This book is a very badly edited, condensed version of the book, [b:Purple Passage : The Life of Mrs Frank Leslie|7270551|Purple Passage The Life of Mrs Frank Leslie|Madeleine B. Stern|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1315400965s/7270551.jpg|8400268]. I can't imagine that the author is responsible for hacking her book to pieces so apparently the publisher simply cut out passages totally at random to reduce the book from 281 to 192 pages for the YA market. While [b:Purple Passage : The Life of Mrs Frank Leslie|7270551|Purple Passage The Life of Mrs Frank Leslie|Madeleine B. Stern|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1315400965s/7270551.jpg|8400268] is a great read, Queen of Publishers' Row is a lumpy patchwork of random passages that barely makes any sense at all. Publishing a book this bad for children should be a felony. ( )