nineteen sixties

After spending the summer of 1968 with their mother and the Black Panthers, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern return home to Brooklyn with a new feeling of independence, but they discover their father has a new girlfriend, Uncle Darnell has come home from Vietnam a changed man, and Big Ma still expects Delphine to take care of everything. Feeling overwhelmed, Delphine writes to her mother, who reminds her to enjoy being eleven and not grow up too fast.

In a small town during the 1960s, fourteen-year-olds Debbie and Hector and their friends experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meanings of life and love.

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.

Evie Boyd, enticed by the freedom of the girls she sees at a park one day in Northern California, sets out to be accepted by the group, but her desperation reveals an unthinkable violence, altering the course of the girls' lives forever.

"Looking through the lens of television, this production weaves together the events and personalities that influenced and dominated the 1960s in America."--Publisher.

"Discusses the decade 1960-1969 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics"--Provided by publisher.

A new theme park attraction allows visitors to observe and talk with people from the turbulant 1960s, and sixteen-year-old Amy thinks it is the perfect escape from her twenty-first century problems until she falls for a charming teenage boy from that era.

In small-town Missouri in tumultuous 1963, Tree Taylor, thirteen, wants to write an important story to secure a spot on the high school newspaper staff, but when a neighbor is shot, she investigates and learns that some secrets should be kept.

During the three days of the music festival known as Woodstock, Michael Michaelson of Somerville, Massachusetts, and Cora Fletcher, a volunteer in the medical tent who lives nearby, share incredible experiences, the greatest of which is meeting each other.

"Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is ... [an] ... account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingenue to television starlet amid a constellation of ... characters"--Provided by publisher.