Through No Fault of My Own: A Girl's Diary of Life on Summit Avenue in the Jazz Age

by Peg Meier and Coco Irvine

Book Overview

On Christmas Day, 1926, twelve-year-old Clotilde "Coco" Irvine received a blank diary as a present. Coco loved to write--and to get into scrapes--and her new diary gave her the opportunity to explain her side of the messes she created: "I'm in deep trouble through no fault of my own," her entries frequently began. The daughter of a lumber baron, Coco grew up in a twenty-room mansion on fashionable Summit Avenue at the peak of the Jazz Age, a time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816673063
• ISBN13: 9780816673063
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.1"