Doc Dudley's Daughter by Elisabeth Hamilton Friermood

Emmeline Louisa Dudley has just graduated from Harper City High School.  The year is 1898 and the United States is at war with Spain in Cuba.  Friermood manages to weave a subtle understory about the cost of war into the story of a young woman beginning a career as a librarian. I loved the part about moving the old library collection into the town's new Carnegie library. 238 pages.