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Long before Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Sweet Valley High, the Babysitters' Club, or Magic Tree House, series books provided a source of enjoyable fiction for children. The first children's fiction series appeared in the United States in the 1830s, and by the 1860s the genre was well-established and earning both praise and censure. I've been researching series books for over twenty-five years. This page draws upon some of that research; it is devoted to bio-bibliographies and commentary about nineteenth-century authors of series books for girls and younger children as well as samples of some of their writing. It includes some of the century's most popular authors and a number of lesser-known figures whose works -- now almost forgotten -- show the evolution of the genre. The most recent updates reflect my current interest in women authors, especially those slighted or omitted by traditional reference sources. Usually, such authors wrote only a few books or attained only modest success. Recovering their lives and works contributes to a better understanding of the development of series fiction and women's part in nineteenth-century publishing.

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Authored by college classmate, Robert Cone: "The Candy Bandit Strikes Again! is based on a real-life event that happened to the author when he was a boy. He was trick or treating on West Prospect Street in his hometown of Kewanee, Illinois with his older brothers. He had collected quite a bag full of candy, when suddenly he was jumped by an older boy. The older boy was hiding behind a tall bush and tried to snatch his candy bag. The author put up a good fight (just like the little girl in this story does) and was determined to have the trick or treat bag rip in two, when suddenly the candy bandit decided to let go of the bag. The author then went on his way as if nothing had happened and stopped to trick or treat at the very next house. Ironically, the house where the incident occurred is the very same house the author (as an adult) lived in for a short while with his mother, who has since moved to Hollis Street. The bush in question is still there, but it has been cropped to nearly half of its original size and the neighbors have since put up a fence."

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"Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads. And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe, despite the callow protestations of certain adults, that books-especially the dark and dangerous ones-will save them."

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"Read in Peace, Everywhere. Readability is a web & mobile app that zaps online clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view. No matter where you are or what device you use, your reading will be there."

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"Emma Teitgen, 12, thought the chemistry book her teacher recommended would make perfect bedside reading. Perfect because it might help her fall asleep. Then she downloaded "The Elements: A Visual Exploration" to her iPad. Instead of making her drowsy, it blossomed in her hands. The 118 chemical elements, from hydrogen to ununoctium, came alive in vivid images that could be rotated with a swipe of the finger."

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"In our era of ubiquitous and almost free publishing, where written information is abundant, we rightfully rejoice as we contemplate the immense potential of the web and other recent information technologies. Text and images are everywhere, easy to read and write, offering almost limitless resources to those who want to teach and learn. However, this unprecedented power to read and publish instantaneously worldwide requires a whole new perspective on literacy. Marshall McLuhan predicted the death of literacy. Was he mistaken, given the immense quantity of digital text we all have to deal with these days (oh, the pain of email!)? I don't think so: McLuhan's thinking was not that superficial, and he simply foresaw the death of literacy as we know it, or used to know it. "

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The Flesch/Flesch–Kincaid readability tests are designed to indicate comprehension difficulty when reading a passage of contemporary academic English. There are two tests, the Flesch Reading Easiness, and the Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level. Although they use the same core measures (word length and sentence length), they have different weighting factors, so the results of the two tests correlate approximately inversely: a text with a comparatively high score on the Reading Ease test should have a lower score on the Grade Level test. Both systems were devised by Rudolf Flesch.

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Once students can decode fluently, some brief instruction in reading comprehension strategies can boost their understanding. But the strategies shouldn't be overused because they don't substitute for the background knowledge and vocabulary necessary for comprehension.

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Reading Online is a freely available, online-only publication of the International Reading Association (IRA), a professional organization of literacy educators. Its focus is literacy practice and research in classrooms serving students aged 5 to 18. “Literacy” is broadly defined to include traditional print literacy, as well as visual literacy, critical literacy, media literacy, digital literacy, and so on. This site offers original features and peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and website recommendations published between May 1997 and June 2005, along with resources reprinted from other IRA journals. It is offered as an archived collection, and is not at present accepting new materials for publication.

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"We have supposedly been in the midst of an educational back-to-basics movement since the 1983 release of "A Nation at Risk," a report by a national commission that said American society was in danger of deteriorating because of an eroding public education system.

Why, then, have reading scores (as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test often called the nation's report card), been flat since 1971?

One obvious answer is that even if we’re getting back to basics in school, kids read less and less outside of school. Think of all of the new technologies that compete for their time: they have ipods, video games, text messaging, instant messaging, cell phones.

Who has time to read?

Surprise! Americans read more now than they did in 1980. A lot more, according to an exhaustive study done at the University of California, San Diego."

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"The National Literacy Trust is an independent charity that changes lives through literacy."

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Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading.

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The truth is that consumers of your documentation scan deliverables. They’ll refer to deliverables; they’ll look for those nuggets of information they can use to complete their own work. Bottom line? They don’t read deliverables, but most of the time the

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