It’s a young adult mystery set in Four Corners area (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona). A family moves to the Four Corner Area and the teen aged kids get involved with a museum. The mystery involves oil and artifacts from the area. The name of the book include the words “Black Gold,” but I’m not sure. I read the paperback in the later 50s or early 60s.
Looking for the titile and author of a young adult fiction book, paperback, published late 1970s or early 1980s, approx. 200 pages. The book’s title could be similar to “Keeping It All Together.” The story likely was set in the 1970s to early 1980s, England/United Kingdom or another country using pounds instead of dollars. I read it around 1983-85.
After a 17 year old girl’s parents die in a auto accident, she toils to keep her orphaned younger siblings together, counting the days until her 18th birthday when she can become their legal guardian. The story chronicles her struggles to survive with scarce funds and keep her siblings, their school work, home and run-down car from falling apart – all while avoiding the government social services inspector, who threatens to split the siblings up into separate foster homes.
The orphans secretly take care of themselves, while keeping up the appearance that an adult relative is helping them. Some of the children’s names might be Maggie or Jenny and one of the brothers may have gotten into trouble. The run-down car they use might be an old van, and the teen girl may have a befriended a young man who assists with auto repairs.
It’s possible the book’s cover art has a soft pastels/watercolor illustration of the family with a light yellow van parked outside their house on a residential street in England or Ireland.
Girl has always loved hanging upside down, manages to join circus and be trained as a trapeze artist. Her trainer (and later love-interest & husband) catches her flying with her eyes closed and after much convincing, they turn it into a blind-folded act with silver dollars against her eyes and then covered by a blindfold. One mayor of a small town does not believe they are really blindfolded and arranges an accident. One of them is sent off course and the other must hurtle himself into her at an angle that will bring her into the net rather than a deadly impact.
In looking for this book I wondered if my adolescent self could have misunderstood the gender and relationship but MZB’s the Catch Trap doesn’t seem familiar enough.
The book was near Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters in my small middle school library so I believe the author’s name likely started with either an H or a nearby letter.
I read this book probably in the mid 1970s, may be from the 1960s or a little earlier. I checked it out from the library in what was then the Children’s section, probably considered young adult today. I have no idea of title or author. The girl’s name may be Gail, not sure, about 15 or 16 years old. She is camping? with her family: mother, father and I think one younger sibling. She becomes separated someway and I believe she may be trying to get to a Ranger’s station or something. Some weird guy is following/stalking her. I don’t remember if he is just after her, a young girl, or if she saw something he did & is trying to stop her from getting help. That’s about it, not a lot to go on, but I remember the book and would like to read again if I can find it! I was probably 12 or 13 when I read it and it was very suspenseful to me at the time, different from Nancy Drew & Trixie Belden books I read.
I read this book in the late 70’s on tape, so no cover detail is available. April is a teenager learning to cope with her mother’s mental illness.
I’m looking for a book I started to read in the late 70’s about a girl (maybe called Margaret) and an older boy. He writes her a letter saying that he cares for her, but will wait until she grows up. She may be in high school and he’s in college?
Read this in 1993. From what I remember of the paperback cover, it was likely published in the 1970s, but possibly 1980s. A futuristic society records their citizens’ dreams (through their pillows?) and if your number is announced that means your dream will be broadcast to the entire community the next morning. If your dream is somehow controversial or doesn’t fall in line with community standards and teachings, you may be sent for reeducation/punishment. An adolescent/young teenage girl is the narrator. She is super concerned her crush may be revealed in her dreams. It was less than 200 pages. Probably intended for a young adult audience, but couldn’t say for sure.
I want to say this book was set in the 1950s – I read it as a child in the 1970s – part of the collection of young adult books at the Jonesboro Library in Jonesboro, AR.
It was about a young teen girl who was plump and had some skin problems. She had an older sister who was slender. I remember one specific scene – the younger girl was eating a tuna salad sandwich for lunch and her sister told her she shouldn’t eat that because it was bad for her skin. She was going to do her usual sneering retort, but instead she asked her sister what she should eat instead – what she was having? The younger sister started paying more attention to her appearance. She met a boy who was new in town – her parents invited his parents over for dinner (I think they worked together). She put on too much of her sister’s makeup and borrowed heels and made a grand entrance to the dinner. Her parents were horrified and sent her back upstairs to change, so she was humiliated. The boy actually did like her already, but she didn’t have any self-confidence. Over the summer she started eating better and slimmed up. She eventually ended up with the boy who said he’d liked her all along.
YA novel, read it in 1990s. There was a shaman-like creature, something like a mole, and in the end there was a kind of lost civilisation (something to do with Atlantis), and he activated a fire salamander and burnt the lot (p.s. not the Psammead).
I am looking for a paperback book of humorous anecdotes published in the late 1960s; the book was possibly intended for a young teen or young adult audience. One of the stories was “How to Cook a Coot.” I read it as a Boy Scout about 1969 or 1970.