books from the 1980s that no-one else remembers!

FLF I remember the ones about the sisters too. I think the other one was Daphne, something beginning with 'D' anyway

I was a Liz Berry fan really loved Mel and the other book can't remember it's name now but about destiny and stonehenge. I enjoyed the Easy books too, lol at 13 I really did feel like they we're really 'forbidden' type books and made sure I didn't leave them around for my parents to find.

Mind you really about the premise of the Easy books now.

T'was definitely the Silver Sword - I remember Edek now, and the bit where the boy was hanging on under the train.

But I am David was another one that I remember reading. What was it with sad dog books?

And yy! suzikettles! It was Island of the Blue Dolphins...might have to look that one out again.

i remember alison ashley - in particular the contents oh her lunchbox containing a leg of roast chicken and a napkin!

Just remembered another I adored - Red Sky at Night, about a girl who has a little brother who is born disabled. I wept buckets at the end.

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I think the grass book is Death of Grass by John Christopher. That was one of his I never got round to reading. He was very much a John Wyndham for teenagers

I loved some of these; The Runaways, Anastasia, The Borribles and Green Knowe. Will have to root through the attic!

I was a huge fan of Jacqueline Wilson in the late 80s. I must have read Waiting for the Sky to Fall, Amber, This Girl tens of times.

Does anyone remember:

Hating Alison Ashley - think it was Australian and it was about a girl who was deeply envious of her 'perfect' friend.

Nightmare Park - about a school trip to a themepark. Two of the girls are chased through a ghost train type ride by a woman who is playing thr part of a witch (but is actually a bitter old teacher getting revenge on nasty school kids!).

Can't remember the names but I also loved an American series where the books were named after one of four sisters. I think the eldest was called Lydia and there was a Phoebe and a Cassie (?)

I work in a school and our store cupboard is full of dusty old classics from the 80s.

Can anyone help me with this one?

A boy gets accidentally separated from his parents and survives for months in the wilderness (I think it might be set in Australia/America, dunno). He writes a sort of 'diary' and tells you he's sitting snug in his hollowed-out tree even though it's snowy outside ...

Does this ring any bells? Sorry, description is crap but I enjoyed the story!

Btw, I also loved Two-Thumb Thomas, about a boy who is brought up and educated by the school cats, but eventually adopted by a kind lady - I've never met anyone else who's read this but I have the copy still so know it was real!

Toby and Tobias, about a boy and a cat, all a bit pagan and magical. OHave googled it and everything but can't find it. it made such an impression on me, i would love to see the illustrations again.

Miss Happiness and Miss Flower - oh yes, that was brilliant. All about how they built the dolls a kimono chest out of a beautiful piece of rosewood.

Tolalol might it have been I am David with the dog? I remember the dog getting in the way when the main character was about to be shot. But it is possible this was the silver sword as i loved that too. I remember character called Edek who was very good at drawing. Brother and sister got separated and found each other again

i also loved z for zachariah. Also children of the dust.

Also anyone remember another post apocalypic novel where they are trying to get crops to grow and can't and the seeds are kind of diamond shaped and sharp? At the end they finally do. I think they might travel into space? The main girl character is ridiculed for taking a blank book on their trip (they are allowed only one book) and at the end it turns out she has written the whole story younhave just read as a diary (cheesetastic!)

there was a book with two japanese dolls both called something blossom. Apple Blossom mand Cherry Blossom?

and the outsiders and another one by the same author called a boy's name. SE Hinton, I think.

I loved Five Dolls in a House and had this edition

I had some second hand Misty annuals from my auntie who was 6 years older than me...there were some seriously scary stories in there and I still get freaked out by mirrors and old houses thanks to one of them Here is Wikipedia on Misty Anyone else remember Misty?

The Bewitching Of Alison Allbright. I LOVED that book, it really haunted me. Thanks for the reminder.

HA! quite.

Tolalol - The Silver Sword by Ian Serrallier
YYY makes me cry every time. But it had a happy ending didn't it. Remember the bit with the boy holding onto the underside of a train and practically freezing to death?

Or even

Tolalol - that was Island of the Blue Dolphins. It was based on a true story iirc.

He taught her a few other things too ;)

noahandthewhale - LOVED that book. See you thursday, character was called marianne and he taught her to sing.

I loved one which I think was called The Silver Sword, or something like that, about some children who lived in a forest during WW2. Seem to remember it was quite sad though, and that there was a bit which always made me cry buckets when the dog ran away at the end.

Also another sad one (with a dog!) about a girl left alone on an island for years and years. I can't remember much about it at all, but I know I was 6 when I first read it because I still remember which classroom I was in! It was very very poignant and there was something about Dolphins in the title, I think. I think that was the first really sad book I ever read.

Did anyone else read the Changes Trilogy by Peter Dickinson? It's set in Britain in the (then) modern day but a "sickness" comes over everyone and they reject modern machinery and society moves back to the dark ages.

In the end you find out why this has happened and it's a brilliant twist. It also introduced me to Sikhism and is the reason why I know what the 5 Ks are!

I can't believe so many of these really great books are op

And is "The Changeover" by Margaret Mahy the one with a really steamy kiss just bfore something really dramatic happens to the female character? Just looking at the review on amazon but I can't remember if this is the one I am thinking of.

ooh thank you coldtits, I will get it out of the library. We had a book b,ub with saving stamps at school, and I remember it was one of the first I had enough stamps for.

Teddies - it was called The Bewitching of Alison Albright - I loved it too!