supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Dec 12, 2013 13:21:45 GMT -5
When I was 9 years old and in the third grade, my mom and I were at McKay's. My mom showed me a copy of Kristy's Great Idea and she told me that she used to read the BSC series when she was a little girl. So I read the book and I was immediately hooked. Your mom is young enough to have read the BSC as a kid? *head explodes* I felt the same way...
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Post by ashley868 on Dec 23, 2013 20:16:20 GMT -5
I started reading the series when I was in grade six. I found Jessi's Baby-sitter. I loved it since Jessi and I were the same age, and now to this day she is still my favourite character. That book got me hooked on the other ones. I remember thinking how the older members seemed so much older to me as well. It's funny how back then only two years seemed like a long time even though it really isn't.
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mallorypike
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If I were thirteen instead of eleven, life would be a picnic...
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Post by mallorypike on Dec 24, 2013 0:12:14 GMT -5
I started reading the series when I was in grade six. I found Jessi's Baby-sitter. I loved it since Jessi and I were the same age, and now to this day she is still my favourite character. That book got me hooked on the other ones. I remember thinking how the older members seemed so much older to me as well. It's funny how back then only two years seemed like a long time even though it really isn't. I totally understand, ashley868. I felt that way back then, too Heck, even ONE year seemed much older (for example, all the 13 year olds thought the 12 year olds were babies, haha!)
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Post by helsieboo on Dec 27, 2013 9:49:58 GMT -5
I think I was 8, maybe 9. My new friend at school read the series and lent me Kristy's Great Idea. I loved it and got addicted from there
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Amalia
Sitting For The Braddocks
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Post by Amalia on Jan 23, 2014 3:04:43 GMT -5
I think I saw Kristy's Great Idea at a bookstore and it looked interesting.
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Post by mistrali on Jan 23, 2014 22:12:05 GMT -5
I can't remember the first book I read. Maybe KGI, but more likely it was #3. I remember quite vividly the scene where Stacey says "You guys don't care, do you?" and Kristy or someone going, "Of course we care," to which Stacey replied, "No, I mean about the diabetes." Ah, I miss the realistic feeling of the first four books... But I read them so fast and so out of order that I don't have a clear memory of picking up a a first BSC book. Plus, I read exclusively BSC and Goosebumps, so they all blurred together in my head. This was around 2001 (I read them relatively late), so at least the first few FFs had been published by then. ashley868 I think the books kind of brainwashed 11- and 12-year-olds to believe that 13 was the golden age. It didn't help that these kids were dating; I remember my mum asking me whether they were appropriate for me to read, being about girls having boyfriends. Luckily I never read SVH, or she likely would've stopped me reading forever! XD
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mallorypike
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If I were thirteen instead of eleven, life would be a picnic...
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Post by mallorypike on Feb 5, 2014 22:31:25 GMT -5
^ My mom didn't care that the girls had boyfriends. I used to read aloud my BSC books to my mom and she rolled her eyes when Logan picked Mary Anne up in a horse drawn carriage in one of the books, ha ha! I wanted to read Sweet Valley High when I was, like, nine. She was like, no freaking way! I didn't quite understand the stuff the series talked about (you know, sex and drugs and all). So my mom bought me sweet valley twin books and I was perfectly happy.
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