What Booklists can we brainstorm together?

Decades (50's, 60's, 70's and 80's)

Book about something from those decades rather than books themselves from those decades (altho there might be some overlap).

1950s

King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher (autobiography)

Chris Crutcher, author of young adult novels such as "Ironman" and "Whale Talk," as well as short stories, tells of growing up in Cascade, Idaho, and becoming a writer.

Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam (autobiography)

Pageant by Kathryn Lasky

Dancing with Elvis by Lynda Stephenson

Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

Memories of Summer by Ruth White

1960s

Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (adult fiction)

Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes

Sonny's war by Valerie Hobbs

In the late 1960s, fourteen-year-old Cori's life is greatly changed by the sudden death of her father and her brother's tour of duty in Vietnam.

Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

As a Chicano boy living in the unglamorous town of Hollywood, New Mexico, and a member of the graduating class of 1969, Sammy Santos faces the challenges of "gringo" racism, unpopular dress codes, the Vietnam War, barrio violence, and poverty.

Long Time Passing by Adrienne Jones

Gemini Summer by Ian Lawrence

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Spite Fences by Trudy Krisher

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

Wednesday Ways by Gary D. Schmidt

1970s

Rat life by Tedd Arnold

After developing an unusual friendship with a young Vietnam War veteran in 1972, fourteen-year-old Todd discovers his writing talent and solves a murder mystery.

Our time on the river by Don Brown

Two brothers take a river trip by canoe in advance of the elder brother being shipped out to Vietnam.

The life history of a star by Kelly Easton

For more than a year, fourteen-year-old Kristin uses her diary to record her confused thoughts about the physical changes brought on by adolescence and the emotional strain on her family of living with the "ghost" of her beloved older brother who was physically and mentally destroyed while serving in Vietnam.

Clay Marble by Minfong Ho

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

Search and destroy by Dean Hughes

Recent high school graduate Rick Ward, undecided about his future and eager to escape his unhappy home life, joins the army and experiences the horrors of the war in Vietnam.

Postcards to father Abraham by Catherine Lewis

When sixteen-year-old Meghan loses her leg to cancer and her brother to Vietnam, she expresses intense anger in postcards which she writes to her idol, Abraham Lincoln.

1980s

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden (published in 1982)

Addiction

My Brother's Keeper by McCormick

Rx by Lynn

The Beast by Myers

Bottled Up by Murray

Go Ask Alice

Crank

Glass

Cut

America by Frank

Raiders Night by Lipstye has steroid use in it

Loss of Parent

We need a Booklist for teens about loss of a parent/mother, particularly for young teen girls.

Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas by Alan D. Wolfelt NF

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen

One of those hideous books where the mother dies by Sonya Sones

The tree shepherd's daughter by Gillian Summers (fantasy)

Firmament (father) Bowler YA

Pieces of Georgia (parents) Bryant YA

Alone At Ninety Foot (mother) Holubitsky YA

The Key to the Golden Firebird (father) Johnson YA

Swallowing Stones McDonald YA

Missing Girls (mother) Metzger YA

The Spying Game (father) Moon YA

Blizzards Wake (mother) Naylor YA

A Dance of Sisters (mother) Porter YA

Under the wolf, under the dog (mother) Rapp YA

Sky Rider (mother) Springer YA

Going for the Record (father) Swanson YA

Dead Birds Singing (mother) Talbert YA

Dancing Through the Shadows (mother) Tomlinson YA

November Ever After (mother) Torres YA