Sidebar: New Acquisitions

A recent trip to Value Village unearthed some non-BSC BSC books, and I just couldn't say no:

• Friends Forever #3: Mary Anne's Big Breakup
• Friends Forever #4: Claudia and the Friendship Feud
• Friends Forever #5: Kristy Power!
• Little Sister #4: Karen's Kittycat Club
• Little Sister #34: Karen's Snowy Day
• Little Sister #70: Karen's Grandad
• California Diaries #2 Sunny Diary One
• California Diaries #3 Maggie Diary One
• California Diaries #4 Amalia Diary One
• California Diaries #9 Amalia Diary Two
• The Kids in Ms. Colman's Class #1: Teacher's Pet

I'm most interested in the Friends Forever books, because it's directly related to the BSC. I've never read any of the Amalia Diaries, and I can take or leave the Little Sisters. And in this case, I took them.

There were a lot of BSC books there too, mostly early ones (below #10), and I left those. I did group them all together, though, just in case another intrepid BSC reader came along behind me.

Sidebar: New Accquisitions

I have just returned from a very successful trip to my local Salvation Army. Well, it started as a trip to the grocery store but something told me to keep going. And I did, and I found:

• Super Special #5, New York, New York!
• Super Special #8, Baby-sitters at Shadow Lake
• Mystery #1, Stacey and the Missing Ring
• Mystery #2, Beware, Dawn!
• Mystery #5, Mary Anne and the Secret in the Attic
• Mystery #11, Claudia and the Mystery at the Museum
• Mystery #26, Dawn Schafer, Undercover Baby-sitter
• Super Mystery #1, Baby-sitters' Haunted House
• Super Mystery #2, Baby-sitters Beware
  

All for the low, low price of $7.11 - which is not bad for 9 books. And these aren't usually the kinds of books that you just find, I mean, they're not the ones that I usually do. I usually get the lower numbers of the regular series, the occasional Karen book, a few Super Specials. But this was a good find, I think. There are even some here, like Mysteries #11 and 26 that I haven't read, and the Super Mysteries I find really interesting, because I remember them being more dangerous and stuff, but I don't have a really great idea of what they're like.

This inspires me to recap even more books, so look for these to come soon.