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| theoanne |
Posted - Mar 16 2008 : 7:02:45 PM
Most folks have read Nancy Drew, but how many have read Trixie? My best, friend and I loved these books in our growing up years. We have now found a web site for her fans. So I'm rereading them all.
if you like Google Trixie Belden. There are several sites and even some forums.
Teddie
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| maggie14 |
Posted - Oct 20 2009 : 10:01:27 PM
I love the Trixie Belden books! I have not read all of them but am working on reading them all!!!!
Maggie
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| Old Spirit |
Posted - Jul 02 2009 : 1:12:41 PM
Kay
Please do share when you find the site. Thank you
Rae
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| KayB |
Posted - Jul 02 2009 : 12:37:46 PM
My favorite was the Pam and Penny series and Nancy Drew, although I did read Trixie Belden. I have all of the Nancy Drew books. I also have some by Betty Cavanna. Also, there is a website for the "malt shop" books as they are called. I will try to look it up and see if I can find it. They have so many of the older books from the '50s and '60s. I also used to have the Cherry Ames books and loved them. I wanted to be a nurse so badly. However, when I joined the military after high school, my mom gave all my books away - including all of my Emilie Loring and Grace Livingston Hill books. Luckily, I have slowly been able to build those back up. The website I keep looking at also has the Cherry Ames series and I'm trying to get those back together.
KayB
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| Amy Warwick |
Posted - May 19 2009 : 11:12:26 AM
I still read Trixie Belden. I even thanked Julie Campbell for her inspiration when I published my first book! I read Trixie to my daughter. I read Hardy Boys to my sons as well, but they don't get the "Golly's and "Gee-wilikers!" Trixie has transcended generations!
Amy
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| roselake |
Posted - Feb 05 2009 : 5:22:28 PM
The Trixie Belden books were the first "real" books i read. Reading those books got me hooked on reading. My hubby got me a Kindle for Christmas and i named her Trixie in honor of Trixie Belden. |
| Ingrid |
Posted - Feb 05 2009 : 12:23:12 PM
When I was a kid I read all the Trixie Beldon books. My older sisters all had them and my mom got them from the Salvation Army store. I still have them, along with our set of the Bobbsey Twins, The Laura Ingalls books, and lots of other old books. Being the youngest they all came to me. Now both my daughters have read the books and liked them as well.
Memories, aren't they great.
Ingrid
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| Old Spirit |
Posted - Feb 05 2009 : 10:37:15 AM
I loved the Trixie Belden books. We did the pass down, my cousin gave me all of hers and I passed them down to a cousin as well. Wish they had more books like that today for kids to read!!!!
Rae
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| rabbithorns |
Posted - Dec 03 2008 : 7:47:50 PM
Several months ago, I passed an perennial yard sale on the road to Safford (arizona) and picked up 4 old books. One was Trixie Belden and the Gatehouse Mystery. Two are Honey Bunch books and the last was Meet Corliss Archer. I just finished the last one and am about to get to Trixie. I was a Cherry Ames, Lennon Sisters, and Bobsey Twins fan. Never read Trixie Belden yet. Glad to see the rave reviews here! But my very faves of all time were the Joy and Pam books. Anyone know those?
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| KJD |
Posted - Nov 30 2008 : 7:50:49 PM
Betty,
The name Cavanna didnt sound familiar, so I went to Amazon. The title, 6 on Easy Street did sound familiar, so I checked my "old fashioned teen girl books" shelf, and there it was! I have so many great books there - that genre was wonderful in the 40s-60's - I have a lovely collection and read so many growing up. I'm 45, and I always felt I was born in the wrong time, although I'm sure the Lord knows what He's doing! Fortunately, He brought me to the man perfect for me, who appreciates the same things and we've raised our boys loving classic books, movies and music. They love the same things as we, and manage to be modern at the same time.kjd |
| lizbeth |
Posted - Jun 17 2008 : 08:50:10 AM
I loved Trixie Belden, too. I was so excited to see so many other fans here. I always preferred her over Nancy Drew. I think I just related better to Trixie and Honey. Now, my 13 year old is reading my old TB books for the first time and I am enjoying discussing them with her.
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| Betty J. |
Posted - Jun 12 2008 : 5:56:06 PM
Does anyone remember all the teen books by Betty Cavanna? That was a very long time ago, but they were so enthralling.
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| Woodswoman |
Posted - Jun 12 2008 : 5:51:39 PM
I LOVED the Trixie Belden books! I had no idea that so many people were fans! I think I identified more with Trixie than others like Nancy Drew because Trixie was so REAL-she struggled in math just like me!
Jennifer
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| LibraryGirl |
Posted - Jun 10 2008 : 07:17:35 AM
Trixie Belden was my absolute favorite when I was a kid! My mom gave me several of her first-edition hardback copies, and I just devoured them. Now the only books I "collect" are the old Trixie Beldens! (My mom like Ginny Gordon, too, but she was too girly for me!)
And I'm green with envy about Trixie Benden Camp!!! Maybe another year...
--Beth |
| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Jun 06 2008 : 8:11:35 PM
I loved Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew, The Dana Girls, and The Boxcar Children books too. I read them all! I used to read to my older two sons The Boxcar Children series, they loved them. They are now 26 and 23 years old. I plan to read the series to my 4.5 year old son when he gets a little older. Right now he enjoys books with lots of pictures in them.
It's great to see so many others loved these books as much as I did.
Dawn in IL |
| theoanne |
Posted - Jun 06 2008 : 7:19:07 PM
I have now reread the Trixies up through # 13. My goal is to read all the ones I have before camp. I have 1- 22 inclusive and then6 more of the higher numbers. Hope I can finish before camp!
TEDDIE
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jun 04 2008 : 7:36:18 PM
yes I remember Trixie Belden and have a vague, very shadowy memory of the name Robin Kane.
But gracious I read every Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Boxcar kids, Trixie Belden I could get my hands on back then at age 12..it helped too that I lived only 2 doors down from the library..ha.
There's an old bookstore here that sells the old Nancy Drew books..I'm going to have to see which ones she has and take a read down memory lane soon.
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| KJD |
Posted - Jun 04 2008 : 7:27:15 PM
I have 9 Trixie Belden's on the shelf from my childhood. They sit alongside my Nancy Drew's and Robin Kane...do y'all remember those? And Beany Malone - I just recently completed my collection of all those books, by Lenora Mattingly Weber. Image Cascade publishing has re-issued all those, and many more great old series. I still love reading these books. |
| Feythe |
Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 6:00:20 PM
Hey Teddie,
I looked up the web site and thoroughly enjoyed browsing. Looks like a great place to stay with other Bob-White club members.  Registration has been closed for a while, but it's something I'll bookmark and keep in mind. I've told several friends about it. Let us know how your reunion goes! Wishing you a great experience!
At the moment, I only have one Trixie book, so may have to look for more to re-read next time I'm out antiquing or at a vintage book store. I do love them. Their lives were a lovely window into other kinds of growing up years and parents and siblings and friends other than my own.
Jana
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| theoanne |
Posted - Mar 25 2008 : 6:40:38 PM
Jana,
Go to www.barbin.org/trixie/ or googlt Trixie Belden homepage. I think they are still taking money for camp through 4/1. It's up near Cades Cove Tenn. I see you are nearby. Look it up.
TEDDIE
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| Feythe |
Posted - Mar 24 2008 : 5:58:29 PM
Teddie, you started a flurry of responses and walks down memory lane with your Trixie Belden books question! I adored Trixie, but most of all, I loved that she had a best friend. My best friend at the time came from a family much more affluent than my own so I could really relate to Trixie and Honey. I also loved that they had horses to ride because my friend's grandfather had a dairy farm where she kept her horse (English jumper) and I rode one of the cow horses, ol' Harley. Lots of good times. I can't believe there's a Trixie Belden camp - gotta look that one up.
I was an avid Nancy Drew fan and read all of them, but had a strict policy, self-imposed, that I didn't read them after 6 PM or I would have bad dreams!  I'm pretty sure I read all of the Bobbsey Twin books,too.
I loved The Boxcar Children and the All-of-a-Kind Family books; Cherry Ames, and Donna Parker. I didn't discover the Betsy and Tacy books, or the Anne of Green Gables books until I was an adult, but enjoyed reading all of those, too. Yep, I LOVE books!
Sincerely,
Jana
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| Beemoosie |
Posted - Mar 19 2008 : 3:33:22 PM
The name caught my eye, and sure enough, I have Trixie Belden and the Mystery on the Mississippi sitting here on my shelf! It was my mom's when she was a little girl!
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| Marcy |
Posted - Mar 19 2008 : 09:23:23 AM
I loved Trixie Beldon. My mom surprised me with a box of her books when I was around 13 and I fell in love. I still have some of them. I wish that I still had all of the books that I had as a kid. Then I would be in heave. I am such a book nut. Everytime I buy a new book, my boys are like, not again, mom. Or, Don't you think you have enough books?? I have hundreds upon hundreds of books in my house. I always tell anyone who asks why I have so many books, "If you are a book lover like me, you can never have too many books"
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| gafarmwoman |
Posted - Mar 19 2008 : 09:12:24 AM
Oh yes. I loved Trixie. I still have some of the books somewhere I believe. Jenny, you mentioned the boxcar kids. I loved those books too. I think I would like to find the boxcar kids books for my Grandchildren. I remember so clearly my second grade teacher reading from those books and I couldn't wait until the next day for her to get to the next part. I would like my Grandchildren to learn to love books like that too.
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| Carrie W |
Posted - Mar 19 2008 : 09:03:34 AM
I loved Trixie Beldon as a girl! I remember staying up well into the night to finish them! I didn't really know any other women who had read them as girls until this! My daughters don't really like them...they are into Nancy Drew, who I read also, but didn't like nearly as much as Trixie.
Teddie-have fun at camp...it sounds like a great girlfriend thing to do!!
carrie m
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