u/Accomplished_Cress58

Looking for a YA novel I read in the late ‘80s to early ‘90s. It had an adolescent girl main character who is living alone, maybe because her dad died, and this is kept as a secret. There’s a neighbor boy in the story. At some point, the girl goes to his house or takes care of him. The boy gets sick with a fever, and I remember she either crawls into bed with him or kisses him while he has the fever. I posted about this back in 2006ish and someone knew what it was but I forgot the name of this title again of course.