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If you were a child in the 90s, what book series did you enjoy ?

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peopleaskweirdstuff · 01/04/2023 22:31

I can remember reading a series of books when I was around 10 and enjoying them, but I cannot remember them. It wasn't babysitters club or sweet valley high or any particularly girly books but I have a feeling there were maybe romantic books and maybe 'scary' books that each had their own series if that makes sense . Can you think of why I'm talking about or am I going nuts ?

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Allthebears · 02/04/2023 23:16

So many...

Early Jacqueline Wilson ( published in 80s, out of print now)
Judy Blume
Jean Ure ballet books
Sadlers Wells ballet books
KM Peyton pony books
Jinny pony books (Patricia Leitch)
Sweet Valley High
Virginia Andrews
Caitlin romance trilogy

Some teen historical romance - can't remember the author, but it involved an aristocratic English girl dressing as a boy and going to Paris during the French revolution. Gets entangled with a handsome 'enemy' revolutionary, who discovers her secret, etc..

skilpadde · 02/04/2023 23:28

ChessieFL · 02/04/2023 09:54

I still have many of the books mentioned here! Does anyone else remember the Sisters series?

Yes, loved these, and still have them along with lots of other Teen Tracks books.

skilpadde · 02/04/2023 23:40

Allthebears · 02/04/2023 23:16

So many...

I remember reading Jean Ure's Hi There, Supermouse! but not any of her other books.

Did you read Nobody's Perfect by Jacqueline Wilson? I've never found anyone else who read it, but it stayed with me for a long time.

If you were a child in the 90s, what book series did you enjoy ?

Autienotnautie · 02/04/2023 23:48

Oh yes loved Paula danziger and the grey sisters! I wanted to be Cassie.

Autienotnautie · 03/04/2023 00:11

Oh I loved Virginia Andrews books. Does anyone remember When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr?

Autienotnautie · 03/04/2023 00:19

Also Second star to the right was an amazing book,

There was another book about a youngest child who's older sister and brother were mean to her. She meets a girl at the park and they become close friends. Her bike gets stolen and her new friends parents bought it from a shop . She also recites The Raven when she feels like she might cry. Any ideas?

Drywhitefruitycidergin · 03/04/2023 06:51

@Autienotnautie - loved when Hitler stole pink rabbit. Had no idea it was a trilogy until I was introducing dds to them

17caterpillars1mouse · 03/04/2023 07:14

The forbidden games series with the dreamy Julian has always stuck with me

evilharpy · 03/04/2023 08:09

I've just been to Amazon to order a couple of Paula Danziger books after reading this thread!

I think all my old favourites have been mentioned. Does anyone remember Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard, about Kevin and Sadie who were Protestant and Catholic in 1970s Belfast? I think it was a series but I only ever read the first one.

Autienotnautie · 03/04/2023 08:24

Drywhitefruitycidergin · 03/04/2023 06:51

@Autienotnautie - loved when Hitler stole pink rabbit. Had no idea it was a trilogy until I was introducing dds to them

I did not know this either! I'm off to investigate!

BeautifulWar · 03/04/2023 08:44

The forbidden games series with the dreamy Julian has always stuck with me

LJ Smith was going to write an adult follow-up to that series, but I think she has a debilitating illness now and the whole thing stalled!

Theimpossiblegirl · 03/04/2023 08:48

I was busy reading Jilly Cooper and Virginia Andrews in the nineties. Totally unsuitable but I loved them. My mum had no idea...

Allthebears · 03/04/2023 09:05

skilpadde · 02/04/2023 23:40

I remember reading Jean Ure's Hi There, Supermouse! but not any of her other books.

Did you read Nobody's Perfect by Jacqueline Wilson? I've never found anyone else who read it, but it stayed with me for a long time.

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Yes, Nobody's Perfect is a great book - I've still got my copy and all JW's other early ones! She was so brilliant at capturing exactly how it felt to be a young teenager, struggling with family dynamics, body image, discovering boys etc. It was shame they were allowed to go out of print, but by the time she became really successful with Tracey Beaker, she was writing for slightly younger readers and the original books had begun to look a bit dated. Waiting for the Sky to Fall was another good one.

The ballet books by Jean Ure were A Proper Little Nooryeff and its sequel. (Teen boy from 'rough' school roped into helping out with a production at his little sisters ballet school. It turns out he has natural talent and he (very reluctantly at first!) ends up partnering the star dancer. They were some of my favourite books because they managed to mix ballet with teen angst / romance, and felt very current. They're also written from the boy's point of view, which the author does brilliantly.

Niftythrifter · 03/04/2023 16:56

@evilharpy I had the misfortune to be forced in to reading one of those books! Never want to read it again!

evilharpy · 03/04/2023 17:42

Niftythrifter · 03/04/2023 16:56

@evilharpy I had the misfortune to be forced in to reading one of those books! Never want to read it again!

I can't actually remember whether it was shit or not, just the cover and the premise really stick in my head and the fact that everyone in my class was talking about it at once stage!

pinkpanther84 · 03/04/2023 17:45

I loved Point horror! And point romance, sweet valley, saddle club, babysitters club and a series about ballet dancers at saddlers wells, can't remember the name though

GracePooleslaugh · 03/04/2023 18:47

@pinkpanther84

pinkpanther84 · 03/04/2023 18:59

GracePooleslaugh · 03/04/2023 18:47

@pinkpanther84

Thank you! That's the ones

Runningshorts · 03/04/2023 19:01

Remember all these so well! It may have been late 80s rather than 90s but I loved the Rats of NIMH books when I was young, there were three of them.

EmotionallyUnavailableGuacamole · 03/04/2023 19:03

@cardboardbox24 I will have my copy of Say Goodnight Gracie. I might still occasionally read it when I need a good dramatic teenage style cry😀

Sarahlp101 · 03/04/2023 19:05

Around the twist (or based on the TV series?)

Daisychainsandglitter · 03/04/2023 21:19

I loved point horror, Christopher Pike, Judy Blume, Paula Danziger and the sweet valley high books. Happy memories!

IDontWantToBeAPie · 04/04/2023 08:21

Famous five, The Worst Witch

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