Fourteen-year-old Patty Fairfield is sent for a year of visiting relatives to learn about moderation and making a home.

Patty and her father settle down in Vernondale and Patty learns about housekeeping.

Patty moves to New York City and enrolls in the Oliphant School.

Patty graduates from the Oliphant School and spends the summer traveling with the Farringtons and at Sandy Cove on Long Island.

After an argument about schooling, Mr. Fairfield sends Patty and her friend to Paris with the Farringtons.

Patty makes friends in England, and helps some of them find a lost family fortune.

Patty continues her travels in Europe, touring Italy in this installment of the series.

Patty returns from her European trip, and manages to earn fifteen dollars all by herself.

Patty enters a contest and wins an electric car, which she names The Swift Camilla.

Patty spends the summer at Spring Beach with Mona Galbraith.

Patty Fairfield makes her debut into society.

Patty engages in a round of entertaining parties, in the company of her suitors.

Patty is kidnapped, and then goes on a trip with Phil Van Reypen and his aunt.

Aunty Van becomes seriously ill, and asks Patty on her deathbed to make important decisions about her future with Philip.

Patty becomes involved with a group of disreputable artistic types, before eventually getting engaged.

Against a backdrop of World War I, Patty gets married.

Patty's husband's cousin Azalea is a wild western girl, and brings chaos when she comes east for a visit.

This volume contains FOURTEEN (14) novels of the beloved Patty Fairfield series, by acclaimed author Carolyn Wells, a prolific writer of more than 170 books, that go from Poetry and Children books to detective mysteries. This collection includes three novels that are rare and missed by the available collections: Patty's Pleasure Trip; Patty's Motor Car & Patty's Fortune. The novels included are as follows: Patty Fairfield (1901) Patty at Home (1904) Patty's Summer Days (1906) Patty in Paris (1907) Patty's Friends (1908) Patty's Pleasure Trip (1909) Patty's Success (1910) Patty's Motor Car (1911) Patty's Butterfly Days (1912) Patty's Social Season (1913) Patty's Suitors (1914) Patty's Fortune (1916) Patty Blossom (1917) Patty and Azalea (1919)