Mariel Uppenborn it made me go out in my yard and pretend I was Native American and living in the woods and stuff. I remember making Campbell’s vegetable beef soup and pretending I made it from bear meat. Little kid me got really into that book lol
.Choose your own adventure books .The Secret Garden . Flowers in the attic . Little women . A candle in her room . Judy Blume books -Deenie – Iggys house – Tales of a fourth. grade nothing – Are you there God it’s me Margaret
Favorite series was Nancy Drew mysteries; Christy by Catherine Marshall sparked a desire in me to learn about my Appalachian heritage and all things health-related; Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was a gift from a favorite teacher who encouraged me to read a lot; Go Ask Alice and Flowers for Algernon were high school mandatory and made me aware of social issues.
The Borrowers by Mary Norton, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Forever by Judy Blume, Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White, anything by Dr. Seuss, Curious George by H.A. Rey, Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain… I’m sure there are more!
The Outsiders by SE Hinton
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https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Other-Scary-Stories-Reading/dp/0064440907
Sideways Stories from Wayside School and
The Indian in the Cupboard
I loved Sideways Stories! Totally forgot about them!
The Indian in the Cupboard was the best! A very interesting read
I thought it was a little hokey personally ? but that might be because I’m native
Mariel Uppenborn it made me go out in my yard and pretend I was Native American and living in the woods and stuff. I remember making Campbell’s vegetable beef soup and pretending I made it from bear meat. Little kid me got really into that book lol
@Sarah wow that’s more involved than I was gotta say lol. I think I did lots of late night imagining with it though, making up different endings etc.
Well, you have to understand I’m a super-nerd ? always have been.
@Corinne it was definitely non PC but if you take that aspect out it’s pretty fun
I didn’t NOT like it.
It just made me laugh in some spots and not my favorite, ha ha.
My dad, also native, LOVES the movie.
It really sparked my wee imagination… I can tell ya that lol
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
The Little Wooden Doll by Margery Williams Bianco
Cotton in my Sack by Lois Lenski
The Little Prince
Lord of the Flies
His Dark Materials trilogy
A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Outsiders
The entire Fear Street series gave me my love of all things paranormal.
I loved Fear Street!
Did you know that R.L Stine has 2 adult novels. Superstitious and Red Rain.
I will definitely have to look into those. I kinda forgot he existed once I outgrew it and never looked into him again.
Sweet Valley High series…
Shaped my daughter’s appetite for reading as well.
Mandy by Julia Andrews Eswards and Old Magic by Marianna Curley, two of my favorite books to this day and then the harry potter series of course
Loved Mandy as well
Redwall series by Brian Jaques
goosebumps by R.L STINE and LEMONY SNICKETS series of unfortunate events!
Eric by Doris Herold Lund
Little blue and little yellow by Leo Leonni
McElligot’s Pool by Dr. Seuss
The Little Prince by Antoine de st. Exupery
Andre Norton and Robert Heinlein.
A wrinkle in time and sequels by L’engle, Mandy by Andrews-Edwards, The Wednesday Witch by Chew…for starters…
“Little Women.” “The Human Comedy” by William Saroyan.
All the Enid Blyton books I read as a child …
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys–I loved mysteries. Charlotte’s Web and Little Women touched me.
Enid Blyton books and Beatrix Potter books
Little women. Heidi. Secret garden. Alice in wonderland
Flowers in the attic
The hobbit
.Choose your own adventure books
.The Secret Garden
. Flowers in the attic
. Little women
. A candle in her room
. Judy Blume books
-Deenie
– Iggys house
– Tales of a fourth. grade nothing
– Are you there God it’s me Margaret
The Judy Blumes ones.
And Little Women by L.M. Alscot
Anne of Green Gables
Anything by Judy Blume
The giver
Are You There God, is me Margaret. by Judy Blume. Basically, everything by Judy Blume.
Mrs Pepperpot/Malory Towers/Hardy Boys & Stig of the Dump
Are you there god, it’s me Margaret? The cat ate my gymsuit. The bell trees. The martian chronicles. The end of Eternity.
The famous five. And a bookserie from a Dutch writer, which my mum read as child/teenager. And I start reading it when I was a teenager.
Little Women and The Diary of Anne Frank
HATED reading growing up but I did read some choice your own adventure and The Babysitters Club.
Are you there God, its me Margaret Judy Blume
A Ring of Endless Light was my favorite growing up.
Favorite series was Nancy Drew mysteries; Christy by Catherine Marshall sparked a desire in me to learn about my Appalachian heritage and all things health-related; Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was a gift from a favorite teacher who encouraged me to read a lot; Go Ask Alice and Flowers for Algernon were high school mandatory and made me aware of social issues.
I absolutely LOVED ‘Choose your own adventure books’ way back in the 80’s ?
Nancy drew and Harry Potter. Harry Potter more than any other
Little Women and The Secret Garden.
Harriet The Spy and The Secret Garden
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower.. The only book that impacted me in inexplicable ways.
Galaxy of Fear
The Hobbit. I capture the castle. The witch of Blackbird Pond. The diary of Anne Fra nk.
I forgot about the witch of blackbird pond…loved that book!
The Secret Garden
The Babysitters Club
The Borrowers by Mary Norton, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Forever by Judy Blume, Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White, anything by Dr. Seuss, Curious George by H.A. Rey, Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain… I’m sure there are more!
The Outsiders! I loved that book too!