70s Teen HS book w/Female lead - she moves to another school from Seattle for 1 year
Read this in high school in the mid 1970s. Female lead character. For some reason - family issues, divorce maybe? - she moves to a school in a far distant state for one year, I think her junior or senior year? She feels like a fish out of water and is homesick. She struggles in Biology class, especially. I think she ends up meeting a boy who she gets involved with who helps her out of her shell and help her feel like she belongs. She finds a peer group too. At the end of the book, she realizes she has grown and can adjust better. She even realizes she has learned something useful from Biology - she explains the reason that cutting a carrot lengthwise is better (preserves the cell structure). This book has stuck with me for 50 years, and I always think of it when I cut carrots! Would love to find the title and track it down. It was NOT a series.