FROM the toughest sections of Chicago - to the peace and quiet of a small Pennsylvania town! Richard was so transplanted at only sixteen and he didn't like it. He was accustomed to the city environment where he had been born and raised - he admired his rough friends whose predatory instincts he was learning to imitate. But now that his mother was dead he had no choice.

In this lively, unusual story we see what happens to Richard in the straight-laced little town, how his wealthy maiden aunt, with singular intuition, undertakes an original method of making over his character.

Review taken from a Grosset and Dunlap edition.