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I loved The Little Princess, which was the expanded version of Sara Crewe.
I remember reading and re-reading several times a book called The Spinning Wheel Secret about a colonial girl whose mother is kidnapped in an Indian raid and who is left with a relative but takes off on her own to go find her mother.
Read all the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books, as well as another series, Cherry Ames, about a nurse.
Read the whole shelf of biographies of famous Americans in the children's library in my town.
And around 12 or so, I read this great book called Addie Pray, about a con man and his daughter traveling during the Great Depression. A part of the book was made into the movie Paper Moon starring Ryan and Tatum O'Neal. The best part, their biggest con, isn't in the movie.
I had one of the Cherry Ames books. And I had several of the Trixie Belden books, too. I remember particularly a book called The Girl Scouts at Mystery Mansion by Mildred Wirt who was one of the authors of the Nancy Drew books. And The Yearling. Gregory Peck was too big to play Penny Baxter. But something about Peter Pan struck me as unbearably sad, a little boy so afraid to grow up.
I don't remember my favorite little kid's books except for Babar and Peter Rabbit. I think the Babar one was called Babar's Voyage.
A little bit older: Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, A Wrinkle In Time, the Bobbsey Twins series, the Nancy Drew series, the Cherry Ames series as well as any Agatha Christie mystery, spy books and sci fi like Heinlein's Podkayne of Mars.
I still have the paperback Agatha Christie books I read when I was in Junior High and High School. I think if I touch them they'll turn to dust. One that she wrote under another name cost 10 cents.
I was wondering if anyone remembered a children's book about a young girl in a girl's school in France. I can't remember the title nor the author. Then there was a second book about the same girl in the same school celebrating Bastille Day.
I loved all those Laura Ingalls Wilder, Bobbsey Twins, Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew books! And the Island of the Blue Dolphin!
I remember our fifth grade teacher reading to us on Friday afternoons Sam Levinson's Everything but Money. Even fifth graders laughed at that book.
I was wondering if anyone remembered a children's book about a young girl in a girl's school in France. I can't remember the title nor the author. Then there was a second book about the same girl in the same school celebrating Bastille Day.
I didn't read any books as a child. Does curious george, charlie brown, dr. seuss, garfield and clifford the dog count? Those were the only books in my elementary school classroom. That and Readers digest.
The Witches was great. I love Roald Dahl too, my fave book of his back then was "James and the Giant Peach", I liked the movie adaption too.
I also loved the Amelia Bedelia series. It was so hilarious, my mom loved it too.
And then some random others, I have to look them up cause I cant remember some titles
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