Abby Goes to Washington — Frances Dean Hancock

To pretty Abby Rowland, being Food Technologist, Grade 5, had opened up a whole new world -- an exciting and challenging world -- in beautiful Washington.

It was a part of the challenge that Abby's negative report on John Darling's plant in nearby Virginia should have aroused the ire of that irascible gentleman. Darling, to Abby's dismay, refused to change anything at all about his “perfect” plant. The only person who seemed willing to listen to reason was Darling's attractive son, Jack.

As a boy of twelve, Jack Darling had rescued a small and frightened Abby from the terrors of a frozen pond. Now Abby was skating on thin ice again…