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    Mar 5, 2008, 08:48 PM
    Can't remember book title or author
    I read a book back in high school and I can't remember the title or author, but I can remember much about the story. It is a journal type book from the perspective of a teenage boy and his life during this time. He talks about driving around in his car a lot and there was a beach boys song that was really popular at the time. The title of the book had something to do with the year that this boy wrote this journal and the version of the book I had, the cover had a locker on it. I would greatly appreciate it if ANYONE could remember this book. Thanks
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    Apr 9, 2010, 01:13 PM
    Looking for the same book.

    Facts I recall...

    The Beatles were also prominent in it, and it is when they just hit the states, so it's circa 1962.

    Author started the journal as an assignment or exercise of sorts given at a summer writing seminar at a college (Syracuse?).

    Author goes out for tennis (?), first year playing a sport, just to earn a varsity letter for before he graduates.

    Relates stories about dating underclassmen, buying condoms, first sexual experience when girlfriend starts to cry and he feels guilty and then don't go through with it, drinking beer with friends, getting into a fistfight w/ an ex girlfriends new boyfriend.

    I've always had this book in the back of my head and for some reason was convinced it was by/about Dave Barry (syndicated columnist/author), but nothing came up after extensive googling. I too read it in high school, maybe a high school librarian will recognize it as it wasn't a popular or assigned book by any means.
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    Apr 9, 2010, 01:59 PM

    FOUND IT!

    Be True To Your School; A Diary of 1964 by Bob Greene

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