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UPDATE: 10 MORE I MEAN. Taking position here my vast critical capacities have exercised eminent domain over math part of brain. I really did once do physics!

Forgot this one too

Just to show you the font of taxonomies of ’70s and ’80s YA lit is without limit, 45 MORE options from readers (5 from me; I’m not WITHOUT USE)  for my recent AWL Listicle Without Commentary: The 45 Greatest Teen Titles You Have Never Heard of From the Era When They All Mentioned “I,” “Me,” “You” or Some Other Key Person That Are Not ‘Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret’

1. A Horse Named Peaceable
2. A Star For The Latecomer
3. About David
4. After You, My Dear Alphonse
5. Anything For A Friend
6. Came Back to Show You I could Fly
7. Catherine, Called Birdy
8. Class Pictures
9. Deliver Us from Evie
10. Find A Stranger, Say Good-bye
11. Goodbye, Paperdoll
12. Hangin’ Out with Cici
13. I Heard the Owl Call My Name
14. I Know What You Did Last Summer
15. I Left My Sneakers In Dimension X
16. Karen
17. Kathleen, Please Come Home!
18. Killing Mr. Griffin
19. Lisa Bright and Dark
20. Maniac Mcgee
21. Meet The Austins
22. Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
23. Over The Hill at 14
24. P.S. I Love You
25. People Might Hear You
26. Representing Superdoll
27. Run, Shelly, Run!
28. Second Star To The Right
29. Staring Peter and Leigh
30. Steffie Can’t Come Out To Play
31. Summer of My First Love
32. Summer of my German Solider
33. Taking Terri Mueller
34. The Alfred G. Graebner High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations
35. The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
36. The Face On The Milk Carton
37. The Great Gilly Hopkins
38. The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore
39. The Luckiest Girl
40. The Queen of the What-Ifs
41. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
42. They Never Came Home
43. Too Bad About the Haynes Girl
44. Up in Seth’s Room
45. Wait Till Helen Comes

Best excellent title addition (it has to not be on this list OR Awl list) gets free as-yet-undetermined vintage YA book, in mail, from me, or copy of Shelf Discovery, whichever winner wants.