Coco Irvine,Peg Meier
On Christmas Day, 1926, twelve-year-old Clotilde â€œCocoâ€ Irvine received a blank diary as a present. Coco loved to writeâ€”and to get into scrapesâ€”and her new diary gave her the opportunity to explain her side of the messes she created: â€œIâ€™m in deep trouble through no fault of my own,â€ her entries frequently began. The daughter of a lumber baron, Coco grew up in a twenty-room mansion on fashionable Summit Avenue at the peak of the Jazz Age, a time when music, art, and womenâ€™s social status were all in a state of flux and the economy was still flying high.,Cocoâ€™s diary carefully records her adventures, problems, and romances, written with a lively wit and a droll sense of humor. Whether sneaking out to a dance hall in her motherâ€™s clothes or getting in trouble for telling an off-color joke, Coco and her escapades will captivate and delight preteen readers as well as their mothers and grandmothers.,Peg Meierâ€™s introduction describes St. Paul life in the 1920s and provides context for the privileged world that Coco inhabits, while an afterword tells what happens to Coco as an adultâ€”and reveals surprises about some of the other characters in the diary.
Nonfiction,History,Autobiography,Memoir,Biography,Childrens,Biography Memoir,Historical,Young Adult,Teen,Diary
Through No Fault of My Own: A Girl's Diary of Life on Summit Avenue in the Jazz Age