title: She's Just A Girl
author: Hill, Russell A.
description: After the unexpected death of her father, seventeen year old high school student Lizzie Dunbar takes over the ownership and operation of her father’s small manufacturing company, expands it to a much bigger enterprise, then sells it. Everyone who encounters her quickly learns—she’s much more than just a girl. After her friend, a boy from the other side of the tracks returns from Vietnam, they embark on a long-term friendship that turns into an unlikely romance and marriage. Her archenemy, the small town’s banker, eventually becomes a best friend and helps her and her eventual husband become the leading citizens of Haleyville, Kentucky. This book covers from before her birth into old age, with many twists and surprises along the way.