TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carpan,Carolyn
TI  - Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls' Series Books in America 
T2  - Scarecrow studies in young adult literature
SN  - 9780810857568 (hbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - PS 374 .G55 C37 2009 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Lanham, Md.
PB  - Scarecrow Press
KW  - Children's stories, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Young adult fiction, American
KW  - Girls in literature
KW  - Teenage girls in literature
KW  - Children's literature in series
KW  - Girls
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Literature
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Victorian and Vassar girls: nineteenth-century origins of girls' series fiction -- Schoolgirls and sorority sisters: progressive era high school and college series -- Adventure girls and the new woman: from the progressive era to the jazz generation -- The secret of Nancy Drew and her sister sleuths: -- Career girls and World War II -- Romances and revisions: the junior novel and the new Nancy Drew -- Romance meets reality: girls' series fiction and the second wave of feminism -- Sweet dreams for teen queens: romance renaissance in the Reagan era -- High school horrors! Genre fiction for teens
N2  - "In Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls' Series Books in America, Carolyn Carpan provides a social history of girls' series fiction published in America from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century."--Back cover
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0827/2008036693.html
ER  -