While surfing through my daily blog reads, I found a post by Nemesis that really brought back memories. She was weeding out old YA books at her library and came across loads of '80s teen dramas. And, sadly, I recall reading way too many of them. My favorite?
I Won't Let Them Hurt You, by Linda Barr. The story of a teenage babysitter who begins finding mysterious bruises on her young charge. She decides to stand up for the boy, believing his father has been abusive. Shocker: it's the mother! *gasp*
So then I started trying to remember other favorites. Check out this sweet list of YA crapola:
The Face on the Milk Carton, by Caroline B. Cooney (Who hasn't read that one?)
Homecoming, by Cynthia Voigt
Flowers in the Attic, by V.C. Andrews (almost all of the series, actually)
Why Did She Have to Die? by Lurlene McDaniel
Fear Street Series, by R.L. Stine
Don't Look Behind You, by Lois Duncan (The main character's name was April. Ooohhh!)
But one of my favorites that I still stand behind was Say Goodnight, Gracie, by Julie Reece Deaver. Still love it.
