These books were read after I became a Young Adult Specialist librarian in 1983. I continue to read them on occasion. These are not all I've read; just the ones I liked most. Some YA and Children's titles also appear in the annual lists. Oh, and I switched to the Adult specialty in 1990.Ace Hits the Bigtime (Barbara Bessley Murphy & Judy Wolkoff)
Ace Hits Rock Bottom (Barbara Bessley Murphy & Judy Wolkoff)
The Mark of Conte (Sonia Levitin)
Hangin' Out with Cici (Francine Pascal)
My First Love and Other Disasters (Francine Pascal)
No Scarlet Ribbons (Susan Terris)
The Creep (Susan Dodson)
Shadows Across the Sand (Susan Dodson)
Not Just Another Pretty Face (Peter Filichia)
Hard Love (Cynthia D. Grant)
Perdita (Isabelle Holland)
Brother Jonathan (Crawford Killian) SF
The Arizona Kid (Ron Koertge)
Take it Easy (Steven Kroll)
Buck (Tamela Larimer)
I'm Still Me (Betty Jean Lifton)
Downtown (Norma Fox Mazer)
The Dog Days of Arthur Cane (T. Ernesto Bethancourt)
The Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations (Ellen Conford)
The Fat Girl (Marilyn Sachs)
Fourteen
The Shell Lady's Daughter (C.S. Adler)
Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island (Eve Bunting)
Wart, Son of Toad (Alden R. Carter)
Up Country (Alden R. Carter)
Say Goodnight, Gracie (Julie Reece Deaver)
Morning Glory Afternoon (Irene Bennett Brown)
Cold Feet (Gen LeRoy)
Winning Kicker (Thomas J. Dygard)
Blissful Joy and the SATs (Sheila Greenwald)
Taking Terri Mueller (Norma Fox Mazer)
The Chemist Who Lost His Head (Vivan Grey) [biography of LaVoisier]
Chiseling the Earth (R.V. Fodor) NF
The Trembling Earth (Frederic Golden) NF
The Brooklyn Bridge: They Said it Couldn't be Done (Judith St. George) NF
Chinese Handcuffs (Chris Crutcher)
The Truth Trap (Frances A. Miller)
Aren't You the One Who? (Frances A. Miller)
Losers and Winners (Frances A. Miller)
Cutting Loose (Frances A. Miller)
The Ghost Belonged to Me (Richard Peck)
Ghosts I Have Been (Richard Peck)
The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp (Richard Peck)
Fallen Angels (Walter Dean Myers)
Love Letters to my Fans (Jackie Parker)
Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars (Daniel M. Pinkwater)
The Girl in the Grass (David Roth)
Last Seen on Hopper's Lane (Janet Allais Stegeman)
Izzy Willy-Nilly (Cynthia Voigt)
Dicey's Song (Cynthia Voigt)
A Solitary Blue (Cynthia Voigt)
Homecoming (Cynthia Voigt)
Wolf of Shadows (Whitley Strieber) SF
Z for Zachariah (Robert C. O'Brien) SF
The Girl in the Box (Ouida Sebestyen)
The Burning of the General Slocum (Claude Rust) NF
The Keeper of the Isis Light (Monica Hughes) SF
The Guardian of Isis (Monica Hughes) SF
The Isis Pedlar (Monica Hughes) SF
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E. L. Konigsburg) Juv
The Amazing and Death-Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman (Paul Zindel)
Futuretrack 5 (Robert Westall) SF
Lifter (Crawford Killian) SF
Holes (Louis Sachar) Juv
Uncle Vampire
Hero (S.L. Rottman)
Stetson (S.L. Rottman)
