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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
I've been reading as long as I can remember
some of my favs were
Mog the forgetful cat
Hurray for Captain Jane
Harvey's Hideout
Moe Q McGlutch, He smoked too much
the Stuart Little books
the Harriet the Spy books
A taste of blackberries
Little house on the Prarie(all of them)
charlottes web
anything by Judy Blume
The Hiding Place
The headless cupid
Christy
Book of Lists
Paul Harvey's rest of the story books
Diary of Anne Frank
anything by Beverly Cleary
the entire Trixie Belden series (I still go back and reread them)
a wrinkle in time
outsiders
when I turned 13 I started reading my first romance books and got hooked on Victoria Holt
anything by V. C. Andrews
I started reading John Saul's books when I was 12
anything by Erma Bombeck
the man in the iron mask
H. G Wells, The Time Machine
(those were in no particular order except the first few, those where when I was between the age of 4-6)
I still have every original copy I had of every book I listed (or the copies of the Beverly Cleary "teen" books that had belonged to my mother first)
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Shani, you reminded me of a lot of my youthful favorites. I'm pleased to see
Christy on your list; I read that book several times growing up.
Loved the Beverly Cleary "teen" books--started reading them when I was 12 or so because I'd just found out I was moving to Oregon, and Beverly Cleary's autobiography was the only book in our school library that had anything interesting about Oregon in it. This then spurred me to keep reading her books--I'd read Ramona, but I'd had no idea that she wrote young adult fiction too.
Victoria Holt is another I read a lot of at about that age. I blame my mother. She had
The Devil on Horseback. God, I love that book. I worked my way through a lot of her stuff via the used book store, and still have several copies of her works on my shelves--
The Shadow of the Lynx,
The India Fan,
The Captive, and
The Black Opal off the top of my head (there are others).
The
Little House series was one of my favorites. I read them repeatedly throughout 4th and 5th grade, and read anything associated with them, including a warts-and-all biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder that painted a far grimmer picture of her life than her own works do. I reread the entire series a couple years ago when one of my young charges was working her way through them with her parents.
I also really love the
Anne books. I still read those, just about every year. I can't tell you how many times I've read my favorites of the series--
Anne of the Island and
Rilla of Ingleside. My copies are very, very worn and in need of replacement. I had to replace
Anne's House of Dreams a year or so ago, because the cover and some pages came off.
Judy Blume saw me through puberty, as I'm sure she did for most girls
And Madeline L'Engle has to be one of my favorites too. I read all of the
A Wrinkle in Time series, and read several of her "teen" books, as well as one of her autobiographies,
Two-Part Invention. Admittedly, my paperback copy of
Many Waters had to be one of my favorites; it had an illustration of teenage Sandy and Dennys on the front, and they were very attractive to my 12-year-old self.
The Giving Tree is one of my childhood favorites that I still have. My mother made sure that when I left home, I had my copy with me. It means the world to me.
I also really liked Scott O'Dell books growing up, like
Black Star, Bright Dawn and
Island of the Blue Dolphins.
I read so many books, I can't remember them all, but I think I've hit the highlights. I might be back to add more though