"Annabel: A Novel for Young Folks" by L. Frank Baum is a juvenile novel published in 1906 under the pseudonym Suzanne Metcalf. Fifteen-year-old Will Carden has fallen from privilege to poverty, now growing vegetables to support his family. When he saves red-haired Annabel Williams from a frozen pond, an unlikely friendship blooms between the "vegetable boy" and the steel magnate's daughter. But a dark secret involving Will's supposedly dead father threatens everything they know about their families' intertwined past. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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