Bought this at book sale because I fell in love with book jacket and it reminds me of books I read in my teenage years.

How do you manage a big house, keep three brothers and your father properly nourished when they all seem to have hollow legs, and have a life of your own if you're sixteen years old and inexperienced to say the least? How do you make it clear to your brothers and their friends that you no longer intend to be the pal who is always ready to catch a ball, hold a wrench and gererally make yourself agreeable and useful as a chum? That, in fact, you intend to try for a more glamourous role in their lives?
Bayley confronts all these problems and more one summer when her mother leaves to take care of an ailing relative. Bayley soons realizes she is in over her head but she learns how to manage a house, serve an acceptable meal and get her social life where she wants it. ( )