Recently, I bought a few books from the Bluford High series when I was at a bookstore the other day. For those who don’t know, the Bluford High series was this series of young adult fiction novels and my middle school friends and I couldn’t get enough of them.
Set in the fictional Bluford High (named after Black astronaut Guy Bluford), the mostly Black & Brown students there dealt with a wide range of issues—domestic abuse, bullying, gang violence, teen pregnancy, mental illness, sexual assault, etc.
These books were checked out the library and dog-eared copies for passed around like crazy. Even those kids who weren’t that big into reading were obsessed with the series. Each book was about under 200 pages (usually in the range of 140-170) and could usually be read in a day and had these melodramatic illustrated covers.
How many of you out there remember reading the Bluford High series?
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