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JOHN W. CONNER

Junior high school students often dream of the freedom and accompanying excitement of belonging on a university campus. The Terrible Temptation is meant for these young readers….

Honor Arundel has written a book about a college-age girl with the mental and social capacities of a young adolescent. By adult reading standards, The Terrible Temptation is merely terrible. Janet Meredith flits from an important lecture to a pub date to her boyfriend's room to her own room at Aunt Aggie's to the ostentatious home of a college girl friend with breathless facileness. Janet's egocentric world is all lights and shadows. And Janet spends as little time as possible in the shadows.

But, by young adolescent standards, The Terrible Temptation may be an appropriate choice. The younger adolescent girl who wants to taste the collegiate experience will be delighted with the pace at which Jan Meredith races through life. Honor Arundel...

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1. Introduction
2. Robert Bell
3. Polly Goodwin
4. S. L. Blanford
5. Linda Crowe
6. Zena Sutherland
7. Mrs. J. M. Murphy
8. Margery Fisher
9. Mrs. J. Aldridge
10. Margery Fisher
11. Julia G. Russell
12. Judith Aldridge
13. John W. Conner
14. Nicholas Tucker
15. John W. Conner
16. Margery Fisher
17. Celia Boyd
18. Judith Aldridge
19. Vivienne Furlong
20. J. Russell
21. John Rowe Townsend
22. Eleanore Braun Luckey
23. Copyright