Last year I closed out July with a special week of themed reading called “Blast from the Past”, in which I visited 1990s kidlit — or, in the case of the Henry & Beezus books, books I happened to read in the 1990s. It was mostly prompted by my desire to re-read the Matthew Martin books, but I enjoyed the week enough that I’m revisiting it. Consider this the totally tubular sequel — and a friend of the blog lent me a box of her childhood books, so I’m going to be reading some of what she read. In the spirit of sequels, I’m going to quote myself from last year, as I used up my ability to recall ’90s slang:

If you didn’t have the good fortune to be a kid in the nineties, this week’s postings may be wack or even lame but for readers my age, or for those who were otherwise exposed to these series (or shared them with your own mini-me’s), hopefully this will be a fun ‘blast to the past’. So…stick a straw in your CapriSun, grab your Fruit by the Foot, take off your sticky candy ring, and settle in for some reading that’s all that and a bag of chips. Feel free to share your own fun kid reads, especially those that were da bomb dot com.

(As far as I know, there are no ducks in the books I’m reading. The title references one of my very favorite movies growing up, D2: The Mighty Ducks. There’s a great sequence where the Ducks realize they’re in a sequel and have to get the band back together…)