People of my generation (you know, the X generation) – check out this gallery of book covers. Wow. I had most of these, and the best thing is: I still have most of my original copies (lots of reviews here and here).
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So many books I’d forgotten about! Nothing’s Fair in the Fifth Grade!
Wifey was hot stuff back in the day. Sadly I didn’t see a cover for Forever, the scandal of 5th grade.
It was passed around like contraband. I love how that’s just a universal experience in our generation. hahaha And God help any boys named Ralph.
OH MY!! I had forgotten the “romance” novels Amanda and Caroline! Now I want to go back to my parents and dig around for them.
(And I wanted to be the girl on the cover of Tiger Eyes!)
The Girl With The Silver Eyes!! I LOVED that book. I think she was telekinetic, and I was obsessed with the idea of that for a long time.
I wore the covers off the Lois Duncan books at the school library! I’ve even bought a couple for my daughter.
Lots of good memories on that page, sprawled out in the grass eating otter pops and wishing I had esp!
I used to go to “Harold’s Bookstore” (remember that???) to sneek read “Wifey”. I was to scared to try it at Waldenbooks….
When I saw the cover for “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” I inwardly frowned. I didn’t realize why until I saw the next one, which was right on. I think the cover was part of the reason I related to Margaret. She wasn’t a purple cartoon, she was insecure and introspective like the girl looking out of the window. I wonder if the book would have been different for me if I’d read the one with the purple cartoon cover.
Most of those were “girl books” that I wouldn’t have been caught dead reading, but sometimes did anyway when nobody was looking. (And more so after puberty started to rear its horrible head and I wanted to find out what girls thought about.)
I see The Westing Game is there, and it should be in a class by itself. Ellen Raskin’s novel/puzzle blend was the sort of thing you spend your adulthood wishing there had been more of, if that makes sense.