nineteen sixties

"After another fight with Pop, 14-year-old Dave storms out of their apartment and nearly gets hit by a car. Kate, the local cat lady, comes to the rescue, and Dave returns home with an ally: Cat, the stray tom that becomes Dave's confidante and his key to new friendships and experiences. Cat inadvertently leads Dave to Tom, a troubled 19-year-old who needs help, and Mary, a shy girl who opens Dave's eyes and ears to music and theater. Even the Cat-related confrontations with Pop take on a new spirit, with less shouting and more understanding. [This book] offers a . . . tour of New York City in the 1960s"--Provided by publisher.

In 1960, bored and lonely thirteen-year-old Sophie is not happy about spending the summer at her grandmother's old house in the Bayou until she finds a maze with a secretive and mischievous inhabitant. She then makes a wish and finds herself in 1860 at her family's home, where she is mistaken for a slave.

"With his girlfriend, Robin, away in Canada, eighteen-year-old Lucas Baker's only plans for the summer are to mellow out with his friends, smoke weed, drop a tab or two, and head out in his microbus for a three-day happening called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. But life veers dramatically off track when he suddenly finds himself in danger of being drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam."--Amazon.com.

Two cousins must take a road trip across America in 1969 in order to let a teen know he's been drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. Features historic quotations and photographs.

When fifty-four-year-old Julianna Dapper slips out of a mental hospital in Bangor, Maine, on a June day in 1962, she knows she must go back to the tiny farming community in northern Missouri where she was born and raised. It's the place where she and her best friend, Ben Taylor, roamed as children, and where her life's course shifted irrevocably one night long ago. On her journey, Julianna meets Elijah Hunter, a shy African-American teenager, and Jon Tate, a young hitchhiker on the run from the law. The three become traveling companions, bound together by quirks of happenstance.

Award-winning journalist, Tom Brokaw, recalls the revolutionary events of 1968 that forever changed the nation and the world including the assassinations of Martin Luther King , Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the Democratic National Convention, the Civil Rights Movement, and the election of Richard Nixon to the presidency.

As eleven-year-old Franny Chapman deals with drama at home and with her best friend in 1962, she tries to understand the larger problems in the world after President Kennedy announces that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba. Features historic quotations and photographs.

"In 1960s Manhattan, patrons flock to Masha's for the delicious food, impeccable service, and dashing owner and chef, Peter Rashkin. Peter suffers from the terrible guilt of surviving Auschwitz while his wife, Masha--the restaurant's namesake--and two young daughters perished. Although he is considered the most eligible bachelor in town, Peter has resigned himself to a solitary life. Then he falls passionately in love with beautiful young model June Bouquet, and hopes to finally let go of the past. But over the next twenty years, the indelible sadness of his memories overshadows Peter, June, and their daughter Elsbeth, transforming them in shocking, heartbreaking, and unexpected ways"--OCLC.

Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on the events of the late 1960s which were marked by political assassinations, war protests, and increasingly violent demands for civil rights.

Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on events of the early 1960s, including conflicts between the U.S. and Soviet Union, and the stand-off between civil rights activists and segregationists.