Spring Comes Riding — Betty Cavanna

Sixteen year old Meg Sanderson was feeling lost and left out. Her three younger sisters were still children - much too young - and her older sister Joanna was eighteen, beautiful, popular and poised - everything Meg wanted to be and wasn't. So Meg was feeling very "in-between" when she met Alan Rudolph. He was just about perfect, but Joanna thought so too, and in no time at all the older girl had him wrapped around her little finger. Meg didn't think this was fair, because Joanna was supposed to be crazy about Ken, but then Ken was away at Annapolis.

How Meg discovers the secret of popularity, gains new poise, and is able to cope with her more glamorous sister is told as only Betty Cavanna can in one of her most popular tomes.