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| Did anyone out there read the Babysitters Club? | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 24 2009, 12:58:43 AM (1,665 Views) | |
| Squashy | Jan 24 2009, 12:58:43 AM Post #1 |
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Read this blog! http://whatclaudiawore.blogspot.com/ OMG, its so clever and funny (and about fashion, which is why I posted it here.) Does anyone else love it, or is it just me? |
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| TerritorianTori | Jan 24 2009, 04:31:41 AM Post #2 |
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Yeah, I did.  They and the Sweet Valley Twins filled my bookshelves in preteen years. (that blog is hilarious!) |
 South Texas to the Northern Territory - since 2004 I'm a huge fan of... Angry Video Game Nerd | The Big Bang Theory | Doctor Who | Pet Shop Boys | Yanks Down Under ~ Americans living in Australia Avatar by Sketch Shop Boys I don't do Facebook, sorry. | |
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| jorimeo | Jan 24 2009, 07:23:29 AM Post #3 |
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We even had the full set of the Babysitter Club dolls... I wrote about it in an editorial I did for my newspaper, reflecting upon my childhood with my sisters. |
 Each day is a gift, not a given right. Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind, and try to take the path that's less traveled by. Against the grain should be a way of life, what's worth the prize is worth the fight, every second counts because there's no second try. So live like you'll never live twice. | |
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| natasha_alena | Jan 24 2009, 07:38:55 AM Post #4 |
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Oh my God, I was obsessed with the Babysitters Club!!! I wanted to be Dawn when I was kid. I'll have to check out the blog later when I have time. And Tors, I loved Sweet Valley too! Twins when I was younger and High when I was older. Ah, I miss all those series!! Do they still make any of them?! |
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| Dev | Jan 24 2009, 10:02:16 AM Post #5 |
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I always tried to see if there was a secret passageway in my house. 
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Devon ----------------------- "What a shame that bitter irony has no nutritional value."
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| chocopaws | Jan 24 2009, 11:57:34 AM Post #6 |
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ol I totally forgot about those series! I remember wishing that I could have a close group of friends like that, and enough kids in my neighborhood to babysit. Alas, all of my friends were more into hanging out at the mall rather than babysitting... and all of the kids in my neighborhood were about the same age as I was, so nobody to babysit. XD |
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| i<3sydney | Jan 24 2009, 02:45:05 PM Post #7 |
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another reader of the bsc and sweet valley twins/high books! i have a twin sister and we always got sets for our birthdays and christmas. i'm sure we had the entire collection of hundreds and hundreds. my twin usually got the bsc and i got the sweet valley ones. but i read them all. i was a big book nerd when i was younger. but now i never read! for shame. i have no idea what happened to the books. unfortunately, i imagine my parents gave them to my younger cousins. just like they did all of our barbies and nostalgic toys  i wish they would have saved some of that stuff for us. i'd so read those books over again though! i should see if my local library carries them :P |
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| chocopaws | Jan 24 2009, 06:46:34 PM Post #8 |
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Talking about big book nerds... I am definitely still part of that category. I finished all of the Twilight series in a couple of days because I was so enthralled with it. It's really quite embarrassing... but I remember having my mom take me to the library every week (when I was younger) and checking out the 70 book maximum.  I would finish those books (lots of Sweet Valley and Babysitters Club-type reading) over the next few days and beg my mom to bring me back. XD My hubby refuses to buy me books because he says I finish them too fast and it's just not worth it. Libraries are a godsend :D |
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| sunshine | Jan 24 2009, 07:22:48 PM Post #9 |
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one of them even had an Australian boyfriend
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| Squashy | Jan 24 2009, 09:30:14 PM Post #10 |
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Really? One of girls from the BSC has an Aussie boyfriend? Aweseome I was doing a bit of thrift store shopping today and actually found a heap of BSC books for $1!!!! I must admit I bought 10 and just read the one where Claudia thinks she is adopted ... |
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| natasha_alena | Jan 25 2009, 12:40:01 AM Post #11 |
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Who?!?! I don't remember that!! Haha. My parents divorced when I was young and whenever I went out to see my dad, the first thing he did was take me to the book store. I was allowed to get five at a time. They must be somewhere, I'll have to go dig through my mom's basement the next time I'm home!!! |
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| sunshine | Jan 25 2009, 09:08:15 PM Post #12 |
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"Mallory dates an Australian boy named Ben Hobart for a while."
Edited by sunshine, Jan 25 2009, 09:09:06 PM.
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| chocopaws | Jan 26 2009, 10:56:24 AM Post #13 |
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roflmao isn't it funny how Oz comes up so often now that we're actually paying attention to it? |
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| TerritorianTori | Jan 26 2009, 04:01:47 PM Post #14 |
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Must've happened in the later books. I think I outgrew BSC by the early 90s... can't remember what I was reading then, though. Maybe Harlequins. hehe. |
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| Squashy | Jan 26 2009, 09:30:16 PM Post #15 |
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I just had a look at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Baby-sitters_Club_books and WHAT?!?!? I can't remember when I stopped reading the books, but there are some crazy story lines! This is the best .... Logan Bruno, Boy Baby-sitter (July 1993) - Logan gets in trouble when he starts hanging out with T-Jam, a member of SMS's resident gang Stoneybrook Middle School has a GANG?!?! What? This is too funny - and what kind of name is T-Jam?!?! |
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| bdmerriam | Jan 28 2009, 10:16:42 AM Post #16 |
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I had never heard of this series until my 8-year-old daughter brought home a pile of them from the book swap at school just before Christmas. She loves the books and can devour one in about two readings! The only difficulty she had was in the sections where the girls wrote notes to one another---the handwriting was often in cursive and she couldn't read it so she would ask me to read that part to her. Now that she has her handwriting license (No kidding---she earned it at school. I never got a cursive license... ) she doesn't need me anymore.  Hopefully she'll remember the series as fondly as so many of you have! |
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| swell42001 | Jan 28 2009, 12:06:02 PM Post #17 |
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I loved these when I was a kid, I started a babysitter's club with a couple of girls in my neighborhood - I'm pretty sure we were never hired... I love that girls still read these books. |
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| angrychinchillas | Feb 12 2009, 06:19:53 PM Post #18 |
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I, err... think I wasn't girly enough for BSC. Or Sweet Valley High, or any of the other series I can't remember names for... Did I really miss out on much? Instead, I read every single Black Stallion book and all of Marguerite Henry's horse stories! (As well as a few of the Saddle Club books, the Billy and Blaze series, some from Thoroughbred, and generally anything else horsey I could get my grubby, barn-dirty hands on.)
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| bdmerriam | Feb 13 2009, 05:46:35 AM Post #19 |
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I loved the Black Stallion books (there was more than one) and Marguerite Henry's books, also. My 8-year-old also loves them and reads them on her own, but we also read them out loud because our 5-year-old loves to hear the stories. Other books I enjoyed as a kid and have read to my kids are the three E.B. White kids stories (Charlotte's Web, Trumpet of the Swan, and Stuart Little), the Little House on the Prairie series, all of the Heidi books, Caddie Woodlawn, the Hatchet series by Gary Paulsen (about a boy who is in a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness and figures out how to survive), and the Teetoncey series (about a boy who lives on the Outer Banks of North Carolina). There are so many more...just not enough time to list them all. A newer series that we loved was the Penderwicks. We read as a family every night after dinner. When we are on road trips we read aloud in the car. Last summer I read Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen as we traveled. I hadn't meant to read it out loud, but it was so good that I kept reading sections of it to my husband as we drove along. Before long the kids begged me to read all of it out loud because they fell in love with the story, too. BTW, there is a junior reader's version of Three Cups of Tea available now and I've bought it for my kids so they can read it again themselves. Reading is so awesome! There are so many terrific kids books out there. One of the things I like most about being a parent is having a good excuse to read all the great books again! 
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| meg1388 | Feb 24 2009, 01:42:50 PM Post #20 |
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Ahhh I loved BSC. Although I started with Little Sister (series about Kristy's little sister named Karen), and then i progressed to BSC. Funny that I just stumbed across this thread... The other day I came across the episodes of babysitter's club on youtube (yes, they had a tv series!). Loved it at the time, but corniest thing I've ever seen. But Zach Braff was in one of the episodes, so I had to watch it! I also read the Sweet Valley Twins--which were my favorite becasue I always wanted a twin. But I never graduated to the Sweet Valley High, not sure why.  Anyone read "choose your own adventure" books? I really liked those growing up. Could read the same book several times and never get bored with it! Although, i was the odd child that would read the book straight through (maybe I needed to get out of the house more as a child)! |
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