Lizzie's leaving - Joan Lingard

Lizzie's parents were teenagers when her mother became pregnant, and her father didn't want the responsibility of a small baby. She has grown up with her mum, step-father and half-sister and is fed up with the pandemonium that always seems to reign at home. She jumps at the chance to go and stay with her real father and his family, only to discover that her step-mother just wants her to stay and act as babysitter for her new step-sister. Lizzie learns that there is more to be said for home thanshe had realised.