Fictional Hero

This is going to sound crazy but my hero was Nancy Drew. She was the all round, do it yourself , good girl. She was smart and knew how to reason. I think she was a feminist in her time and I think that is a cool thing to be.
These days I doubt you can find a girl who has read any of the Nancy Drew books. When I was young that were hard to find and you had to buy them in packs of six. I read the first six and a week after getting the books as a Christmas gift. It was hard to hunt down the second pack as well. There are more than twelve books but it is hard to find them. I could probably hunt them down on eBay but I have to be honest: I would get bored reading them today.
As a child I loved reading about Nancy and how she would go camping in a barn and cook her own food on a propane stove top. She was a quest in mansions of her relatives friends as well. The girl had brains, brawn, and class. I went back to read the first book (I still have the first six and have no idea where the other six went) and almost laughed. The books are such an easy read that I could get though it in an hour. I used to stay up late into the night reading these things! It's funny how thin gs change. I could easily if all twelve books into the book I'm reading in my history class. My teacher told my parents that I was reading at the higher end of our grade level so these books had to be advanced to say that they were challenging.
Despite my growth in the reading area I wish that the book sets were still being sold. The whole concept of the book might be dated but Drew is still a good role model. She teaches deduction, survival, and problem solving skills. Hopefully we will be able to get the books on Kindle and I can read them with my daughters some day.