Portrait of Margarita Author:Ruth M. Arthur, Margery Gill (Illustrator) After her parents have been killed in a plane crash, a teen-age girl learns to cope with the several problems and mysteries of her family background, including the fact that she is dark and that her mother wanted her to be as fair as other English girls. She also learns about feelings of love and figures out what kind of adult she's going to... more » grow up to be. « less