Ex-Library; 16 oz.; 216 pages; Ex library HC w/DJ front hinge cracked aged w/library markings solid reading copy. To Mirabelle Marilyn Meeks, who conducts a newspaper column for teen-agers, Amanda Carpenter often writes letters urgently demanding advice. But Amanda, aged fourteen, is merely the youngest of the "learners" in Josephine Lawrence's astringent and entertaining novel about a group of city dwellers, devoid of self-reliance, who repeatedly seek the help of professional "experts".