Why I read it: I read about it in the Star Tribune and it sounded like a fun read
Book description:
On Christmas Day, 1926, twelve-year-old Clotilde “Coco” Irvine received a blank diary as a present. Coco loved to write—and to get into scrapes—and her new diary gave her the opportunity to explain her side of the messes she created: “I’m in deep trouble through no fault of my own,” 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 women’s social status were all in a state of flux and the economy was still flying high.
Coco’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 mother’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 Meier’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 adult—and reveals surprises about some of the other characters in the diary.
What I thought:
This book was adorable. It was such a fast book to read- it was very short and sweet. It is a diary of a 13-year-old girl with quite an attitude and a very specific idea of the world around her. It is a time in St. Paul before the Great Depression where she is young and carefree and writes about shenanigans she gets herself into at school and a boy she likes. This is a nice view into the life of a well-to-do child in our community in history. I love reading about things that relate to Minneapolis and St. Paul back in the day and I love the 1920s so this was a perfect little book to read. Now I'm going to read some F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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