Category: Name That Book Request

 I read a YA thriller/romance from my elementary school library – probably in about 1970/1972 – about a girl who is 16? and a competitive ski racer. She comments on carrying extra weight and how it helps cut the wind resistance in competition. She comes across some spies in a mountain hug while out on a trail, and winds up helping them (intelligence agents ), and develops a romance with a young man who’s one of them towards the end – also rescues him from danger. I would love to know the title! Something with “wind” in it, possibly?

I remember reading a book about a girl who lived in Florida, set in the summer before she went to middle school. The main character was Bailey, she had a younger neighbor named Frances, her mother was an alcoholic, her father was remarrying, and she had an older brother who had graduated high school and was joining the military. It was probably set in the late 80s-early 90s. I remember the line “lord help us Welawanee” as an inside joke amongst the family. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I think this is an older book… but I’m not sure.
It follows a teenage girl and her friend that’s a boy. There is an audition for a play and one (or both of them?) get parts in the play.
One day the boy goes to pick up the girl but gets in a car accident and dies. At the end she doesn’t go to the funeral and swings on a swing. Help!  Suggestion from Lost Classics reader Julie: Say Goodnight Gracie by Julie Reece Deaver 

How about a book about a dancer slave girl in maybe biblical times. She was well loved and recieved many gifts-loke about beautiful and unusual scarf. But she was kidnapped and hidden in a box with cut air holes. As the box was being carried onto a ship,, she heard her master’s voice and stuffed some of the scarf through an airhole. He saw the bit of scarf and saved her. I was remembering “Slave Dancer” or maybe “Dancing Girl” or “Dancing Slave”, maybe?

Looking for a Y/A book written in the 70/80″s about a girl who finally convinces her parents to let her go to an all-girls boarding school.  I could have sworn it was written by Judy Blume but apparently not. Same type of style, though. She goes off to boarding school ( she mentions in the very beginning that her grandmother helped convince her parents to let her go). The book opens with the 1st person narrator describing her new uniforms and all her stuff being ready for the trip to the boarding school.  The opening sentence is something very like, “Well, I’m finally doing it. Going to Boarding school”

She rooms with 3 other girls, I believe, one of whom is very well off.  One sentence I particularly remember refers to her first tour around the school, led by a student.  “She looked like she cut her hair with a razor and a ruler”.  The tour proceeds up some stairs and the narrator says, ” ‘So that’s what threadbare means,’ I thought”.

I  believe the book must have been written in the late 70’s or early 80’s because that’s when I read it.  Suggestion from Lost Classics reader Julie W.: They’ll Never Make a Movie Starring Me by Alice Bach.

Second suggestion from Lost Classics reader Isis: The Girls of Canby Hall-Roommates by Emily Chase.

Third Suggestion from Lost Classics Reader Rebecca: The Daring Game by Kit Pearson

Looking for a book I read in the late 80s possibly 1989 that I got at the book fair. A teen girl had an older brother who loved his car, named EMMY. I think maybe her Mom was divorced and they lived in an apartment. She was always hanging at the pool, wearing shades because she liked people watching. Her Mom was maybe divorced and they lived in an apartment.

 Hello! I am looking for a YA/teen romance book that I read in the late eighties, and possibly very early nineties, so 1987 to 1991, at a push 92. I don’t remember the title, or the characters names, or the author. So annoying, sorry!
So, a girl (child of a single parent?) wants to do a job she’s worried her parent won’t like? Journalist, or scientist? God knows why it was a problem but it was the eighties I guess. She meets a Greek? boy who works for his families deli. I remember this because living in the south of England, I had never heard of a deli 

 He has a passion for sci fi comics but also wants a career that will upset his family as they assume he will work in the deli his whole life.
I remember she wears a raspberry hat or jumper, or something and I thought it was a bit of a fancy colour, not red, but not pink either. Raspberry. Who knew?
Thanks in advance! Suggestions: To See My Mother Dance or Alive and Starting Over by Sheila Solomon Klass

 I would love help finding a book that I can’t remember much about, and I am beginning to wonder if I combined two books in my head. But I read it in the late 80s or early 90s (though it could have been published before that). It was set in the 60s, though, and I feel like it was some kind of time travel. I want to say there were twins or sisters, and I thought it was something like the Banana Split Affair but they don’t time travel. I feel like there were two guys – one who was anti-war, and the other wasn’t, and the two girls ended up on both sides of a Vietnam protest? I think it was a romance, but there was a time limit because they had to find something. This is probably not even a real book and just a combination of memories of other books, but I read it a number of times. Of course, I can’t remember it for the life of me!