I loved /love 'girls' fiction, but I wasn't that fond of series, I'm afraid. Unless it was animals, like the Albert Payson Terhune Lad books or The Black Stallion books. I adored the two Bambi books. Almost all of those most loved books I own now, with the except of the series I did love, which was Lovelace Betsy books.

I'm hoping maybe someone can help me with the title and author of a book I did love and re-read constantly, set in later 19th century small town midwestern U.S. It was something like "Deskmates" or "Seatmates," and the Louisa May Alcott novels and a library played key roles in the book.

Love, C.