Title: Sixteen Can Be Sweet (Wildfire)
Description: **Text from 1978 book jacket (ISBN: 0-590-03860-5):**

Jenny is looking forward to her sixteenth birthday. School will almost be over and she has a wonderful summer job. Then her father is in a serious accident and sweet sixteen turns sour. It seems like the end of the world. Jenny's whole summer goes to pieces - until she meets Keith. Together they face Jenny's fears for her family's future. 

**Text from 1988 Wildfire book jacket (ISBN:0-590-32204-4):**

Jenny West is so happy - sweet sixteen and summer on the way! But her life turns sour when her father's illness sends the Wests off to an isolated beach for the whole summer.

Jenny's miserable until the bright morning when she looks up and finds herself face to face with Keith Ericson. The golden days stretch ahead of them - days of walking on the beach, holding hands, sharing secrets.

But too soon it's September - the summer is over - and Jenny wonders how she can bear to leave Keith . . .
Subjects: car accidents, accidents, depressed dads, moving, summer vacation, beaches, sixteenth birthday, North Carolina, Pamlico Sound, cottages, homesickness, summer romance, pirates, buried treasure, lonely teenagers
Places: Cincinnati, North Carolina, Pamlico Sound