Talk:Secret Paths Series

Timeline
I should have asked this a long time ago, but is there an official source stating when these games take place? I've seen different sources saying everyone is a year younger (7th grade), and others saying that they're two years younger (6th grade). (The latter makes more sense to me since we see the formation of friendships that would lead to two of the cliques in Rockett.  But that's just my opinion.)

I've never seen any source for a timestamp. It has to be conjecture. In Secret Paths in the Forest, Dana still has her dad and not her stepdad (who she calls George), and on Miko's path Nicole and Stephanie seem to be friends as they criticize Miko's chess skills. In Secret Paths to the Sea, Nicole and Stephanie are not best friends yet; it's Stephanie's fashion sense that brings the two together with Whitney butting in by stealing Stephanie's style. The CSGs are not a clique yet. Viva is going to a different school that focuses on the performing arts. Sharla has her natural hair color still. It has to be before the Rockett games take place, but how far back is guess work.

I did see in the Carly Kocurek book about Brenda Laurel that the two series designed the characters differently on purpose. The secret paths are supposed to be their true ages for full vulnerability and honesty, while the Rockett games designed the kids to look older because that's how they envision themselves when in front of their peers. Rockett-to-the-purple-moon (talk) 22:25, November 27, 2019 (UTC)