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Tag Archives: 1974
It’s Not What You Expect By Norma Klein
Suddenly, summer becomes a time of self-discovery… Norma Klein is best known for her controversy-courting YA novels of the 1970s; in books like Angel Face and Love is One of the Choices, the teenaged protagonists deal regularly with drugs, sex, … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1974, Abortion, Author K, Avon, Career, High School, Parents, Teen Pregnancy, Title I
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Down A Dark Hall By Lois Duncan
Why does the exclusive boarding school Blackwood have only four students? Back to school! Time to start the year with a good attitude cautionary tale wacky scheme inspirational message epic wish-fulfillment fantasy slightly anachronistic feminist career romance Eh, whatever, let’s just do another Lois Duncan… … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1974, Author D, Back to School, Dell, Friendship, Gothic, High School, Lois Duncan, Thriller, Title D
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Checking In With The Imaginary Summer Book Club: The Love Boats By Jeraldine Saunders
(Click here for information on the 2016 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature. This month, the August selection, Jeraldine Saunders’s The Love Boats.) I was somewhat reticent to get into another swingin’ travel industry expose, after … Continue reading
Posted in Non-YA Fiction
Tagged 1974, Author S, Career, Imaginary Summer Book Club, Memoir, Pinnacle Books, Title L
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The Long Shot: A Kim Aldrich Mystery (#4) By Jinny McDonnell
It’s an adventure Kim will never forget, when she and Kevin, an attentive boys’ camp counselor, stalk a vicious kidnapper-killer through the mountain wilderness… Time to wrap up this year’s month-long look at vintage girls series published by Whitman in the … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1974, Author M, Girls Series, Kidnapping, Kim Aldrich, Mystery, Summer Camp, Title L, Whitman
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A Billion For Boris By Mary Rodgers
Enclosed please find a detailed account of a most unusual experience recently undergone by me, my brother and a friend of mine who lives upstairs in our apartment building… Background: Broadway composer Mary Rodgers (daughter of composer Richard, mother of composer … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1974, Author R, Friendship, Harper & Row, New York, Supernatural, Title B
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The Deep Six: A Kim Aldrich Mystery (#3) By Jinny McDonnell
Kim Aldrich once again proves that trouble and danger just naturally seek her out… Time to wrap up this year’s month-long look at vintage girls series published by Whitman in the 50s, 60s, and 70s; and (as usual) we will … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1974, Author M, Career, Girls Series, Kim Aldrich, Mystery, New York, Title D
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Slake’s Limbo By Felice Holman
To his family and teachers he was a nuisance; to his peers he was a target. The Plot: So. That was weird. Sometimes that is the only reaction I have when I get to the end of one of these. Kids … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage YA Fiction
Tagged 1974, Author H, New York, Runaway, Scholastic, Title S, Topical Issues
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Imaginary Summer Book Club Update
It has come to my attention that the July selection of Imaginary Summer Book Club, No Bed of Her Own By Val Lewton is hard to come by, and despite having been reissued in 2006, cost-prohibitive to obtain. In light of that … Continue reading
Posted in Non-YA Fiction
Tagged 1974, Author B, Doubleday & Co., Imaginary Summer Book Club, Title J
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