Boy Meets Girl #16

When a grown-up Effie runs into her old high school crush Van at a shooting gallery, the spark between them reignites—but their budding romance hits turbulence when jealousy and pride threaten to pull them apart just as Van receives his Army induction notice. As weeks pass without word from him, Effie must decide whether her feelings are strong enough to swallow her pride and find a way to reach out.

When a young woman and the boy she loves make a difficult promise to stay apart, she finds herself tested by longing and doubt as the weeks drag on—but John refuses to break his word, no matter the cost to his heart. As summer approaches and Margo's eighteenth birthday arrives, both discover whether a promise kept out of principle can survive the weight of love waiting on the other side. Written with letters by typeset, "If You Wait for Love" explores how integrity and devotion can become two sides of the same aching coin.

Agnes Holmes serves up a witty guide to the dating mistakes that guarantee a girl won't get a second call—from the chatterer who monopolizes every conversation to the primper glued to her mirror, the bragger comparing every outing unfavorably to past dates, and a half-dozen other varieties of one-time dates that leave boys reaching for their address books to cross out her number. A practical look at what boys say they really dislike when they're out on the town.

When Karen overhears her parents quarreling, she mistakenly believes they're headed for divorce—and convinced she's a burden keeping them unhappy, she breaks things off with Eddie to spare him further heartache. After discovering the truth about her parents' solid marriage, Karen realizes the terrible mistake she's made and races to set things right, but her second goodbye to Eddie may have consequences she never expected. A touching 1951 romance that turns on miscommunication and the gap between what we fear and what's really true.

A young woman named Del leaves home for a two-week vacation, armed with a handmade book from her shy boyfriend Danny—fourteen letters, one to read each day. But on the train to Warren, she runs into Lon Martin, a charming actor heading to summer stock, and suddenly Del finds herself torn between Danny's quiet, thoughtful words arriving daily and Lon's flattering, theatrical attention in person.