I am looking for a book that was probably written in the 1950s or early 1960s. It was a part of my grade school library, a school that converted from a K-12 school to a K-8 in 1965 or so. The book might have been written as a young adult novel. It was about a teenage girl and her dealing with high school life (boyfriends, homework, mean girls). I do remember that one chapter was titled “The Kangaroo Court”. I do not remember the very much more about the book, but “Pink” comes to mind – either part of the title or another chapter. I hope this jogs someone’s memory!
Category Archives: 1960s
319F: Island Girl Disappointed With Porcelain Doll (Solved)
A Little Golden Book (or similar style) about a young island (Polynesian?) girl. A ship's captain visiting her village gifts her with a porcelain doll. She tries to play with it as she had her own doll, but found that she couldn't get it wet, or feed it sand cakes, etc. It was a book my grandmother had, but I'm pretty sure it's not a vintage book - probably no older than the 1960's (but that's 10 year old me remembering. ) Still, I don't remember the graphics being older looking. It was the size, shape and length of a Golden Book.
318T: A Runaway Train and a Human Cannonball, Plus More
318O: Teenage Boy Won’t Stop Growing
318J: Poems Teach Kids English
Seeking hardback book from the late 60's early 70's for kids, I think had a yellow cover, with poems about parts of speech like "beware the dangling participle" and a snake dangling from a tree. Probably 8 or 10 different poems for different parts of speech. Seems like one of the poems has mugwumps but I am not 100% sure. Sorry I can't remember more.
318I: Large Bird Takes Away Overbearing Woman
317X: Boy By the Fire Wears Calipers
317T: The US Constitution for Children
317L: Late 50’s/Early 60’s Story Book
I am looking for a children’s book. This book was published around 1959-1960, give or take a year or two. It had a medium blue hard cover and was approximately 8 x 6 and 100 pages give or take some.