Jacqueline (more commonly known as Jack) and Frieda Ralston, as
well as their cousin Jean Bruce and their adopted sister Olive decide to
go on a road trip. It is a little like "Little House on the Prairie"
because they have a wagon just like the one Laura had. Of course their
chaperon Ruth Drew as well as their guardian Jim Coulter. They also have
a little Indian boy named Carlos who is a friend of Olive's and he is
the brunt of all the racist jokes. These old books tend to have a lot of
racism and it usually does not bother me that much as it was a
different time, but this was a little too much.
They rent the
ranch to the Harmons,the story book rich family with a invalided
daughter Elizabeth and a creepy son named Donald. He keeps staring at
Olive and it is hinted she might be a relation but he does not act
exactly cousinly. Then Jack gets hurt when she tries to save Elizabeth
Harmon when she falls off the edge of a cliff. The doctors don't know
what is wrong with her and she might not walk again. Jim and Ruth have a
falling out because he has a "past" and she can't handle it. (If you
are wondering, it does not involve secretly insane wives or murder.)I
know it sounds like it came out of a LoveInspired novel but this is a
good book.
Reviewed by Elizabeth
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