Ruth Fielding at College: Or the Missing Examination Papers (1917)

Twelve years was a long time for Claire to live without her real father who had driven away from their home in the hills of Mississippi early one morning and never returned. Having drowned in the spring runoff of a river, his body was never recovered. Seven years old at the time, the oldest of four children, Claire is now nineteen, unmarried, and pregnant with no clue as to how to redirect her life.