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Posted: Sept 15 2007 at 7:42pm | IP Logged Quote gracie4309
I was just wondering if anyone here besides me has read Janet Lambert's series of books written from the 1940's through the 1960's? I read "Star-Spangled Summer" as a teen, then later bought it and several of her other books at used book stores. The stories are well written and engaging looks at an army family (actually she wrote several series, each one about a different family). I still enjoy reading them, although they were written for pre-teen and teenage girls. The stories are very wholesome, if a little idealistic, but the characters do deal with family problems. If anyone has read them, have you had a child read them? I'd be interested to know what a young person reading them today thought of the books. The only things I didn't like were the way African-Americans talked in the books ('sho nough, and honey chile,etc), and the way babies were taken care of largely by nurses. Of course, that was the thinking of many people of that time.

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