![]() Sure, we wanted to be friends with them back then, but who among kid lit's biggest heroines do we still want to hang around with now that we've grown up? ![]() If you grew up as a literature-loving young lady, there's no doubt that you also had a bookshelf full of novels with characters you felt were as near and dear as any flesh and blood friend out there in the so-called "real world." Did you ever pretend that Ramona Quimby was your own precocious little sister? Or ponder which member of the Baby-sitters Club would be your best pal in real life? Perhaps you dreamed about somehow folding yourself in between the Pevensie sisters, giving The Chronicles of Narnia a fifth kid to honor? Or imagined that you lived up in that nasty old attic alongside Sara Crewe?Ĭhildren's literature has always been full of gals we wanted to be real friends with - and plenty who still empower us even to this day - but not all of them might be able to pass a crucial coolness test. ![]()
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