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FROM: "Nadine B. Rosendale" <[removed]@carr.org>
REC'D: 3/20/01, 6:48 PM
does anyone know this series?
- Nadine
Nadine B. Rosendale
Adult Services Supervisor
Carroll County Public Library
Mount Airy Branch
410.386.4470 ext.406
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island . . .
and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life." --Walt Disney
FROM: Kay Kelly <[removed]@acan.net>
REC'D: 3/21/01, 11:17 AM
At 05:36 PM 3/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Here's another stumper. I have a patron who is looking for an old children's
>series that's about a set of twin sisters (NOT Bobbsey Twins, but same time
>period). The stories tell about the girls growing up and eventually going to
>college (NOT Sweet Valley High). Two guys were in the series and their names
>were Scott and Bruce. We don't know the names of the girls.
>
>does anyone know this series?
>
>- Nadine
>
>Nadine B. Rosendale
>Adult Services Supervisor
>
>Carroll County Public Library
>Mount Airy Branch
>410.386.4470 ext.406
>
>"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure
Island . . .
>and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
--Walt Disney
>
>
>......................................................................
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>
Kay Kelly
Reference Librarian
Cottage Hill Branch, Mobile Public Library
5025 Cottage Hill Road
Mobile, AL 36609
email [removed]@acan.net
voice-334-470-7772
fax-334-470-7711
http://www.mplonline.org
FROM: Judi Crowley <[removed]@hampstead.lib.nh.us>
REC'D: 3/21/01, 6:40 PM
Kay Kelly wrote:
> Could it be the "Dana Girls" series by "Carolyn Keene"? I read years ago
> and remember that they were sisters and were either in college or lived at
> a boarding school. I don't remember if they were twins.
>
> At 05:36 PM 3/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Here's another stumper. I have a patron who is looking for an old children's
> >series that's about a set of twin sisters (NOT Bobbsey Twins, but same time
> >period). The stories tell about the girls growing up and eventually going to
> >college (NOT Sweet Valley High). Two guys were in the series and their names
> >were Scott and Bruce. We don't know the names of the girls.
> >
> >does anyone know this series?
> >
> >- Nadine
> >
> >Nadine B. Rosendale
> >Adult Services Supervisor
> >
> >Carroll County Public Library
> >Mount Airy Branch
> >410.386.4470 ext.406
> >
> >"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure
> Island . . .
> >and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
> --Walt Disney
> >
> >
> >......................................................................
> >Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> >Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
> >
> Kay Kelly
> Reference Librarian
> Cottage Hill Branch, Mobile Public Library
> 5025 Cottage Hill Road
> Mobile, AL 36609
> email [removed]@acan.net
> voice-334-470-7772
> fax-334-470-7711
> http://www.mplonline.org
>
> ......................................................................
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> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
FROM: "Pamela Kource" <[removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 3/21/01, 7:33 PM
-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Judi Crowley
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:25 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: classic series
They were twins, but I just checked a couple of volumes that we still have
on our
shelves, and I couldn't find the boys names mentioned. Not to say it can't
be
the right one, but I don't think so....
Judi Crowley
Hampstead Public Library
Hampstead, NH 03841
Kay Kelly wrote:
> Could it be the "Dana Girls" series by "Carolyn Keene"? I read years ago
> and remember that they were sisters and were either in college or lived at
> a boarding school. I don't remember if they were twins.
>
> At 05:36 PM 3/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Here's another stumper. I have a patron who is looking for an old
children's
> >series that's about a set of twin sisters (NOT Bobbsey Twins, but same
time
> >period). The stories tell about the girls growing up and eventually going
to
> >college (NOT Sweet Valley High). Two guys were in the series and their
names
> >were Scott and Bruce. We don't know the names of the girls.
> >
> >does anyone know this series?
> >
> >- Nadine
> >
> >Nadine B. Rosendale
> >Adult Services Supervisor
> >
> >Carroll County Public Library
> >Mount Airy Branch
> >410.386.4470 ext.406
> >
> >"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on
Treasure
> Island . . .
> >and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
> --Walt Disney
> >
> >
> >......................................................................
> >Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> >Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
> >
> Kay Kelly
> Reference Librarian
> Cottage Hill Branch, Mobile Public Library
> 5025 Cottage Hill Road
> Mobile, AL 36609
> email [removed]@acan.net
> voice-334-470-7772
> fax-334-470-7711
> http://www.mplonline.org
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
FROM: "Kay Stewart" <[removed]@austin.rr.com>
REC'D: 3/21/01, 7:44 PM
Kay Stewart
> There was also a series written in the 50s or 60s about twin sisters named
> Pam and Penny that starts when they are in high school and continues
through
> college. The father was gone and the mother worked. In one of the books,
the
> twins set up a dating service for the Senior Prom. IIRC, the more
> "sophisticated" (I'm going to marry a rich man) sister ends up engaged to
an
> agricultural student in the last book. Can't remember the titles or the
> authors name, though. Does this ring a bell with anyone else?
FROM: "Kay Stewart" <[removed]@austin.rr.com>
REC'D: 3/21/01, 7:54 PM
> This is a series by Rosamond du Jardin, well, not really a series but four
> books that dealt with Pam and Penny who were twins. The first is "Double
> Feature", next is "Double Feature" (or maybe visa versa), then "Showboat
> Summer" and then "Double Wedding". However, the boys they have as
> boyfriends and eventually husbands are Jeff and Mike. I read these books
> when I was in junior high and they are very collectible now.
>
> Kay Stewart
FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 3/21/01, 11:36 PM
<<
There was also a series written in the 50s or 60s about twin sisters named
Pam and Penny that starts when they are in high school and continues through
college. The father was gone and the mother worked. In one of the books, the
twins set up a dating service for the Senior Prom. IIRC, the more
"sophisticated" (I'm going to marry a rich man) sister ends up engaged to an
agricultural student in the last book. Can't remember the titles or the
authors name, though. Does this ring a bell with anyone else? >>
According to Bibliofind, there are 4 Penny and Pam stories. the author is
Rosamund du Jardin. (That name brought back memories of my childhood
reading!) The books began with Double Date (1951 or 1952), Double Feature
(1953). Showboat Summer (1955) was billed as the last book until the author
came out with Double Wedding (1959) which really WAS the last book in the
series (wedding bells rang after suitable complications). Not knowing the
author, I used "Penny and Pam" as the search key.
Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian
FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 3/22/01, 8:24 AM
Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>
>>> [removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us 03/21/01 07:28PM >>>
There was also a series written in the 50s or 60s about twin sisters named
Pam and Penny that starts when they are in high school and continues through
college. The father was gone and the mother worked. In one of the books, the
twins set up a dating service for the Senior Prom. IIRC, the more
"sophisticated" (I'm going to marry a rich man) sister ends up engaged to an
agricultural student in the last book. Can't remember the titles or the
authors name, though. Does this ring a bell with anyone else?
-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Judi Crowley
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:25 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: classic series
They were twins, but I just checked a couple of volumes that we still have
on our
shelves, and I couldn't find the boys names mentioned. Not to say it can't
be
the right one, but I don't think so....
Judi Crowley
Hampstead Public Library
Hampstead, NH 03841
Kay Kelly wrote:
> Could it be the "Dana Girls" series by "Carolyn Keene"? I read years ago
> and remember that they were sisters and were either in college or lived at
> a boarding school. I don't remember if they were twins.
>
> At 05:36 PM 3/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Here's another stumper. I have a patron who is looking for an old
children's
> >series that's about a set of twin sisters (NOT Bobbsey Twins, but same
time
> >period). The stories tell about the girls growing up and eventually going
to
> >college (NOT Sweet Valley High). Two guys were in the series and their
names
> >were Scott and Bruce. We don't know the names of the girls.
> >
> >does anyone know this series?
> >
> >- Nadine
> >
> >Nadine B. Rosendale
> >Adult Services Supervisor
> >
> >Carroll County Public Library
> >Mount Airy Branch
> >410.386.4470 ext.406
> >
> >"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on
Treasure
> Island . . .
> >and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
> --Walt Disney
> >
> >
> >......................................................................
> >Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> >Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
> >
> Kay Kelly
> Reference Librarian
> Cottage Hill Branch, Mobile Public Library
> 5025 Cottage Hill Road
> Mobile, AL 36609
> email [removed]@acan.net
> voice-334-470-7772
> fax-334-470-7711
> http://www.mplonline.org
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
FROM: "Jeanne Ryan" <[removed]@njpublib.org>
REC'D: 3/22/01, 8:44 AM
Weren't they by Janet Lambert?
Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>
>>> [removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us 03/21/01 07:28PM >>>
There was also a series written in the 50s or 60s about twin sisters named
Pam and Penny that starts when they are in high school and continues through
college. The father was gone and the mother worked. In one of the books, the
twins set up a dating service for the Senior Prom. IIRC, the more
"sophisticated" (I'm going to marry a rich man) sister ends up engaged to an
agricultural student in the last book. Can't remember the titles or the
authors name, though. Does this ring a bell with anyone else?
-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Judi Crowley
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:25 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: classic series
They were twins, but I just checked a couple of volumes that we still have
on our
shelves, and I couldn't find the boys names mentioned. Not to say it can't
be
the right one, but I don't think so....
Judi Crowley
Hampstead Public Library
Hampstead, NH 03841
Kay Kelly wrote:
> Could it be the "Dana Girls" series by "Carolyn Keene"? I read years ago
> and remember that they were sisters and were either in college or lived at
> a boarding school. I don't remember if they were twins.
>
> At 05:36 PM 3/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Here's another stumper. I have a patron who is looking for an old
children's
> >series that's about a set of twin sisters (NOT Bobbsey Twins, but same
time
> >period). The stories tell about the girls growing up and eventually going
to
> >college (NOT Sweet Valley High). Two guys were in the series and their
names
> >were Scott and Bruce. We don't know the names of the girls.
> >
> >does anyone know this series?
> >
> >- Nadine
> >
> >Nadine B. Rosendale
> >Adult Services Supervisor
> >
> >Carroll County Public Library
> >Mount Airy Branch
> >410.386.4470 ext.406
> >
> >"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on
Treasure
> Island . . .
> >and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
> --Walt Disney
> >
> >
> >......................................................................
> >Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> >Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
> >
> Kay Kelly
> Reference Librarian
> Cottage Hill Branch, Mobile Public Library
> 5025 Cottage Hill Road
> Mobile, AL 36609
> email [removed]@acan.net
> voice-334-470-7772
> fax-334-470-7711
> http://www.mplonline.org
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/22/01, 10:08 AM
I don't know it, but if your client would recognize list of the series
if s/he saw it, you might ILL a copy of the following (we have one
circulating copy that's currently in as well as our reference copy):
---------------------------------------------------------------
University of Minnesota. Children's Literature Research
Collections.
Girls series books : a checklist of titles published 1840-
1991.
Minneapolis : Children's Literature Research Collections,
University of Minnesota Libraries, c1992.
x, 347 p. ; 29 cm.
ary of Congress (Use s=):
Children's literature in series.
Children's literature, American--Bibliography.
Girls--Books and reading.
which details several hundred girls' book serieses, but with minimal
details (name, author, real name of author in case of pseudonyms,
titles and dates of all volumes in series, sometimes a brief note).
There's no way to search by "twins" or by names of minor characters,
though, so one would need to scan the 260 pages of listings (book
also contains indexes by author, publisher, decades of publication).
The Bobbsey Twins books began in 1904 and were still going as of a
few years ago, so "same period" doesn't narrow things down much...
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
FROM: "Virginia S. Humphrey" <[removed]@sals.edu>
REC'D: 3/22/01, 11:32 AM
FROM: "Gayle Richardson" <[removed]@spl.org>
REC'D: 3/22/01, 3:04 PM
>>> [removed]@mpl.org 03/22/01 06:17 AM >>>
Weren't they by Janet Lambert?
Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>
>>> [removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us 03/21/01 07:28PM >>>
There was also a series written in the 50s or 60s about twin sisters named
Pam and Penny that starts when they are in high school and continues through
college. The father was gone and the mother worked. In one of the books, the
twins set up a dating service for the Senior Prom. IIRC, the more
"sophisticated" (I'm going to marry a rich man) sister ends up engaged to an
agricultural student in the last book. Can't remember the titles or the
authors name, though. Does this ring a bell with anyone else?
-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Judi Crowley
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:25 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: classic series
They were twins, but I just checked a couple of volumes that we still have
on our
shelves, and I couldn't find the boys names mentioned. Not to say it can't
be
the right one, but I don't think so....
Judi Crowley
Hampstead Publc Library
Hampstead, NH 03841
Kay Kelly wrote:
> Could it be the "Dana Girls" series by "Carolyn Keene"? I read years ago
> and remember that they were sisters and were either in college or lived at
> a boarding school. I don't remember if they were twins.
>
> At 05:36 PM 3/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Here's another stumper. I have a patron who is looking for an old
children's
> >series that's about a set of twin sisters (NOT Bobbsey Twins, but same
time
> >period). The stories tell about the girls growing up and eventually going
to
> >college (NOT Sweet Valley High). Two guys were in the series and their
names
> >were Scott and Bruce. We don't know the names of the girls.
> >
> >does anyone know this series?
> >
> >- Nadine
> >
> >Nadine B. Rosendale
> >Adult Services Supervisor
> >
> >Carroll County Public Library
> >Mount Airy Branch
> >410.386.4470 ext.406
> >
> >"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on
Treasure
> Island . . .
> >and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
> --Walt Disney
> >
> >
> >......................................................................
> >Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> >Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
> >
> Kay Kelly
> Reference Librarian
> Cottage Hill Branch, Mobile Public Library
> 5025 Cottage Hill Road
> Mobile, AL 36609
> email [removed]@acan.net
> voice-334-470-7772
> fax-334-470-7711
> http://www.mplonline.org
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
......................................................................
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FROM: "Brad Scott" <[removed]@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 3/22/01, 5:10 PM
I'm particularly curious about Wildside Press, which is apparently planning to offer print-on-demand editions of four of James Branch Cabell's Poictesme books, and Stealth Press, whose catalog lists titles by Robert Heinlein, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, et al, which have dropped out of print with major publishers. However I would be curious about any Fiction-L'ers' experiences with such presses.
Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) Public Library
** All opinions are personal. **
FROM: Spencer Ms Martha <[removed]@usmc-mccs.org>
REC'D: 3/23/01, 7:59 AM
Martha
-----Original Message-----
From: Virginia S. Humphrey [[removed]@sals.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 9:18 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: classic series
Sometimes it pays to hang onto an old BIP. Rosamond Du Jardin wrote about
Pam & Penny in Double Date, Double Feature, Double Wedding, and maybe a
few others. Virginia Humphrey
FROM: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 3/23/01, 8:50 AM
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Scott [[removed]@ci.allen.tx.us]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:48 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: RE: classic series
Gayle Richardson's posting about the reprinted Janet Lambert books made me
think about the various small presses and print-on-demand services that seem
to be popping up. Have any of the Fiction-Lers made use of such services to
acquire previously out-of-print classics, genre fiction, etc.? If so, what
was your experience?
I'm particularly curious about Wildside Press, which is apparently planning
to offer print-on-demand editions of four of James Branch Cabell's Poictesme
books, and Stealth Press, whose catalog lists titles by Robert Heinlein,
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, et al, which have dropped out of print with major
publishers. However I would be curious about any Fiction-L'ers' experiences
with such presses.
Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) Public Library
** All opinions are personal. **
FROM: Ann Chambers Theis <[removed]@co.chesterfield.va.us>
REC'D: 3/23/01, 9:32 AM
>I'm particularly curious about Wildside Press, which is apparently
>planning to offer print-on-demand editions of four of James Branch
>Cabell's Poictesme books, and Stealth Press, whose catalog lists titles by
>Robert Heinlein, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, et al, which have dropped out of
>print with major publishers. However I would be curious about any
>Fiction-L'ers' experiences with such presses.
I've just ordered 6 titles from Stealth for our library system - mostly
horror and vampire selections. http://www.stealthpress.com/
I can let you know how soon we get them, what they look like, etc.
Also, if any of y'all are interested in reviewing Stealth titles for
Overbooked, please let me know.
Ann
Ann Chambers Theis ~ [removed]@co.chesterfield.va.us
Collection Management Administrator, Chesterfield County Public Library (VA)
Overbooked, a resource for ravenous readers - http://www.overbooked.org
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