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Need help finding another book!

Back in the days of Fear Street and and updated Nancy Drew series, there was also this other little series that I coveted dearly. I am SURE it had "Class of '93" in the title and I thought that was neat because I was going to be in the Class of '93 myself! Only I was a year younger than the characters because they were in American high school and I was in Quebec high school (we only go to 11th grade). As far as I can remember the books were sub-titled (titled?), Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors... I think.I always thought the author was Caroline B. Cooney, but based on her list of books it isn't her. Was there another Cooney out there writing these books? A sister perhaps? It's driving me crazy because I really liked these books, though like all my original Fear Street books and 1990s Nancy Drew they have been sent off to used bookstores and/or Church bazaars by my parents after I moved out. So sad. (This wasn't their fault though, I used to keep a lot of my books in the bottom drawer of my dresser, it was sort of like my secret place for books (I had a TINY bookshelf) and I didn't think to box them up when I first moved out 11 years ago and then my parents got rid of the dresser and I guess those books just got swept along for the ride. Sigh. Also I had a couple of boxes of things I wanted to keep forever, but had no room when I first moved out and my parents were holding on to them for me. Except they got boxes mixed up one time when they were trying to clean out the basement and WHOOSH! There went my treasured books and 2 barbies that I always loved and wanted to hang on to, along with a few other sentimental things I was going to take as soon as I had enough room. Drat.)Anyhow, the books would have been out in the early 90's and they had the characters on the covers. White background and the boys wore those Letterman jackets you get playing sports (is that what they are called?) and the girls looked cute. It was a sort of a 90210 pose for the covers.If anyone can remember these books and remembers who the author was I would really appreciate it! You can't look on used book sites for books you desperately want when you can't seem to get the title or author right. Argh!(This doesn't even cover the Windswept series of books I had. I think it was Windswept anyhow, they were teen, slightly thriller-ish and love story at the end (of course!) and I think the series was Windswept, lots of different authors and individual stories. I had a few of those that I LOVED but can't think of the names of any of them and I can't seem to find a list either... hmm.)HappyCat UPDATE!: Oh! Oh! Oh! As soon as I hit publish I struck gold over on Amazon.com! It's LINDA A. COONEY (See? I KNEW it was a Cooney!!) And they seem to be Class of '89, but I thought it was '93. Strange. Anyhow, there seems to be a Class of '88 too, but it's the covers of '89 I remember. Too bad all these used book places don't have scans of the cover. Sigh. Now do I buy them used off Amazon or do I just wait. Maybe I should wait. I don't know. Gah!