Plan Z by Leslie Kove

When Leslie Kove leaves Squitchit, N.Y., for the wider world in 1970, she has no plans. She isn't interested in getting a college education; instead, she moves to the Big Apple and goes with the cultural flow in an innocent, bumbling kind of way, periodically trying to contact her elusive, troubled older sister, Susan. Though it lacks urgency, Plan Z by Betsy Robinson is a fetching, cleanly narrated coming-of-age tale.