It's a very slice-of-life book (the Kirkus review complains about nothing much happening, which generally means the sort of book I like) about a girl (bookish and sensitive, natch) who has to stay with well-meaning but mostly unsympathetic relatives. The plot is predictable enough, but the point is the character sketches and the mid-1960s atmosphere. I really like the conversations with her school friends and her one sympathetic cousin.