All books can be found by the author's last name in the Juvenile Fiction area unless noted on the booklist.
Antle, Nancy (J)
Lost In The War
Set in 1982, the year the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC, this novel breaks new ground with a moving tribute to the women who served in that conflict. Twelve-year-old Lisa Grey struggles to cope with a mother whose traumatic experiences as a nurse in Vietnam during the war are still haunting her.
Cottonwood, Joe (J)
Quake! : A Novel
With their parents away at the 1989 World Series, fourteen-year-old Franny, her younger brother, and their cousin try to cope with the frightening events following an earthquake that destroys their home on Loma Prieta Mountain.
Flood, Pansie Hart (J)
Sylvia & Miz Lula Maye
In 1978, nine-year-old Sylvia and her mother move to Wakefield, South Carolina, where Sylvia becomes best friends with a woman approaching her one-hundredth birthday.
Paterson, Katherine (J)
Park's Quest
Eleven-year-old Park makes some startling discoveries when he travels to his grandfather's farm in Virginia to learn about his father who died in the Vietnam War eleven years ago.
Ferris, Jean (YA)
Bad
In an attempt to please her friends, sixteen-year-old Dallas goes along with their plan to rob a convenience store and when her father refuses to allow her to come home, she is sentenced to six months in the Girls' Rehabilitation Center.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson (YA & also sound recording)
Running Out Of Time
What if the costumed workers at historical sites really lived there, and tourists watched them through hidden cameras rather than from pathways? What if those workers and families were not allowed to leave, ever? When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
Kerr, M. E. (YA)
Linger
When his older brother suddenly joins the army and is sent to the Persian Gulf, sixteen-year-old Gary begins to take a new look at the restaurant that has been the focal point of his family and their small Pennsylvania town.
Lynch, Chris (YA)
Gold Dust
In 1975, twelve-year-old Richard befriends Napolean, a Caribbean newcomer to his Catholic school, hoping that Napolean will learn to love baseball and the Red Sox, and will win acceptance in the racially polarized Boston school.
Mead, Alice (YA)
Soldier Mom
Eleven-year-old Jasmyn gets a different perspective on life when her mother is sent to Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the Persian Gulf War, leaving her and her baby half brother behind in Maine in the care of her Mother's boyfriend.
Peck, Richard (YA)
The Dreadful Future Of Blossom Culp
It's Halloween, 1914. Blossom, not the most popular member of her freshman class in 1914, travels ahead seventy years, and returns in time to make Halloween a memorable night for her classmates and teachers. Teenage psychic Blossom sneaks into the house where the rest of her class is having a party-and that's when everything goes haywire. Suddenly Blossom is hurled into a time warp. Her psychic powers have found a way to send her into the future-our time. But will they be able to send her back?
Qualey, Marsha (YA)
Hometown
Just before the 1991 Gulf War begins, sixteen-year-old Border Baker moves to a small town with his father, a Vietnam War draft resister.
Strasser, Todd (YA)
Give A Boy A Gun
Gunshots echo through the gym. Two heavily armed students hold their classmates hostage at a high school dance. Their targets: the football players and teachers who have tormented them. Their weapons: semiautomatic rifles stolen from a neighbor. Their motive: revenge.
Yolen, Jane (YA)
Armageddon Summer
The world will end on Thursday, July 27, 2000. At least, that's what Reverend Beelson has told his congregation. That's why Marina and Jed and their parents have joined the rest of the Reverend's flock at a mountain retreat to await the end of the world. But this world has only just begun for Jed and Marina, two teenagers with more attitude than faith. Why should the world end now, when they've just fallen in love for the first time?
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