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I am the Beautiful Stranger
by Rosalyn Drexler

- 1972 - A young teen growing up in an abusive family starts to explore reckless sexuality.
$6.00


Free Not To Love
by Anne Emery

- 1975 - A teenaged girl finds herself lost in a sexual relationship with a her boyfriend. (hardcover)
$18.00


Run, Shelley, Run!
by Gertrude Samuels

- 1975 - A 16 year old with a troubled past runs away from the state school which she had been sent.
$3.00


I Can Stop Any Time I Want
by James Trivers
- 1974 - A teenage boy develops a drinking problem after he gets put on probation for selling drugs. (hardcover)
$6.00


Count Me Gone
by Annabel and Edgar Johnson

- 1970 - A teenage boy reflects on his life and where he's going after landing in the hospital because of his drunk driving.
$3.50


Drop-Out
by Jeannette Eyerly

- 1969 - Two teenagers fall in love, drop out of high school, get married, and attempt to make a life together.
$4.00


The Desire Years
by Leonard Bishop

- 1962 - A teenaged girl wins a large sum of money in a contest and finds the attitudes of her friends and family change.
$7.00

Go Ask Alice
by Anonymous
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1972 - The sad, shocking true story of a drug-addicted 15 year old in the 1960s.
$2.00

L'herbe bleue
Anonyme

-1972 - Title translates as "The Blue Grass". French version of the book, "Go Ask Alice".
$4.00

Escape from Nowhere
by Jeannette Eyerly

- 1969 - A rich girl is dissatisfied with her workaholic father and alcoholic mother. And then she finds the world of drugs...

$4.00

Silence
by David Rees
- 1981 - A teenaged boy goes to London to search for his girlfriend and finds a world of runaways, amusement arcades and crash pads. (hardcover)
$7.00

Problem Father
by Lou and Zena Shumsky

- 1965 - (Original Title: First Flight) A teenaged boy is upset that his dad doesn't take more of an interest in his life.
$5.00

Nanny Goat, Nanny Goat
by Pauline Waugh

- 1966 - A cynical teenager is so hungry for love she sets out to destroy her mother's remarriage - by pretending to get pregnant by her stepfather!
$5.00

The Coming-Down Time
Joan L. Oppenheimer

- 1974 - A drug-addicted 18 year old girl's parents send her to the countryside to get her away from the drug scene - but her drug-dealing boyfriend manages to track her down!
$3.00

Leslie
by Zoe Sherburne

- 1972 - A teenaged girl, bitter about her parents' divorce, gets caught up in the drug scene, and finds herself involved in a hit-and-run accident.
$3.00

Since That Party
by Inger Brattstrom

- 1970 - An awkward teenaged boy, usually an outcast from his peer group, meets with tragedy.
$4.00


Second-Hand Family
by Richard Parker

- 1965 - An adolescent orphaned boy is taken in by a foster family in England...much to the dismay of their teeneaged Beatle- wannabe son.
(hardcover)
$5.00


The Young Lovers
by Julian Halevy

- 1955 - A college student faces the realities of his first sexual relationship as well as getting drafted into the military to fight for a war he's unsure about.
$4.00

A House for Jonnie O.
by Blossom Elfman

- 1978 - A girl and her friends, relegated to attending a special "pregnant" high school, dream of dropping out and getting their own place.
$2.00

House of Tomorrow
by Jean Thompson
- 1968 - The anonymous true story of one unwed teenaged girl's shame of being pregnant in the early 60s and sent away to have the baby in a home for unwed mothers.
$3.00
 

Why Not Join the Giraffes?
by Hope Campbell

- 1970 - A teenaged girl is dissatisfied with her home life, including her artsy parents and longhaired brother who is in a band.
$4.00

Teenager in Love
edited by Miriam Goldberger

- 1970 - 16 stories by various authors about first love, romance, and the ways of teenagers in love.
$3.00


Kate's Story
by Christopher Leach

- 1972 - A teenaged girl feels alienated when her mother remarries and learns
that she was adopted.
$3.00

 


Tracy
by John Benton

- 1984 - An abused 17 year old runs away from home and gets involved with the drug trade and ultimately, prostitution.
$2.50


Debbie
by John Benton

- 1981 - A 16 year old foster kid sinks into a life of prostitution, drug addiction and physical abuse from her pimp. Can she escape somehow?
$2.50

 

You Can't Say What You Think
by Elizabeth Allen

- 1969 - Eight short stories about teens and their innermost thoughts about life. (hardcover)
$5.00

Valentine
by Evan Commager

- 1961 - A sensible 16 year old girl from the north adjusts to a new kind of life in the south with her aunt.
(hardcover)
$6.00

Last Summer
by Evan Hunter

- 1969 - 4 teens meet while their families vacation on an island - and proceed to dabble in sex, violence, and cruelty.
$3.00


Sue Barton Senior Nurse
by Helen Dore Boylston

- 1967 - Sue Barton faces her first big test as a senior nurse: assisting a brilliant, hot-tempered doctor in a major operation.
$9.00

 


Nursing in the Outback
by Phyllis M. Power

- 1959? - A girl decides to apply for the Flying Doctors Service in Australia. (hardcover)
$5.00
 

Circus Punk
by Bianca Bradbury

- 1964 - An orphaned 14 year old boy joins his uncle living with a circus - but when his uncle dies he must work for the circus himself. (hardcover)
$4.00

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A Date With Dave
by Gwendolyn Bowers

- 1959 - A teenaged girl deals with school, friends and a boyfriend.
(hardcover)
$5.00


O The Red Rose Tree
by Patricia Beatty

- 1972 - Taking place in the historic town of Oysterville, Washington and surrounding areas in 1893, 4 teenaged girls help an old lady with her quilt-making. (hardcover)
$6.00

The Fabulous Year
by Elisabeth Ogilvie

- 1968 - A girl begins her senior year of high school with a boyfriend away at med school and another boy eager to date her.
$3.00


Like A Sister
by Corinne Gerson
- 1954 - A 16 year old German girl comes to live with her same-aged penpal in America. (hardcover)
$10.00


Blue Treasure
by Helen Girvan

- 1966 edition of a 1937 book. - An exciting story of a treasure hunt in Bermuda!
$4.00


Mystery at Thunderbolt House
by Howard Pease

- 1966 - A family in 1906 inherits a San Francisco Victorian mansion - only to have the big earthquake strike!
$8.00


Annette The Desert Inn Mystery
by Doris Schroeder
- 1961 - The Disney star gets caught up in a mystery while vacationing with a friend. A Whitman book. (hardback)
$2.00

The Long Shot
by Jinny McDonnell
- 1974 - One of the books in the Whitman series of Kim Aldrich mysteries. (hardback)
$3.00


Miscalculated Risk
by Jinny McDonnell
- 1972 - One of the books in the Whitman series of Kim Aldrich mysteries. (hardback)
$5.00


Ginny Gordon and the Lending Library
by Julie Campbell

- 1954 - #4 in the Whitman series of Ginny Gordon mysteries. (hardcover)
$3.00


Ginny Gordon and the Mystery of the Old Barn
by Julie Campbell

- 1954 - #3 in the Whitman series of Ginny Gordon mysteries. (hardcover)
$5.00


The Mystery of the Million Dollar Penny
by Mel Lyle

- 1965 - #4 in the Whitman "Power Boys" series, about 2 teenaged brothers who travel the world with their dad, always stumbling upon adventure. (hardcover)
$4.00

Janet Lennon at Camp Calamity
by Barlow Meyers

- 1962 - The 14 year old singing star from The Lawrence Welk Show becomes a couselor at a summer camp. (hardcover)
$3.00

One Summer In Between
by Melissa Mather
- 1973 - A 19 year old sociology student from a southern university takes on a housekeeping job for a family in Vermont.
(hardcover)
$4.00


A Various Journey
by Karin Mango
- 1983 - In England in the early 1950s a teenaged girl moves through adolescent awkwardness and falls in love for the first time. (hardcover)
$5.00


The Treasure of the Coral Reef
by Don Stanford

- 1966 - A teenaged boy finds a mysterious box at the bottom of the ocean while scuba-diving.
$3.00


The Girl Inside
by Jeannette Eyerly

- 1968 - A teenaged girl becomes suicidal after the death of her parents.
(hardcover)
$3.00


The Mercer Boys' Mystery Case
- 1948 - The Mercer Boys try to unravel the mystery of what happened to one of their school's trophies. (hardcover)
$3.00

Danny and Ron Orlis in the Sacred Cave
by Bernard Palmer

- 1956 - A Christian boy faces adventure, mystery and suspense.
$4.00

Danny Orlis and his Big Chance
by Bernard Palmer

- 1958 - A Christian boy faces adventure, mystery and suspense.
$5.00

By The Highway Home
by Mary Stolz

- 1971 - A teenaged girl and her family must adjust to life after the death of her older brother in Vietnam.
$2.00

One Summer In Between
by Melissa Mather
- 1968 - A 19 year old sociology student from a southern university takes on a housekeeping job for a family in Vermont.
$3.00

Senior Trip
by Marjorie Holmes
 -
1966 - A high school class takes a trip to Washington, DC.
 $4.00

Senior Trip
by Marjorie Holmes
 -
1972 - A high school class takes a trip to Washington, DC.
 $3.00

Good-by My Shadow
by Mary Stolz
-1957 - A teenaged girl's angst while growing up in the 1950s. (hardcover)
$3.00

In A Mirror
by Mary Stolz

- 1971 - A girl deals with college life, her weight problem, and an extremely pretty roommate.
$3.00
 

Shuttered Windows
by Florence Crannell Means
 -
1938 - A teenaged black girl from the north moves in with her grandmother in the segregated south. (hardcover)
$4.00

Spurs for Suzanna
by Betty Cavanna

- 1962 - A teenaged girl wants to ride horses -- but her father is ill and her mother must work.
$3.00

Never Miss a Sunset
by Jeanette Gilge
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1983 - Based on the true story of a teenaged girl growing up in a family of 10 children in 1903.
$3.00

Mystery of the Mooncusser
by Eleanore M. Jewett

- 1962 - Original title: Mystery at Boulder Point. Teenagers think they see a ship which was lost for 100 years while they explore some spooky caves.
$3.00

Secret Sea
by Robb White
- 1962 -
A sunken treasure ship is guarded by a monster octopus!
$3.00

The Secret of Shadow Ranch
by Carolyn Keene

- 1965 - #5 in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series of books. (hardcover)
$3.00
 

The Return of Tarzan
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 1967 Whitman young reader edition of the 1913 book. #2 in the "Tarzan" series. (hardcover)
$5.00

Tarzan and the City of Gold
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 1954 Whitman edition of the 1933 book. #18 in the "Tarzan" series. (hardcover)
$4.00

The Ruby in the Smoke
by Philip Pullman

- 1997 - In 19th cent. London, Sally, a 16 year old orphan becomes involved in a search for a mysterious ruby. 1st book in the Sally Lockhart trilogy.
$2.00

Shadow in the North
by Philip Pullman

- 1989 -Sally is now 22 and the year is 1878. Sally is a financial consultant and must uncover the mystery behind the loss of one of her client's investments. 2nd book in the Sally Lockhart trilogy.
$2.00

Blueberry Summer
by Elisabeth Ogilvie

- 1968 - A teenaged girl winds up enjoying her summer when she meets a new guy.
$3.00

The Secret of the Brownstone House
by Norah Smaridge
- 1977 - A teenaged girl visits NYC and is intrigued by mysterious lights in the abandoned old house in her neighborhood. (hardcover)
$3.00
 

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