The Boy Next Door
Betty Cavanna
Hardcover
(William Morrow and Company, March 15, 1972)
First love. Everyone in town took it for granted that Jane Howard was Ken Sanderson's girl, bt Jane felt that they were just good "pals." The night Ken tried to show here that he was not at all happy with his unromantic role, Jane instinctively rebuffed him. When her vivacious younger sister, Belinda, began to date Ken, Jane found herself going through a period of bitterness and jealousy. But with new interests ta school and an exciting young English boy, Jane finally gained a greater understanding of herself and the world in which she lived.