Junior Miss

Read this as a child (yes there WERE books back in the 50's) and am now buying it for my teenage granddaughter starting junior high this month. When I was her age it was my FAVORITE book - our entire Girl Scout troup read it!

i did not know there was a book!!!! i wish the movie would come out on dvd! why hasn't it? how can we get this wonderful film to come out on dvd? robbyn

Sally Benson's stories have been said to be terse, witty, often dipped in vitriol, and were eagerly sought by magazine editors. Most of them have appeared in the New Yorker. Junior Miss is a story of a typical New York family of the day - Mr. Graves, a genial and successful business man in his early forties; Mrs. Graves, his charming and understanding wife; Lois, the very superior young daughter of sixteen; and in particular, Judy, just under fourteen, a little too eager, a little too fat, stepped on at every turn by her older sister but for all that, as appealing a character as can be found between book covers, vivid, alarming, and sometimes startling. Wonderful reading. This book was made into a Hollywood movie but the book is better.