Anne Emery is a great writer, and this is one of her best young adult books. I'm sure it will seem a little dated (okay, a lot dated) to teenagers now, but it is still a fun book to read. Jean Burnaby (featured in many of Miss Emery's books) begins her senior year in high school and is soon caught up in the sorority clique. Disguised as 'service clubs' at her high school (since sororities are forbidden), The Nightingales are the group that notices Jean and soon she finds herself caught up in her social life with them. This causes problems with her family, her friends not in the sorority and most of all, her boyfriend Jeff. How Jean resolves her problem and ambivalence about the sorority makes for a interesting read. Oh, and a few references to the word 'queer' are even amusing, in this PC age. In one, Jean worries that the sorority will think she's 'queer' for missing an important event. Toward the end, when Jean decides to hand in her Nightingales pin, she imagines that her sorority sisters are thinking, "Are you queer?" No, they were not wondering if she had turned lezzie. I got a big laugh of that one. ( )