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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP again.  I need to correct myself for confounding modern and real life.  OP wants real world but not too modern.

I honestly got confused because divorce in children's lit was an example of what was desired and addressing divorce seems modern to me.[/quote]

Babysitters' Club was addressing divorce in JFIC in the 80s....

I took OP's use of "modern" to mean kids who behave like brats, that behavior is condoned by the world of the story, and the reader is supposed to think it's funny.[/quote]

PP.  I got confused. Yes, you are interpreting "modern" correctly for OP's wishes.

In the '80s and '70s, I was reading books that were usually 10-20 years older at a minimum.  Except Judy Blumes...and I didn't like those...or stuff like Bridge to Terabithia...also a yuk.  I never read a Babysitter's Club book.  But I understand those topics were covered at that time.  Just not in kid lit "classics".

This is reminding me that a somewhat modernized, abridged old-school Swiss Family Robinson was a pretty interesting book.  I read a short (possibly Disney) version with illustrations and then eventually read the archaic, long original.  I loved reading about the details of how they salvaged goods from the boat and built houses and grew crops.  [/quote]

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