Fandom Primer Post (aka Pimp Your Fandom)

[deliaknows]

Now that nominations are done and sign-ups are just on the horizon, here's a post where you can advertise your fandoms to the rest of yuletide. Tell us about your fandom(s) and link to sources you think will help a new fan interested in checking it out or an old fan looking for canon refreshing. And if you're looking for new (or old but forgotten) fandoms

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[opalmatrix]

Fandom: Roller Skates Series - Ruth Sawyer
Category: Books & Literature
Comments: These classic children's books (Roller Skates, 1937 and The Year of Jubilo, 1940) feature a brainy young tomboy navigating her growing-up years in the 1890s. In Roller Skates,10-year-old Lucinda is left a temporary "orphan" when her parents go abroad. Her guardians give her a great deal of freedom to skate around her part of New York City and make friends with a wide variety of people. In The Year of Jubilo, 13-year-old Lucinda's father has just died, and she and her family (mother and three older brothers) move from New York to the family's vacation cottage in Maine, where they must learn to make their own living minus money, servants, and all the other accoutrements of their previous upper-middle class life. Both books are full of an appreciation for and acceptance of life and its events ... including a couple of tragic deaths.

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1. Roller Skates won the Newbury in 1937, so there are plenty of blogged reviews. Not all modern readers think

[queenbookwench]

There's a sequel to Roller Skates! I love that book as a kid--must investigate!