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I loved Paul Zindel. 'Pardon me, you're stepping on my eyeball' was one of my all-time favorites.
I liked Stephen King as a child, especially his short stories
'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'
Oh...anything by Dr.Suess
My very first favorite book was "The Outsiders". I read it in 5th grade and about once a year for several years after that. My son is 10 and he jsut finished it. I don't know if he loved it as much as I did but I hope so.
That book made me love reading.
My daughter just finished The Outsiders. It took her awhile though, at one point she said it was "too sad" to finish. I've been trying to get my 11 yr son to try it too.
This is one of my all time favorites...as a teenager I tried most of SEHinton's other books, but none came near to being as good.
I brought this book (and Flowers in the Attic) home, hoping to get my daughter's mind off of wanting Breaking Dawn.
I had to bribe my son with the promise of a new Lego set to read it. He was convinced he wouldn't like it but I knew he would. Afterwards he thanked me (though he still requested the Lego's).
I always looked forward to reading the Hardy Boys while growing up in the 60s and 70s.
I read quite a few books by Jesse Stuart, a Kentucky author and poet. He had a massive heart attack in the 50s at Murray State College in Ky, and wrote a book about his recovery. "The Year of my Rebirth". He was a good author. Got to meet him a couple times.
Gal, what got my sons reading when they were in grade school was Pizza Hut. If they read I think 6 books a month, they got a coupon for a free personal pan pizza.
When I was growing up (in the late 1800s it sometimes seems) , there were very few "chapter books" for young people. Often we were forced to read really boring series like The Bobbsey Twins or something. That's why I was thrilled when Trixie Belden came along. She was , to my POV much more modern than that stuffy old Nancy Drew. Does anyone else have memories of books that they loved as children ?
I don't think Nancy Drew was stuffy at all. I'm only 18 and when I was little I loved reading about all of her mystery solving adventures... and The Hardy Boys too. And my younger sister is only 10 and she reads Nancy Drew. You must have been a very hard to please kid.
Wow - I liked just about anything. I'd be here naming books forever.
My favorite author: Judy Bloom - it started with Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing.
My favorite series:
Alice McKinley
Baby-sitters Club
Sweet Valley Twins
Boxcar children
Encyclopedia Brown
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
My all-time favorite book had to be The Wednesday Witch by Ruth Chew. I think I read that book a million times. In close second would be The Nobody Club by Madge Harrah. There was this one book I read as a child; the main character's name was Jane and she had two older sisters and friends named Becca and Jeff. It was basically a story about her trying to survive seventh grade - but I can't remember the name of it - I loved that book.
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This thread has brought back so many wonderful memories. when I was pretty young, my sister and I were in charge of most household chores. (Dishes, cleaning, laundry, ironing). Our mom was physically handicapped and so we sort of took over. We made the time go faster while we worked by taking turns reading to one another while the other one toiled away. Oh the stories! We went thru Swiss Family robinson, Nancy Drew's stories, A Girl of the Limberlost, Little Women, so many others. Some of my most precious memories involve those stories and the closeness it gave to my sister and I.
Oddly enough, my sister never reads books now. I read constantly. It is one of the big joys of my life. Glad to find others who share my passion.
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