FIRST FREEBIE: If you can add 5 more, we’ll have 100! And I’ll alphabetize them too!
Posted by Lizzie on 07/11/10
UPDATE: 10 MORE I MEAN. Taking position here my vast critical capacities have exercised eminent domain over math part of brain. I really did once do physics!
Just to show you the font of taxonomies of ’70s and ’80s YA lit is without limit, 45 MORE options from readers (5 from me; I’m not WITHOUT USE) for my recent AWL Listicle Without Commentary: The 45 Greatest Teen Titles You Have Never Heard of From the Era When They All Mentioned “I,” “Me,” “You” or Some Other Key Person That Are Not ‘Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret’
- A Horse Named Peaceable
- A Star For The Latecomer
- About David
- After You, My Dear Alphonse
- Anything For A Friend
- Came Back to Show You I could Fly
- Catherine, Called Birdy
- Class Pictures
- Deliver Us from Evie
- Find A Stranger, Say Good-bye
- Goodbye, Paperdoll
- Hangin’ Out with Cici
- I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- I Know What You Did Last Summer
- I Left My Sneakers In Dimension X
- Karen
- Kathleen, Please Come Home!
- Killing Mr. Griffin
- Lisa Bright and Dark
- Maniac Mcgee
- Meet The Austins
- Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
- Over The Hill at 14
- P.S. I Love You
- People Might Hear You
- Representing Superdoll
- Run, Shelly, Run!
- Second Star To The Right
- Staring Peter and Leigh
- Steffie Can’t Come Out To Play
- Summer of My First Love
- Summer of my German Solider
- Taking Terri Mueller
- The Alfred G. Graebner High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations
- The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
- The Face On The Milk Carton
- The Great Gilly Hopkins
- The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore
- The Luckiest Girl
- The Queen of the What-Ifs
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- They Never Came Home
- Too Bad About the Haynes Girl
- Up in Seth’s Room
- Wait Till Helen Comes
Best excellent title addition (it has to not be on this list OR Awl list) gets free as-yet-undetermined vintage YA book, in mail, from me, or copy of Shelf Discovery, whichever winner wants.
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10 Great Children’s Books…
In the spirit of Lizzie Skurknick’s dearly departed Fine Lines feature on Jezebel, a list of 10 great books I loved before I turned 13: Robin McKinley’s Beauty I still love this book. I own it and reread it every time I get sick or sad. I loved, as a…..
Trackback by The Sugar-Coated Review — 7/21/2010 @ 9:00 am
The President’s Daughter! It was an awesome book that I read over and over!
Comment by Jamie Braziel — 7/21/2010 @ 12:27 pm
Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars (by the criminally under-recognized Daniel M. Pinkwater)
Comment by Rich — 7/28/2010 @ 4:27 pm
I cannot even begin to tell you how happy I am to have found this and you — I LOVED your column on Jezebel, and you are my kindred spirit! I have all of my old 70′s and 80′s (and 40′s – 60′s) YA books, and still gobble them up when I see them. You are the #1 person with whom I would ever want to have dinner, or whatever that hypothetical question is. Some people would dine with Nelson Mandela, but I would love to spend hours talking to you about Veronica Ganz.
Anyway, this may be over and you are undoubtedly beyond the 100, but here are a few more:
“And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine” Stella Pevsner
“Call Me Heller, That’s My Name” Stella Pevsner
“A Smart Kid Like You” Stella Pevsner
(Ms. Pevsner was the QUEEN of this I, Me, You, Another Person’s Name Category!)
“Steffi Can’t Come Out To Play” Fran Arrick (teen prostitution, and I think the pimp’s name was FANCY!)
“Introducing Shirley Braverman” by Hila Colman
“In Summertime It’s Tuffy” and “Tina GoGo” — Judie Angell…
Oh, the list is huge. Thank you for doing this, and being an inspiration!!!
Comment by Karen — 7/31/2010 @ 1:36 pm
Please…the pimp’s name was Favor, not Fancy.
Comment by Rachel — 8/17/2010 @ 10:39 pm
No Go Ask Alice?
Isn’t this a serious omission? Or have my old eyes missed it in the “G’s”?
Comment by Kate — 12/30/2010 @ 5:14 pm