When the train stopped in Tucson, everybody else got their stuff together and jammed the aisles, but I ducked into the bathroom and put Sunblock 15 on every inch of exposed skin I owned.
From The Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Sixteen-year-old Billy learns about life and love when he spends the summer in Arizona with his gay uncle and gets his first girlfriend, the smart-mouthed Cara Mae.
The start of something new. . .
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March 22, 2023
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March 15, 2023
When Portia Blake and her brother Foster set out for Creston that summer, it was different from all the other summers. It was different because it was the first time they had ever made the trip all by themselves.
From Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
Portia and her cousin Calvin discover a land forgotten by time when they stumble across the almsot abandoned summer houses around Gone-Away, a lake that's turned into a swamp.
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March 8, 2023
The prisoner in the photograph is me. It ID number is mine. The photo was taken in 1972at the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky. I was twenty-one years old and had been locked up for a year already -- the bleakest year of my life -- and I had more time ahead of me.
From Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
Jack's autobiography about his time in prison.
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March 1, 2023
The year Janet started at Blackstock College, the Office of Residential Life had spent the summer removing from all the dormitories the old wooden bookcases that, once filled with books, fell over unless wedged.
From Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
Four years of college in the 60s hitting on social issues, pregnancy, Shakespeare and, oh yeah, the ballad of Tam Lin.