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Retro Reads: Historical Fiction
Set in the '80S and '90S |
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The sacrifice box
by Martin J. Stewart
Summer, 1982. Five friends discover an ancient stone box hidden deep in the woods. They seal inside of it treasured objects from their childhoods, and they make a vow: Never come to the box alone. Never open it after dark. Never take back your sacrifice.Four years later, a series of strange and terrifying events begin to unfold: mirrors inexplicably shattering, inanimate beings coming to life, otherworldly crows thirsting for blood. Someone broke the rules of the box, and now everyone has to pay. But how much are they willing to sacrifice?
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Let Me Hear a Rhyme
by Tiffany D. Jackson
Three Brooklyn teens plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he is still alive, in a vibrant standalone novel by the NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Monday's Not Coming.
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents and his family that he has never asked before.
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The black kids
by Christina Hammonds Reed
Enjoying the luxuries of a privileged life in 1992 Los Angeles, a black high school senior is unexpectedly swept up in the vortex of the Rodney King Riots while her closest friends spread a rumor that could derail a fellow black student’s future. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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We are lost and found
by Helene Dunbar
Keeping his head low after his brother is kicked out of the house for being gay, a teen navigating the fears of the AIDS epidemic meets an understanding boy who encourages him to take risks to be his true self. By the author of Boomerang.
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Give me some truth : a novel with paintings
by Eric L Gansworth
In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and some of the teenagers feel they have fewer options than they'd like: Carson Mastick dreams of forming a rock band, and Maggi Bokoni longs to create her own conceptual artwork instead of the traditional beadwork that her family sells to tourists--but tensions are rising between the reservation and the surrounding communities, and somehow in the confusion of politics and growing up Carson and Maggi have to make a place for themselves.
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Mayhem
by Estelle Laure
A 1980s supernatural feminist tale by the author of The Lost Boys follows the experiences of a girl who flees an abusive family member only to discover that the women in her family possess transformative magical abilities. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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The mall
by Megan McCafferty
Taking a job in the pop-culture-infused retail and food court environment of a New Jersey mall during the summer of 1991, Cassie Worthy begins questioning her well-laid plans to join her boyfriend at college in New York City amid new friendships and personal discoveries. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Fireworks
by Katie Cotugno
A girl competes with her best friend to become the newest pop star of the late-1990s boy-and-girl band craze, triggering drama and romance along the way. By the best-selling author of 99 Days. Simultaneous eBook. 100,000 first printing.
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The miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. DanforthIn the early 1990's, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center.
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Those Who Prey by Jennifer MoffettDrawn out of perpetual isolation during her freshman year of college by an exclusive on-campus circle of friends, Emily joins a group summer trip to Italy, where in the face of a confiscated passport and cut-off communication she discovers she has been abducted by a dangerous cult.
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We were promised spotlights
by Lindsay Sproul
Hiding her sexual orientation behind the enviable persona of a popular homecoming queen, Taylor struggles to figure out how to stay true to herself and walk away from the limiting expectations that have been laid out for her future. Simultaneous eBook.
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The left-handed booksellers of London
by Garth Nix
Searching for the father she has never met in an alternate-world 1983 London, Susan is drawn into an extended family of magical, left-handed, fighting booksellers who police intruders from the mythical Old World of England. 100,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
Misfit Charlie writes letters to an unidentified recipient that share intimate observations about a high school environment of first dates, relationship dramas and experimentations with sex and drugs.
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Like a love story
by Abdi Nazemian
An Iranian youth who hides his sexual orientation from his family, an openly gay photographer and an aspiring fashion designer with an HIV-positive uncle fall in love and find their voices as activists during the height of the AIDS crisis in New York City.
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Concrete Rose
by Angie Thomas
A gang leader’s son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one’s brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set 17 years before the events of the award-winning The Hate U Give.
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Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"
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Weetzie Bat
by Francesca Lia Block
Follows the wild adventures of Weetzie Bat and her Los Angeles friends, Dirk, Duck, and My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man
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None shall sleep
by Ellie Marney
Recruited into the FBI of 1982 to interview juvenile convicts and provide counsel on cold cases, a teen survivor of a serial killer and a U.S. Marshal candidate forge a savvy partnership that is tested by their effort to obtain a young sociopath’s insights into an urgent serial killer case. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Time will tell
by Barry Lyga
Alternating between present day and 1986, this gripping novel follows four teens as they dig up a time capsule that their parents buried and unearth a secret that someone is willing to kill for. Simultaneous eBook.
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