Trying to remember an old Judy Blume favourite

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I remember reading the odd Judy Blume book when I was younger and I really enjoyed them, one in particular, but for the life of me I can't remember the name. Briefly tried googling but hoping you wise lot can help.

From what I remember as a child, the main character grew up around the time of WW2. I think her father might have been a dentist. I remember something at the beginning about playing Cowboys and Indians and also Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The family moved at some point and the girl was convinced a new neighbour was Hitler.

Now I have written it down it sounds blood weird but I loved it when I was young and would like to read it again. Cheers

Ahh Betsy Byers, how did I forget about her books?! I was going to post earlier about a book I loved and thatscottishbiscuit you answered it for me, it was the Night Swimmers book. I loved it but couldn't remember enough of the book to make it identifiable. On a creepier not, when I was about 8 or so I remember my copy of Night Swimmers flying across the hallway for no reason. I still can't work it out but maybe Betsy Byers was trying to suggest I should read her books again! And so I did

Just remembered another JB, It's not the end of the world. About a 12 year old called Karen whose parents are going through divorce. I found that one really sad too.

Pinot that sounds a bit like a book I read as a teen in the mid '80s except I think the book I read was slightly different. It was about a boy in the UK. His parents had already died in a car accident and then all the old people and young people started dying from a mysterious illness. Only people in their mid-late teens were strong enough to withstand it. I've been googling but can't find it.

Does anyone remember these:
Love and Betrayal and Hold The Mayo by Francine Pascal
Easy Connections/Easy Freedom by Liz Berry
The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
Night Kites by ME Kerr
Daphne's Book by Mary Downing Hahn
Hey Dollface by Deborah Hautzig

Just seeing the covers of these books again sends me back to a time where I felt like the weirdest person at school and could only escape into reading. Forever thankful to have had a library card. 80s teenage girl books were incredible.

Did anyone read the Anastasia books, I think by Lois Lowry? I read them so many times! She wrote some other books too.

'Brother in the Land' by Robert Swindells, anyone?

Pleased to solve the Night Swimmers mystery for you, OP!

Pinot was that book called Children of the Dust? It was about a nuclear war - absolutely terrified me as a kid.

Love this thread. I collect all my favourite kid/teen books.

Children of the Dust!! That's the other one I was trying to remember as well as Brother in the Land. Thanks, reader!

Children of the dust is the grimmest book I have ever read. I read it when I was 30 for the first time too

Kilmeny 'Easy Connections/Easy Freedom' were out of print for ages as the rights were owned by someone else. All library copies seemed to get nicked. Then a couple of years ago I suddenly found them on amazon - where they accidentally fell into my basket! It was a great trip down memory lane to read them again, but like all things nostalgic, they weren't quite as good as I recalled them!

'Brother in the land' was one of my old favourites Scottish.
I don't recall many of these July Blume et al books - but I'll bet I read them, I was an utter book worm!

This is a very weird coincidence. I found these when I was in the loft earlier and took a photo to show my sister. Now I know what I'm doing on my week off of work!

Sorry I've only just had another look at this thread.

I bought my daughter a three in one book, with the two supermouse stories, and a third one called 'star turn', which I was hoping was linked to the others, but might well not be. I only paid £2.81 including delivery (second hand copy from Amazon), and I can't wait to read Supermouse again.

Tuiles, yes all library copies got nicked! I still have my original 80s paperback of Easy Connections but I bought Easy Freedom of Liz Berry's website a few years ago when they were reprinted. Very different reading them as an adult.

OP I thought of the Sally J Freedman book recently when reading a mumsnet thread about kissing family on the lips. Didn't she used to kiss her dad all over his face and call it a "treatment"? I'm sure that would warrant an AIBU in modern times!

Was Beverley Cleary the writer of the Ramona series? I read those when I was 6/7, loved them. Only realised last year that they weren't new books - I thought they'd just come out when I was 6 (2000) but they were written in the 50s and 60s!

Also loved Judy Blume - Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Superfudge, Otherwise Known As Sheila The Great. Again, never realised they weren't brand new in the early 2000s! I stopped going to the library when I reached 10/11 so I never quite graduated to her books for older audiences.

Was just going go mention Kevin and Sadie. I must have read those 10 times over

I loved Judy Blume and Jean Ure - I read A Bottled Cherry Angel over and over,

Did anyone read The Fairy Rebel by Lynne Reid Banks? I loved that book and totally related to the rebel fairy

Does anyone remember reading a book in their teens about a teen that falls in to a parallel dimension? They can see and hear things going on, but no one can see them. There's all sorts of things in there with them like odd socks, anything that people forget.

I remember the Anastasia books, and loved Point Horrors - they also branched out to Point Crime and Point Romance.

This thread is awesome, myself and lots of my friends at school read a lot of Judy Blume and I've just picked up In The Unlikely Event from the library, not started it yet though. It's funny seeing other people mention books that no one in my school read though, Lois Lowry wasn't big with my friends but A Summer to Die was one of my favourite books after moving on from All About Sam and the Anastasia books.

karaoke The Fairy Rebel was big with me and my sister, I think that is still up in the loft at my mum's house. We got that after reading The Indian in the Cupboard series.

My mum used to buy loads of great books for me for birthdays and Christmas, I would never have found a lot of my favourites without her. No idea how she always found something I'd enjoy but not heard of myself yet, in the days before the Internet. She's still pretty good at it now.

I loved Judy Blume. I still think of Fudge and his Myna bird.

bigboypants - It's funny seeing other people mention books that no one in my school read though - yes! I think some of my friends read JB, and a bit of Paula Danziger, but definitely not Jean Ure and all these books we're remembering. I wish I'd known you all in the early 90s!

I also had 'The Woods at the End of Autumn Street' by Lois Lowry, which was quite dark and sad. I think it was all better when every bloody thing wasn't in a series! I did like Anastasia too though - I found that life, with the arty mum and the poet/prof dad, lasagna in the den and chats in the tower, lots of lacing up snow boots, all very enviable.

Also, also - Tim Kennemore anyone else? 'Changing Times' was bloody brilliant.

And - (just reading back) 'Here's to You Rachel Robinson' was the sequel to 'Just As Long As We're Together', which is one of the best accounts of how 12/13 year old girls' friendships shift and change that I've read.

My people!!My mum used to joke that they had failed me as parents because they didn't get divorced as I clearly wanted all the angst and drama in my life the girls in the books had to go through.

I loved Paula dazinger especially the pistachio prescription and this place has no atmosphere (set in space).

Did anyone else read Lois Duncan she wrote I know what you did last summer, killing mr griffin and lots of thrillers. My mum used to steal those off me when I got them out the library.