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Chamberlain, Kathleen, and Carolyn Sigler. “Therapeutic Nancy Drew.” Review of The Mystery of Nancy Drew: Girl Sleuth on the Couch, by Betsy Caprio. The Lion and the Unicorn 18, no. 1 (June 1994): 107-10.

Clapp-Itnyre, Alisa. Review of Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls Series, edited by Sherrie A. Inness. The Lion and the Unicorn 26, no. 1 (January 2002): 137-42.

Cox, J. Randolph. “Stratemeyer Unmasked.” Review of Edward Stratemeyer and the Literary Syndicate, by Deidre Johnson. The Lion and the Unicorn 18, no. 1 (June 1994): 103-06.

Inness, Sherrie A. “Reflecting on Girls’ Series.” Review of The Girl Sleuth, by Bobbie Ann Mason; Rediscovering Nancy Drew, edited by Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov. Children’s Literature 25 (1997): 255-61.

Lapin, Geoffrey S. “Nancy Drew Nostalgia.” Review of The Nancy Drew Scrapbook: 60 Years of America’s Favorite Teenage Sleuth, by Karen Plunkett-Powell. The Lion and the Unicorn 18, no. 1 (June 1994): 111-12.

Lefebvre, Benjamin. “The ‘Hardy Brats’ and Their Foolhardy Creator.” Review of The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate, by Marilyn S. Greenwald. Children’s Literature 34 (2006): 239-45.

—. Review of American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture, by Ilana Nash. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 33, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 113-15.

—. “Writing and Rewriting Nancy Drew, Girl Detective.” Review of Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her, by Melanie Rehak. Children’s Literature 35 (2007): 230-38.

McGee, Chris. Review of The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate, by Marilyn S. Greenwald. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 30, no. 4 (Winter 2005): 430-34.

Mitchell, Sally. “Girls and Their Ways.” Review of Rediscovering Nancy Drew, edited by Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov; What Katy Read: Feminist Re-Readings of “Classic” Stories for Girls, by Shirley Foster and Judi Simon; College Girls: A Century of Fiction, by Shirley Marchalonis; Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920, by Mary E. Odem. American Literary History 10, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 350-59.

Northcott, Nancy. Review of Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her, by Melanie Rehak; Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book, by Gerard Jones. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 31, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 205-7.

Phillips, Anne K. “Additional ‘Variations’: Further Developments in Feminist Theory and Children’s Literature.” Review of Harvesting Thistles: The Textual Garden of L.M. Montgomery, edited by Mary Henley Rubio; Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls’ Series, edited by Sherrie A. Inness; Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children’s Novels, by Roberta Seelinger Trites. Children’s Literature 27 (1999): 223-32.

Spadino, Carl. Review of The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate, by Marilyn S. Greenwald. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada 43, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 72-75.

Stefaniak, Mary Helen. “‘An Affectionate Satire’; or, Roasting Nancy Drew.” Review of The Clue in the Old Birdbath, by Kate Kasten and Sandra de Helen. The Lion and the Unicorn 18, no. 1 (June 1994): 113-17.