Not that anyone will get to this comment, now that there are over 90 of them above me - but I read this YA series when I was a YA, that focused around this computer-whiz girl who somehow (through the magic of programming and a Nintendo Duck-Hunt gun) manages to turn her computer (and its green monochrome monitor) into a time machine that could send her (or her friends) back in time for two days, and only be gone from the present for two minutes.
They visited the Antebellum American South, Woodstock (and to give you an idea of how dated the books were, one of the main characters' friends was born AT Woodstock, so if those books were floating around the YA shelves today, the kids would be trying to figure out how a 40-year-old was in high school), 1930s Hollywood, and other Exciting Places in Time.
They did things that actually changed history (but only in GOOD and minor ways, of COURSE), and I never really thought about the implications until my wee little geekitude had matured into a more sophisticated one.
Overall, though, the series was everything a good YA girl series ought to be - smart, fun, adventurous, and depicting female characters who could be described by the same adjectives.
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Date: 2009-04-21 10:06 pm (UTC)They visited the Antebellum American South, Woodstock (and to give you an idea of how dated the books were, one of the main characters' friends was born AT Woodstock, so if those books were floating around the YA shelves today, the kids would be trying to figure out how a 40-year-old was in high school), 1930s Hollywood, and other Exciting Places in Time.
They did things that actually changed history (but only in GOOD and minor ways, of COURSE), and I never really thought about the implications until my wee little geekitude had matured into a more sophisticated one.
Overall, though, the series was everything a good YA girl series ought to be - smart, fun, adventurous, and depicting female characters who could be described by the same adjectives.