Beverly was working as a librarian in the early 1950s and she came to understand from young boys themselves that there were no books written especially for them so she wrote for them. She later added the Ramona books for girls.
Exactly.
"Henry Higgins and the Paper Route" was my first long book, and I was entranced. She didn't need violence or cliffhangers to spin a great story.
After that, I'd constantly check books out of the library, and my mother would buy me almost the entire list from Scholastic, before that became a commie front organization.
I consider love of reading the most important component in my entrance to the Patriarchal Hegemony, or Hegemonic Patriarchy on Tuesdays.