Margaret Lee Runbeck

(from dustjacket flap)

"The sixteenth year is the hardest, darling...You're neither fish nor fowl this year. So keep your mind on art."

But to Lambie Prowder, junior miss with eyeglasses and too frank a nature, Art is not enough to carry her through this summer trip to Mexico. She watches her companions Corney and Horty, each a rip seventeen, exercising their pink magic,* and comes quickly to the tragic conclusion that she will never learn. Yet her hilarious adventures, beginning with the loss of all her money and then of her glasses, net her in the end an honest big-as-life boy friend, while her glowing companions are still doing up their hair and their faces and casting out their lines for "Somebody New."

Miss Runbeck has brought her special humor-plus-wisdom to the teen-age situation. Her fans will be reminded of the light touch that characterized her first success, "Miss Boo". The element of satire, but gentle satire, has been added to a tender story. "Pink Magic" takes the sixteen-year-old daydream, makes it funny, and then makes it come true. All ages will like it: parents struggling with their daughters through the difficult years of adolescence will find her consolation, hope, and a fund of advice. Young readers will recognize a slice of their own particular cake; and anyone who has ever been a wallflower if only for one evening will go with Lambie through her tragi-comic agonies and enjoy her final triumph.
*Definition: allure; appeal; a spell cast over the Other Sex