80s

[close] To commemorate the re-release of Jess Lourey's popular Murder Mystery by Month series, set in a fictitious Battle Lake, Minn, we invite you new fans and tried-and-true super-fans to join the 2024 Special Edition Mira James BFF Book Club, hosted by Lionseed Bookstore & Learning Commons in Battle Lake, Minn.

[close] Remember when Kristy Thomas started that Babysitters club? Solving mysteries with Nancy Drew? Hanging out with Jessica and Elizabeth at Sweet Vally Mall? Or the strangeness of Fear Street and Goosebumps? Well this is a bookclub for you. Each month we'll read one of the many totally rad paperbacks that blessed our school/public library. We'll indulge in all the silly stories that got us hooked on reading in the first place. So pullback your hair in scrunch (a side ponytail preferred) because we're going to have fun!

[close] Were you born in the early to mid 80s? Did you love pop music? Then this is the reading challenge for you! (If you just love 80s tunes or silly reading challenges, this is also the reading challenge for you!) Join the Wonder Twins, Tricia and Erin, in reading books inspired by our favorite 80s and early 90s pop tunes this year! The list is available as a Google doc. See link below!

[close] Here's a place to discuss out-of-print, forgotten, obscure, and beloved juvenile literature which you would like to see republished or digitized. There are so many excellent, imaginative, timeless classics that have fallen by the wayside. It's tragic. This is a group to share these titles with other readers, in the greater hope that publishers will take note and will reprint them for another generation, or simply because other users love vintage juvenile literature and would like to track down used copies. All books discussed here should have been written and originally published well prior to the year 2000 (and preferrably well before that - pre-1980s especially!). We discuss books from another era. Therefore, non-PC and dated content is likely to offend some people. We ask that users be open-minded, not quick to anger, and if they dislike something or feel offended it, that they deal with those personal emotions in a constructive and mature manner (i.e. by navigating away from the discussion they dislike). Again, users should act 'in good faith' and respectfully to all. But this is also real life - we won't be censoring global content to cater to individual tastes and needs. That bit is your part to take of. :) (It's silly that I have to say that, but here we are...)