You will have to laugh! I read this great book while in highschool. That was about 1950-51. I've always had a very tender spot in my heart for the book. That was my era and a familiar story. Now I want it for my granddaughter. She is twelve and as today's times are much ahead of mine, she will love it.It is a very appropriate and tender love story of youth!

This book is delicate and softly written. I loved it. The author took me through a wonderful journey to romance. It was a thrill to "feel the cool wind of the lake". I haven't read this book in a long time because unfortunately, I lost it, and yet I feel it has always stayed with me. It's a shame it's not out on bookstores. -Wendy Hernandez

Ms. Daly has superbly captured the moments of first love in this delightfully written book. Angie is a seventeen year old young woman,blossoming on the verge of a first time relationship with the adorable, star basketball player Jack. Being as inexperienced as she is with dating, she is a breath of fresh air. This book will take you back to your own first teenage romance. Ms. Daly makes you remember why you never forget your first love. Make it a tradition, as I do each year, to celebrate this wonderfully written book. Read it each summer and winsomely remember

This book is a great book for teenagers and adults alike to read. It grabs your attention with stories of the romance filled relationship that Angie and Jack share. At first Angie never thought she would have a chance with the fabulous, gorgeous football player from her high school. Well, after they graduate, Angie is in for a big surprise. She soon gets a visit from Jack and finds out that he is single and "hint hint" he wants her to go boating with him! She is so excited that she gladly agrees to go. She has the best time of her life and falls head over heels for him. As you read all of the hardships they go through together as a couple, you will be drawn into the story. As I read this book it felt as though I was there with them on the boat and in Pete's and McKnight's. When Jane Rady shows up I feel as though I am Angie sitting there drinking my Coke as Jack dances with Jane. As the summer ends, Jack and Angie have to face the fact that Angie is going to college and they will have to seperate. Just as you start to think it is over between Jack and Angie, Mrs. Daly adds a little twist to the story's plot.( You'll have to read the book to find out what I am talking about.) Maureen Daly has wrote a wonderful tale of true love and friendship. I recommend you to read this book. If you love to read love stories and love books that draw you into the plot, then you will love this book. You won't regret it. I promise.

I've read this book already seven times since I first read it in the 7th grade...and every time it is simply lovely. Maureen Daly fills all of her books with a mysterious enchantment that I can utterly relate to and each time find beautiful and sweet. The book is written in the first person as Angie Morrow falls in love for the first time and she details everything so perfectly you wouldn't realize it was even a story! You feel you ARE her, and as if she is spilling your own heart out through hers. It is definately a book that ANYONE should read, so READ IT!

I discovered this book after reading an excerpt in one of those teenager-in-love anthologies that Scholastic books used to market in their catalogs. Like many others here, I re-read this one every summer, and have for close to three decades (yikes!) Angie and Jack were easy to relate to--she's a college-bound girl from a middle-class background, he was the star basketball player whose family owns the town bakery. Angie been something of an outsider in town, having attended a private girls-only prep school. Jack discovers her almost by accident one day when he blows the paper from his straw out of his booth at the drugstore, and looks over to see where it landed. From there, it's just a matter of time until they're a couple. There is nothing cliched about this book, even though it has many of the common elements we associate with teenagers in love. It's rounded out by scenes of Angie's family life and her plans for college even though she's falling deeper in love with Jack and he with her.

One caution: this book gets reprinted and re-released periodically with newer contemporary covers. You need to be aware that it is definitely not set in contemporary times, though. There are many references to society and mores of its setting--Wisconsin in the 30s--but the feel and experience of first love transcends everything. I think this one's a classic and a keeper. This is the only fiction book besides Gone with the Wind that I've kept from my own adolesence. Someday it will be my daughter's. On June 21, 2012, when she turns 17, this will be my gift to her.