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.

Love & Betrayal & Hold the Mayo!

LouSend - I think the one where the girl (Shari?) comes back as a ghost is Remember Me.

Forever by Judy Blume!

Oh anyone remember an NZ swimmer? There was a series of books about her - think she got an opera singer boyfriend?

Thank you ShadowFall. Shari. Shari Cooper, if memory serves. Somewhere in the depths of my parents' attic I have boxes and boxes of books. I really must find them. I'd love to read them again.

Not really a YA book but oh sweet Jesus I LOVED The Thorn Birds...

LouSend, was it called Remember Me? I've got it upstairs!

DavidTwattenborough,that's ‘A Billion For Boris' by Mary Rodgers. She did another called 'Summer Switch' which is about Ape Face and his dad switching places.

YY to Point Horror. I still remember the rhyme from the front of, 'Trick or Treat'.

"Trick or Treat,
Trick or Treat.
Candy is dandy,
But murder is sweet!"

Also Robert Westall is excellent and also all of Michelle Magorian's books. Not just, Goodnight, Mr. Tom but Back Home, A Little Love Song etc. All brilliant and reread constantly.

I read a book years ago (teen market) about a teenage girl who lied with her father (I seem to recall he was some kind of professor?) her mum had died and he was raping her? they had a housekeeper who started to suspect something was wrong when she found a used condom in the toilet.

I've made that sound absolutely awful like I'm some kind of deviant, but it was actually a really good, well written book. Does anyone know what it was called?

Oh good loooord... Amazon here I come.

You lot have helped me rediscover a book I've spent the last 15 or so years remembering. It was a sequel (I never read the first, only the 2nd) about a girl who travelled back in time and there was a boy in the past who she fell for. I just remember a tiny snippet in the beginning of the second book where he was in a mental asylum for believing she was a girl from the future. Turns out it was Caroline B Cooney's Out of Time. (And OMG, how awful the covers look for that series...)

One of my favourites when I was young was LJ Smith - I'm still holding out hope for the last book in the Night World series. I liked the Forbidden Game trilogy she did. Also Animorphs by K A Applegate, and Fearless by... someone else... Francine Pascal. About a girl who didn't feel fear.

There's a Point Horror I remember really fondly (well, a few, but one in particular) about the sister of a girl who fell through the ice and died. It was by Richie Tankersley Cusick, but I have to look up the name... Fatal Secrets. I still have that somewhere.

God! Remember that book bottle it was excellent but the name escapes me

Think the astral projection was called 'remember me' and features a girl called Shari?

Doh, rtt... Cross post times a million...

2tiredtocare, thank god someone else remembers it!

I'm pretty sure it was a freebie with one of those teen mags like Mizz or Bliss.

I can remember the feont cover was a tower and a windswept sort of scene (I could be making that up) but I can definitely confirm you are not a deviant!

This thread is giving me ghostly pins and needles from all the hours and hours I spent sitting on the floor next to the YA section in our local library.

Yes! I don't really want to try and google because they key search words are going to be well dodgy!

Always good to have it confirmed you're not deviant

Just lovin this thread to bits. Isn't it weird how we all read pretty much exactly the saem stuff?Kids I teach - even the top set ones - only ever seem to read the 'big' ones: Hunger Games, that one about falling and stars.

I wondered if I just loved them all so much cos of my age, but I recently tracked down B for Butterfly and Warriors of Taan and still loved them.

Does anyone remember a book about societal breakdown, where there were gangs of looters etc. From what I remember, it seemed to have been set in a vague period of history - where (Ithink) petrol was scare etc. THe nearest I've come to it is Noah's Castle, but that didn't seem quite right. The book I'm thinking seemed more like Iain Banks' Song of Stone (but I read it way before that was published).

You'll all be glad to know that teenage girls are still reading FLowers in the Attic! I may have to give up my pipe dream of writing literary books and just try to write a shite, sensationalist one instead!

See, I was that excited I didn't even stop to edit.

This is bringing back the shame that was being too much of a wimp to read Point Horror (or even Goosebumps).

Amazing~ I think it was THe Guardians by John Christopher. THere wa a more modern one too, where people were lobotomised if thy misbehaved. THat society was very much 'them and us' too. Think that was a Robert WEstall one.

I had all the point horrors (family member worked at a book stockist), younger brother would read Goosebumps. Loved Christopher Pike as well.

Does anyone remember the Trebizon series? They were like a 80s/90s Mallory Towers

TerrariaMum Yes a Billion For Boris, that was it! Bloody loved that book.

Getting confused now as to whether the astral projection one I read was called Remember Me or Stranger With My Face now... aargh!

bottleofbeer I was thinking of the same book but I can't remember the title either.

I loved Judy Blume but my favorite was junk by Melvin burgess