Originally Posted by snowy

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).