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Author	M.E. Kerr
ISBN	0061139890

M. E. Kerr's first novel - hailed by the New York Times as a "timely, compelling" and "brilliantly funny" look at adolescence and friendship

It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf's dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job....

Author	Marilyn Sachs
ISBN	0595175929

This review of all three Amy and Laura books also appears on my blog, Read-at-Home Mom.

When Marilyn Sachs passed away at the beginning of January, I was reminded immediately of how much I enjoyed her 1968 children's novel, Veronica Ganz. Back in 2015, when I reviewed the book, I wrote that it...

Author	Judy Blume
ISBN	0689866100

When Deenie finds out that she has scoliosis, she’s scared. When she sees the brace for the first time, she wants to scream.

But the words won't come out. And Deenie, beautiful Deenie, who everyone says should be a model, is stuck wearing a brace from her neck to her hips. For four years—or...

Author	Norma Klein
ISBN	0449702731

WHEN YOU'RE NEITHER A GIRL NOR A WOMAN...
Maggie and Caroline are both seniors in high school and suddenly everything that seemed simple has become complicated. Thinking about sex, wondering about college, planning for careers -- there are so many choices.

Maggie is brilliant and very...

Author	Mildred Ames
ISBN	0590410024

Childhood favorite. Or not favorite really; it gave me the creeps. Eerie book about cloning and government manipulation, precursor in some ways to my most adored Cyteen. Has strong incestuous undertones between non-blood-related siblings forced to rely on each other because everyone else is untrustworthy...

Author	Norma Fox Mazer
ISBN	0380790041

For as long as I can remember, It's just been Daddy and me. I can't remember my mother. I was told she died in an accident when I was four, and that's all I know about her. I don't understand why there isn't even a picture of her. The other thing I don't understand is why we're always moving -- different towns...

Author

Julian F. Thompson

YA was hardcore in 1983, yo. I bought my original copy of The Grounding of Group Six at Barnes and Noble in Boston when I was 10 – the huge one on Boylston that looked like a half-melted White House, and I’m not going to lie to you: I bought it because of the cover.

In fact, before I even get into the...

Author	Pamela Sykes
ISBN	0671411349

Originally published in Britain as Come Back, Lucy.

The mirror looked ordinary. It had a heavy gold frame and leaned against the wall in the attic. But when Lucy first looked into the mirror, a strange thing happened. Another girl's face appeared beside hers, laughing. Whirling around in surprise...

Author	Crescent Dragonwagon
ISBN	0553238647

I'm going to be honest with you: at least 60% of the reason I read this is because of its author's cracktastic pen name. In combination with the paperback's cover, the book summary, and a co-writing credit with established YA author Paul Zindel, it absolutely sounds like a 19-year-old human disaster...

Author

Ellen Conford

Dear Lovey Hart,
I am desperate. I love a man old enough to be my father. I worship him from afar. Do you think there is any hope for a relationship between us?
G.C.

Dear G.C.,
Not unless he wants to adopt you.

Chip is cute. He is also the editor of the high school newspaper. So...

Author	Richard Peck
ISBN	0141306939

An updated look for the classic YA thriller from genre heavyweight Richard Peck

Sixteen-year-old Gail is living the upper-class suburban life when she begins receiving terrifying phone calls and notes in her locker. And the calls keep coming. When she's attacked by the town's golden boy...

Author	Emily Chase
ISBN	0590412124

Dana Morrison - spirited, independent, city girl.

Faith Thompson - determinted, talented, and practical.

Shelley Hyde - naive small town girl.

Dana, Faith, and Shelley, all new to Canby Hall in their sophomore year, end up as roommates -- and get off to the worst possible...

Author	Lois Lowry
ISBN	0440400872

Humiliated.

That's how Anastasia Krupnik feels whenever she tries to climb the ropes in gym class. How come everyone else can climb up those hateful ropes?

Since Anastasia has decided to become a journalist, it should be easy to answer most questions. Then why can't she understand...