To Take A Dare
10 best books like To Take A Dare (Crescent Dragonwagon): A Room Made of Windows, Domestic Arrangements, Happy Endings Are All Alike, Ghosts I Have Been, Taking Terri Mueller, The Grounding of Group 6, The Keeping Days, To All My Fans, with Love, from Sylvie, I Never Loved Your Mind, Waiting Games
| Author | Eleanor Cameron |
| ISBN | 0316125237 |
It's a remarkable sensation to go back to a book that meant a lot to you as a child and wonder if the story and characters helped shape you in some way, or if you were already that way and it simply resonated with who you were then. I'm not sure which it was, but I know I read this several times, and as many of the...
| Author | Norma Klein |
| ISBN | 0449245209 |
I first read this book in the early 80s when I was a young teenager and I adored it then. It's about Tatiana, a 14-year-old New Yorker, who stars in her first movie and is navigating her blooming sexuality. I loved all of Norma Klein's books and so it was interesting for me to read Domestic Arrangements again...
| Author | Sandra Scoppettone |
| ISBN | 0440933765 |
In 1978 Sandra Scoppettone, who would soon become a well-known mystery writer, published the story of Peggy and Jaret, two high school girls madly in love but find themselves the target of a violent plot to punish them for who they are. Part mystery thriller, part love story, Happy Endings Are All Alike...
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0141310960 |
An oldie from my childhood which I just finished re-reading this October -- great timing, because it begins on Halloween . . . .
Excellent, and now I remember why I hung onto this so long. I was ghost crazy as a kid, and adored witches, and this book certainly filled the bill. Blossom Culp, social...
| 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...
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 | Norma Johnston |
| ISBN | 1892323281 |
I found this dusty time capsule in my backyard. It arrived on the back of a 1980s has-been actor (and he arrived on the back of a flaming jet pack!). The dry ice revealed a neon sticker that said "1900". "Remember me?" It said, "We loved this in our childhood. It reminded us of growing up in 1900! We were bosom...
| Author | Ellen Conford |
| ISBN | 0671637630 |
Sylvie isn't your average girl. When she dresses up she looks eighteen, and she's spent the last three years in foster care plotting her escape to Hollywood. But as Sylvie quickly learns on the road, zigzagging across the Midwest in a stranger's two-tone blue Pontiac, life isn't like the movies. Left...
At 17, Dewey Daniels is fed up with his boring high school and decides to drop out, taking a part-time job at Richmond Valley Hospital. one day he catches fellow dropout Yvette Goethals stealing hospital supplies, and it's lust at first sight. But Yvette and Dewey are like night and day: she's a vegetarian...
| Author | Carole Hart |
| ISBN | 0380790122 |
Okay, so I went back into the trunk after reading Sooner or Later again, I had to continue the story of Jessie and Michael.
Jessie's parents now know about Michael and the age difference and have a plan to take her away on vacation in the summer - away from Michael. In the meantime, Michael is being pulled...
Too Many Questions
It wasn't that thirteen-year-old Conrad didn't like living with his aunt and uncle in St. Louis. It's just that his mother and father both lived in New York and he hadn't seen them lately. And he had a few questions he needed to have answered. That's how Conrad happened to...
I read this when I was about 15, and for some weird reason it just stuck with me! Although I am a lot older and wiser, this book is still very charming and very much a product of it's time! lol everyone just 'falls in love' as soon as they clap eyes on one another. And it's very idealised as our herione Ellen does...
| Author | Willo Davis Roberts |
| ISBN | 0689305710 |
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This book had a profound book on me during my childhood. As an abusive victim, it helped me not feel alone and gave me hope that one day things would change.
As it turns out, I had a chance to meet the author when I was in grade school and I still have the version of this book she signed...
| Author | Ellen Emerson White |
| ISBN | 0590446282 |
Beverly can’t have friends. If she does, she might destroy them.
She knows this. After last year.
Everyone else knows it too.
Except Derek.
Derek is weird.
She pushes. And he . . . gets closer.
Which isn’t the plan.
There isn’t a plan. Beverly isn’t allowed to plan....
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0060533013 |
First Date
Fifteen-year-old Jean is astonished when a handsome Johnny whirls her round the dance floor. She's never given much thought to boys before; now Johnny is all that's on her mind. Finally she finds the courage to invite him to a dance. But the excitement of a new dress and a scheme to take Johnny's...
| Author | Carolyn Haywood |
| ISBN | 0844665975 |
I found this in a Goodwill with a very vintage cover and yellowed pages and had to pick it up for our trip to Antarctica. While on the adventure, I read this and it was absolutely adorable and awesome timing to be reading such a story. I will say that it's very different from books that kids request nowadays...
| Author | Francine Pascal |
| ISBN | 0140348859 |
This book wasn't terrible, but definitely wasn't the best book I have ever read. I found myself wanting to know what would come next in this book. The book did have a good meaning and message directed towards mothers and daughters. However, this book seemed oddly specific and had too many details which...
| Author | Blake Nelson |
| ISBN | 1481488139 |
In the style of Blake Nelson’s cult favorite, Girl comes a brand-new story about the moments in life that change how you see everything and everyone you always thought you knew—including yourself.
Every school has them: the cool kids. The insiders. Gavin Meeks is one of them. He lives an...
