Emily Climbs

by MONTGOMERY, L. M.

• ISBN13: 9780553262148
• ISBN10: 0553262149
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1983-05-01
• Publisher: Starfire

Summary

Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if she promises to stop writng! All the same, this is the first step in Emily's climb to success. Once in town, Emily's activities set the Shrewsbury gossips buzzing. But Emily and her friends are confident -- Ilse's a born actress, Teddy's set to be a great artist, and roguish Perry has the makings of a brilliant lawyer. When Emily has her poems published and writes for the town newspaper, success seems to be on its way -- and with it the first whispers of romance. Then Emily is offered a fabulous opportunity, and she must decide if she wants to change her life forever.

Table of Contents

Writing Herself Out	1	(14)
Salad Days	15	(22)
In the Watches of the Night	37	(23)
``As Ithers See Us''	60	(17)
Half a Loaf	77	(9)
Shrewsbury Beginnings	86	(12)
Pot-Pourri	98	(17)
Not Proven	115	(15)
A Supreme Moment	130	(6)
The Madness of an Hour	136	(17)
Heights and Hollows	153	(14)
At the Sign of the Haystack	167	(11)
Haven	178	(13)
The Woman Who Spanked the King	191	(8)
``The Thing That Couldn't''	199	(8)
Driftwood	207	(18)
``If a Body Kiss a Body''	225	(10)
Circumstantial Evidence	235	(8)
``Airy Voices''	243	(19)
In the Old John House	262	(9)
Thicker Than Water	271	(13)
``Love Me, Love My Dog''	284	(12)
An Open Door	296	(6)
A Valley of Vision	302	(11)
April Love	313