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Favorite book from childhood? Mine was Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

Favorite book from childhood? Mine was Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

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Dawn

James and the Giant Peach was my favorite.

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Sarah

You mean James and the Giant Peach. I loved that and Matilda also.

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Cabalera

Nancy Drew Mysteries

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Betty

When I first started reading

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Karen

The secret garden

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Melinda

Little Women, Trixie Belden mysteries, Nancy Drew

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Karen

Winnie the Pooh, Black Beauty.

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Betty

I was a bookworm even then though so … that is only 2 out of the 1000’s of books I have read

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Dan

“The Hobbit” in 6th grade. I picked up reading fairly quickly.

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Beth

The Phantom Tollbooth. Still re-read it every few years.

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Heather

Choose your own adventure books!

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Lynn

The Secret Garden and Little Women.

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Sophia

Ohhhh I read sooo many books growing up. But my favorite was and still is The Farthest Away Mountain by Lynn Reid Banks. She also wrote The Indian in The Cupboard.

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Christine

Charlotte’s Web turned me into an avid reader beginning in 1st grade.

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Tonya

Anne of Green Gables and Little Women

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Cheryl

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

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Paula

Charlotte’s Web

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Diana

Stuart Little and Anne of Green Gables

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Nicole

Little House on the Prairie series. The Long Winter broke in half, I read it so many times.

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Anne

Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl.

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Lacey
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Angie

I scared the crap out of my little sister with this one (she was only five).

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Beth

Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, the Little House books, Secret Garden and Little Princess, and Nancy Drew.

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Judith

Jane Eyre

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Katie

Anything by Judy Blume!

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Melissa

Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Judy Blume.

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Lori

Charlotte’s Web

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Karen

The Black Stallion

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Karen

The oldest I recall loving was Bartholomew and the Oobleck and, of course, Bartholomew and the 500 Hats.

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Jennifer

Are you there God? It’s me Margaret ❤️ Judy Blume

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Lili

Ferdinand

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Ryan

“The Night Before Christmas” and “Where the Sidewalk Ends.”

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Arwen

A Wrinkle in Time

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Dawn

Definitely “The Boxcar Children.” Any book from the series I called a favorite, and still do.

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Sophia

Loved that series also!

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Elana

The Borrowers by Mary Norton.

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Andrea

Bridge to Terabithia, the Anne of Green Gables series, The Secret Garden, Little Women, Tuck Everlasting, The Lion the With and the Wardrobe, Nancy Drew books… I read A LOT as a kid

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Sophia

Yes yes! Lots of my favorites on this list also!

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Angela

Me too. It was my saving.

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Susanne

The Little Princess by Francis Hodgeson Burnett and all the Dr
Seuss books- esp. Horton Hatches the egg.

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Hillery

The Lion the witch and the Wardrobe.

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Doris

The Malory Towers Series by Enid Blython

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Gerry

Nancy Drew was a big favorite of mine. I think I read every book in the series!

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Christiana

Heidi, The Little Princess and Nancy Drew! I still have my Nancy books.

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Betsy

Secret Garden……

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Dana

From my 9 year old granddaughter-Percy Jackson series.

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Stacy

Those books are fantastic.

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Martha

Mr. Popper’s Penguins!!

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Jennifer

Walter Farley Black Stallion books and Little House on the Prairie series

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Angie

Too many! Almost everything that everyone else has listed, haha. I’d add The Light Princess and The Princess and the Goblins by George MacDonald.

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Stacy

I loved The Princess and the Goblin! 😀

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Angie

The Princess was the first book I found on my own at the library (I grew up in a family of readers so many books were introduced to me). I reread The Light Princess not too long ago and still loved it, even as an adult. I need to reread Princess!

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Lisa

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Nancy

The Lion the witch and the Wardrobe

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Sami

The Pilgrim’s Progress and the Jill pony books by Ruby Ferguson.

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Carol

Hiedi

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Ruth

The Velveteen Rabbit, The Little Red Hen.

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Liz

By the time I was 9, I had read all the Nancy Drew, Bobsey Twins and Hardy Boys books. My favorites books, though, were centered around horses — Black Beauty and Misty of Chincoteague (sp?).

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Jennifer

oh yes, I had so many Marguerite Henry books. Loved them!

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Frances

@Jennifer Yes, King of the Wind and Black Gold were my favorites!

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Eve

This is hard to answer, too may favs. I loved the bobbsey twins and read every book in the series. I loved Anne of green gables and that entire series. But my favorite was probably the trolley car family, about a family that decides to live in the trolley car that their dad drove when it gets retired for the bus lines.

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Kathleen

“Margaret” by Janet Sebring Lowry; “An Old Fashioned Girl” by Lousia May Alcott; “Little Women”; “A Little Princess” and “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett. All things Nancy Drew, “Black Beauty”; “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”.

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Michelle

Every Judy Blume book. I read them until they fell apart.

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Tracy

Where the Red Fern Grows and The Secret Garden

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Beth

Nancy Drew, Little House…

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Janet

Heidi

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Sheree

The Hardy Boys, Harriett the Spy, Treasure island and Swiss Family Robinson, Trixie Beldon,

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Cathy

Me too

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Marilyn

Black Beauty!

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Gwen

The Phantom Tollbooth

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Rose

Nancy Drew, the Dana Girls, Trixie Belden, Cherry Ames, my brother’s Tom Swift and Hardy Boys, The Swiss Family Robinson, Little Women, and then my first “grown up” book — A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. 58 or so years later it remains my all-time favorite, one I’ve read many times since.

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Jerene

I LOVED Trixie Belden!!

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Elena

Choose your own adventure & Goosebumps

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Jennifer

The Black Stallion.

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Jess

Holes

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Randi

Nancy Drew books.

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Mary

Everything by Roald Dahl

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Linda

The Secret Garden

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Sarah

Probably Anne of Green Gables series. We even went on a vacation to PEI once and went to the house.

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Roberta

Mio, My Son by Astrid Lundgren. Its like Harry Potter in Fairytale land. I bet JK Rowlings read it too! Cloak of invisiblity, evil villian, mean foster parents, need I say more?

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Karen

When I read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I had to go back and re-read her Pippi Longstocking series. ?

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Jennifer
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Lisa

the secret garden

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Vicky

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle.

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Michelle

Charlottes Web

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Sarah

Also Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

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Jennifer

If I had to pick only one favorite, it’s Peggy Parish’s “Key to the Treasure”. It was one of the first chapter books I could read and understand on my own. I was 6 or 7.

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Bev

Black Beauty

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Devan

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

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Leonora

Stuart Little

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Wendy

Caddie Woodlawn, The Secret Garden, Pippi Longstocking, Half Magic, Little Witch, The Black Stallion

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Kenneth

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George.

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Ashley

As a very young child my favorite book was “Quick as a Cricket.” It’s one of my favorites to read to my child.

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Andrea

Little Women. Wanted to be Jo then, now I wish I was more like Marmee.

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Kate

Little Women.

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Annie

A Wrinkle in Time and the Little House series

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Mary

Little Women

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Mike

The Hardy Boys series. Between my cohorts Jeff & Bruce & I we bought and read and traded the entire series at the time (around 45) because back in the ‘60s those kid series were banned in libraries.

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Sam

Bridge to Terabithia.

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Deborah

The Secret Garden

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Billy

Andy Buckram’s “Tin Men”.

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Rena

Laura Ingalls Wilder “Little House” series!

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Jennifer

Preschool -Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Elementary-anything Ramona Quimby then later Judy Bloom
Junior High and Forever After- To Kill a Mockingbird

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Penny

Not a book, but rather two stories. By fourth grade, my favorites were The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Hop Frog, both by Poe.

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Kathleen

“Mrs. Mike” by Nancy Freedman

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Kimberley

I loved the Raggedy Ann books, Mary Poppins, Charlotte’s Web, and Farmer McBroom books.

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Kimberly

The Borrowers by Mary Norton, The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks, the Nancy Drew books, and The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. I was obsessed with Isaac Asimov’s robot stories. Oh, and everything by Roald Dahl, Dr. Suess, Kate DiCamillo, Beverly Cleary, and E.B. White! I also read and reread the Redwall series by Brian Jacques.

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Elizabeth

Loved the Redwall series!

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Ashley

I loved Indian in the Cupboard! Castle in the Attic was a similar one I loved!

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Kimberly

@Ashley I have to add it to my TBR!

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Kimberly

@Elizabeth It was THE BEST!

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Lynne

Loved The Borrowers. Can’t tell you how many little things I left out under my bed for them…lol…

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Kimberly

@Lynne Same here! My belief in borrowers was integral to my childhood development.

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Ann

The Secret Garden

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Sharon

Little House on the Prairie. I couldn’t watch the famous TV series because it was terrible compared to those books!

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Kristina

The wizard of Oz

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Hennie

Stuart Little when quite young. Nancy Drew mysteries in elementary school. The Secret Garden.

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Ashley

I would spend whole Saturdays in my room finishing an entire R.L. Stine. Plus, Little Women, Black Beauty, the SuperFudge series, American Girl, Girl Talk, Babysitters Club, Dr. Seuss and pretty much every Golden Book ever written.

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Kimberly

How could I forget Dr. Suess?! ❤

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Phyllis

I loved the book Heidi and all The Nancy Drew books.

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Rachel

Charlotte’s web , little princess, the Secret Garden, Little Women, Nancy Drew series

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Elena

I loved A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, and All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor.

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Patricia

Little Women

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Bree

Emily of New Moon series, and everything else written by L.M. Montgomery. There were paperbacks released of her short stories in collections.

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Kimberley

I’m an Anne fan, but I didn’t get to know her until my late teens.

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Angela

Charlotte’s Web & anything Nancy Drew; I loved mysteries from an early age! ?

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Karen

Nancy drew series.

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Lani

Anne of Green Gables and Island of the Blue Dolphins

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Kim

I love Island of the Blue Dolphins growing up. 🙂

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Gay

Nancy Drew or Trixie Belden

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Nancy

A Wrinkle in Time.

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Kathy

The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Kimberley

Oh I forgot the Chronicles of Narnia!

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Gayle

@Heidi

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Anne

The Betsy, Tacy, and Tib series by Maud Hart Lovelace. These books deserve a comeback in popularity.

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Becky

Secret Garden

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Patricia

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

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Marianne

Charlotte’s Web, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle

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Molly

All of Louisa Mae (May?) Alcott

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Doris

The Pokey Little Puppy

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Arlett

Alice in Wonderland and The Secret Garden

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Julie

Nancy Drew books

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Teresa

A Wrinkle in Time

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Ami

The Westing Game and anything by E. L. Konigsburg

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Ami

@Jennifer – I had friends that did that too!

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Patrice

There are so many! I was a major bookworm as a child. I love the Beezus and Ramona books, Nancy Drew, Charlotte’s Web, The Oz books, Dr. Seuss.

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Alice

Anne of Green Gables

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Moira

all of the above plus Donna Parker and Cherry Ames

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Michelle

Diary of Anne Frank. I was her age when I first read it.

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Jennifer

Charlotte’s Web

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Patti

Secret Garden, Nancy Drew, the Betsy series, Lois Lenski books, and Little House series

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Jean

Loved all of these!

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Patti

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Lee

The. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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Laurie

Heidi, the Wizard of Oz, Wind in the Willows, Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, Little House series.

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Deborah

Wind in the Willow was the first book I remember but The Little House on the Prairie books were the first books that made me love reading.

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Laura

All the Beverly Cleary books!

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Andrea

Little Women

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Anne

Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and The Boxcar Children

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Judy

Heidi, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, Black Beauty, Five Little Peppers, Nancy Drew, Little House Books

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Margarita

The Bobbsey Twins, The Boxcar Children, The Honey Bunch series, Nancy Drew.

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Michele

Ditto

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Madelyn-Maddie

The Neverending Story

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Barbara

Favorite early childhood book is The Little Engine That Could. Favorites that I read to my sons are Stuart Little and The Dancing Bear, as well as the Narnia series.

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Connie

The Little House series

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Laura

Charlotte’s Web

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Michele

When really young loved “Honey Bunch”. Bobbsey Twins

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Melanie

As a little girl: How Fletcher was Hatched by Wende & Harry Devlin, The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton, and Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Keats. As a child: The Little House on the Prairie books, Trixie Belden books, and Lois Lenski books. There are truly many more, but these are the ones that came to mind first. There was also an abridged version of Anne of Green Gables that we had in our country school. It was an extra large book and had color pictures. The cover has Anne’s head/face on the cover. It took me a long time, but I found a copy of that book. I read it too many times to count when I was in school.

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Piepie

Wind in the Willows is one of my favs too! I read a lot of the Redwall series, by Brian Jacques, and also several of Roald Dahl’s books

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Julie

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George and A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry. I read these two books over and over again.

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Brenda

Diary of Anne Frank, Anne of Green Gables, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Native Son, Black Like Me, the Bible and whatever my older siblings were reading.

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Deb

Little House on the Prairie.

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Janet

Hands down Anne of Green Gables! All of them!

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Mary

Hmm…Harriet the Spy and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler-so many from which to choose!

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Heather

A Little Princess

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Cynthia

Ramona the Pest

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Katherine

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

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Ann

My Side of the Mountain and Charlotte’s Web

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Sue

A Wrinkle in Time, and I will not be seeing the movie. Nothing can live up to my own imaginings.

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Anne

Wrinkle in Time

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Julie

James and the Giant Peach

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Leah

The Pink Maple House

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Sarah

The Anne of Green Gables series followed by a serious obsession with Gone With the Wind. I literally have read both over 100 times.

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Sandra

The Secret Garden and The little Prince

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Kristi

The Wizard of Oz.

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Pamela

Winnie the Pooh books

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Mike

How funny that ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ was 1st published when I was 8 yrs old and yet I had never heard of it until the film version was released this year. Did it somehow bypass Racine, Wisconsin??? ?

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Allyson

East of the Sun, West of the Moon.

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Natalia

Matilda and The Babysitters Club

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Celine

Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls, The Little Princess, The Secret Garden, and A Wrinkle in Time were some of my favorites.

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Kimbra

The Lord of the Rings. (Yes, I was a strange child.)

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Kim

*raises hand* Lord of the Rings was the only thing I asked for for my 12th birthday. So I’m right there with ya! 🙂

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Kimbra

@Kim *high-fives* I was 7 or 8. I encountered the Rankin-Bass ROTK first, then sought out the boxed sets.

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Amy

Nancy Drew

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Lori

The Boxcar Children

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Dustin

Sarah, Plain and Tall

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Darby

Stuart Little

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Michell

She was Nice to Mice written by Ally Sheedy. Yes that Ally Sheedy.

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April

I was reading really weird stuff when I was a kid. The Circle of Light Series by Niel Hancock was my favorite series and I read them over and over again obsessively.

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April

I also loved the Freddy The Pig series.

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Diane

Winnie the Pooh

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Billie

Charlotte’s Web. That’s the book that made me realize that I was going to love reading for the rest of my life. ♥️♥️??♥️♥️

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Laura

Island of the Blue Dolphins

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Lindsey

Trixie Belden and the Gatehouse Mystery

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Beth

Nancy Drew

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Margit

The Phantom Tollbooth

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Kristi

Sweet Valley High Series (the original) in 6th grade is how I found my love for reading!

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Kim

Weeellll…The Hobbit lead me to beg for the Lord of the Rings for my 12th birthday, and LOTR is still my absolute favorite. But it’s not really a young adult or kids book. So The Hobbit maybe? I also loved a book called Birth of the Firebringer (unicorns…pitter pat went my preteen heart) and one called A Murder For Her Majesty.

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TC

Cherry Ames and Nancy Drew.

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Yvonne

The Wizard of Oz, my parents read it to me at bedtime

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Michele

In the 4th grade I read Mandy by Julie (Andrews) Edwards and that book started my lifelong love of reading.

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Frances

A friend mentioned that she loved this book too but for the record, the author is Edwards( you probably had a brain fart)?

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Michele

@Frances yes of course you’re right! I knew that! I have to change it now! 😀

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Melanie

I loved that one too. I don’t hear of many people who have read it.

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Kathleen

My daughter loved “The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles” by Julie Andrews and the “Dinotopia” series.

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Barbara

I love that book, too. My favorite from childhood is Alice in Wonderland.

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Angelique

Little House on the Prairie was the start to my love of reading.

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Kelly

Chronicles of Narnia

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Linda

Witch of Blackbird Pond- it had just come out….when I think about it that must have started my love of historical fiction

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Cabalera

I loved that book!

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April

I also loved that book!

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Michell

WOW! There are some really great titles listed!

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Kristin

Ginny Gordon and the Lending Library

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Nancy

All of The Black Stallion books.

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Crystal

I loved it when my parents read the Wizard of OZ to me❤️

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Andrea

A Little Princess and The Secret Garden.

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Jeni

The Secret Garden … and Nancy Drew

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Elizabeth

Uncle Wiggley read to me or Winnie the Pooh. Reading to myself, The Boxcar Children, Nancy Drew.

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Cheryl

I have a few, ..as I went from six to 12 years old…Charlotte’s Web, Watership Down, Mixed up files of Mrs. BEF., A Wrinkle in Time, Boxcar Children, Black Beauty, Misty of Chinntoquage, Nancy Drew books, and more. I love seeing the comments here!

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Barb

My granddaughters LOVE the Magic Tree house series, and I love listening to them read, can’t wait to see what happens next.

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Sharon

Jealous, Jaylen never wanted to be read to and still hates reading to this day!

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Barb

@Sharon Alder used to be a big reader, Carly said he read these books when he was younger. He always was reading something.

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Kelly

The Once and Future King was my favorite as a teen. I also loved the Sherlock Holmes stories. Before that, I liked Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys, preceeded by Amelia Bedelia and Beverly Cleary books. The first book I really loved, though, was The Poky Little Puppy. My mom says I had it memorized before I could even read.

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Karen

Oh, I loved The Poky Little Puppy! ??

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Gretchen

Black Beauty

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Heather

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

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Frances

Beginner reader, The Fire Cat by Esther Averill. Chapter books: Marguerite Henry horse books, Outlaw Red by Jim Kjelgaard, The Crossbreed by Allan Eckert, Yellow Eyes by Rutherford Montgomery, Lad of Sunny bank by Albert Paysone Terhune (all animal stories).

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Cindy

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingles Wilder

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Nina

The White Stallion

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Cheryl

A Wrinkle in Time.
Also “Where the Sidewalk Ends” Shel Silverstein

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Eboni

Charlotte’s Web
Where the Red Fern Grows
Huckleberry Finn
The Mouse and the Motorcycle

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Shelley

WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams…loved all his books but this was my fave; also lovedTHE SILENT MEOW

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Michelle

The Silver Nutmeg by Palmer Brown.

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Cathy

The Black Stallion

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Patrice

Those are great ones! I forgot Black Beauty too. I was obsessed with horses!

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Frances

Me too. Absolutely. All those girls in love with horses.

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Phaedra

Corduroy; Ramona Quimby

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Sirena

The Phantom Tollbooth

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Julie

Island of the blue dolphins

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Tammy

I Can’t Said the Ant and The Penguin that Hated the Cold

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Melinda

Misty of Chincoteague ?

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Elaine

I devoured these Childhood History books when I was in elementary school. There were whole shelves of them at the library!

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Gretchen

I loved these books! I think I must have read every one I found in our little school library.

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Jean

Yes! Loved these.

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Dayna

The first “chapter book” I rember reading was Amelia Erhart — loved these!

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Julia

The Betsy-Tacy-Tib books by Maud Hart Lovelace

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Jean

I own them all!

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Taylor

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe ?

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Deb

“A Lantern in her Hand” by Bess Streeter Audrich

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Melinda

I absolutely adore her books, but especially that one!

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Mary

“A Secret Garden”

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Judy

Black Beauty

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Amanda

The Trumpeter of Krakow.

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Veronica

The Oz books, Charlotte’s Web, The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

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Sandra

I loved the Dan Frontier books!

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Tess

Harriet the Spy. ?

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Sandra

And all the Wizard of Oz books!

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Jason

James and the giant peach
Little house books
Twice freed
Were the wild things are
Bible bed time stories

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Janessa

The Tail of Emily Windsnap series, the Magic Treehouse series, and the Harry Potter series.

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Stacy

“Little Women” and “The Secret Garden” as well as anything by Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume.

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April

The Wizard of Oz- and all the Oz books. By L. Frank Baum. So many happy memories! And now I love reading the Wicked Books by Gregory Maguire

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Stacy

My Side of the Mountain, Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, The Hobbit, His Dark Materials, and Harry Potter. 🙂

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Peggy

The Secret Garden and Heidi

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Shirley

American Girl Series 🙂

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Kelly

Charlotte’s Web.

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Callie

The Shark Lady & M is for Muggie

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Gayle

“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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Maya

Charlotte’s Web

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Melinda

Mandy by Julie Andrews, read and reread.

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Melanie

I loved that one too! Don’t hear from many others that they have read it.

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April

Where the Red Fern Grows – Read it until the binding was broke and the cover had fallen off

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Sarah

All of the Little House on the Prairie books. Read them all multiple times.

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Jenna

As a tween, I stumbled upon Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and “In the Forest of the Night,” and I fell in love with her characters and books. She was like a teen version of Anne Rice and got me into Anne Rice, actually (read Interview with the Vampire at 14). These are the books that stuck with me and I still have them. She also inspired me to write.

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Mari

A Wrinkle in Time By Madeline L’Engle.

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Nawrie

The Princess and the Goblin.

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Mindy

Black Beauty

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Sandy

Anne of Green Gables.

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Barbara

Heidi and every Nancy Drew Book and Beatrice Potter

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Sheila

Heidi, Little Women, Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, Little House on the Prairie

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Ruth

“Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH” by Robert C. O’Brien.

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Pam

Little Women, Little Men, etc. ,Cherry Ames series

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Cynthia

I was just talking about Wind in the Willows. Great NPR performance once. Mine is Tom Sawyer. I still remember the chills when Tom and Becky are in the caves.

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Karol

Heidi

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Barbara

The Secret Garden

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Monica

Anne of Green Gables, the Secret Garden

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Kim

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM read by my 5th grade teacher everyday after recess.

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Ginger

Johnny Tremaine and the Liberty Tree.

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Jane

Misty of Chincoteague, by Marguerite Henry. My Mom took me downtown Cleveland on the bus to meet the author and get a signed book. I remember it like it was yesterday!!

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Karen

Me too! Was this in the ’50’s, and she showed a filmstrip of the horses and the islands? I grew up in Alliance about 60 miles SE of Cleveland. Man, I loved those books.

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Ann

I loved all of those. Want to take my grand daughter to see the horses next summer.

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Jane

@Karen, yes, it was the 50’s at Higbee’s or Halle’s. I still want to go see the horses!

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Karen

So do I! It was at Higbee’s, I think, if that was the one where you could get an egg cream in the basement cafe afterward.

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Jane

@Karen, one of the marvelous malts for me. Haha!

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Joy

King of the Dollhouse by Patricia Clapp

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Elyse

Wrinkle In Time

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Chrissy

Little House on the Prairie

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Marda

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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Leiane

I loved this book

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Jane

Tuck Everlasting, the Chronicles of Narnia and Bunnicula ?

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April

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster 🙂

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Beth

Charlotte’s Web

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Amy

Where the Red Fern Grows. My third grade teacher read it to the class, and we all sobbed together. And then I read it alone many times. And sobbed alone.

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Adrienne

My fourth grade teacher read it to us. I do love that book. I wore my copy out.

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Beth

Betsy Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace love ?

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Deb

Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing, James And The Giant Peach, My Side Of The Mountain….many others!

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Juliet

Little Women and The Chronicles of Narnia were my most well read books growing up. I was just thinking about how different my adolescence would have been if Harry Potter had been available when I was growing up. Today’s kids have no idea how lucky they are!

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Theresa

Charlotte’s Web and The Trumpet of the Swan

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Lisa

All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

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Adrienne

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.

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Dawn

I loved Shel Silverstein! And of course the Babysitters Club series

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Linda

Maida’s Little Store by Inez Haynes Irwin. It was my Mom’s book!

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Beth

Never heard of it! There goes another one on my “after The List” List!

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Linda

It’s an old-timer but I think still available!

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Nell

I loved Maida’s little

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Nell

School. but my favorite was Little Women

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Laurie

I loved Heidi and the other books about her, Peter and the Alm Uncle, as did my mom so she read all of them to me and compared Heidi’s environment to hers growing up in the foothills of Mt. Adams and they raised goats, too. ?

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Fleta

I love Heidi also. I have my Mother’s copy. A few years ago I began. looking for different versions. I now have 10 or so different editions. I enjoy seeing how various illustrators choose to depict Heidi and the story.

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Laurie

@Fleta That’s great!

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Laurie
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Laurie

Here’s my book which was a birthday gift for my ninth birthday!

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Fleta

@Laurie I do not have this one. I like the picture.

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Laurie

Someone else got my Mom’s ancient book, but I have her copy of Pinocchio that’s falling apart!

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Laurie

@Fleta Keep looking! There must be a few of these around if mine has managed to survive…although I don’t think I let my sister’s read it, or they weren’t interested!

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Fleta

@Laurie My Mom’s is falling apart too
The paper is crumbly. I found another copy of the same edition that is not as fragile

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Laurie

@Fleta That was so lucky!

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Jean

This is interesting – so many of us have copies of Heidi that belonged to our mothers . . . mine, too, is falling apart. But I love the illustrations. 1924 edition

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Fleta

@Jean Beautiful cover.

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Clara

When pigs fly

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Sara

Stuart Little (elementary)
The Outsiders (middle school)

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Nancy

Blackhearts at Battersea, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, A Wrinkle in Time, Star Girl (all elementary school reads)

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Ruth

I remember the Witch of Blackbird Pond!!

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Laurie

I love Wind in the Willows even as an adult but it disturbs me that the chapter Piper at the Gates of Dawn is sometimes deleted

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Jennifer

I’m going to read this tonight, never did as a child but always on the shelf for-someday. Chapter sited is included 😉

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Laurie

@Jennifer lucky you. I have so many favorite parts..please smile for me when mole visits his old home at Christmas

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Kristin

Mole’s home at Christmas is one of THE BEST parts! I would gladly live in Mole End.

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Brenda

The Outsiders

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Misty

Oh, I loved that book?

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Bernice

Loved biographies. Nellie Bly, Girl Reporter and Jenny Lind, The Swedish Nightingale to name a couple.

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Cynthia

Yes. Yes, yes to all of these.

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Katrina

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstien

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Cynthia

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

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Brooke

A Child’s Garden of Verses, A Wrinkle in Time, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Heidi, all of the Louisa May Alcott books, all of the Little House books.

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Sallie

Ramona

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Sallie

Heidi

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Liz

Child’s Garden of Verses

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Leslie

Yes. We had this book as children and I read it many times. I had forgotten! Thanks for the reminder!

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Bonita

I thought about the swinging poem the other day when I saw from my window the little girl next door on her swing set. “Up in the air and over the wall ’til I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattle and all over the countryside. (Then?) I look down on the garden (wall?), down on the roof so brown, Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down.”

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Rachelle

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen!

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Laurie

Brians Winter too

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Theresa

Just Plain Maggie

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Kristin

“Hounds of the Morrigan” by Pat O’Shea, Watership Down, and the Chronicles of Narnia! And, and, and…

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Laurie

Watership Down… what an imagination Richard Adams had let’s all go out and silfay

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LaShonda

Mrs. Nelson is Missing, White Fang and The Witches are some favorites!

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Laurie

White Fang?

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LaShonda

@Laurie yes. I bawled!

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Beth

Little House Books, Bobsey Twins, Charlotte’s Web, Mr Popper’s Penguins.

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Darby

Omg Bobbsey Twins !

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Beth

@Darby I recently went on a quest to get a whole set of them, which I was able to do. I read them all again, in order. I enjoyed them but I must say, I did not remember that they treat racial differences in a seriously inappropriate way! I’m pretty sure my mom never read them or she would never have allowed me to read them!!

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Darby

@Beth yes Beth you are right about that. I have never been able to find a full set. Thankfully , time changes things for the better . Sometimes .

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Beth

Wow! What a great prompt! Everyone is posting and you can just feel the loving energy spinning through it!

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Nancy

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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Steve-Kristen

The Little House on the Prairie series, and the Ramona Quimby books by Beverly Cleary were always my favorite!! Then, as I got a little older, Judy Blume books were all I read and re-read!!

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Beth

I loved the Ramona books. I always wanted to be her, but I’m more of a Beezus.

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Karen

The Little House series. I also loved Anne of Green Gables?

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Cate

The Little Old Man who Could not read.

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Kari

Talking to Dragons by Patricia Wrede

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Sharon

From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler

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Wendy

Winnie the Pooh

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Ann

I want to spend this summer reading these again. Such wonderful memories.

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Laurie

Out of the Silent Planet C.S. Lewis.

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Cora

Pippi Longstocking

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Barbara

My first favorite book was in the 3rd grade I read the original Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. I have read so many others, but some favorites include Night by Eli Weisel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Hiroshima, The Winthrop Woman, all of Mary Higgins Clark, James Patterson, especially his Alex Cross series, and so many more! Love books, love reading!

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Ruth

I loved horses so any book by Walter Farley.

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Laurie

My sister joined the Walter Farley fan club

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Nancee

A Wrinkle in Time

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Judy

Heidi

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Louanne

Heidi

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Sharon

Charlotte’s Web

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Louise

Loved loved Wind in the Willows but I have to say my favorite was Winnie the Pooh because my mother read it so brilliantly

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Sabrina

The Westing Game, A Wrinkle in Time, A Girl of the Limberlost

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Harriett

Winnie-the-Pooh, and I still have it!

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Judy

I was given a Winnie the Pooh book when I was born and still have it 60+ years later.

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Wendy

I still have mine, too !,

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Tanya

The Phantom Tollbooth

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Laurie

Another one I read as an adult and loved

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Beth

The Girl of the Limberlost. I read it when I was 7 and fell in love. I think I’ve read it about twice a year since.

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Laurie

I just read it again. It was one of my mom’s favorites.

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Shirley

Little Women, Heidi

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Lisa

The Boxcar Children , Mrs Piggle Wiggle & also Encyclopedia Brown ?

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Laurie

There’s a movie coming out with The Boxcar Children

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Jennifer

I ❤️❤️❤️the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books!!! And Encyclopedia Brown! OMG such memories!

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Lisa

Me 2 along w So many other books! I especially remember liking the Radish Cure, the Tattle-Tale Cure, the Slow Eater Tiny Bite Taker Cure, the Thought You Saiders Cure & the Fighter Quarrelers Cure! Synopsis all on Wikipedia ???

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Dawn

Dark Hour of Noon by Christine Szambelan-Strevinsky

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Scott

The Phantom Tollbooth!

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Kimberly

Yes

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Ellen

Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Mrs Piggle Wiggle, Bobbsey Twins. More then one ? Have loved reading my whole life!

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Leslie

Loved Nancy Drew! Read all those books!

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Jean

The Secret Garden

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Camille

The Moffat Family series

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Jean

Oh, I LOVE that series!

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Jean

I own all of the Moffats books. Are you aware of a couple of others she wrote: “The Alley” and “The Tunnel of Hugsy Goode”? They go together and I love them, too!

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Camille

@Jean, Thank you for telling me. I didn’t know about them but I’m excited to read them! ?

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Camille

Definitely fun! I love this community of readers!

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Jeneane

The Yearling. Movie was so lovely too.

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Laurie

I remember the boy named Millwheel ?

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Karen

Little Women

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Paula

“Misty of Chincoteague” by Marguerite Henry (when I was very young) and “The Yearling” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Brenda

Song of the South and I loved the Yearling too

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Libby

The Phantom Tollbooth (plus Encyclopedia Brown and Trixie Belden)

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Karen

I forgot about Trixie, and I loved her.

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Anne

Trixie Belden ❤️

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Moira

I LOVED Trixie I have the best memories reading those books

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Adelle

Heidi

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Marianne

That was one of my favorites.

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Nicole

Watership Down ?????

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Leslie

Yes! Forgot about this one.

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Prudence

Little Women

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Liz

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

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Heather

Anne of Green Gables

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Susan

Black Beauty

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Sue

Any Nancy Drew Book

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Kristina

It’s a toss between “A Bridge to Terebithia” and “Tuck Everlasting” (though if I had to back up further into my childhood, I might choose “Anne of Green Gables”).

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Jill

A little older, I loved Judy Blume’s books.

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Barbara

The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe also Gone Away Lake

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Marla

Island of the Blue Dolphins.

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Ginger

I couldn’t get enough of Walter Farley’s books about the black stallion & the island stallion. Also Love Hardy Boys series.

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Judy

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle

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Laurie

Loved it!

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Kelly

As a child, I loved Charlotte’s Web, The Little House On the Prairie Series (especially Farmer Boy), A Wrinkle in Time, and the Nancy Drew Series. As a teen, I loved Anne of Green Gables, Ghosts I Have Been, Sweet Valley High Series, Pride and Prejudice, Gone with the Wind, & Rebecca.

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Jennifer

Sweet Valley High – I loved those books.

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Kathleen

Wizard of Oz

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Kendra

The Indian in the Cupboard

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Michelle

YES! I cannot convince Emery to read this ?

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Karen

Dick and Jane, Spot and Fluff and Sally

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Deb

Puff, the little tabby kitten. I found 3 copies on eBay. Had to buy them! They are the reason why I love to read ❤️

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Karen

that’s right, Puff it’s hell being 68, lol

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Susannah

Matilda and anything by Roald Dahl, Bill Bryson and Enid Blyton, and the Sweet Valley High series.

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Katherine

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech.

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Jody

The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler, Chartotte’s Web, Wrinkle in Time (Or anything by L’Engle), Anne of Green Gables, Eight Cousins, Winnie the Pooh, Secret Garden, Railway Children, Heidi, 5 Little Peppers, The Borrowers, Narnia, Pippi Longstocking, The Colored Fairy Tale books, Gone-Away Lake—there were just SOOOO many. I can’t quite part with them, yet. Once in a while I have a children’s book splurge. and read a bunch again. They never disappoint.

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Pam

I am reading through the Nancy Drew series again from the beginning. So much fun. They are hard to find so have to get some through Thrift Books.

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Marianne

The Mixed Up Files…is one of my favorite books! Reading it has made me want to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art someday!

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Leslie

From different times in childhood – Charlotte’s Web, Little House on the Prairie series, Jane Eyre, all the Dr. Seuss books, All Things Bright and Beautiful series, Misty of Chincoteague series or anything by Marguerite Henry.. So many!! Thanks for making me remember! Would like to read them again!!

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Michelle

Little Women

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Robin

Swiss Family Robinson. Also, Dr. Doolittle, who could talk to animals.

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Bonnie

“The Good Master” and “Rufus M” are tied.

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Bonnie

As a teen, “To Kill a Mocking Bird” had the greatest impact.

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Jeri

“Dreams of Victory,” forgot the author.

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Ann

Little Women

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Barbara

This Sunday on Masterpiece Theater At 8!

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June

I didn’t read as a child……………….

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Victoria

So hard to choose one favorite. Partial list in no particular order: Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Charlotte’s Web, Ramona books by Beverly Cleary, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books, The Wizard of Oz, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Superfudge, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, Little Women

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Julie

Loved Judy Blume!

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Elena

I was a big Blume fan too.

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Jody

I forgot Mrs Piggle Wiggle!!

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Lisa

Little Women

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Jan

A Wrinkle in time.

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Kevin

My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber

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Judie

I loved ALL Nancy Drew books. Guess it explains why I still enjoy mysteries best.

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Carrie

Laura Ingalls Wilder series.

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Lenna

Old Yeller

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Austina

paul bunyan and his big blue ox