80's-90's young adult fiction....do you remember the greats?

[AnnabelleLee]

I loved all the post apocalyptic stuff best: Brother in the Land, Plague 99, Empty World, Children of the Dust etc...but also all the Point Horror, Christopher Pike as well.

What camp were you in?

And does anyone remember one where a teen girl could astrally project herself? It's annoying me.

The Fever, I think it was called - the killer flu one. A girl in a hospital drifting in and out of consciousness and when she's awake, she thinks she sees a nurse killing someone. Or something.

I read most of the SVH and the one before - Sweet Valley Juniors? To my eternal shame, in my GCSE English, I finished early and wrote some fan fiction about Todd being beaten up really badly. Thank fuck this was just before the wide use of the internet!

Cannot wait for my daughter to be old enough to read "Are you there God? It's me, Margaret" by Judy Bloom, must have read that 30 times - loved it!
Judy Bloom
Virginia Andrews
Steven King!!
Never read the Sweet Valley books
Did Z for Zaccariah for GCSE Eng Lit along with Animal Farm.

Forever and are you there God it's me Margaret by Judy Blume

All of The Sweet Valley High books

Best little girl in the World by Stephen Levenkron

I wish I had've known about the teen horror books as I loved the whole genre, I had nothing like that to read until I discovered Dean Koontz and Stephen King when I was 15.

Yes to lots of these.

Can anyone remember a sort of post apocalyptic/dystopian one where children lived in some sort of institution in the woods, named alphabetically - I think the protagonists were John and Jessica - kept drugged via their water??? John drank from the stream in the word & realised & they escaped... I think...

Oh & I loved K M Peyton - Flambards, Midsummer Night's Death, Who Sir? Me Sir?, Pennington etc.

This thread has transported me back in time! Does anyone remember Susan Cooper's 'The Dark is Rising' series of books? I loved them, they made me feel all woooooo.

I loved all the Lois Duncan books as a teen in the late 80s, early 90s. I can't really remember the titles. There was Killing Mr Griffin, I know what you did last summer. One of my favourites was this one about a selective arts boarding school where the children had their bodies taken over by famous artists and musicians and the like.

ah good chaos wasn't sure if it was just my raging hormones... I wrote a couple of alternative endings for Daine and Numair after I finished the series!

I've just got the first book of The Dark Is Rising series on kindle I just hope it's as good as I remember

This is bringing back so many memories. I loved point crime. There was one futuristic book I read where the girl could change the wall colours of her house with a flick of a switch.

EirikurNoromaour and Thisvehicleisreversing I think you mean "The Bewitching of Alison Allbright" I loved that book!

This thread is going to cost me a fortune, unless I can find most of them in my garage. Mum made me get rid of books before each Christmas and birthday as my small bookshelf was packed and I was bound to ask for more books as presents. Now I have the longest wall in my lounge as a wall-to-wall bookcase!

Adding to the list "Snow Spider" by Jenny Nimmo, "Red Sky in the Morning" by Elizabeth Laird, the Anastasia series, the Ramona series, the Fudge series and the Nancy Drew books. I wasn't fussy about what I read!

Anyone remember "The Haunting" by Margaret Mahy? Was that the one with the weird old man called Carmody?

Tim Kennemore, anyone?

Still have and read The Changeover. LOVE that book. Anyone remember Moonwind by Louise Lawrence?

Loved Judy Blume, SVH, babysitters club, across the barricade series, had a few sweet dreams (got a load out the library so think I read most of them though).

I used to love a series when I was a young teen about Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry. I also used to read the old classic Enid blyton series about boarding schools (there were 2 and I can't think of the names) as they were passed down to me from my auntie.

Mallory towers? And whyteleaf?

manic I remember the summer of Lily and Esme! What a lovely lovely book.

This thread is bringing back some great memories. I was such a bookworm as a child

Old man Carmody was in the changeover (still Margaret Mahy) - I think...

IIRC he was the one that was consuming the brother...

And yy to John Wyndham....

OOh, and John Christopher 'The Death of Grass' and 'The Tripods'

mustn't go out and buy ANY OF THESE until after we've moved house.

I can't remember the plot to 'the haunting' now.

I wonder if I can take a 3 month re-reading sabbatical?

Thank you Baking I'd never have remembered that.

Yes, Carmody Braque is in The Changeover. I still read that now. I read Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman saga in my 20s but I think it was written in the late 80s and it's still my comfort reading of choice.

Yy to John Christopher, John Wyndham, Nicholas Fisk, Susan Cooper. I've just remembered 'Sue Barton, District Nurse'!!!

I ate up the SVH books but they made me feel terrible about myself!

I reread Charlotte, Sometimes last year. Still great.

I haven't heard of most of these, but I read all the Point Horror books I could get my hands on! Trick or Treat, Twins, The Cheerleader and the sequels, Teacher's Pet...

Anyone remember The Principal, The Hunger and The Coach? A trilogy about a girl called Tallibeth who fought vampires who sucked the life energy out of you rather than the blood? I loved those. Also the Vampire Diaries in the days when there were only the first 3 and ended with Elena dying. All LJ Smith - the Secret Circle, the Night World series, the ones where the heroine was called Kaitlynn Fairchild and the anti-hero was called Gabriel Wolff - what were they called? Kaitlynn could draw the future.

I wrote the first two chapters of a Point Horror with my best friend when we were about 13. All I remember is that we kept changing the names of the characters - the heroine had an evil twin or ghost twin (can't remember which) whose name changed from Hazel to Amber, and the best friend's name changed from Skye to Ellie. I remember the handwritten pages with all the names crossed out and rewritten in different colours!

By the way, there were Sweet Valley Kids (when Elizabeth and Jessica were about 8), Sweet Valley Twins (aged 12), Sweet Valley High and Sweet Valley University. Also, I think, some called Sweet Valley Teen aimed at 13/14 yo but I was too old for those by the time they came out.

I loved Stephen King, too.

Robert Westall

I started on Stephen King fairly young but prior to that I absolutely loved Christopher Pike. I'd read them now! Chain Letter and Chain Letter 2 were amazing. And Scavenger Hunt. Scary shit!

Meerkat - I remember the Anastasia books, my library had one (I've just checked the name) called "Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst" about her talking to a bust of Freud about all her problems.

I used to really fancy the naughty older brother in "Here's to You, Rachel Robinson" by Judy Blume. If I remember he wanted to ditch his boring surname and "reclaim" the old Polish family surname which was full of Cs and Zs. I think we were supposed to think he was really annoying but I just thought he was SO COOL. Am I getting the right book?

Another one I associate with these is "Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?" by Paula Danziger, anyone else read that? There's a lovely bit where her friend Bonny (?)'s mum gives the narrator her "divorce earrings" as a present.