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Back in the days before the internet, mobile phones, and sparkly vampires, there were still teenagers. And there are many YA literary treasures that I'm sure still live on your library shelves. Writers like Paul Zindel, Robert Cormier, Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, S.E Hinton, Victor Kelleher, Gillian Rubenstein, and John Marsden are just a handful of names that spring to mind.

Some of us are old enough to have been teenagers in those days, and this is a chance to re-visit the classics, and for the rest of you who weren't born yet. it's a chance to discover some really awesome "must-reads" from the olden-time-y days. ;)

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The Pigman is a young adult novel written by Paul Zindel first published in 1968. Zindell wrote a screenplay, adapting the book for the stage and screen, but it was not taken up by any film maker. [The novel begins with an "oath" signed by John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen, two high school sophomores, which pledge that they will report only the...
 

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