Haha I was just sitting here, going through my collection of Baby-Sitter Club books and Sweet Valley books (got a few I was missing for Christmas), thinking about how this all started. Like, when I first started reading the books. I don't remember what my first Sweet Valley book was (although I know it was one of the Sweet Valley Kids books), but I'm pretty sure my first Baby-Sitters Club book was Super Mystery #2 Baby-Sitters Beware!. It wasn't my first AMM book (I had been reading the Little Sister series for ages by then), but it was my first Baby-Sitters Club book, which then got me reading the rest of the series.
I remember picking it up because I was perusing the slightly older section of my local library for a change, and the cover and title got my attention. I don't remember my library having the world's greatest selection of books, but it had enough, because I've read most of the Baby-Sitters Club books.
But that was the public library. I know my school library had a bunch of Baby-Sitters Club books, but oddly enough, my most vivid image of my school library is of the Sweet Valley High shelf. I remember seeing those books (my school library had the larger hardcover library editions) and thinking, "Those are for older kids. Way older than me." haha
As such, I didn't end up reading any Sweet Valley High books until I was in high school (and by then, I was reading them for shits and giggles and fun frivolous beach reading 'cause I could get them for a 1$ each at the used bookstore near my house). I had read tons of Sweet Valley Twins, and of course, all the Baby-Sitters Club. But not Sweet Valley High. Those were TOO HARDCORE!
Funny the memories that stick with you haha
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
I had a dream...
I woke up this morning from the weirdest dream. I don't remember much of it anymore, but the part that sticks out was about The Baby-Sitters Club, so I'mma gonna talk about it here.
In this part of the dream, I was in a used bookstore. I still don't have the entire series (although I have more than enough to keep me going for about a year more before I'll start to have gaps in my read-through), so whenever I'm in a used bookstore, I'm always on the hunt for my missing books. Anyways, in a bin, I came across a whole bunch of Sweet Valley books and Baby-Sitters Club books and just everything I could ever hope for. At first, I found a bunch of books I had, and then eventually some that I was missing. But then I found a book I had never seen before!
It was called "Claudia the Potential Tutor?", and it was labelled as #7. Now, we all know that in the series, #7 is "Claudia and Mean Janine". Well, apparently in my dream, they had decided to re-release the series in 2016, and this was part of the re-release. In addition to updating the content of the original novels, they also scrapped some of the ones they didn't think worked, and replaced them with new stories, that they thought would be more relevant.
I didn't end up reading it in my dream, because my dream never got me to the checkout line and then subsequently home, but I did skim through it (the way I would immediately at a bookstore). From what I could see, it's the start of grade 8, and Claudia is struggling to keep up. In order to help her to gain confidence and retain the knowledge she already learned, the teachers recruit her for a new peer tutoring program. At first, Claudia doesn't think she's smart enough, but as she helps the 6th and 7th graders with their homework, she realizes that she's smarter than she thinks. She becomes more confident in her academic abilities, develops better study habits, and is even able to ask her peers for help when needed. In the end, while Claudia still struggles with school, she agrees that the program was a good idea and that she's learned a lot from it.
Things that stuck out to me in my dream (which I remember running around and pointing out to my friends) was just how... 2016 it was. Not only was the cover completely different than all the other books, but the way the girls spoke was very 2016. They said stuff like, "my bad" and "O-M-G" and "bae" and other things.
Anyways, it was a super weird dream and just really stuck out to me haha
In this part of the dream, I was in a used bookstore. I still don't have the entire series (although I have more than enough to keep me going for about a year more before I'll start to have gaps in my read-through), so whenever I'm in a used bookstore, I'm always on the hunt for my missing books. Anyways, in a bin, I came across a whole bunch of Sweet Valley books and Baby-Sitters Club books and just everything I could ever hope for. At first, I found a bunch of books I had, and then eventually some that I was missing. But then I found a book I had never seen before!
It was called "Claudia the Potential Tutor?", and it was labelled as #7. Now, we all know that in the series, #7 is "Claudia and Mean Janine". Well, apparently in my dream, they had decided to re-release the series in 2016, and this was part of the re-release. In addition to updating the content of the original novels, they also scrapped some of the ones they didn't think worked, and replaced them with new stories, that they thought would be more relevant.
I didn't end up reading it in my dream, because my dream never got me to the checkout line and then subsequently home, but I did skim through it (the way I would immediately at a bookstore). From what I could see, it's the start of grade 8, and Claudia is struggling to keep up. In order to help her to gain confidence and retain the knowledge she already learned, the teachers recruit her for a new peer tutoring program. At first, Claudia doesn't think she's smart enough, but as she helps the 6th and 7th graders with their homework, she realizes that she's smarter than she thinks. She becomes more confident in her academic abilities, develops better study habits, and is even able to ask her peers for help when needed. In the end, while Claudia still struggles with school, she agrees that the program was a good idea and that she's learned a lot from it.
Things that stuck out to me in my dream (which I remember running around and pointing out to my friends) was just how... 2016 it was. Not only was the cover completely different than all the other books, but the way the girls spoke was very 2016. They said stuff like, "my bad" and "O-M-G" and "bae" and other things.
Anyways, it was a super weird dream and just really stuck out to me haha
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