Did anyone else read these young-adult sci-fi novels by "Robyn Tallis" (an amalgam of authors including James Macdonald, Debra Doyle, and Sherwood Smith, among others)?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804102015/103-3300509-7583035?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance
There were ten of them, about six (and then two more in Book 3 or 4) teenagers who were contacted by an alien race while colonizing a new planet (with their families, of course) in 2520 or so. Good writing, good reading. I still enjoy them.
Not familiar. I read Choose Your Own Adventure, Alfred Hitchcock's Three Investigators, Judy Blume and her like, and lots and lots of comics. I Istarted on Stephen King in Junior High and kept with him until Desperation. I started on Clive Barker a few years later until about Gallilee. I started on Crichton in Junior High and kept reading through his nano-technology thriller whose name escapes me.
What about Encyclopedia Brown? Surely you read him, too.
I definitely read a bunch of CYOA books, as well as Encyclopedia Brown -- I remember having at least the first 16 of them, and then they started getting lame and becoming spin-offs.
I also remember there was a Ramona Quimby TV show on PBS.
I checked out some Encyclopedia Brown books from the library but never owned them.
Never saw the TV show (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096576/), either.