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What was the first book that made you cry?

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LindaQuestion author

Mine was Come On Siebiscuit, by Ralph Moody.

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Nikki

I was in second grade and the book was Sadako And The Thousand Paper Cranes

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Evelyn

The fault In our stars

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Brandy

Bloodpromise Vampire Academy 4 when I thought Dimitri was gone forever ??

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Clare

Spoiler ??

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Brandy

@Clare ooops lol sorry

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Shannon

This was me!!

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Brandy

@Shannon I ugly cried and couldn’t stop thinking about the Strigoi dragging him away into the cave right in front of Rose! I swear it ripped my heart out as if it was my man in real life!

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Shannon

@Brandy I read it in school and everyone was looking at me as I sobbed and the tears were streaming. They all know thought I was ill or someone had died. I said it was worse and told them and they called me a weirdo. Lol

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Brandy

Lol The plight of the misunderstood book nerd. My hubby thinks I’m crazy all the time for laughing or crying at books. Oh well I don’t care I’ll keep on getting my heart crushed by new book boyfriends lol

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Diana

Gone With the Wind when I was 12.

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Brandy

I just read that this week and I can’t tell you how many times I cried over this book!! But every tear was worth it and I want to read it again!!!!

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Diana

@Brandy, I can’t count the number of times I have read it, starting at age 12 — and I am 74.

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Julie

A Dog’s Purpose!

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Corinne

The Golden Compass.

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Elena

The gift by Danielle steel

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Sherrie

Little Women. When Beth Dies

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Lysa

White Fang, a couple years ago. Books generally don’t make me cry, but what that poor wolfdog went through was tough to read for me.

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Jessica

The Outsiders, when I was 12

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Sherrie

I cried reading that one too.

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Nancy

Angels Unawares by Dale Evans

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LindaQuestion author

That was my mom’s favorite book. Cried at that one too, right along with my mom.

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Nancy

I was eight years old when I first read it. I cried and cried. ❤️

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Sharon

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

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Sarah

Fourth grade; Where The Red Fern Grows.

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JwSierra

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes. I cant remember how old i was but it tore me up

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Lisa

Charlotte’s Web. I cry every time I read it.

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Libby

I cry when Charlotte dies

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Lisa

@Libby it’s sooo devastating. And in real life I hate spiders. But I love Charlotte.

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Ashley

Where the Red Fern Grows

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Ashley

Definitely! I remember reading this at 11.

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Jackie

Every time I read it lol

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Katie

She’s come undone

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Gillian

I don’t remember the first book that made me cry, but the one that really got bawling was The Shack.

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Maureen

Little woman by Louisa May alcott

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Cassie

Little Women.

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Linda

Gillian you should try the Cross Gardener….or at least check out the hoo-rah about it

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Gillian

I will!! Thank you!

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K

The Book Thief. It’s still one of my favorite books

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Eleanor

Not sure what the first one was, but Flowers for Algernon had me bawling ??

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Nicole

Black Beauty

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Linda

Dr. Seuss Hop on Pop? cuz they were the first words i read on my own and i thought it was magic in my eyeballs.

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Jackie

Where the red fern grows. Cry like a baby every time

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Maureen

Oh, I forgot about this book. Need to re-read it.

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Jackie

@Maureen my favorite I try to read it once a year

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Denise

I cried so hard reading this book and when our 4th grade teacher read it to us I was a wreck…so embarrassing

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Jackie

@Denise right! One time I was reading it at my boyfriends moms table and I was bawling my eyes out and she was like “omg is she alright?” And boyfriend was like “oh yeah she’s fine she’s just reading “ ??

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Rinzin

Zoya- Danielle Steel

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Katherine

It was a short story by Roald Dahl in which some kids cut the wings off a swan. I was too young to be reading it, and it made me so upset.

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Nancy

Bambi

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Erica

me before you.

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Libby

Marley and me

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Crys

Little Women

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Alana

When my mom first read Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer to me when I was little (I cried because the other reindeer didn’t want to play with Rudolph).

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Jess

My girl. I was 10 and hadn’t seen the movie, I had no clue

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Victoria

Deeper, by Megan Hart

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Stephanie

Garth Stein’s “The Art of Racing in the Rain”

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Libby

Forgot A dogs purpose and the sequel

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Stacia

Bingo

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Tika

Little Women

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Clarise

The fault in our stars

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Patricia

The Thornbirds!

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LindaQuestion author

Yes!

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Gretchen

A Child Called It. Was sneaky reading during class….there was a hot mess of tears while trying not to be obvious during the teacher’s lecture.

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Karen

Where the red fern grows… we read it in school. Fascists!!!

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Kyla

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Baiba

The lovely bones by Alice Sebold..

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Tika

Oh I cried at that too ?

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Paige

The notebook by Nicholas sparks

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Lisa

I’m not sure if it’s the first, but when I was a kid in the 1960s I read “Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography of a Dog” that really did a number on me.

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Amber

The Angels Trilogy

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Amber

And it is one of my all time favorites. ❤

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Jessica

If I Stay

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Tika

Have you read Where She Went?

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Jessica

@Tika I did and loved it. I thought it was a very good follow up

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Tika

I actually preferred it to If I Stay! Adam ?

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Antonio

Don’t think I’ve cried yet but just the other day a scene from ACOTAR made me feel truly sad about what was happening.
Loved It!!

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Miranda

The fault in our stars

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Gayla

Romeo and Juliet, such a said story.

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Billiejo

Traveling light by Katrina Kittle

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Amber

I don’t remember exactly which one but it was one of the Vampire Academy books

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Aimie

The Kite runner

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Maureen

Yes, another good one

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Kaitlynn

I don’t exactly remeber the FIRST book but I can say one of the first books to make me tear up was a book about a pomeranian who became a hearing dog lol it was really sad and one of my favorites as a kid but I do know the first book that made me sob was The Fault In Our Stars

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Jerri

Where The Red Fern Grows

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Alanna

Kite runner

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Jennifer

The Fault In Our Stars

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Prisca

The last book of the Viral series. It was actually the last series left in the library…. Gosh,I felt like crying!!!

Lol,just kidding!!! The book that made me cry was actually “Everneath” I kinda forgot the authors name though??

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Annette

Old Yeller when I was a small child..

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Janice

Me too

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Nada

Hmmm if I remember correctly, it would be Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire

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Scarlet

The fault in our stars by John Green.

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Henrietta

Me before you a few years ago. I cried like a baby. 🙂

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Janice

Old Yellow

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Ronda

Where the Red Fern Grows

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Kathy

The Mists of Avalon

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Ra'ed

1984 by George Orwell

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Hayley

My sisters keeper.

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Darla

Old Yellow when I was 7.

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Jodee

My Sisters Keeper ?

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Jennifer

The Yearling or Red Pony as far as I can remember but I’ve read since I was tiny so I can’t honestly say.

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Lane

a child called it

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Maureen

This book was so heartbreaking

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Samantha

Of Mice and Men

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Sherri

Little Women

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Laura

Me Before You

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Xenia

Catcher in the rye- Salinger

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Meranda

Little Women

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Melissa

Bridge to Terabithia

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Sam

Lovely Bones

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Maureen

Love this book and definitely made me cry

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Janette

Where the Red Fern Grows

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Kim

The Little Prince as a child x

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Chelsy

Johnny Angel ~ Danielle Steele

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Kelin

My Girl

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Chance

Where the Red Fern Grows

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Leigh

The Time Travelers Wife. It still gets me ???

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Elissa

Dying Young

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Sally

The Outsiders

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Bladymir

The Last Song

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Laura

I was in sixth grade when i read Kitten in the cold, an animal ark book. I was so concerned for the kitten, guys? intense sobbing, had to stop reading and fo hug my mommy and everything

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Crysta

Where The Red Ferm Grows

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Kathryn

Mrs Mike.

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Jamie

I’m pretty sure it was Bridge to Terebithia. Had to read it in elementary school and was traumatized! LOL. Cried so hard in class.

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Karon

Angel’s Unaware by Dale Rogers

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Patricia

That I can remember? Little Women, when Beth dies.

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Samantha

I think it was A Little Princess. Still makes me cry

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Denise

A Monster Calls…..talk about an ugly cry.

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Myndi

That I can remember, Bridge to Terabithia

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Peggy

The Notebook

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Brittany

Marley and me

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Barbara

Gone With the Wind

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Marisa

The Lost Boy, by David Peltzer

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Rosemary

The Silver Chair by CS Lewis

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Tamela

White Fang

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Veronica

LITTLE WOMEN … 5th grade.

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Faye

Isn’t this an invitation for spoilers?!

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Nancy

Prob Old Yeller

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Jill

Love story

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Angie

Love you forever ❤️?I think I might have been 7…And Charlotte’s Web…I still hate that book

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Janet

Charlotte’s Web

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Dana

Not my first but one I’ll never forget….the kite runner

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Thanh

The boy with striped pajamas and literally every freakin’ other books in historical fiction genre

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Aziza

A House for Mr Biswas. We had to read it in school. I reread it recently and cried again.

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Sarah

Pretty sure it was Where the Red Fern Grows.

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Susan

The Outsiders

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Katie

Night or maybe roll of thunder hear my cry

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Annette

Anne Frank

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Jas

Love you forever by Robert munch
My dad reads it to my when I’m really depressed I’m turning 19 this march and I still love it he even read it to me when I came out and locked myself in my room. My dad is my best friend

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Måř

Anne of Green Gables…

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Linda

Gone with the wind

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Robyn

Charlotte’s Web

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Felicia

Where the Red Fern Grows

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Lloyd

Let me tell you of the last one that made me cry: “Run” by Ann Patchett. I didn’t blubber but close.

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Lloyd

Finished “Run” a couple hours ago.

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Court

Fault in our stars
Still gets me everytime

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Shannon

Charlotte’s Web or Where The Red Fern Grows.

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Jane

Charlotte’s web, Lorna Doone and Anne of Green Gables all read around the same time and not sure which I read first

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Darren

Marley and me.

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Janice

Oh Marley and Me had me sobbing into my husbands big hankie at the beach lol. I little humiliating but eh who cares

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Linda

Born Free

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Del

Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel

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Carolyn

Bambi haha

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Jelin

Paradise by Judith McNaught.

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Lauren

Me before you

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Holly

Where the red fern grows

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Melanie

Old Yeller

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Kristine

Exodus

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Lindsey

Where the red fern grows and My girl

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Silvana

that is a really good question O.O

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Michelle

Where the red fern grows

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Mahnoor

Don’t remember the first but the Hunger Games series did

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Maureen

Where the red fern grows and a tree grows in Brooklyn

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Linda

TREE GROWS was shocking to me as a 13 year older because i never knew that there were others out there that i could relate to never mind read about!

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Linda

if i found a copy of that book i’d buy now, as an old lady

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Sarah

little women

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Darleen

The Outsiders

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Kimberly

The Last Song by Nichols Sparks

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Jackie

The letters!!!????

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Laura

Charlotte’s Web

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Katie

The last book that made me cry was Wonder

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Kerry

Marley and Me

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Linda

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Deborah

Gone With the Wind. I was 9 years old. But the ending made me mad. I threw my heavy, thick hardcover across the room. Amusing that it still became an all-time favorite.

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Roberta

Where the Red Fern Growns and The Rats of Nimh.

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