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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 learns that she can make choices and adjustments that she finds an answer.
About the author
Anne Emery. Following her graduation from college, Anne McGuigan traveled abroad for a year with her family, where they visited his birthplace in Northern Ireland, as well as the British Isles, France, Switzerland, and Italy. She taught seventh and eighth grades for four years in the Evanston Schools, and fourth and fifth grades for six more years after her marriage to John Emery, Ms. Emery ultimately retired from education to raise her children and write short stories and book series for young girls. Favorite series by Ms. Emery include the Burnaby Series and Dinny Gordon Books.
