num_pages: 328
description: The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day - a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste* Every floor must be spotless, every chair dustless, and every bed without a wrinkle. Ninety-seven squirming little orphans must be scrubbed and combed and buttoned into freshly starched ginghams; and all ninety-seven reminded of their manners, and told to say, " Yes, sir" " No, sir" whenever a Trustee spoke...
language: English
title: Daddy Long Legs
titlecomplete: Daddy Long Legs
characters: Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, Jervis Pendleton, Jimmy McBride, Julia Pendleton, Sallie McBride
genres: Classics, Historical, Childrens, Humor, Young Adult, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Coming Of Age, Fiction
ratings_count: 64636
series: Daddy-Long-Legs
publisher: Standard Pubns Inc