ROALD DAHL
*Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
* Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
* Fantastic Mr. Fox
* James and the Giant Peach
* Danny Champion of the World
* The Twits
* George’s Marvelous Medicine
* The BFG
* The Witches
* Matilda
* The Enormous Crocodile
* The Giraffe and Pelly and Me
MAUREEN DALY
* Acts of Love 
* First a Dream
* Seventeenth Summer
BARBARA DANA
* Zucchini
* Zucchini out west
* Crazy Eights
* Necessary Parties
PAULA DANZIGER
* The Cat ate my Gymsuit
* There’s a Bat in Bunk five
* The Pistachio Prescription 
* This Place has no Atmosphere
* Can you sue Your Parents for Malpractice
* The Divorce Express
* Remember Me to Harold Square
* Thames doesn’t rhyme with James 
* Everyone Else’s parents said yes
*Earth to Matthew
* Amber Brown series
MARY S. DAVIDSON
GIBBS DAVIS
* Swann Song
* Maud Flies Solo
JENNY DAVIS
* Goodbye and keep Cold
LESLIE DAVIS
* 3 Cheerleaders books
MELISSA DAVIS 
* Yearbook 
* Yearbook 2
MARGARET DE ANGELI
* The Door in the Wall
KAREN STRICKLER DEAN
* A Time to Dance
* Maggie Adams Dancer series – Between Dances , Maggie Adams Dancer , Stay on your Toes
Maggie Adams
* Cammy Takes A Bow
* Marianna
BARTHE DE CLEMENTS
* Elsie Series – Nothings Fair in Fifth Grade , Sixth Grade can really Kill You , Seventeen and in-between , How do you Lose those Ninth Grade Blues , Fourth Grade Wizards
* Five Finger Discount
* Double Trouble 
* No Place for Me
* Breaking Out
* I never Asked you to Understand Me
MEINDERT DEJONG
* The Easter Cat
* The Wheel on the School
JINA DELTON
* Two Blocks Down
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KARLE DICKERSON
* Best Friend Blues – Willowisp
* Breaking All the Rules – Willowisp
* Step Monsters – Willowisp
* Now that Andi’s Gone – Willowisp
PETER DICKISON
* The Gift
* Healer
* Tulku
* Eva
* AK
CAROL DINES
* Best Friends Tell the Best Lies
PATRICIA DIZEZENO
* Why Me? The Story of Jenny
MARY MAPES DODGE
* Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
* Mary Anne
SUSAN DODSON
* Eye of the Storm – Crosswinds series
* Have you Seen This Girl
* The Creep
* Shadows across the sand
JUDY DONNELLY
* Non fiction step into reading series books – Tut’s Mummy Lost and Found , The Titanic , Who shot the President
JEAN SLAUGHTER DOTY
* Can I get there by Candlelight?
* If Wishes Were Horses
* Dark Horse
* The Crumb
* Yesterday’s Horses
* Valley of the Ponies
* Monday Horses
PAMELA DRYDEN ( pseudonym )
* Mask for my Heart
DIANE DUANE
* Young Wizard series – So you want to be a wizard , Deep Wizardry , High Wizardry etc.
SANDY FRANCES DUNCAN
* Toothpaste Genie
* Listen to Me Grace Kelly
LOIS DUNCAN
* I know what you did Last Summer 
* Down a Dark Hall
* Summer of Fear
* Killing Mr. Griffith
* Daughters of Eve
* Stranger with my Face
* The Third Eye
* Locked in Time
* The Twisted Window
* Don’t Look Behind You
ROSAMUND NEAL DU JARDIN
* Practically Seventeen
EILEEN DUNLOP
* The House on the Hill
* Maze Stone
* The Valley of Deer
* Robinsheugh
* Clementina
*Foxy
*Green Willow
GERALD DUMAS
*Rabbits Rafferty
Hooray, hooray, the D’s are up!
Ah, I remember the Paula Danziger and Lois Duncan covers so well. I particularly love the Cat Ate My Gymsuit one (and what a great title for a book!)
Hi , thanks to you I could actually fill in the Lois Duncan covers! As it was I didn’t have many of the vintage ones. When I bought them they were the reprinted black cover editions kinda boring. E page should be up soon, cause it’s not that long. One of my fave covers is the Divorce Express – simply because of the hatch-back in the background! Oh and Breaking all the rules is cool too ,the no parking sign showing her to be quite the rebel! ha!
BTW, have you re-read all of these books since your teens?
Not all of them , I don’t have the time! However about a year ago when they were offering fill-a-box for ( I can’t remember if it was – ) 5-20 dollars at a used book store I really loved – but has since closed – I got a huge box and sat down and knocked them off in a week! I couldn’t resist! Unfortunately I didn’t read a lot of non-series fiction when I was a young – and when I did it was stuff that kindof reminds you of series fiction – like Marjorie Sharmats I Saw Him First. I think it was because I was crazy about Archie comics ( the whole continuing characters thing ) Some of it is completely fresh to me – which is definitly fun cause they still have that 80′s feel to them – just recently I read – Marlene the Horror Queen Lila Perl , Fridays by Patricia Lee Gauch and The House of Stairs by William Sleator all really good. Fridays awesome concept and the House of Stair whew! Loved it – wish I had read it as a kid – it might have inspired me to branch out more in my reading habits. I haven’t really run into a lot of Oh I remember that because I still have a lot of the books I remember since childhood and have read them on and off from time to time – though their are a few I’d like to get my hands on and don’t have.
See these books makes me want to cry. I loved Barthe Declements in elementary school
She was one of the best! And Elsie was also one of my favorite characters – she had heart , tenacity and it was nice to see a ‘co-star’ overshadow the lead!
Talk about a trip down memory lane. Thanks!
And maybe you can help me out…. I have been forever trying to track down a book from this era/genre about a girl whose parents are divorcing, and her mom goes off on some weird food-kick. She makes her daughter eat gross stuff like tofu shakes… she packs all kinds of gross lunches. And she’s so embarrassed she eats her lunch under the bleachers alone. Then at the very end, Mom invites a new guy over for dinner, and OMG, she serves good ol’ fashioned meat and potatoes.
Do you know this one?
I’ll check around – not ringing any bells just off – but mostly I get blessed anyway and bump into it!
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Oh, the Beverly Cleary books! Good times. Seeing those covers really brings me back.
I think you’re doing the world a good deed by posting these things! I must have spent an hour trying to think of the title “Crazy Eights” – found your blog from a link on either goodreads or abebooks (I lost track from all my searching) and when I saw the cover, SEARCH OVER. Thanks!
Thanks! every once in a while I get discouraged about the sites or bored with them. I’d like to keep going with them so this is nice to hear!