{"id":634,"date":"2008-01-23T11:59:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/634"},"modified":"2008-01-23T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T17:59:04","slug":"why-are-there-no-babysitters-club-readalike-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/634","title":{"rendered":"Why are there no Babysitter&#8217;s Club readalike lists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just going to use Outsidecat to rant on reference questions I get.<\/p>\n<p>Since my library has such a small space,   we tend to get rid of things that don&#8217;t circulate &#8211; series takes up a lot of space, and although the occasional young person (or adult) inquires about them, it&#8217;s not worth the real estate.<\/p>\n<p>A 19-year-old patron came in looking for the Babysitter&#8217;s Club series. As I asked her questions, I inferred that she had a low reading level. BSC is a great hi-lo (high interest, low reading leve) series &#8211; the language isn&#8217;t very difficult, but there&#8217;s enough responsibility and teen angst to appeal to older readers.<\/p>\n<p>I found a few readalike lists that included BSC, but they all seemed to be about a younger age group. What I wish the interslice tubes could send me is a list of books like BSC for hi-lo readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just going to use Outsidecat to rant on reference questions I get. Since my library has such a small space, we tend to get rid of things that don&#8217;t circulate &#8211; series takes up a lot of space, and although the occasional young person (or adult) inquires about them, it&#8217;s not worth the real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-librarical","category-rantlet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}