Linda's Homecoming — Phyllis A. Whitney

When Linda Hollis' widowed mother remarries, Linda has to move to a small town to live with her new stepfather and his kids, who aren't at all nice to her. And to move to a small town after living in the apex of wonder, Manhattan? Linda has to go through a lot of trouble before she began to adapt and bring the rest of the family with her.

Cedarhill Summer

From the moment Manhattanite Linda Hollis arrived in the small town of Cedarhill, she knew she was in for the roughest summer of her life. Why did her widowed mother have to remarry a stuffed-shirt from a hick town -- complete with ready-made family who didn't like Linda any more than she liked them? There was beautiful, sullen Babs, who always made sure she got what she wanted -- including the one interesting male in town. And Roddy, a little terror who did everything he could to make Linda feel unwelcome. And Martin Stevens himself, so different from her own vital, exciting father…

That summer would be filled with arguments, rivalries, crisis -- and some very important discoveries about life, love and the joy and pain of growing up…