It’s no surprise that Rainbow Rowell chose the 1980s as the setting for Eleanor & Park, her first YA novel. After all, the 1980s were arguably the Golden Age of the teen movie (see The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Say Anything, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Footloose), and Rowell’s novel is an homage to […]
Everyone has their comfort reading material. For interminably 13-year-old Claudia Kishi, it’s Nancy Drew books, stashed all over her room. For me—and other ’80s and ’90s kids and their nostalgia-loving offspring—it’s Ann M. Martin’s The Baby-Sitters Club. And even though no new BSC books are currently being published, there’s still plenty of material to choose […]