Brooks, Bruce.  The Moves Make the Man.  YPB B / Y FIC Brooks
Recounts the extraordinary friendship between Jerome Foxworthy, a top student, loving son, basketball star, and first Black to integrate his southern high school, and Bix, a white athlete facing problems in his life.

Curtis, Christopher Paul.  The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963.  Y FIC Curtis / Y PB C
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Davis, Ossie. Just Like Martin.   Y FIC Davis
Following the deaths of two classmates in a bomb explosion at his Alabama church, fourteen-year-old Stone organizes a children's march for civil rights in the autumn of 1963.

Duder, Tessa.  Alex in Rome.  Y FIC Duder
As a member of the New Zealand swimming team, fifteen-year-old Alex gets her first taste of independence as she faces the challenges of competition in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.

Freeman, Suzanne T.  The Cuckoo's Child.  Y FIC Freeman
Eleven-year-old Mia refuses to believe that her parents are not coming back after they're reported lost at sea.

Grimes, Nikki.  Jazmin's Notebook.  Y FIC Grimes
Jazmin, an Afro-American teenager who lives with her older sister in a small Harlem apartment in the 1960s, finds strength in writing poetry and keeping a record of the events in her sometimes difficult life.

Jones, Adrienne.  Long Time Passing : A Novel.  Y FIC Jones
In the turbulence of the late 1960s, while his father is serving as a Marine officer in Vietnam, seventeen-year-old Jonas falls in love with a free-spirited flower child active in the peace movement and begins to question his own attitude toward the Vietnamese War.

Kim, Helen S.  The Long Season of Rain.  Y FIC Kim
When an orphan boy comes to live with her family, eleven-year-old Junehee begins to realize that the demands placed on Korean women can destroy their lives.

Krisher, Trudy.  Kinship.  Y FIC Krisher
In 1961 fifteen-year-old Pert, who lives with her mother in Kinship, Georgia, meets her long-absent father and discovers the true meaning of home.

McGuigan, Mary Ann.  Where You Belong : a novel.  Y FIC McGuigan
In 1963, when thirteen-year-old Fiona runs away from home and ends up reunited with her former classmate Yolanda in an all-black neighborhood of the Bronx, their interracial friendship gives rise to both comfort and controversy.

Moore, Yvette.  Freedom Song.  Y FIC Moore
In the sixties, when Sheryl's Uncle Pete joins the Freedom Riders down South, she organizes a gospel concert in Brooklyn to help him.

Myers, Anna.  Ethan Between Us.  Y FIC Myers
In an Oklahoma oil drilling camp in 1960, fifteen-year-old Clare finds her relationship with her best friend threatened by her new romance with Ethan, a boy carrying a dark secret.

Nelson, Theresa. And One For All.  Y FIC Nelson
Geraldine's close relationship with her older brother Wing and his friend Sam changes when Wing joins the Marines and Sam leaves for Washington to join a peace march.

Pennebaker, Ruth.  Don't Think Twice.  Y FIC Pennebaker
Seventeen years old and pregnant, Anne lives with other unwed mothers in a group home in rural Texas where she learns to be herself before giving her child up for adoption.

Sacks, Margaret. Beyond Safe Boundaries.  Y FIC Sacks
Elizabeth comes of age in 1960s South Africa as her older sister joins a secret group opposed to the country's racial policies.

Salisbury, Graham.  Blue Skin of the Sea.  Y FIC Salisbury
Growing up in Hawaii between 1953 and 1966, Sonny tries to come to terms with his feelings for his fisherman father and the vast sea that dominates his life.

Voigt, Cynthia. Tell Me If the Lovers Are Losers.  Y FIC Voigt
In 1961 at a college for academically gifted women, three roommates who differ substantially from each other are brought together by a common interest in volleyball.

Young, Ronder Thomas.  Learning by Heart.  J FIC Young
In the early 1960s, ten-year-old Rachel sees changes in her family and her small Southern town as she tries to sort out how she feels about her young black maid, racial prejudice, and her responsibility for her own life.

9/3/04