Like Anne, Judy starts out as a rambunctious orphan. Similar to Anne of Green Gables, Daddy Long Legs is a young adult novel that all ages can enjoy.
She makes new friends, slowly gains knowledge and independence, but also struggles with her humble past and unfixed future. Judy's letters to Daddy Long Legs chronicle her departure from the orphanage through four years of college. Because of this, Judy and her lively imagination come up with the nickname “Daddy Long Legs”. All she has seen of him is his tall shadow against a wall as he leaves the orphanage one night. The letters are the only repayment this benefactor requests for paying to send Judy to college. Daddy Long Legs may be downloaded for free from our ebook catalog.įirst published in 1912, this novel is comprised mostly of letters from orphan Jerusha “Judy” Abbott to her anonymous benefactor whom she has never met.
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