Judy Abbott's friend takes more than a career plunge in Dear Enemy

Just as in Daddy Long-Legs Judy Abbott's life came in full bloom, this sequel excites us by chasing the reader with 300 orphans in the backdrop of John Grier Home, Judy's melancholic adolescent habitat left without a headmistress, and the adventures into their hearts of Judy's vibrant pal Sally. In comes a medicine man with a fishy past and a controlling caretaker. Towards the end, everybody in the vicinity learns how to help their younger neighbours in need. This book is rather harder to decipher than its prequel, but as heartwarming as, or more than, that. I give this book upper intermediate grades for our English-studying youngsters' learning.