Discusses the youth culture of the eighties, highlighted by fitness, Michael Jackson, Dungeons and Dragons, breakdancing, AIDS, and politically by the first flight of the space shuttle and Gorbachev's assumption of power in the Soviet Union.
short stories about teenagers throughout the twentieth century
Gallo, Donald R
1999
Ten stories by such notable authors as Richard Peck, Chris Crutcher, and Chris Lynch, each of which presents the life of a teenager in a different decade of the twentieth century, accompanied by a brief description of the historical and cultural highlights of that decade.