Fiction, teenage romance by Eve Bennett

The story is built around Judy Lansing, a high school senior in a school called Central.  She has all the problems that beset most teenage girls in the 50’s – she wishes she weren’t such a beanpole, that she didn’t freeze up when a boy spoke to her, that she had a job as reporter on the school paper, that she had a closer understanding with her mother.

Judy’s own very personal problems are interwoven with those of her friends – Fran, who has poor judgement about boys and the gentle, placid Kay, who is Judy’s best friend.  And then there is Riley Kemp, the boy who assumes a very important role in Judy’s life.  Riley is an only son in a rich family.   His mother is too busy “do-gooding” to look after her son, but she sees that he gets a Jaguar for his birthday.

(Review by Frances Melrose in the Rocky Mountain News, April 21, 1957)

Julian Messner, Inc (copyright 1957)

This book is no longer in print but can be found at many online booksellers.