Like all of the Eleanor H. Porter books, this book about a girl who is mistaken for a boy is funny, entertaining, and will keep you reading to the very end.

Mr. Neilson was determined to name his first child after his boyhood chum, William Henshaw. When the baby disappointed him by being a girl, he was consoled by naming her Billy. Miss Billy, now 18, orphaned and all alone in the world, takes her lawyer’s suggestion to ask her namesake to take her in. Only one little problem – Mr. Henshaw did not know of her existence, and then mistakenly thinks that Billy is a boy!

Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist. She was born in Littleton, New Hampshire on 19 December 1868, the daughter of Francis Fletcher Hodgman and Llewella Woolson. She became an excellent singer after studying at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She married John Lyman Porter on 3 May 1892 and started writing short stories, usually set in New England, which were published in the popular magazines and newspapers of the day including Woman's Home Companion and Harper's Weekly.