60s

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• Bang, Bang You're Dead.
• Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. Richard Farina
• Belle Teal by Ann Martin
• Black Misery_ by Langston Hughes,(New York: Paul S. Eriksson, 1969).
• Boys and Girls_ by Eve Merriam,, illus. Harriet Sherman (Holt, 1972).
• Child of the Owl_, by Yep set in 1965).
• Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack by M.E. Kerr
• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
• Flying South by Laura Malone Elliott
• From the Mixed-Up Files_ by Konigsburg
• Here Today by Ann M. Martin.
• I'm Really Dragged But Nothing Gets Me Down. by Nat Hentoff
• It's Like This, Cat_.by Emily Neville
• Jennifer , Hecate..._ by Konigsburg
• Louise Fitzhugh's novels are set in the 60's, and if you look carefully, you can see the signs of social upheaval and protest in them
• Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly by Walter Dean Myers
• Moon by Night_ (1963); by Madeleine L'Engle
• One Day for Peace_ Alexander Crosby,(1971).
• Pageant by Kathryn Lasky was also set in the 1960s and is a very moving book.
• Suzuki Beane
• The Alphabet Tree_ by Leo Lionni,(Pantheon, 1968).
• The Black BC's_ by Lucille Clifton,(Dutton, 1970).
• The Cat Ate my Gymsuit by Paula Danziger.
• The Lorax_ by Dr. Seuss,(Random House, 1971).
• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton.
• The Well Wishers by Edward Eager
• Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963_ by Curtis(which would seem to fit an innocence/experience split all too tragically);
• When JFK Was My Father_;by Amy Gordon
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