Oh you poor thing. My parents basically only ever let me watch PBS with rare exceptions, but they let me read whatever the hell I wanted with nary an eyebrow raised. The result being I spent several years reading very little else, constrained only by allowance money and the selection at the local library. Then one day a neighbor had a yard sale and their daughter was getting rid of all of her BSC books and I got the whole trove (probably more than 50) for a couple of bucks. Best day of my life.
Oh man, 50 at once?? Tween me is jealous. (Adult me is a little jealous too tbh.)
My mom let me read whatever I wanted, but cared about the proportions. I could read any BSC book but only if I also read lots of other books. She was similar about video games - we had a Nintendo, and we could get any game we wanted, but we had to play through it before we could get another one. I think she just didn't want us to spend all of our time on videogames or these series-focused books.
I tried a tiny bit of Sweet Valley but it never grabbed me; my heart belonged only to the Baby-Sitters Club.
I read so many different series. BSC, Sweet Valley, Saddle Club, Animorphs, Boxcar Children, Wayside Stories, that book series about alien teachers. BSC was my favorite though.
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Oh man, 50 at once?? Tween me is jealous. (Adult me is a little jealous too tbh.)
My mom let me read whatever I wanted, but cared about the proportions. I could read any BSC book but only if I also read lots of other books. She was similar about video games - we had a Nintendo, and we could get any game we wanted, but we had to play through it before we could get another one. I think she just didn't want us to spend all of our time on videogames or these series-focused books.
I tried a tiny bit of Sweet Valley but it never grabbed me; my heart belonged only to the Baby-Sitters Club.
I read so many different series. BSC, Sweet Valley, Saddle Club, Animorphs, Boxcar Children, Wayside Stories, that book series about alien teachers. BSC was my favorite though.