Everything you need to understand or teach Acts of Love by Maureen Daly.
Acts of Love is the story of a young girl's coming-of-age and falling in love.
It is also a novel of family life, of an unusually warm and close-knit family and the ways they adapt to changes they are forced to make. Henrietta Caldwell, called Retta, is sixteen and a junior in high school when two events occur that alter her life. One is getting to know Dallas Dobson, a quiet, sensitive youth...