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Movie Madness and/or Mania: Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)

Posted on July 15, 2020 by

For the fourth and final entry in Warner Bros. 1938-39 series of Nancy Drew films, we finally get to a credited adaptation of an actual Nancy Drew book. Now, I have not read The Hidden Staircase, the second book in … Continue reading →

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Movie Madness and/or Mania: Nancy Drew…Trouble Shooter (1939)

Posted on July 6, 2020 by

Continuing this week with the third of four Nancy Drew movies produced by Warner Brothers in 1938-39, and I suspect we are getting farther and farther afield of the source material, and the emphasis continues to be on the wacky … Continue reading →

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Movie Madness and/or Mania: Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939)

Posted on June 22, 2020 by

So, I decided that if I’m in for a penny, I’m in for a pound on Nancy Drew’s 90th Anniversary… no, not actually reading them, but watching the other three Warner Bros. films from the 1930s. The accent is definitely … Continue reading →

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Movie Madness and/or Mania: Nancy Drew… Detective (1938)

Posted on June 16, 2020 by

So, confession on the occasion of Nancy Drew’s 90th Anniversary: I have never actually read a Nancy Drew book. Back in the early years of this site I did read and review Grosset & Dunlop’s Nancy Drew Cookbook (mmm, Crooked … Continue reading →

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Nurses Three: First Assigment (#2) By Jean Kirby

Posted on October 13, 2019 by

For a nurse, she knew, a first assignment like this one could be the most decisive step in her life… Another week in October, another Whitman girls’ series by Jean Kirby, AKA Jinny McDonnell AKA Virginia Bleecher McDonnell. Background: I’ve … Continue reading →

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Ginny Gordon And The Lending Library (#4) By Julie Campbell

Posted on October 6, 2019 by

“This town was made to order for our portable lending library. It’s filled with old people and shut-ins who like to read.” If it’s fall, it must be time for a look at the girls’ series books published by Whitman … Continue reading →

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Summer Theme Part 2: “Finding A Dead Body In The Woods”

Posted on July 31, 2019 by

Last month we celebrated the traditions of going to Summer Camp, with color wars, demerits, escape attempts, romances, square dancing, Owl Walks, driving your counselors to nervous breakdowns… This month we celebrate another summertime tradition of YA fiction: coming of … Continue reading →

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Soaps In The Afternoon By Lavinia Harris

Posted on May 12, 2019 by

This soap opera is no ordinary drama… So, two things: first, this is one of those especially weird attempts to market science fiction to teen girls by skipping the science part and just making goofy things happen with the explanation … Continue reading →

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Mother, Where Are You? (Donna Rockford #1) By Dorothy Woolfolk

Posted on April 28, 2019 by

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 →

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The Christmas Killer By Patricia Windsor

Posted on December 16, 2018 by

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 →

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