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Checking In With The Imaginary Summer Book Club: Forever Amber By Kathleen Winsor
(Click here for information on the 2022 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature. This week, the first selection, Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor) Well, Constant Readers, I vowed to get to our first massive … Continue reading
Mother, Where Are You? (Donna Rockford #1) By Dorothy Woolfolk
Who is Janet’s mother? And why would anyone want to kill them, just because they’re looking for her? I didn’t look up any info on author Dorothy Woolfolk until after I had finished this book and was kind of blown … Continue reading
The Christmas Killer By Patricia Windsor
She’s dreaming of a dead Christmas… I didn’t think much of Patricia Windor’s Seventeen short story about a teenage girl deciding not to pursue an affair with an older man, but Christmas-themed YAs are getting to be slim pickings… The Plot: …So … Continue reading
Kiss Me, Creep By Marian Woodruff
Is Richie really a creep- or is he someone Joy can love? So, this seems as a good a time as any to talk about how this blog got its start: in the summer of 2011, I acquired a large … Continue reading
Meg: Mystery In Williamsburg (Meg Duncan #6)
What were the suspicious strangers after? Why were she and Kerry locked in the old jail? And who chased them in the garden? These were only a few of the questions Meg needed to answer. If it’s October, it must … Continue reading
Meg: The Treasure Nobody Saw (Meg Duncan #5)
It was a dark, stormy night when Meg Duncan saw the mysterious figure in white entering the Haywood house. Who could it be? Background: From the 1950s through the 1970s Whitman published a huge number of these squat, dust jacketless hard covers, … Continue reading
The Dollhouse Murders By Betty Ren Wright
The old dollhouse was trying to tell Amy something… Just in time for Halloween: ghosts, an unsolved double murder and AN INAPPROPRIATE BURDEN OF RESPONSIBILITY! The Plot: Amy Treloar, just weeks away from her 13th birthday, struggles with her feelings regarding … Continue reading
Meg: The Ghost of Hidden Springs (Meg Duncan #4)
Many years had passed since Kathleen Hannigan had died in a tragic accident, but her ghost was still said to haunt the old mansion… Background: From the 1950s through the 1970s Whitman published a huge number of these squat, dust jacketless … Continue reading
Meg: The Mystery of Black-Magic Cave (Meg Duncan #3) By Holly Beth Walker
What was the sinister secret of the black-magic cave? Meg and Kerry were soon to find out… Background: From the 1950s through the 1970s Whitman published a huge number of these squat, dust jacketless hard covers, separately targeting boys and girls. … Continue reading
Love Comes To Anne By Lucille S. Warner
Originally posted on Lost Classics of Teen Lit: 1939-1989:
The last Wildfire title that appeared in this space, Recipe for Romance, was basically a stupid story that was well-written. This one is just a stupid story that is badly written. Whereas that…
Lost Classics of Teen Lit: 1939-1989 