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Monthly Archives: January 2014
So You’re A Teenage Girl By Jill Renich
“Oh, Mother! Don’t you wish you were a teenager!!?” “No, I don’t, honey.” Background: Author Jill Renich is the granddaughter of famed 19th century evangelist Reuben Archer Torrey, and she was born and raised by missionary parents in China. That … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Non-Fiction
Tagged 1966, Advice, Author R, High School, Instructional, Parents, Religion, Romance, Sex, Title S, Topical Issues, Zondervan Publishing House
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The Real Me By Betty Miles
Should delivering papers and playing tennis be for boys only? Background: Author Betty Miles got her start as an editor of the Bank Street Readers, the long-running series of textbooks that was the first to depict racially diverse characters and … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1974, Author M, Avon Camelot, High School, Parents, Title R, Topical Issues
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Magazine Madness and/or Mania: “A Woman Doctor’s Crash Diet For Teenagers” (Woman’s Day, January 15, 1980)
Well, that’s a headline you’re not going to see on any of WD’s contemporary covers. I was kind of hoping that said diet would include some of those groovy earth-tone cookies. Also the ones at the top and left of … Continue reading
Missing Since Monday By Ann M. Martin
Maggies’s little sister was the first to disappear. Would Maggie be next? Background: Ann M. Martin got her start as an editor and house writer for Scholastic (one of her first published titles was for Scholastic’s Wildfire YA romance imprint); … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1986, Ann M. Martin, Author M, Divorce, High School, Kidnapping, Mystery, Parents, Point, Scholastic, Stranger Danger, The Baby-Sitters Club, Thriller, Title M
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Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones By Ann Head
Background: This week’s book is one of those titles that attracted both controversy and acclaim in its time, and has since largely vanished from the public’s consciousness. I first heard of it (along with the similarly tantalizingly-titled Too Bad About … Continue reading
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Tagged 1967, Author H, High School, Parents, Romance, Signet, Teen Pregnancy, Title M
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