Planet Builders

[Listener]

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.

[Beefy]

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.

[Jessie]

What about Encyclopedia Brown?  Surely you read him, too.

[Listener]

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.

[Beefy]

I checked out some Encyclopedia Brown books from the library but never owned them.

Never saw the TV show, either.