When Tobey Heydon got married, her fifteen-year-old sister Midge felt both joyful and sad. She was delighted that her sister was so happy and thrilled with the wedding festivities, but sad that Tobey would be leaving home. The best man, Johnny Randall, a smooth talking older man, catches Midge's eye. Later at Green Lake, Midge finds herself attracted to a good-looking, popular young man. Will she fall for this one or will her friend Tom Brooks help her to see the light?

Tobey Heydon and Brose Gilman put their special friendship to the test when they chose colleges a thousand miles apart. To make it worse for Tobey, it seems that Brose can't write more than a ten-line letter! Tobey's plans for a happy summer reunion with Brose are dashed when a Texas heiress gets him a summer job on her father's ranch. Will Brose succumb to Jan Shelby, or is his love for Tobey "the real thing?"

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.

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."

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.

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.

All the fun of high school graduation and that special summer before college are heightened for Tobey Heydon when dashing Dick Allen adds his attentions to those she is receiving from her favorite young man, Brose Gilman. When Tobey meets a handsome and attentive artist, what will become of Brose?

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...

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?

Graduation seems far away to Pam and Penny, as they start their second year of college, especially since their marriages are postponed until their fiances' graduations. But college days are crowded days and many things happen to shorten the waiting. Then sooner than Pam and Penny ever dreamed possible, it's commencement time... will a double wedding follow?

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.

The second book in Anne Emery's Dinny Gordon series finds Dinny a year older, but still not terribly interested in dating. Although most of Dinny's friends and classmates at Rosemont High have boyfriends, Dinny spends much of her time watching, wondering, and avoiding commitment, until her friend Sue breaks up with Curt Beauregard...

Dinny Gordon is a freshman at Rosemont High School. Dinny is hard at work earning money toward a trip to Rome. Although boys are not at the top of her list of interests, Dinny's friendship with a senior boy looks as though it might turn serious. Does a case of measles interfere with romance?

It is a big moment in Jean Burrnaby's life when she is asked to join her high school sorority, the Nightingales. For a while sorority life is a dream come true, but Jean discovers joining a sorority isn't quite what she thought it would be. Jean sees both sides of sororities: the heartbreak of being left out and the disillusionment of being "in." She, ultimately, makes a decision that astonishes Sherwood High.

When Pat signs up for summer theater at Northwestern University, Tim is not supportive of her interest in dramatic arts. When Tim disapproves of her plans in theater for fall semester, Pat starts to question their compatibility. Is it necessary to share all the same interests in a relationship? Pat is further confused when her sorority sisters take an interest in Tim. As her year progresses, Pat begins to understand that true love should add something to her rather than take part of her personality away.