What's the Name of That Book??? Discussions Mentioning That Was Then, This Is Now

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Coming-of-age in the 60s-80s. 12 284 Feb 13, 2014 04:30PM  
SOLVED. YA/Teen ~ Fiction, Coming of Age, Highschool, 2 teen boys (bestfriends or brothers?), 2nd boy ends up in PRISON/JAIL [s] 6 56 Feb 28, 2016 09:38AM  
ABANDONED. YA and was set during the 60s or 70s and was Nonfiction; protagonist and Spider's sister found Spider in a house full of hippies doing drugs. Spider did LSD or Ecstasy and he was taken to the hospital. I believe Brian gave him the drugs 6 1035 Jun 09, 2023 08:37AM  
SOLVED. YA or younger from the 1960s. I thought the title was something like The Electric Eye and the story included a description of a young boy on an acid trip. [s] 4 29 Mar 21, 2018 01:35PM  
First person narrator of opposite gender to author 66 1636 Mar 15, 2025 02:06PM  
Stand alone books. Male protagonists preferred. 127 2436 Jan 03, 2024 10:22PM  
ABANDONED. YA Nonfiction (I believe) about two "brothers", one of whom's father shot the boy's mother, causing one of the boys to take in the other. 3 540 Jun 01, 2023 08:48AM  
SOLVED. Young adult novel about a 15-17 year old boy with a similar aged friend that grow up poor. [s] 5 21 Jun 11, 2020 11:00AM  
YA Teen Crime book. Two boys become close friends. Older boy drives a Jaguar & has a bad home life. Crimes (murders?) in their small town. Read around 2008-2014, published 1980s/1990s? Spoilers. 15 171 Jun 02, 2024 04:09PM  
YA Fiction(?) Pool hustlers in the 50s 3 23 Apr 05, 2024 08:50PM  
SOLVED. YA fiction. A younger kid dies of an OD, our narrator, a teen himself discovers his best friend was selling drugs... Read in 1990s. Spoiler. 6 26 Jun 21, 2025 10:13PM