Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths
Carolyn Carpan
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Description for Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths
Hardback. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
Girls series books have been popular since the early 1840s, when books about Cousin Lucy, a young girl who learns about the world around her, first appeared. Since then, scores of series books have followed, several of them highly successful, and featuring some of the most enduring characters in fiction, such as Nancy Drew. In recent decades, series books like The Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High have become staples for young readers everywhere. In Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls' Series Books in America, Carolyn Carpan provides a social history of girls' series fiction published in America from ... Read more
Girls series books have been popular since the early 1840s, when books about Cousin Lucy, a young girl who learns about the world around her, first appeared. Since then, scores of series books have followed, several of them highly successful, and featuring some of the most enduring characters in fiction, such as Nancy Drew. In recent decades, series books like The Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High have become staples for young readers everywhere. In Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls' Series Books in America, Carolyn Carpan provides a social history of girls' series fiction published in America from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Young Adult Literature
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810857568
SKU
V9780810857568
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Ref
99-15
About Carolyn Carpan
Carolyn Carpan is director of Public Services in the Burke Library at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She is the author of Rocked by Romance: A Guide to Teen Romance Fiction (2004) and Jane Yolen (2005).
Reviews for Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths
An interesting, detailed, easy-to-read look at the birth, development, and current state of series books for girls....As a first chronological genre study of girls-series books, Carpan's study complements other books on the subject. Recommended.
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Many of us know Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden, but this compendium provides the broader background of what came before them and what ... Read more
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Many of us know Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden, but this compendium provides the broader background of what came before them and what ... Read more