Bab: A Sub-Deb

Bab, only twenty months younger than her sister, the official debutante,
rebels against her treatment by her family. Set during the pre-World
War I era, when women's roles were rapidly changing, Bab determines to
assert her independence through this series of misadventures and
mysteries. . . . "I am writing all of this as truthfully as I can. I am
not defending myself. What I did I was driven to, as any one can see. It
takes a real shock to make the average Familey wake up to the fact that
the youngest daughter is not the Familey baby at seventeen. All I was
doing was furnishing the shock. If things turned out badly, as they did,
it was because I rather overdid the thing. That is all. My motives were
perfectly ireproachible." - Bab And this Bab feels through all of her
hilarious and at times dangerous adventures to prove she is not just a
Sub-Deb. Written by that master of mystery and humor, Mary Roberts
Rinehart, Bab is a delightful combination of both.