Mildred Jeffrey: 3 books

This romantic adventure story, set in a picturesqu European country, begins with heartbreak and ends with a wedding. In between, a favorite horse is stolen, a handsome young quardsman is exiled, a princess is kidnapped, a gypsy horse whisperer gets his comeuppance, a band of gypsy women go on a rampage, and a wish comes true for an American teen-ager.

When Mary Catherine, the only child of old-fashioned parents, becomes a teacher in a ghetto school, she and her family will never be the same. New ideas and new relationships lead to trouble at home as well as on the job. Since the year is 1953, her struggle to adapt to change plays out against a...

A sometimes hilarious three-generational clash, of values plays out in REJOICE, a novel about a conventional mother, an uncompromising hippie daughter, and a devil-may-care granddaughter raised in an idealistic commune. The mother finally details her struggle in a memoir which she pays her granddaughter...