With her mother away, a sixteen-year-old girl copes with cooking, housekeeping, neighbors, and dating problems. Bayley is in charge of the home when her mother is away for the summer. This means keeping food on the table, managing the household of four men, and still having time to be a teenage girl. The way she handles the situations that arise is hopeful and real. She maintains a fairly positive attitude, even in the confusing world of dating, making friends, and figuring out how to be a girl after years of playing the tomboy.