Going through and rereading several books at the moment
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Nancy Drew, The Baby Sitter’s Club and the Percy Jackson series
I didn’t read many, but Of Mice and Men was one of them. (Required by school.)
Tolkien, Jacqueline Wilson
The Shamer’s daugher (a danish book that was popular in Denmark when i was a kid)
I was a weird kid into horror – by the time I was in grade 7 I had read most of Stephen King’s books lol.
The Bert Diaries.
Jacqueline Wilson books mainly. I still have one of the books i bought in my attic, Illustrated Mum.
I loved the American Girl series. I even still have my Samantha doll.
Fear Street and Goosebumps were my favorites. Also Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie
Enid Blyton, I loved The Famous Five / Secret Seven books!
goosebumps!
Harry Potter and The Catcher in the Rye
All of the series by Tamora Pierce. Cannot recommend enough.
Atlas lol
Anne of Green Gables.
Tomorrow Wendy. Lol. Was available in my school’s library of all places.
Boxcar Children. I loved those.
The ones that come to mine is of mice and men, Wuthering Heights, to kill a Mockingbird, little woman, whatever else the school may read
I remember loving The Hobbit.
Anything and everything that was around me. Standard children’s books, encyclopedias, military history, readers digest condensed novels, romance novels, reference books – whatever was in the home where I could get to it.
Once I was old enough to start selecting my own books, I mainly chose genres like fantasy, sci-fi, horror, history, mythology, philosophy, science, and culture.
Way to many, book nerd growing up. Off the top of my head alot of Beverly Cleary’s series, Animorphs, pretty much anything by Roald Dahl, the Boxcar Children series when I was really little, the Hatchet series, Hary Potter. Alot of books that we’d read sections of in class and then I’d get them just to read the entire thing on my own; Number the Stars, To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Diary of Ann Frank, etc.
goosebumps, sweet valley twins, sweet valley high, a series of unfortunate events
Series of unfortunate events!
Pippy Longstocking
Anything Ellen Hopkins had me hooked. It was so real and relatable albeit rly dark.
On my own time: Goosebumps –> Fear Street –> Christopher Pike –> Stephen King.
But I really liked a lot of the required reading in school, too: 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, A Tale of Two Cities, Of Mice & Men. My favorite was called Bluejacket and I can’t seem to find it anywhere now.
Edit because I flake out when I start talking about books and forgot to ask: What are you rereading, OP??
Harry Potter, Diary of a wimpy kid, Tom Gates, Twilight, Blood for blood series.
Dear America
Probably why I’m a huge history nerd
Heidi. Secret garden. Enid Blyton books. Ladybird books. Disney books. Grimm fairy tales. Andersen’s fairy tales. Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
I loved reading as a child, I’d get so lost in books and my imagination fired off in all directions. I worry about kids just gaming all the time because they’re losing out on something magical that our brains create through reading.
I read mostly the same things I read as an adult. YA wasn’t really a big thing in the 70s/80s like it is now; there was some but nothing like now. The ones I remember that were age-appropriate were Wrinkle in Time and the Trixie Beldon mystery books. But I was reading at an adult reading-level by the 3rd grade and I read Shogun when I was in the 6th grade.
When i was a small child, i loved any Junie B. Jones book, Sideway stories from Wayside School, any Dr. seuss, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, any Mercer Mayer, any Robert Munsch, and Madeline. In my pre-teen-teen years, i liked Sarah Dessen books and the holy grail of all teen books at the time…. The Twilight saga. Lol.
Judy Blume!
Phillipa and the wish fairy -Liz Kessler, Skellig -David Almond, The Joslin de Lay Mysteries- Dennis Hamley.
And then as a teen
The maze runner- James Dashner, the selection -Kiera Cass.
Surely there are more but these are the ones I remember
geronimo stilton, diary of a wimpy kid, series of unfortunate events, junie b jones
Dr. Seuss
I loved Roald Dahl books, especially Matilda and James and the Giant Peach
Frog and Toad, Magic Tree House, the 39 Clues, A to Z Mysteries, I LOVED the Popularity Papers and Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Junie B Jones
Graduated through the Sweet Valley series from a kid to a teenager. Kids to Twins to High. Also all the scary ones from Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine.
Junie B. Jones when I was younger, and then I moved on to Anne of Green Gables, Kingdom Keepers, Peter and the Starcatchers, Warriors (the cat ones), and Little Women. I read more than that but those were my go-tos.
Goosebumps, Magic Tree House and Captain Underpants were my childhood staples.
42 comments
Nancy Drew, The Baby Sitter’s Club and the Percy Jackson series
I didn’t read many, but Of Mice and Men was one of them. (Required by school.)
Tolkien, Jacqueline Wilson
The Shamer’s daugher (a danish book that was popular in Denmark when i was a kid)
I was a weird kid into horror – by the time I was in grade 7 I had read most of Stephen King’s books lol.
The Bert Diaries.
Jacqueline Wilson books mainly. I still have one of the books i bought in my attic, Illustrated Mum.
I loved the American Girl series. I even still have my Samantha doll.
Fear Street and Goosebumps were my favorites. Also Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie
Enid Blyton, I loved The Famous Five / Secret Seven books!
goosebumps!
Harry Potter and The Catcher in the Rye
All of the series by Tamora Pierce. Cannot recommend enough.
Atlas lol
Anne of Green Gables.
Tomorrow Wendy. Lol. Was available in my school’s library of all places.
Boxcar Children. I loved those.
The ones that come to mine is of mice and men, Wuthering Heights, to kill a Mockingbird, little woman, whatever else the school may read
I remember loving The Hobbit.
Anything and everything that was around me. Standard children’s books, encyclopedias, military history, readers digest condensed novels, romance novels, reference books – whatever was in the home where I could get to it.
Once I was old enough to start selecting my own books, I mainly chose genres like fantasy, sci-fi, horror, history, mythology, philosophy, science, and culture.
Way to many, book nerd growing up. Off the top of my head alot of Beverly Cleary’s series, Animorphs, pretty much anything by Roald Dahl, the Boxcar Children series when I was really little, the Hatchet series, Hary Potter. Alot of books that we’d read sections of in class and then I’d get them just to read the entire thing on my own; Number the Stars, To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Diary of Ann Frank, etc.
goosebumps, sweet valley twins, sweet valley high, a series of unfortunate events
Series of unfortunate events!
Pippy Longstocking
Anything Ellen Hopkins had me hooked. It was so real and relatable albeit rly dark.
On my own time: Goosebumps –> Fear Street –> Christopher Pike –> Stephen King.
But I really liked a lot of the required reading in school, too: 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, A Tale of Two Cities, Of Mice & Men. My favorite was called Bluejacket and I can’t seem to find it anywhere now.
Edit because I flake out when I start talking about books and forgot to ask: What are you rereading, OP??
Harry Potter, Diary of a wimpy kid, Tom Gates, Twilight, Blood for blood series.
Dear America
Probably why I’m a huge history nerd
Heidi. Secret garden. Enid Blyton books. Ladybird books. Disney books. Grimm fairy tales. Andersen’s fairy tales. Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
I loved reading as a child, I’d get so lost in books and my imagination fired off in all directions. I worry about kids just gaming all the time because they’re losing out on something magical that our brains create through reading.
I read mostly the same things I read as an adult. YA wasn’t really a big thing in the 70s/80s like it is now; there was some but nothing like now. The ones I remember that were age-appropriate were Wrinkle in Time and the Trixie Beldon mystery books. But I was reading at an adult reading-level by the 3rd grade and I read Shogun when I was in the 6th grade.
When i was a small child, i loved any Junie B. Jones book, Sideway stories from Wayside School, any Dr. seuss, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, any Mercer Mayer, any Robert Munsch, and Madeline. In my pre-teen-teen years, i liked Sarah Dessen books and the holy grail of all teen books at the time…. The Twilight saga. Lol.
Judy Blume!
Phillipa and the wish fairy -Liz Kessler, Skellig -David Almond, The Joslin de Lay Mysteries- Dennis Hamley.
And then as a teen
The maze runner- James Dashner, the selection -Kiera Cass.
Surely there are more but these are the ones I remember
geronimo stilton, diary of a wimpy kid, series of unfortunate events, junie b jones
Dr. Seuss
I loved Roald Dahl books, especially Matilda and James and the Giant Peach
Frog and Toad, Magic Tree House, the 39 Clues, A to Z Mysteries, I LOVED the Popularity Papers and Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Junie B Jones
Graduated through the Sweet Valley series from a kid to a teenager. Kids to Twins to High. Also all the scary ones from Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine.
Junie B. Jones when I was younger, and then I moved on to Anne of Green Gables, Kingdom Keepers, Peter and the Starcatchers, Warriors (the cat ones), and Little Women. I read more than that but those were my go-tos.
Goosebumps, Magic Tree House and Captain Underpants were my childhood staples.
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