ooh ooh I have more to say! lol

I was never allowed to read the SVH books, even though I really really wanted to!! I remember getting my hands on one once when I was little and hiding in my room reading it like a young boy would hide with a playboy! omg I thought it was soo scandalous when they would make out, etc.

lol. me too!!! it took awhile for my mom to approve. i would read it behind her back and feel so dirty!! lol

You guys, this is so sad how much of my brain is devoted to teen series novel trivia. I read Sleepover Friends, Fab Five, AND a little bit of Girl Talk.

My favorite Girl Talk was when they went to the Twin Cities.

Sleepover Friends . . . Stephanie used to only wear red, white and black! LOL. And they called Lauren the bottomless pit because she ate so much. And they had sleepovers at each other's houses every Friday.

I think it's hilarious that some of you weren't allowed to read SVH -- given the aforementioned fact that almost nothing ever happened past making out and nobody swore. That suspension of disbelief from reality drove me nuts even in middle school. And it's funny -- I wasn't allowed to watch MTV until I was 13, but I was allowed to read as much Sweet Valley High as I wanted (and I was pretty young when I started reading it -- probably 7 or 8!).

Actually, Logan and Shannon were ASSOCIATE members.

BTW, the first BSC book I read was Claudia and Mean Janine.

ETA: I wasn't really allowed to read SVH either. I bought The Sweet Valley Saga (at about age 12) with my allowance money only to have my mother yell at me a few weeks later. Luckily, I had already finished it.

She never threw it out, and I read it again when I was in high school

duh. you would think after 14 years, i would know that:rolleyes: my bad

Mary Ann actually got Logan to join? Wow, whipped at such a young age!!

(I stopped reading even before Dawn moved back to Cali.)

Sleepover friends! Stephanie, Patti, Lauren and someone else. I thought I was the only one who read them! And the Fabulous Five! I hated the girl that was the leader she was kind of a Kristy of BSC but too intense.
Bruce Patterson was the male version of Lila. I always wanted him and Elizabeth to get married.

Now...has anyone ever read the series about the girls who were at camp during the summer? I think there was a girl named Tiffany that was a snob and used to take like 5 showers a day.

Oh, and how about the Unicorn Club series when Elizabeth actually joined the Unicorns?

And how about Fear Street?

I think the original kid series were the Enid Blyton "5 Friends" (2 boys 2 girls and a dog. A lot of foreigners will recognize that series before any of these others).

so many memories...

There was a series for girls that was popular before my time. It was about girls who attended a boarding school. Something Hall, I think...

lame moment ahead:

in book #10, Logan went to his first BSC meeting before he and Mary Anne started going out:)

You know how people talk about when a TV series "jumped the shark"? That's when a good series turns the corner and really goes down. (www.jumptheshark.com )

Well, I think that the BSC jumped the shark when Ann Martin started making major changes and added Abbey and sent Dawn to California.( I couldn't stand Abbey and the discussions of her problems!) That made the second chapter, usually the one that told us all about the girls, so long and unwieldy and boring that lots of people I know began to skip it. About this time, I noticed that in the front of both BSC and BSC Little Sister books, the author would offer her thanks to some author or other for all her help with the series. I think that the last part of the BSC books was ghostwritten.

There was a short series after that about each individual girl but it was pretty lame and it never went anywhere. After that, Ann Martin began to write non-BSC books. I haven't read many of those later ones but she wrote some good ones before BSC--like Me and Katie the Pest, Bummer Summer, and Eleven Kids, No Pets.

Alright, so what happened with all the girls? Last night I went to Amazon.com and actually browsed the books to get a basic synopsis.

Dawn: Moves back to California
Mallory: Goes to boarding school because she doesn't like SMS.
Jessi: Goes to some ballet school in NY?
Shannon: I only found one book about her. Did she last or no?

So what was it that broke up the BSC at the beginning of the Friends Forever series and brought it back to the 4 original members? I noticed toward the end of the original series, they really started to fight a lot, but the original 4 fought between themselves a lot too. What made those 4 decide to stay together, and did they stay friends with the other girls who decided to leave?

The 4th member of the Sleepover Friends was Kate, who wanted to be a movie director (in fourth grade) and who's favorite movie was 3 hours long and in Russian. Funny, I can't remember any of my siblings' birthdays, but this I know.

I love BSC and SVH. I had probably the first 40 or so BSC books, then I kind of outgrew them. I don't remember an Abby or Shannon. I did have 2 of the videos-one where some other girl was trying to steal Logan from Mary Anne, and another one with a house they thought was haunted or something.

SVH was my fave. I still have a few of them somewhere. My favorite was the one where Suzanne Devlin came to stay with them, and told everyone Mr. Collins attacked her. Quality pre-pubsecent literature ;).

OMG, you guys have taken me back down memory lane. I rad all of the books. The BSC, SVH, Girl Talk, the Sleepover friends, everything. I used to spend all my money when I was younger on books. In fact, I just bid on books 1-4 of the BSC on eBay. Does anyone remember the theme song to the BSC? Didn't it go something like "Say hello to your friends. . .the Baby Sitters Club. . .say hello to the people who care". Maybe it's just me but I can't get that song out of my head.

I loved the Unicorn Club series! I liked the one where Mary ran for president against the really snobby girl (I can't remember her name.. Kimberly I think?) and it divided the Unicorn Club. And then Jessica stole Mary's speech but the girl ultimately got caught.
And they volunteered at that Day Care Center! Unicorn Club was great!

You can always count on me, and I can count on you.. Good times, bad times, in between, your friends will see you through.. We'll be sharing wonderful times every day.. All together, singing our song, growing in every way.. Say hello to your friends.. Baby Sitters Club.. Say hello to the people who care.. Nothing's better than friends.. Baby Sitters Club.. Cuz you know that your friends are always there.

I think there goes something about "when I'm feeling down and out, when I'm feeling blue.." but I don't know where it fits in the song!