What do you mean Ann M. Martin didn't write all the books herself?

I know many of you were probably the types of people who, when you were kids, read really advanced books for your age. I'm sure there's at least one who was a seven-year-old lugging around Pride and Prejudice and War and Peace.

I was not that child. I read. A lot. But my reading involved Sweet Valley twins, Nancy Drew, and the Baby-Sitters Club. And hey, my SAT verbal was nothing to sneeze at. You can see I get a little defensive when I have to explain that my favorite book when I was nine was not the respectable Giver, but rather Logan Likes Mary Anne! I will forever maintain that I learned loads from Nancy and frankly, as bad as my U.S. geography is, it would be even worse without BSC in the USA.

So just in case you didn't experience the joys of growing up with the Stoneybrook, CT gang, and really have no idea what I'm talking about, here's an amazing link to several of the BSC books in digital form. I also found this website that has the covers of all the books. Ah memories.

(By the way, if you were like me and eschewed the more literary children's tomes...Wasn't Charlie dreamy? And how many ways could they possibly explain that Jessi is black, Mallory is a geek, and Claudia is kind of dumb? Seriously. Every book!)