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YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 1979

Long walk
All together now : a novel
Facts of love: living, loving, and growing up
After the first death
Chappie and me: an autobiographical novel
Cages of glass, flowers of time : a novel
Vision quest
Flight of dragons
Tulku
Ballad for Hogskin Hill
A tangle of roots
Disappearance
Way of love, a way of life: a young person's introduction to what it means to be gay
White coat, white cane
Against all odds
Tex
Scott was here
Walk across America
Making sense of sex: the new facts of sex and love for young people
Sherlock Bones: tracer of missing pets
Rumors of peace
Cold feet
Motel of the mysteries
Born to run: the Bruce Springsteen story
The last mission
Up in Seth's room
The teenage body book
Center: from a troubled past to a new life
The young landlords
White shaman
My first love and other disasters
Prove yourself a hero
Ballad of T.Rantula
Story of American photography: an illustrated history for young people
Ink-keeper's apprentice
Words by heart
Fine trades
Let the lion eat straw
Tomorrow and beyond: masterpieces of science fiction art
Hunter in the dark
The Kryptonite kid
Seems like this road goes on forever
Jailbird
The Devil on the road
Birdy
Knock, knock, who's there

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 1978

Celebrations: a new anthology of Black American poetry
Steffie can't come out to play
Visual encyclopedia of science fiction
Take the A train
Bel ria
Where pigeons go to die
The girl who married a ghost and other tales from The North American Indian
Borribles
Killing Mr. Griffin
And I alone survived
Ambivalence of abortion
Poison that fell from the sky
Marvin & Tige
Edith Jackson
Sex with love: a guide for young people
Hey, dollface
Broken promise
Heart songs: the intimate diaries of young girls
Fear in a handful of dust
Hawks of Chelney
Learning about sex : the contemporary guide for young adults
Gentlehands
Night shift
Moments : the Pulitzer Prize photographs
Breakout: from prison to the Big Leagues
Fragments of Isabella: a memoir of Auschwitz
Best little girl in the world
Getting into film
War on Villa Street: a novel
Cudjoe of Jamaica: pioneer for Black freedom in the New World
Dreamsnake
Beauty : a retelling of the story of Beauty & the beast
Education of an American soccer player
C.C. Poindexter
Native American testimony : an anthology of Indian and White relations ; first encounter to dispossession
Father figure
Yellow canary whose eye is so black
Rock art: the golden age of record album covers
Happy endings are all alike
Nightwing
Note: we do have the First Ballantine Books edition.
Almost grown
Doonesbury's greatest hits
The wind eye
Conversations: working women talk about doing a "man's job"

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 1977

The Rolling stone illustrated history of rock & roll : the definitive history of the most important artists and their music
Note: we do have the third edition
Amityville horror
Haiku-vision: in poetry and photography
Dark quartet: the story of the Brontës
Deadline
Winning
Hard feelings
The sword of Shannara
Coma
I am the cheese
How to leave home - and make everybody like it
A house for Jonnie O.
Fantastic television
Recoil
Child of the morning
Possible impossibilities: a look at parapsychology
Midnight express
Exit from home
Anpao : an American Indian odyssey
Madness, magic, and medicine: the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill
Ghost fox
Gnomes
Decathlon challenge: Bruce Jenner's story
Mischling, second degree : my childhood in Nazi Germany
The David Kopay story : an extraordinary self-revelation
Crazy to be alive in such a strange world: poems about people
One fat summer
The solid gold kid
Dragonsinger
Note: this book is also part of the book ”The Harper Hall of Pern”
Linda's pictures: a collection of photographs
Ballet as body language
In Nueva York
Ghosts I have been : a novel
My life and the beautiful game: the autobiography of Pele
King of the road
Unoriginal sinner and the ice-cream god
The camera never blinks : adventures of a TV journalist
Callahan's crosstime saloon
Children with emerald eyes : histories of extraordinary boys & girls
Arriving at a place you've never left
Arnold: the education of a bodybuilder
Pinball!
The rights of young people : the basic ACLU guide to a young person's rights
Zoo vet: adventures of a wild animal doctor
Heaven is a playground
Theta syndrome
Reunion
Ludell and Willie
Confessions of a teenage baboon

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 1976

Singin' and swingin' and gettin' merry like Christmas
Not a penny more, not a penny less
Our bodies, ourselves : a book by and for women
Multiple man: a novel of suspense
Life on the run
Home before dark : a novel
Otherwise girl
Imperial Earth
The Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School handbook of rules and regulations : a novel
Lady and her tiger
Why am I so miserable if these are the best years of my life? : A survival guide for the young woman
Ghost of flight 401
You! the teenage survival book
Ordinary people
Ruby
Roots
Tisha: the story of a young teacher in the Alaskan wilderness
Allegra Maud Goldman
Father's arcane daughter
Born on the Fourth of July
Very far away from anywhere else
The boys from Brazil : a novel
Zero makes me hungry : a collection of poems for today
Lovey: a very special child
They came to stay
Dear Bill, remember me? And other stories
Never to forget : the Jews of the Holocaust
400 eels of Sigmund Freud
Life after life : the investigation of a phenomenon -- survival of bodily death
The distant summer
Are you in the house alone?
Man plus
Auctioneer
Martin Luther King, Jr: a documentary...Montgomery to Memphis
Four-colored hoop
Tunes for a small harmonica
Where late the sweet birds sang
Doorways in the sand
Pardon me, you're stepping on my eyeball!

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 1975

Greatest: my own story
Heroes of the horrors
Time to be born
Fighting back
Almost home: a life-style
Orphan Jim
Tell them what's her name called
May I cross your golden river?
Deathbird stories: a pantheon of modern gods
Rescue squad
The clairvoyant countess
The women and the men
Eagle has landed
Rumble fish
Of love and death and other journeys
New vigilantes
Looking for miracles: a memoir about loving
Survivors
Is that you, Miss Blue?
Seal woman
Eric
You can get there from here
Circus
Intruders
Z for Zachariah
Representing super doll
Headman
Do black patent leather shoes really reflect up?
Feral
God's dog
Women of wonder: science fiction stories by women about women
The Prometheus crisis
Lion's paw
Enchanted pilgrimage
Minamata
If you could see what I hear
How democracy failed
Doonesbury chronicles
Eden express
Country of the heart
The massacre at Fall Creek
Killing gift: a novel

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 1974

Watership Down
Watership Down
Gather together in my name
If Beale Street could talk
Bright candles; a novel of the Danish resistance
Beyond Earth: man's contact with UFO's
On high steel: the education of an ironworker
The chocolate war; a novel
I heard the owl call my name
First person, singular
Cry of angels
Rockin' steady; a guide to basketball & cool
Harry & Tonto
M.C. Higgins, the great
All things bright and beautiful
The swarm
Slake's limbo
Native funk & flash; an emerging folk art
Last butterfly
How many miles to Babylon? a novel
The dispossessed : an ambiguous Utopia
Ellen: a short life long remembered
A circle of children
Listen for the fig tree
The mote in God's eye
Hephaestus plague
Alive; the story of the Andes survivors
Launching of Barbara Fabrikant
Run, Shelley, Run!
Trying hard to hear you
House of stairs
Thing at the door
Dummy
Road to many a wonder
I am thinking of Kelda
Walls: resisting the Third Reich - one woman's story

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 1973

A sporting proposition
Katie, Kelly, and heck
Girls are equal too; the women's movement for teenagers
Home to the wilderness
Journey to Ixtlan: the lessons of Don Juan
A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich
Rendezvous with Rama
Thirteen: the flight that failed
Good-bye to an old friend
Buried alive: the biography of Janis Joplin
My house : poems
Ward 402
For those I loved
Private treason: a German memoir
The friends
To my brother who did a crime...:former prisoners tell their stories in their own words
Hatter Fox
Dance hall of the dead
Cowboy and the Cossack
Unsuitable job for a woman
Mother Nature's beauty cupboard: how to make beautiful, money-saving natural cosmetics and other beauty preparations
Sex and birth control: a guide for the young
Very nearest room
Serpico
Looking back: a chronicle of growing up old in the Sixties
Witch
If I die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home
A day no pigs would die
Survive the savage sea
A woman named Solitude
Hollow hills
Clemente!
The summer before
Woodstock craftsman's manual 2

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 1972

The whispering wind; poetry by young American Indians
Vida: his own story
Old glory and the real-time freaks
Mountain of truth
Executive Order 9066: the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans
The terminal man
Pstalemate
The man who loved cat dancing
Girls of Huntington House
We can't breathe
Hessian
Rage
Gemini : an extended autobiographical statement on my first twenty-five years of being a Black poet
Dove
Sticks and stones
Soul catcher
The man without a face
To race the wind; an autobiography
Fog
Teacup full of roses
Report from group 17
My Name is Asher Lev
Bob Dylan
Passing go
Magnifi-cat
Report from Engine Co. 82
What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?
Mountebank
Deathwatch
Foul! The Connie Hawkins story
Woodstock craftsman's manual

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 1971

Go ask Alice
Is there a life after graduation, Henry Birnbaum?
Ice people
The Last whole earth catalog; access to tools
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee; an Indian history of the American West
No more trains to Tottenville
Life and death in a coral sea
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman : a novel
What's become of Screwloose? and other inquiries
Ossie: the autobiography of a Black woman
Holding wonder
Ra expeditions
That was then, this is now
Getting back together
White dawn
His own where
Event 1000
In the shadow of man
Rock folk: portraits from the rock 'n roll pantheon
Dark on the other side
Special rage
The making of a surgeon
Born black
Single and pregnant
The bell jar
The bell jar
Twenty-fifth anniversary edition
The soft revolution; a student handbook for turning schools around
Diana: the making of a terrorist
A wild thing
Up from never
Curse of the Concullens
Good night, Prof, dear
Is the grass greener? Answers to questions about drugs
Effect of gamma rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 1970

I know why the caged bird sings
Our time is now; notes from the high school underground
Simultaneous man
Ball four
Note: we do have the 25th anniversary edition
Drugs and youth: medical, psychiatric and legal facts
Unbought and unbossed
Note: we do have the Expanded 40th anniversary edition
The shark: splendid savage of the sea
Under twenty-one: a young people's guide to legal rights
Journey to freedom: a casebook with music
Girl called Judith Strick
Altamont: death of innocence in the Woodstock nation
Ordeal of Running Standing
Time and again
In the service of their country: war resistors in prison
Block
In this sign
Hey, white girl!
One morning in the war: the tragedy at Son My
Alternative: communal life in new America
Blessing way
Peck of salt: a year in the ghetto
Please touch; a guided tour of the human potential movement
Soulscript: Afro-American poetry
Freezing point: cold as a matter of life and death
Lost names: scenes from a Korean boyhood
Daddy was a number runner
Making of an ex-astronaut
Love story
World of soul: Black America's contribution to the pop music scene
The crystal cave
Bless the beasts and children
Slipping-down life
Run softly, go fast
Snakes

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