Here's a cheerful Gothamist post about the Betsy-Tacy Society. When you're done reading, go buy the reissues of the books—I plan to. This arbitrary division between children's, young adult, and adult literature is pretty meaningless, don't you think? Not to say that Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen and Linda Lovelace's Ordeal shouldn't be kept away from the average ten-year-old, since the experience (not my parents' fault, I should add) was, at least for me, rather jarring.

The thirteen Betsy-Tacy books [summaries courtesy of a B-T fan page, which is rather pretty in pink and not in the mod Duckie way, but nice descriptions if you've never read the books or haven't in a long, long time]