Candy Kane and her older sister Leigh are the daughters of Major Grant Kane and his social butterfly wife, Marcia. Leigh is a beautiful blonde- called Sugar as a child -- and Candace Victoria, fourteen at the opening of the series, is skinny and plain yet her charming and sparkling personality serves to get her noticed. In the introductory book (Candy Kane,) Major Kane is transferred to Fort Benning, Georgia. The Major's wife, Marcia and daughter, Leigh are averse to moving and make life difficult for the family. The delightful Candy is well loved by the Fort Benning post. She meets and eventually dates sixteen year old Barton Reed.
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This was the first Janet Lambert book I read 60 years ago, and I fell in love with the character and life portrayed. The story is a formula one, popular in movies in the forties, usually starring Judy Garland or Deanna Durbin, where a gangly, plain, seemingly misfit member of a family of beauties turns out to be wise beyond her years and talented, to boot. Candace Victoria Kane is the 14 year old younger daughter of an Army officer and a beautiful socialite. Older sister, Leigh, is an 18 year old copy of her mother.Candy is charming and clever in the way she gets herself in and out of situations. She and her father go in advance to Ft. Benning to set up housekeeping for the arrival of her mother and Leigh. Candy moves in the furnishings, purchases what else is needed to decorate the house, employs a housekeeper/cook, and makes friends of all ages. Yet she insists that she is, and wants to remain, a happy little girl. The jury is out on whether present day teenagers, fed on a diet of "The Princess Diaries" and "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," will find as much enjoyment in "Candy Kane." My 14 year old granddaughters are in the process of reading Janet Lambert books and will let me know how they like them. Since they enjoyed the "Betsy-Tacy" and "Anne of Green Gables" series, which I also gave them, I have hopes that they will enjoy "Candy Kane" and the other Lambert series, as well.
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