Waiting Games

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	Lynne Reid Banks
ISBN	0380715635

I read this when I was a teenager - and I loved it. I'll always remember the narrator, a teen girl describing how to cope with the heat - in Israel - she said something like - you've got to enjoy sweating - if you worry about your appearance, you're never going to cope. And I still think about it, probably because...

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

Ellen Emerson White

This was not a win, but I consider it totally my own fault, as practically everybody said it wasn't half as good as the sequel. I don't even really *have* an inner completist to blame, so not too sure why I didn't go straight to that. I'm sure this would have read a lot better when first published, but now it's...

Author

Paul Zindel

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	Edward Packard
ISBN	0553263714

YOU ARE ABOUT TO DISCOVER WHAT LIES BEYOND THE UNIVERSE.

Your new neighbor, Professor Zinka, is a brilliant scientist who is exploring the mysteries of Hyperspace. One day he invites you into his secret laboratory to show you his most daring invention -- the hypolaser. Before you can stop him,...

Author	Richard Peck
ISBN	0440973392

How well do we know our best friends?

They were the best of friends. Sixteen-year-old Buck Mendenhall first met Kate Lucas the summer before seventh grade. In eighth grade they made friends with the brilliant and wealthy newcomer, Trav Kirby. They didn't seem to need anyone else. Mostly they...

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	Ann M. Martin
ISBN	0590439995

Rating 3.46 out of 5 stars
Mel is a 14 year old girl who spends her summers on Fire Island with her family and best friend Lacey. This summer though she is ready for boys, and as fate would have it, she meets a cute boy named Justin who she stalks a bit before he catches her at it. In no time at all they are dating...

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Mary Francis Shura

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	Ellen Conford
ISBN	0590438247

From Dull to Dangerous???

Adam is so cute. And his locker is right next to hers. But how can Maddy Kemper, self-labelled Mouse, get him to notice her?

Why, with the help of that best-selling new book, Seven Days to a Brand-New You. In just seven days, Maddy is determined to go from dull...

Author	Barbara Conklin
ISBN	0553244078

Mariah's not one of those girls who's never been kissed. Once. It seems like a thousand years ago. But Paul died, and Mariah thinks she'll never find anyone as special again.

She hadn't counted on the school play, though. Somehow her crazy friend Amy ropes her into working on the props. Before...

Author	Marian Woodruff
ISBN	0553302310

Can a boy like Richie creep into Joy's heart...

Every girl at Cabrillo High has a crush on Richie Brennan-- every girl, that is, except Joy Wilder. Joy can't stand Richie's smug, conceited attitude or his stupid jokes, most of which are aimed directly at her.

The worst jokes are the romantic...

Author	Ann Head
ISBN	0451163192

Football hero Bo Jo Jones and his girlfriend July are in love. On the night of the prom, they do what so many couples in love do. Soon, July finds out that she is pregnant with Bo Jo's baby and suddenly the life they once knew is over. Now Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones must come to grips with the very adult decision that...

Author	Frank De Felitta
ISBN	0446302066

I read this straight after reading Audrey Rose, which is a well-known 70’s horror novel. It tells the story of Bill, Janice and Elliot as they come to grips with the outcome of the story as detailed in the first book.

It is well written, and the characters have depth and emotions as they react...

Author	Caroline B. Cooney
ISBN	0590484966

A good book very akin to Flight 116 is down although at least for me is not as tragic. Characters are well drawn with a mixture of good and bad characters. A bit heavy maybe on the spoiled California attuice but, it is believeable. Does show how in a disater good and bad descions can be made. The ending doesn't...

Author	Kathryn Kenny
ISBN	0307615596

The Mystery of the Antique Doll by Kathryn Kenny is the thirty-sixth book in the Trixie Belden series.

This was not a good Trixie. The characters felt totally off throughout the book (Mart apparently isn't good at spelling, while Trixie and Honey are and are finalists in a spelling bee? Trixie...