In her senior year in high school, Marcy's steady date, Steve, departs for his freshman year at college. Marcy and some friends in a similar plight form the "Widow's Club." Many of the girls drop out, but Marcy is determined to stay true to Steve...until jealousy threatens to destroy their relationship. Some sound advice from Marcy's brother, Ken, and some straightforward thinking by Marcy herself help her find a fresh new approach to the year of "widowhood."

When Tim goes away to college, Pat is left behind to finish her last year of high school. They have decided to date others and keep their lives as normal as possible while they are separated. But Pat grows very impatient. As her senior year goes along, she finds to her own astonishment that she is growing up a little! A friend persuades her to go out for dramatics and she finds an engrossing new world. Thrilled and happy about her discoveries, Pat tries to share them with Tim. But he isn't interested. Pat is so distressed that she wonders about their future together. It is only after Pat ...

The first book of the Penny Parrish Series. Classic fiction from the 1940s. Carrol Houghton spends the summer with Penny Parrish and her warm and happy family at Fort Arden in Kansas. Never has Carrol enjoyed herself so! Penny shows Carrol the fun and adventures of life on a military base during a star-spangled summer. .

Pat Marlowe, high school junior, is the sort of girl who likes to do things for people. For instance, her best, friend, Connie, likes Pat's brother, Mike. So Pat tries to promote a romance. When a would-be author, knowing that Pat's mother is a professional writer, asks for her manuscript to be read, Pat recklessly offers her help and immediately gets into hot water. Now, with the beginning of her junior year, Pat has a definite problem of her own. The boy she dated in her sophomore year is away at college, and she is feeling left out. When attractive Tim Davis shows an interest in her, she...

Marcy Rhodes thought when she turned seventeen "things would be different." She is suddenly whirled into a delightful summer in which things really do change. A visit to a ranch in Colorado, the thrill of meeting new and interesting boys, and a serious romantic involvement give Marcy a truly different outlook and the ability to make a very important decision...

A summer vacation aboard the Harwood College Showboat was an exciting prospect for Pam and Penny, the twins of Double Feature. To Penny, it meant being with Mike who had a job on the tugboat that pushed the old Regina from town to town along the Ohio River. To Pam it meant a chance to act, and perhaps a leading role in one of the gala showboat performances.

Quiet, sensitive Penny Howard has always tried to be as much like her vivacious twin Pam as Pam wished- wearing the same clothes, and letting Pam arrange dates and choose their activities. But as the girls start their senior year at a new high school, in a new town, Penny resolves to no longer be a carbon copy of Pam.. To her surprise, she finds herself quietly cheered on by their mother, and their grandmother, and most happily for Penny, by Mike Bradley, the boy she was afraid Pam had chosen for herself.

Pam and Penny's grandmother is marrying Lucius and now they must agree on which college to attend. Pam must also decide what to do about Randy's growing feelings for her. The twins choose Harwood, where Mike is also going and Pam decides to break things off with Randy who is heading east to go to school. At Harwood, Pam meets Cade, who plays the same game of hard-to-get that Pam is used to playing herself. But she also meets Jeff, who doesn't really belong to her crowd, but attracts her nonetheless. At the end, she must decide who is more important to her and also changes her ways as she ...

When Tobey Heydon wears Brose's class ring, her family insists that it be understood they are not "going steady." This inevitably leads straight into difficulties and misunderstandings. But what Brose likes best about Tobey, better even than her nearly-red hair and her smile, is that she is so honest. A boy appreciates that quality in a girl. So when she tells him she is going to a college dance with another man, he is secretly reassured even while he growls. However, things become more and more complicated until the class ring changes hands...for a while.

Jean Burnaby's senior year at high school is complicated by a new girl in class named Kim Ballard. Her romantic interest, Jeff, is also getting too serious. The strain of her relationships conflicts with Jean's plans to study the piano. Another great Anne Emery title!

Book 1 of the Marcy Rhodes Series. To Marcy's older brother's friend Steve, she has always just been "Squirt." But now she is fifteen and all grown up with a new white formal hanging in the closet, just waiting to be worn! Will Steve be able to look past the Marcy he's always known and see how she has changed?

Sally Burnaby looks forward to a carefree, happy summer with nothing to do but be with Scotty. But she soon discovers that the world does not stop for a couple in love. In fact, she finds that sometimes there are disadvantages to going steady.

Book 4, Dinny Gordon Series. In her senior year at Rosemont High, Dinny finds out about love at first sight. The boy is Steve Denison, a freshman at Rosemont College. But she also finds out that in love, there can be a lot more of giving than receiving. Dinny learns to handle the conflicts of love, school, and the future. And throughout her senior year, Dinny plans for her summer tour of sites of ancient history in the Mediterranean and then classes at the university in the fall. Another nice constant in her life is the support of Brad Kenyon...

Dinny Gordon's junior year in high school is unusually filled with problems. Feeling unready to go steady, Dinny struggles with her feelings for Curt and her attraction to Tom. Meanwhile, she takes a job but loses it due to a shoplifting incident. Dinny, then, confronts prejudice among her friends when a Jewish family moves into the neighborhood. A job at the public library is one of the best aspects of her junior year.... until she attends a college lecture that fuels her love of ancient history. And it doesn't hurt that Brad Kenyon is standing by with a helping hand...

Sally Burnaby's senior year in high school starts badly, but ends up as exciting as any girl could wish! After arriving home from a wonderful summer vacation, Sally is upset to learn that her best friend, Kate, is going away to boarding school. Then Scotty starts dating a new girl, leaving Sally without a steady date for dances, parties, and football games. Much is happening in the Burnaby family home on Juniper Lane as well - with Mother and Dad, sophomore Jean, grade school Ricky, pigtailed Betsy, and little Jimmy. Among many choices and decision, Sally has to choose new friends, decide ...