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Category Archives: Vintage YA Fiction
Love At First Sight (First Love From Silhouette #9) By Elaine Harper
How could nature have produced such virile perfection? Background: I am on the record about how I’ve turned around my opinion on Silhouette’s First Love romances (“AMERICA’S publisher of Contemporary Romance”), at least when it comes to Elaine Harper’s terminally … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1981, Author H, Blossom Valley, First Love, High School, Romance, Silhouette, Sports, Title L
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Fat Jack By Barbara Cohen
“A person never gets over high school, Judy.” I’ve written before about my general impression of YA fiction moving from topical issues based on shock value in the 1970s (Drugs! Cults! Satan!) and into more internal crises of the characters … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1980, Atheneum, Author C, Family, Fat, Gay, High School, Title F, Topical Issues
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Kathleen (Sunfire Romance #8) By Candice F. Ransom
There were times she wished she’d never come to America… Background: Scholastic’s Sunfire series is a cautionary tale about judging a YA Romance by its cover. Lurking behind the overheated cover art and melodramatic taglines are some of the best stories and most … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1985, Author R, Historical, Romance, Scholastic, Sunfire, Title K
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Christopher Cool TEEN Agent #3: Department of Danger By Jack Lancer
The Department of Danger! There was something about the words that sent a faint chill down Chris’s spine. Background: It is somewhat comforting that (for at least a few more volumes) I know I can always fall back on Jack … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1967, Author L, Boys Series, Christopher Cool, Cold War, College, Grosset & Dunlap, Mystery, Title D
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Hawaiian Christmas (Super Seniors #2) By Eileen Goudge
An island reunion of romance, surf and sun! The cover is telling: this book is just as busy and confusing yet generic as the graphic design choices. I had to defer to the folks at Fantastic Fiction over how to … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1986, Author G, Career, Christmas, College, Dell, Romance, Title H
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I Never Asked You To Understand Me By Barthe DeClements
Stacy didn’t look like a reject, and I didn’t think I did either. We were just having too hard a time… I have reviewed a number of Barthe DeClements’s books over the past few years, starting with the not-quite-Lost Classic … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1986, Author D, Child Abuse, Drugs, High School, Parents, Point, Sex, Title I, Topical Issues
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Movie Madness And/Or Mania: My Mother Was Never A Kid [Hangin’ Out With Cici] (1980)
As this site concludes its tenth (!!!) year, we’re going to do a true Throwback Thursday, revisiting the very first title we reviewed, Francine Pascal’s time-traveling mother-daughter epic (and start of the Victoria Martin trilogy) Hangin’ Out With Cici. A … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1980, Afterschool Special, Francine Pascal, Movies, Parents, Time Travel, Victoria Martin
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Mina By Marie Kiraly
This could not be damnation. But if it was, the fire was far too sweet to resist… As usual October means I will be subjecting friends and family to a schedule of seasonally appropriate movies (I shall forever secretly remain … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1994, Author K, Berkeley Books, Gothic, Horror, Romance, Title M
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Nurses Three: On Call For Trouble (#4) By Jean Kirby
Why is Linda so angry? What can I do to help? Another week in October, another Whitman girls’ series by Jean Kirby, AKA Jinny McDonnell AKA Virginia Bleecher McDonnell. Background: I’ve noted before the reasons for the enduring popularity of Nursing as profession for YA heroines, so it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1964, Author K, Career, Girls Series, Mystery, Nurse, Nurses Three, Title O, Whitman
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The Forest Fire Mystery (Wilderness Mystery #6) By Troy Nesbit
“GET OUT! GET OFF THE MOUNTAIN!” Usually, fall means a look at the “girls’ series” published by Whitman in the 1940s through the 1970s: those thick, cellophane-clad hardcovers featuring teen girls sleuthing around Westchester County or California’s Bay Area. And … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1962, Adventure, Author N, Boys Series, Title F, Whitman
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