At the dawn of President Kennedy's New Frontier, Angela is trying to squelch her brainy image and date the few appealing boys who have her parents' approval, a major challenge!
-Struggling for social and scholarship success, she is haunted by a dear friend's mysterious disappearance.
-Angela fantasizes about slow dancing with a forbidden young man in a romantic night spot which won't admit him.
-Even when Angela is with a boy acceptable to her parents, her controlling mother pushes her favorite onto Angela.
-Missing her mentor, Angela must journey to womanhood using remote role models Jackie Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn.
-A connection to her mentor (and a secret killing) lead Angela to an episode too shocking to risk recording in her diary.
Chock-full of the exuberant tone and period detail of Boy Crazy: The Secret Life of a 1950s Girl www.boycrazybook.com, this sequel, Boy Crazy 1960-1962: The High School Diary replaces liking Ike with going all the way with JFK! www.boycrazy60s.com