I loved Cherry Ames and Sue Barton. Also all the Beverly Cleary teen books like Fifteen and The Luckiest Girl. Man i wanted that pink rubber raincoat with the black velvet collar. All i ever had as a kid were the fold up clear plastic adult in-a-pinch "raincoats."

My girlfriend down the block who was the same age as me had a little bookshelf in her bedroom with all the Nancy Drew books. I think she let me borrow them. The only books we owned were a big book of fairytales, which i had done reading by age 5, and Little Men, which i found in our attic, and which i was told not to read as it was just for boys. But i eventually did anyway. I dont think my brother ever did.