All books can be found by the author's last name in the Juvenile Fiction area unless noted on the booklist.
Grimes, Nikki (J)
Jazmin's Notebook
Jazmin, an Afro-American teenager who lives with her older sister in a small Harlem apartment in the 1960s, finds strength in writing poetry and keeping a record of the events in her sometimes-difficult life.
Richardson, Sandy (J)
The Girl Who Ate Chicken Feet
As she grows up in Midville, South Carolina, in the 1960s, Sissy's life is especially shaped by her relationships with her grandparents, her mother, her bossy cousin, and the black woman who cooks for her family.
Shalant, Phyllis (J)
When Pirates Came To Brooklyn
Lee Bloom is a 10-year-old Jewish girl growing up in the early 1960s in Brooklyn. She makes a new friend, Polly, who has a vivid imagination. They have wild adventures in the attic. During the year, Lee comes face to face with many forms of bigotry and friendship, discrimination, and the dangers of subtle bigotry is interwoven with the children's play, throughout the story.
White, Ellen Emerson (J My Name Is)
The Journal Of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps
An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968. Includes a history of Vietnam, war timeline, glossary, and related military information.
White, Ellen Emerson (J Dear America)
Where Have All The Flowers Gone? : The Diary Of Molly Mackenzie Flaherty
In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.
Winslow, Vicki (J)
Follow The Leader
In 1971 in a small North Carolina town, eleven-year-old Amanda must deal with being bussed to a newly integrated, formerly all-black school and being separated from her best friend, who has chosen a private school.
Young, Ronder Thomas (J)
Learning By Heart
In the early 1960s, ten-year-old Rachel sees changes in her family and her small Southern town as she tries to sort out how she feels about her young black maid, racial prejudice, and her responsibility for her own life.
Armistead, John (YA)
The Return Of Gabriel
In the summer of 1964, a thirteen-year-old white boy whose best friend is black is caught in the middle when civil rights workers and Ku Klux Klan members clash in a small town near Tupelo, Mississippi.
Brooks, Bruce (YA)
Midnight Hour Encores
A sixteen-year-old cellist and musical prodigy travel cross-country with her father, a product of the 1960s, to meet her mother, who abandoned her as a baby. (It doesn't take place in the 60's, but the father and daughter spend a lot of time discussing the 60's; the music, social attitudes, and politics.)
Crew, Linda (YA)
Long Time Passing
In her sophomore year of high school Kathy Shay begins the difficult process of coming of age in a small town in Oregon during the turbulent 1960s.
Curtis, Christopher Paul (YA)
The Watsons Go To Birmingham-- 1963
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Grove, Vicki (YA)
The Starplace
Thirteen-year-old Frannie learns hard lessons about prejudice and segregation when she becomes friends with a young black girl who moves into her small Oklahoma town in 1961.
Hobbs, Valerie (YA)
Sonny's War
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.
Krisher, Trudy (YA)
Kinship
In 1961 fifteen-year-old Pert, who lives with her mother in Kinship, Georgia, meets her long-absent father and discovers the true meaning of home. Sequel to: Spite Fences.
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.
Myers, Walter Dean (YAPB)
Fallen Angels
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
Nelson, Theresa (YA)
And One For All
Geraldine, her older brother Wing, and his best friend Sam swore their eternal friendship back in grade school. But now its 1967, and Wing and Sam are seniors in high school. Wing wants to go into the Marines and go to Vietnam; Sam would rather march for peace. Geraldine is caught in the middle, and longs to keep their pledge of friendship alive despite all their differences.
Ritter, John H. (YA & also sound recording)
Over The Wall
Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has trouble controlling his anger, spends an important summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out how he feels about violence, war, and in particular the Vietnamese conflict that took his grandfather's life.
Shoup, Barbara (YA)
Stranded In Harmony
While struggling with the changes he faces during his senior year in a small Indiana town, Lucas gains insight through a unique friendship with a former Vietnam War protester. In a highly believable manner, this compelling and highly textured novel weaves together yearnings for freedom, family friction, political issues of the '60s, and personal traumas.