Becky, Austin, and Heather talk about books of the 1970s including:

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Norma Klein, Mom, the Wolf Man, and Me by Norma Klein, Taking Sides by Norma Klein, Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry, Sophie's Choice by William Styron, The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, Sweet Savage Love by Rosemary Rogers, The Japanese Screen by Anne Mather, The Pride of the Peacock by Victoria Holt, Love Story by Erich Segal, M.C. Higgins the Great by Virginia Hamilton, Dispatches by Michael Herr

PLUS:

1974: A Personal History by Francine Prose, King of Kings by Scott Anderson, Most Dangerous by Steve Sheinkin, Death in the Jungle by Candace Fleming, Joan Dideon, Rick Perlstein, and this article: https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/childrens-literature-in-united-states