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... Rosamond du Jardin was one of the most popular authors of girls series fiction in the 1950s. Her Tobey Heydon and Pam and Penny Howard books are among the most beloved teen romance novels of their era. Rosamond du Jardin first wrote humorous verse and short stories for multiple periodicals throughout the 1940s. She also wrote five novels for adults before her first novel for teenagers, Practically Seventeen, which was published in 1949.