sarish
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Post by sarish on Nov 4, 2009 20:48:22 GMT -5
www.librarything.com/work/372765Not sure if this is like the BSC, but the girls on the front cover + the title, all seemed to add up to BSC for me. I came across it at the Goodwill bookstore, but didn't actually read it.
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Post by helsieboo on Nov 5, 2009 4:55:55 GMT -5
What a great thread.
I remember a couple of series of books coming out over here and I remembered thinking of the similarities between the BSC.
One that comes to mind is 'The Cafe Club' about six girls aged thirteen who took it in turns to work one day a week in a cafe. Like the BSC, each book was narrated by a different person and I think there were specials. No one else seems to remember this series, but it definately existed! They all had set personality traits aswell - Fen the Leader (Kristy), Tash the Sensitive (MA), Leah the Musical one and so on...I think these came out in the mid 90s - and I loved them! I remember being scandalised when poor Jaimni (the clever one) made a new friend who dumped stinging nettles down the back of her top in the park. She ripped her top off to get the nettles out and the 'friend' ran off with her top, leaving her to walk home in her bra. It sounded horrifying!
There was also 'The Sleepover Club' which my sister liked. Similar format again, published in the mids 90s. These girls were aged 10 and were obsessed with The Spice Girls. They made a tv series based on the books, set in Australia.
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Post by starlett2010 on Nov 5, 2009 15:50:59 GMT -5
www.librarything.com/work/372765Not sure if this is like the BSC, but the girls on the front cover + the title, all seemed to add up to BSC for me. I came across it at the Goodwill bookstore, but didn't actually read it. I think that book came with a Barbie, if I'm not mistaken. There was a Barbie line called Generation Girls that had different interests: an artsy one, a snowboarder, a model. My sister and I had 3 of them. I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet, but I remember a book series called The Magic Attic Club or something that followed the BSC trend of having diverse girls in a club. I loved those books; they were popular around the time that American girls were super popular.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Nov 5, 2009 21:26:05 GMT -5
I loved those dolls and the books too . I had all of them, including the guy doll. He wasn't named Ken though, I think his name was Blaine and if I remember right, wasn't that the doll they used for awhile when Barbie and Ken supposedly "broke up"? lol ;D.
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msstock87
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Post by msstock87 on Nov 6, 2009 12:54:09 GMT -5
I remember the Magic Attic Club. I remember reading both them and the American girls quite frequently and was close to getting a Magic Attic doll.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Nov 8, 2009 21:57:17 GMT -5
I remember seeing alot of Cafe Club books, but I've never read one. Those Generation Girls have a BSC feel don't they?
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Post by GingerSnaps on Nov 15, 2009 19:07:08 GMT -5
I was also going to say The Magic Attic Club Those reminded me of a cross between the BSC and American Girl.
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Post by greer on Nov 19, 2009 6:28:07 GMT -5
I loved GirlTalk. Randy Zak is still my idol.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2009 8:31:18 GMT -5
My sister has this book called the "Always Friends Club" and it reminds me somehow of the BSC except the girls are younger.
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Post by greer on Nov 19, 2009 15:34:22 GMT -5
I was also going to say The Magic Attic Club Those reminded me of a cross between the BSC and American Girl. with time travel!
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Post by sparklymouse on Nov 19, 2009 19:01:53 GMT -5
Did any of these series have a plotline similar to a BSC book? I think in Camp Sunnyside Friends two of the girls' parents got married like Mary Anne and Dawn's parents.
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Post by Lauren on Nov 19, 2009 20:19:45 GMT -5
I loved GirlTalk. Randy Zak is still my idol. I loved the Girl Talk books too! I picked up a couple of them at a thrift store not too long ago. They have a few similarities to the BSC.
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Post by anzuhana on Nov 19, 2009 20:46:25 GMT -5
What about the Boxcar Children?
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Post by rainbowgirl28 on Nov 20, 2009 12:01:34 GMT -5
What about the Boxcar Children? The Boxcar children started in the 1920s and I don't recall them having that much in common with the BSC, at least not the ones by the original author. The original ones all moved forward in time (went through several years). Later they had ghostwriters pick them up, they time warped backwards a few years, and it got really stupid, so those later ones might be more similar to a BSC feel, but the earlier ones weren't.
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Post by rainbowgirl28 on Nov 20, 2009 12:14:14 GMT -5
The Gymnasts, 1988A diverse group of girls brought together by: gymnastics Set-up of books: Each book is told in first person by one member of the group Age of characters: 11 - 12 Size of group: 4 Racial make-up: 3 white, 1 black Special Editions? No This is my all-time favorite series I recently dug them out of storage but I haven't had a chance to reread them. The ages actually vary a bit more... I think maybe of the original four, two of them are ~11 and two are ~13. 2 white 1 black and I think Lauren was actually hispanic. They didn't make race the defining characteristic of any of the characters. Later, two younger characters were added (age 8 or 9 maybe?) and one was white and one was Vietnamese. After that another character is added that I think is a bit older, later teens. The last book of the series was a Special Edition. There were some similarities to BSC like each book being told by a different character, but they seemed to move forward in time (I don't remember if they got older, but they definitely got better at gymnastics). Some similar issues are dealt with... strict parents, struggling with school, broken leg, crushes on boys, crushes on coach/teacher, racism, eating disorders, etc. The parents seem a little more realistic in this series (well except for the dad who plays in the NFL!) in that they are actually parents, they don't let the kids run around and do whatever they want all the time. SUCH a good series
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