Monthly Archives: August 2012
Bird on the Wing By Winifred Madison
Life as a weaver was the last thing Elizabeth expected when she ran away from home Now, anyone well-read in girls’ fiction of the 60’s and 70’s knows that when you run away from home, your choices are “prostitute”, “drug … Continue reading
Hollywood Daughters #1: Star Baby By Joan Lowery Nixon
The 1930s and 40s are, in my opinion, an underutilized era for historical YA novels, and when it is done, it is usually lazily- a few pop culture signifiers and some retro slang is pretty much all that defines the … Continue reading
Christopher Cool TEEN Agent #1: X Marks The Spy By Jack Lancer
“Cool. Christopher Cool. TEEN Agent.” “I’m not calling you that.” Following a request for more “Boy Books” after a long run of girl-books, I dug up this Stratemeyer Syndicate/Grosset & Dunlap series from the mid-1960s. And, oh boy, I did … Continue reading
Checking in with the Imaginary Summer Book Club: It (1927, Clarence Badger)
(Click here for information on the 2012 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature. As each of the titles for 2012 have a filmed adaptation, this year we will also be looking at each movie … Continue reading
Better Living Through Girls’ Series Books, Part III: The Baby-Sitters Club Guide to Baby-Sitting
This week I present to you the final installment in our look at non-fiction spin-off of girls’ series books, with a volume based on a series near and dear to the hearts of many of us who were in middle-school … Continue reading
Lost Classics of Teen Lit: 1939-1989 