First book post: Did you buy/read Scholastic Books in grade or Jr high school?

[triguy46]

I did. Just bought one of my favs from 1963 or so: Trouble After School. Of course the protagonist, an 8th grader strays and runs around with a new group with black leather jackets, but in the end, sees his errors and becomes a good guy again.

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[CBHagman]

1. Oh, yeah, I certainly did.

I loved book fairs, loved the weekly reader too.

[triguy46]

2. My mom bought Weekly Reader for me one summer....

I must have disappointed her because such extravagence was never repeated.

[femmocrat]

3. I remember Weekly Reader books. I had a lot of those.

I didn't see the Scholastic book fliers until my kids were in grade school.

[RandomThoughts]

4. Now they need to compensate for the wrong they did when with

the bad group.

How many people just being nice did they hurt?


Sure it might be better if people realize better paths, but they have to set right the damage they did to people on those better paths.


Pay up you fuckers.

[carlyhippy]

5. Loved the weekly reader, had subscriptions during summer

and I brought home the flyers and ordered many a book from them.

My first reader book was the Dick and Jane series.

[mzteris]

6. Weekly Reader -

Scholastics didn't come until later. . .

Mother wouldn't buy many books - we (my brother and I) read way too fast and too much - so it was off to the public library. The librarian made an exception for us - we had no limit on the number of books we could check out. hmmmmmmmm - maybe she just didn't like us in there every day or two??

[Withywindle]

7. It was the high point of my month!

Little Appalachian town in the 70s. No bookstore for miles. The chance to order stuff by Paula Danzinger, Madeleine L'Engle, Paul Zindel, Judy Blume, etc...

You should have seen the Oscar-worthy performances I put on to get my folks to put in $10 or so to The Glorious Cause of me getting my story fix.

[WolverineDG]

8. I bought a lot of books through Scholastic

the one I remember right offhand is "Witch of Blackbird Pond."

dg

[Aristus]

9. Is that supposed to be a GUY?

He has such a beautiful face. Are you sure it's not a girl in some kind of butch drag?

[WCIL]

10. My mom was not one to buy us anything unless it was Christmas

or our birthdays, but she never said no at book order time. I still have many of the books I ordered in the early '70's, including my beloved Pippi Longstocking books. Seems like they were something like 35cents each back then.

I never said no to my kids at book order time, either.

[Odin2005]

11. I was reading "The Magic School Bus" When I was 6.