Yesterday's Young Adult Novels

Reviews of teen/young adult novels from past years, focusing fondly on the romance and career novels of the 1950s and 1960s.

Sunday, January 7, 2018

The Family Name (1971)

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The Family Name  Jan Washburn illustrator Lee Styles (cover) A Whitman Novel for Girls  1971, Whitman Publishing Company And there...
Friday, July 7, 2017

I Met A Boy I Used To Know (1967)

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I Met A Boy I Used To Know Lenora Mattingly Weber 1967, Thomas Y. Crowell Company Katie Rose Belford met the boy with the res...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Mini reviews

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Step To The Music Phyllis A. Whitney, il. Jack Keats (cover) 1953, Thomas Y. Crowell Company It was the chin of a girl who possessed m...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

A Place of Her Own (1962)

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A Place of Her Own Ann Mari Falk (translated from the Swedish by Annabelle MacMillan) Copyright 1962 English translation 19...
Monday, April 4, 2016

Book Search!

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A reader writes: Hello.  I am on a quest to remember a book I read a long time ago.  I THINK the book involved twins.  One part I rememb...
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Friday, December 25, 2015

Vicki’s Mysterious Friend (1947)

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Vicki’s Mysterious Friend Emma Atkins Jacobs, il. Jean MacLaughlin 1947, The John C. Winston Company Her upstairs room was none...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Book search!

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A reader writes:   I am looking for a book printed sometime in the 1940 or 1950s. Set in pioneer America about a young woman, poor re...
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