Penny Lane
Sitting For The Arnolds
The Girl With Colitis Goes By
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Post by Penny Lane on Nov 7, 2007 13:54:29 GMT -5
I started reading with #9 The Ghost at Dawn's House. I got it because it said the word ghost, and I loved, loved, loved ghost stories. Anything to do with supernatural things, and I was there. So I read it, and I liked it, then at the end, I realized it was part of a series (Don't ask why I wasn't tipped off by the #9 on the cover), so I went and looked for more. Then my grandmother started buying them for me, and I specifically remember a time when I was supposed to be doing my homework, but instead I read The Bad Luck Mystery.
My mom tried to get me to read horse books and princess books. I was not down with that.
Oh, and I think I tried to read a few LS books, but I found them way too easy. I started reading them towards the end of 1st grade. I know, because I was so angry when at the beginning of 2nd grade, this girl (who will be nameless) did her book report on The Ghost at Dawn's House. I was like "Those have been out forever you know, and I've been reading them forever." Ahh the trials of 2nd graders.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Nov 7, 2007 20:54:50 GMT -5
Like most of you, I read LS before I read the BSC. My first LS book was Karen's Roller Skates that I found in my classroom library. From there, an obsession was born . I don't remember the first BSC book I read. It may have been Claudia and the Sad Goodbye, but I'm not totally sure. I do know that my first BSC book was pretty early in the series though. The first BSC book I owned was The Ghost at Dawn's House. I got it at a garage sale and remember being thrilled that I got to keep this book (I checked out almost all of my BSC books from the library).
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Post by Karen Brewer on Nov 7, 2007 22:35:45 GMT -5
It's been a long time, but for some reason Jessi's Babysitter sticks out in my mind as the first BSC book I read. I think the first LS book I read was Karen's Sleepover.
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macca
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by macca on Nov 8, 2007 0:24:15 GMT -5
The first one I read was Jessi Ramsey, Pet Sitter. I loved it at the time, but it's not a fave anymore!
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Nov 8, 2007 21:40:23 GMT -5
The first one I read was Jessi Ramsey, Pet Sitter. I loved it at the time, but it's not a fave anymore! That book was probably one of the only BSC books that I really and truly hated (despite the fact that I'd ordered this book by myself from that Scholastic Book Club thing our grade school had ;D). It just had no plot at all .
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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 9, 2007 1:04:17 GMT -5
I read LS before BSC, but I can't remember which was my first LS book. Hmm. Maybe Karen's Birthday.
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Post by buffykay70 on Nov 9, 2007 2:07:19 GMT -5
im pretty sure that my first BSC book ever was Mary-Anne and the Great Romance. i remember buying it when i was little because i thought the cover looked really cool - with sharon throwing the boquet, lol.
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Post by aln1982 on Nov 9, 2007 16:52:57 GMT -5
^ I really like that cover too. I just used it on the back of my parents' 30th anniversary card. ;D That was one of my first BSC books, too, so I will always like it for that reason. I just started reading LS about a year or two ago and probably wouldn't have liked it as a kid but love it now. I actually didn't start reading the BSC until I was older, either, (5th grade I think so about 9) and am much more into it now than I ever was. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2007 14:22:46 GMT -5
My first BSC book was #100, "Kristy's Worst Idea". It's a reeeally bad idea to start reading a series that far in, trust me! It took me ages to fully get to know the characters.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Nov 19, 2007 21:32:58 GMT -5
My first BSC book was #100, "Kristy's Worst Idea". It's a reeeally bad idea to start reading a series that far in, trust me! It took me ages to fully get to know the characters. Wow, I could only imagine how hard that had to be for you, getting into a new series so far in. I was in a similar situation when I started reading Sweet Valley Junior High in sixth grade. I'd read the first book, but then when I went back to the bookstore to get more of the books, I ended up buying the last book in that series. This was a short series with only 30 books (this doesn't include the other various SV series', just this one in general ;D) but it still took me a while (and a few more books) to get to know all of the characters.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2007 13:43:39 GMT -5
The first book I read was Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs when I was 7. My mom had bought me that and The Mystery in Claudia's Room at the same time and I liked them both but when I got into reading others they just kept getting better. When I asked the woman at the local bookstore if they had the graphic novels I chickened out and told her it was for "my niece". Little did she know that at the time my niece was one week old... I've asked around in Waterstones here a few times if they had any, hoping they would cus the stores are huge, and I always say they're for my 7-year-old daughter. I'm 19. I love the look on the sales people's faces.
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Post by bscfan81 on Nov 20, 2007 15:23:57 GMT -5
I started out reading the LS books, too, the first of which was Karen's Haircut. I think my first BSC book was Logan Likes Mary Anne. I've had it so long that the pages are falling out. :-)
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starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
The Royal Diner of Pizza Express
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Post by starrynight on Nov 20, 2007 18:50:48 GMT -5
^I've got a few of those, too.
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Post by ashley868 on Apr 10, 2008 16:44:50 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it was Jesse's baby-sitter. It was in the sixth grade, I know that because I always got excited about reading about a character the same age as me. Kristy and the other older ones seemed older to me too. I know I read the little sisters series before that though because my friend had them and I got right into them, so I knew who the baby-sitters club was. I just hadn't found any of their books until the sixth grade and saw it on the book shelf during reading time. After that I tried reading them all in order from the school library and the public library.
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Post by 12 clubs on Apr 10, 2008 18:01:41 GMT -5
I got 2 BSC books at a mall when I started Kristy's Great Idea and Dawn and the Big Sleepover.
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