Felt a bit like it was two books in one. The first half, Patty is trying to cram two years of school into one, so that she can be done with it. (While she likes to read, she doesn't really like to study and would just as soon be done with her formal education.) Unfortunately, everybody at this point is asking her to do EVERYTHING, and so to keep up with her studies she starts cutting herself short on sleep...and, as must happen in a turn-of-the-century novel, "nervous prostration" and "brain fever" loom on the horizon. She makes it through to her graduation, but only just, and the doctor thereafter prescribes a vacation. In books like this doctors are always prescribing country air and vacations...
Anyway, her friends the Farringtons invite her to go on a road trip with them. Automobiles are just becoming fashionable, and she is excited to go. This is where the second "story" begins. The rest of the book is basically tales of...well, as the title says, her summer days. Fun, though I'm not sure I liked it quite as well as Patty in the City. ( )