She has brown hair, which she finds childish compared to Marcy's blonde hair, and a pretty but small wardrobe with only one cashmere sweater. Jane Purdy: Jane is the 15-year-old protagonist in Fifteen.
In the end, Stan reassures Jane that she's his girlfriend, and gives her his ID bracelet as a symbol that they are going steady. Later, Julie calls Jane on the phone to tell her Stan was rushed to the hospital and had his appendix out. Stan turned pale before saying goodbye to Jane. After the dance, Stan tells Jane about his time with Bitsy, saying that she made fun of his job. Jane is extremely upset, but it turns out that Stan asked Bitsy to the dance before he met Jane and he feels he can't break the date. However, Stan calls her later and asks her out on a date to the movies.Īfter school begins, Jane learns that Stan has another date named Bitsy for the first school dance. Jane is immediately attracted to Stan, although she does not believe that he will be attracted to her, because she is ordinary. One day while babysitting, Jane meets 16-year-old Stan Crandall, who is a delivery boy for a pet-food store. Jane feels somewhat left out of social circles at her high school, and envies the more popular girls who go out on dates, seem more confident and wear more expensive clothes. She dreams of having a boyfriend like blonde, popular, and sophisticated 16-year-old Marcy Stokes has. Jane Purdy is a 15-year-old student at Woodmont High School in California. In 1958 Fifteen was awarded the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, after Vermont school children in fourth through eighth grade chose it as their favorite novel. Regardless, the book remains in print today because its overall theme of difficult adolescent feelings still connects with young readers. The book captures the innocent spirit of life in the 1950s, both through the playfully light storyline and the casual references to convertibles, sweaters, "meeting boys", and soda shops. It chronicles the perspective of a teenage girl entering her first romantic relationship. Fifteen is a juvenile fiction novel written by Beverly Cleary.
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