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Lucy

The Last Unicorn

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Debra

I called the author once to see if he’d do a book signing at the little bookstore where I worked. He was listed in the phone book. He declined, and he was lovely to talk with.

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Jean

The Narnia series, Little House series, Ramona and Beezus series, any Judy Blume books. I was a voracious reader then too

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Peggie

Pippi Longstocking when I was 11 yrs. old.

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Karin

Betsy Tacy

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Jackie

Lambert the Sheepish Lion

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Wren

Harry Potter, American Girl, Junie B Jones, island of the blue dolphin

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Maria
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Julie

The Babysitter Club series and anything by Judy Blume

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Jade

Anything by Jean Craighead George. Little House. Where the Red Fern Grows. Charlotte’s Web. So many…

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Kristen

Ramona, Pippi Longstocking, and Mrs Piggle-Wiggle

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Alastair
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Danielle

Narnia, Mrs Frisbee and the rats of Nimh, A Little Princess, Wrinkle in Time

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Sharon

Charlotte’s Web.

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Julie

Amanda the snake

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Theris

Charlotte’s Web

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Susan

The Secret Garden

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Sasha

Ramona books

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Renée

The Velveteen Rabbit

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Jade

Yes!! “And so time went on, and the little Rabbit was very happy–so happy that he never noticed how his beautiful velveteen fur was getting shabbier and shabbier, and his tail becoming unsewn, and all the pink rubbed off his nose where the Boy had kissed him.”

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Misi

Absolutely a favorite if my kids.

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Renée

@Jade thank you ! That comment made my day

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Debra

I took a story telling class in college, taught by the incomparable Dr. Arne Nixon. He told us a story about one of his female students who refused to date anyone who, after he read it, didn’t “get it.” I always thought that her test was a smart one.

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Michelle

A Wrinkle in Time and Tuck Everlasting

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Shannon

Homecoming bt Cynthia Vogit

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Lulu

Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers & The Twins at St Claire series

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Michele

David and the Phoenix

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Cindy

Heidi

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Judy

The Nancy Drew series of books. Narnia.

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Elizabeth

Little house on the prairie series

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Sharifah

Yes, yes

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Rosemarie

The Ugly Duckling

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Sharifah

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

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Aiswarya

Heidi ,Sathyavansavithri

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Linda

The Borrowers series

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Tracy

Golden book called the Polky Little Puppy. Elementary school Little House on the Prairie and Anne of Green Gables Series’. Catcher in the Rye in high school

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Elijah

Anything by Darren Shan, Harry Potter, anything by Mercedes Lackey, The Chronicles of Narnia.

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Amy

Judy Blume, but as a little little bit, I loved my Goodnight Moon book!

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Robin

Depended on my age. Shillouette biographies, The Black Stallion books, Pippi Longstocking series, Wrinkle in Time, and The Secret Garden, that I can remember.

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Howard

The Phantom Tollbooth

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Annie

Charlotte’s Web

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Teresa

A Wrinkle in Time

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Jocelyn

Babysitters club, and fiction books about sick kids. For years I was obsesed with those stories.

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Khaashif

read “The Tommyknockers” at 13 so I don’t know if it qualifies

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Leslie

Black Beauty

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MaryJean

Little Women, Nancy Drew series, Trixie Belden series.

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Robin

I loved Trixie Belden!

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Linda

I loved those books and asked for Trixie Belden books for my birthday and Christmas, til I had them all. My dog is named Trixie.

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Gina

Trixie Belden was one of my favorites too.

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Beverly

I loved Trixie Belsen and Nancy Drew

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Brittany

Bony Legs

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Crystal

The two princesses of bamarre will always have a place in my heart ❤️

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Beth

Betsy Tacy, Happy Hollisters, Wind in the Willows series

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Beth

When I was itty bitty it was The Little Engine That Could as I got a bit older it became Great Expectations

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Leah

Go Dogs Go is the first book I ever read by myself and ended up being my favorite. Then at 11 it turned to Harry Potter

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Barbara

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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Valeen

Nancy Drew

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Chris

Misty of Chincoteague

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Beth

Ooh I forgot about this one

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Beverly

I loved these books too

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Tiffany

Bambi by Felix Salten

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Misi

Heidi

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Penny

Black Beauty and Beautiful Joe

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Peggy

Pippi Longstocking:)

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Veronica

Charlottes Web, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Little House on the Prairie Series

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Mimi

The Sweet Pickle series, Secret Garden, any choose your own adventure book, Star Wars, I had all of the books and a Shel Silverstein book that I can’t remember the name of but it has the poem Sick in it, Wednesday’s Witch and The Twits as far as I can remember. But then again, I have always read books like I drink water so I am sure there are many more.

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Candyce

Secret Garden!

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Kathy

Another Nancy Drew

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Kathy

Especially the really old ones that were my mothers, back in the 20s

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Candyce

The Count of Monte Cristo, The Boxcar Children, Anne of Green Gables series, Redwall

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Linda

I loved The Boxcar Children.

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Candyce

I wanted to be them so badly

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Shannon

I was obsessed with the Nancy Drew Files!

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Candyce

And Nancy Drew!

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Jeff

The cat in the hat
& The giving tree

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Deborah

Black Beauty

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Lisa

The Secret Garden

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Victoria

Real young..anything Dr. Seuss..a bit oldwr Boxcar Children and Little House on the Praire

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Mia

The boxcar children

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Candyce

Wait, I loved Narnia too. And Lord of the Rings

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Crystal

I absolutely loved Beverly Cleary’s Ramona Quimby series

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Peggy

Me too!

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Aubrey

Anne of Green Gables

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Linda

My Friend Flicka

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Candyce

When I was really young, Amelia Bedelia

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Cindy

A Horse Called Dragon.

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Azu

Heidi.

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Barb

Me too!

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Sue

Me too!

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Debra

My Side of the Mountain & the Trixie Belden mysteries.

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Elizabeth

Loved My Side of the Mountain!

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Debra

@Elizabeth True confession; I still read it every couple of years even as a grown ass adult! 😀 Still love it.

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Candyce

The Giver

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MarthaQuestion author

I first read it in college for a children’s lit class. One of my ALL TIME favorite books!

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Candyce

When I found out it was the first of four, I lost my mind! I have them all now ???

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Emily

Betsy Tacy!

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Katie

I adored Betsy Tacy books!!❤️

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Missy

Ferdinand

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Maryann

I still have mine.

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Missy

Me too!

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Kathy

Fair Bay and The Three Little Ponies

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Sabrina

The Lost Years of Merlin

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Guusje

The Betsy Tacy series by Maud Hart Maud Hart Lovelace.

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Mary

The Lion the witch and the wardrobe

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Leisl

Depends on age. Cloudy with a chance of meatballs at age 5. Heidi and also Little house books at ages 7 and 8. A wrinkle in time at 9. My Sister’s keeper by beverly butler (hist fic about peshtigo fire) at age 10. Izzy, willy-nilly by Cynthia voigt at age 12. . .

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Leisl

Oh and the entire anne of green gables series at age 11. I got obsessed. . . it was a break from the scifi and fantasy I was also reading. I would have started stephen king at this age but my mother discouraged me from it for another 2.5 years.

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Heather

Pippi Longstocking

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Deborah

Early childhood: Poky Little Puppy….later, Secret Garden

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Dawn

The Giving Tree

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Jessica

The babysitter club books and half magic

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Carmella

Jack and the Beanstalk

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Amber

Owl babies 🙂

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Cherry

Little Women & Nancy Drew series.

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Shannon

Little Women and Nancy Drew, then anything Piers Anthony or Anne McCaffrey

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Julia

Love Piers Anthony. I just finished the incarnations of immortality and reserve books 2 through 5 of the Xanth series in the library. I wanna finish reading them all this year

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Shannon

I loved those. The first Split Infinity trilogy is also amazing.

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Kimberly

Where the Wild Things Are, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, Where the Red Fern Grows, Secret Garden….. I’ve been in love with books for over 50 years!

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Brenda

Trumpet of the Swan

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Carina

Chasing Redbird

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Melody

My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead and Green Green Grass of Wyoming. Or maybe The Little House on the Prairie books.

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Dana

Amelia Bededilia when I was small. My favorite no picture book was Matilda.

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Katie

Dandelion by Don Freeman when I was young, and The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright as an older child. Though it is hard to pick just one…loved to read as a child!

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Marian

The lion, the witch and the wardrobe.

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Mary

A Wrinkle in Time

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Katie

Jennifer Murdley’s Toad. One of the few books I was able to read more than once.

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Amy

Little house, Winnie the pooh

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Cindy

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

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Candyce

I forgot about this one!! I loved that book; let me see if I can find it on Amazon

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Amy

A Wrinkle in Time

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Bindi

Velveteen Rabbit ?

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Jessica

The Twits – Roald Dahl!

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Sarah

Ramona the Pest. Charlotte’s Web. Babysitters Club series.

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Mary

Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes. It was about a dog. I also enjoyed the Happy Hollisters Mystery Series.

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Lori

Sam Campbell Living Forest books. Loved animals and they were funny. Great books for kids.

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Paige

the Berenstain Bears, The cat in the hat by Dr. Seuss and the Grinch who stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss, green eggs and ham by Dr. Seuss

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Julia

Tistou of the green thumbs, by Maurice Druon.

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MarthaQuestion author

My very first library book in kindergarten was Green Eggs and Ham!

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Christa

Beauty: the retelling of the story beauty and the beast by robin McKinley

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Susan

So many…Bobbsey Twins, Happy Hollisters, Betsy, Tacy and Tib, Five Little Peppers, Little House books, All of a Kind Family series, The Shoe series: Ballet Shoes, Theatre Shoes, etc., Beverly Cleary, Little Women, Pippi Longstocking, The Secret Garden, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Little Princess, Heidi, Harriet the Spy, A Wrinkle in Time….I always loved to read!

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Elizabeth

Five Little Peppers!

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Susan

also Lois Lenski books….the illustrations were amazing!

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Jane

Loved the Betsy Tacy books!

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Beverly

The Black Stallion!

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Donna

Every Walter Farley book in the series was the best.

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Rebekah

Princess and the Goblin

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Stephany

Heidi

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Elaine

Bobsey Twins

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Heather

The Three Investigators!

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Leah

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

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Linda

I remember that one! Loved it.

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Nikki

Charlottes web , Nancy Drew series and the little house on the prairie books

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Tammi

Laura Ingles – Little House on the Prarie series

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Ricardo

The Silmarillion.

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Desiree

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 ❤

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Barbara

Alice in wonderland

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Gail

The Faraway Tree series, had my fathers copies from when he was a kid.

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Sierra

Island of the Blue Dolphins and A Wrinkle in Time

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Kelly

I’m reading A Wrinkle in Time to my 5 yr old!

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Sandra

Tarzan of the Apes.

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Lisa

I started reading Stephen King in 3rd to 4th grade, until then it was Nancy Drew, and Judy Blume before that. I really liked R.L. Stine and Sweet Valley High series.. oh and Babysitters Club. Gosh I have always been a reader.

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Kate

Little Women, Heidi, and Cecilia’s Locket.

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Lisa

I loved Heidi!

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Victoria

My Friend Flicka, The Black Stallion, Little Women, Heidi, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the Nancy Drew books, The Yearling, A Wrinkle in Time, The Secret Garden, and all the Little House books.

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Eli

This! ❤️

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Midge

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

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Millie

The Carrot Seed

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Joyce

Ferdinand the bull

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Emmy

I still love this book.

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Donna

Boxcar Children

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Nancy

Henner’s Lydia.

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Cherry

When I was little it was Lucky Mrs Ticklefeather.

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Cyra

Uncle Wiggly

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Sally

When I was very young , it was Uncle Wiggly .

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Kathy

This is like asking which one of my kids is my favorite. I loved Little Women, James and the Giant Peach, Wrinkle in Time and all of the Laura Ingells Wilder books. Don’t ask me to choose

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Vona

My first favorites were Johnny Gruelle’s Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy books (my grandmother read those to me when I was 4 and had the measles). Then it was the Little House books. She gave me the first one for my 8th birthday in July 1953 and then the next one for Christmas and so on until I had the whole set. We read those out loud, too, so I’m sure that’s a big part of why they were special to me.

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Susan

I forgot about Raggedy Ann and Andy books! I loved them when I was little!

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Kay

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle

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Amy

Wrinkle in Time, BoxCar Children, Little Women, Cricket in Times Square, Dear Mr Henshaw

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Andrew

picture book: Little Campers

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Sheila

Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories

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Barbara

A Wrinkle in Time

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Natalie

Hank the cow dog!!

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Autumn

That was my favorite too!

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Cindy

Nancy Drews

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Amy

Nancy Drew

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Teresa

Argh, just one?!

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Tildah

The Twits – Roald Dahl

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Autumn

Hank the Cow Dog and Madeline

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Elizabeth

In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines
Lived twelve little girls, in two straight lines.
In two straight lines they broke their bread
And brushed their teeth, and went to bed…
<3

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Vicki

Sarah Plain & Tall, and My Daniel

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Stacy

The Little House on the Prairie series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
They will ALWAYS be my favorites. ❤️

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Brooke

Captain Underpants or Eloise

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Anya

The BFG – Roald Dahl

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Joella

It is hard to pick one, but I loved Nancy Drew!

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Carla

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink.

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Laura

Amazing Gracie

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Laura

By A.E. Cannon

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Caitlin

I LOVED Amazing Gracie.

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Jenn

Cross country cat

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Marilyn

Charlotte’s Web

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Leara

The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover

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Amanda

OMGosh!! Mine too!!! I LOVED LOVED reading it to my nieces and nephew… Made me laugh so much!!

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Catherine

The Secret Garden.

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James

No Children, No Pets, Half Magic, The Boxcar Children, and The Five series by Enid Blyton (my mom drove me to used bookstores all over Northern Virginia to find copies).

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Roxane

I liked the Louisa May Alcott books that WEREN’T part of the Little Women sequence–Eight Cousins and A Rose in Bloom.

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Jenny

I loved Betsy’s Little Star! And all the Little House books.

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Shilpi

All the folk tales from different countries.

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Elizabeth

I had a favorite book called Strange Tales from Many Lands.

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Courtney

Hank the Cow dog, Little House on the Prairie series, and Tuck everlasting

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HollynDon

The Boxcar Children

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Anita

Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden series

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Emily

The giver

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Mendy

Misty of Chincoteaque

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Phil

Childhood books would be.. Charlie Brown.. I know not really a book but I remember the trips to the library to collect all the ones I could.. so I guess you could call that a Graphic Novel.. lol

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Sarah

The Secret Garden

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Seth

um… all of them? 😀

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Seth
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Diana

Noddy books by Enid Blyton (my maternal grandmother was English and she sent them for birthday and Christmas and just because presents. I think I have about 24 of them 😉 )

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Becki

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle, which has been made into an upcoming movie….I have high hopes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4U3TeY2wtM

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Brittney

Where the Red Fern Grows. But my daughter is a big fan of the Land of Stories.

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Carolyn

Alice in Wonderland and “And Then There Were None”

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Caroline

Eloise, Madeline and Babar

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Crystal

the Little House series

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Kate

Narnia books! (also E.Nesbit – older generations of “English schoolchildren who find a magic world” like Harry Potter!) Anything by Madeline L’Engle! Frances Hodgson Burnett (Little Princess, Secret Garden etc.)…. I still love rereading many of these.

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Angie

Me too!

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Elizabeth

Yes! E. Nesbit! I was wondering if anyone else read those! 5 Children and It, sooooo goood!

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TK

Alice in Wonderland

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Regan

The Little House on the Prairie
Charlotte Web
Dr.Seuess books

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Nova

The magic faraway tree

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Lea

My 4th Grade teacher always read a chapter or two to us after lunch and she introduced me to the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Black Stallion books by Walter Farley. I still pick one up every now and then and read again!

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Kari

Trixie Belden

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Anne

Me too!

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Pat

Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairytales and every other fairytale book I could find, The Boxcar Children, Black Beauty, Freckles and Girl of the Limberlost

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Beverly

Boxcar Children!

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Betty
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Regan

Love love Where The Red Fern Grows

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Susan

Little Women, Black Beauty, Heidi. Couldn’t pick just one!

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Jill

The Parent Trap. Read it over, and over, and over…

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Amanda

the new children’s book i’m currently writing.

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Morgan

To kill a mockingbird!!!! All day long!

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Beverly

Black Beauty and Nancy Drew, Swiss Family Robinson, Heidi and many more. I loved biographies too. Little Women!

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Kathy

This one is obscure but it was a favorite after my 3rd grade teacher read this to me in class. It was called https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolves_of_Willoughby_Chase

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Betsy

All of the Nancy Drew books!

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Morgan

And Harry Potter!! I am only 28. Oh and Nancy drew!!!

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Jules

I’m not sure whether to admit this or not but it was a Point Fiction book called Final Exam by A. Bates. I read it a bunch of times.

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Gia

Ella enchanted

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Tracy

Harriet the Spy a children’s novel written and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh in 1964.

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Lizanne

The secret world of Og by Pierre Burton.

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Kat

I disliked reading when I was young, but the novel that brought me back to reading in middle school was called Downriver by Will Hobbs.

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Carli

Sweet valley twins and sweet valley high lol

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Sandra

Bridge to Terebithia, the Lion the witch and the wardrobe, A wrinkle in time

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Bruce

Watership Down

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Leslye

Horse stories and Anne of green gables along with Alice in wonderland

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Beth

The Velvet Room.

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Bridget

Miss Nelson is missing

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Julia

The Dark is Rising (series) by Susan Cooper vies neck and neck with LM Boston’s Green Knowe (series) and Edgar Eager’s Half Magic (series)

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Angie

Loved the Dark is Rising series!

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Sharon

The Magic Mountain

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Mary

Half Magic

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Julie

Cheaper by the Dozen!

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Rosemary

Misty of Chinoteague!

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LJ

David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd
https://www.amazon.com/David-Phoenix-Illustrated-Edward-Ormondroyd/dp/1627555846/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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Tricia

Several! The Egypt Game is great! Zilpha Keatley Snyder books highly recommended!

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Karen

Hans Brinker, Or The Silver Skates

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Terry

The Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler & Misty of Chincoteague.

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Elizabeth

The Girl with the Silver Eyes

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Karen

Bobbsey Twins series, Little House on the Prairie series, Little Women, Heidi, The Pink Motel. Better Homes and Garden Storybook-Favorite Stories and Poems from Children’s Literature.

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Liz

Heidi

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Lena

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

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Mary

Alice and the Teeny Weenies (now out of print).

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Lupita

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

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Jim

Dr. Doolittle books by Hugh Lofting

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Angela

Dory the Little Witch

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Maggie

Mrs Frisby & the Rats of Nimh

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Regiene

Thumbelina lol

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Marsha

Trixie Belden books.

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Cyra

I still have my Trixie Belden books

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Yolie

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

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Michelle

Where the Red Fern Grows and The Outsiders

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Pamela

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

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Bridget

Yassss

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Deirdre

Trumpet of the swan, the little house books, nancy drew, little women and ghost stories

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Stephanie

The Giver

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Jana

Little Women

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Amy

Charlotte’s Web?

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Elizabeth

Hey, where’d you find that neato web?

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Chris

Hardy Boys

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Karen

Betsy, Tacy and Tib series

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Nikkie

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

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Stacy

Little Women

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Kim

Go Dog Go

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Nicole

Beauty by Bill Wallace

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Angie

A Wrinkle in Time trilogy, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Chronicles of Narnia

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Angie

And of course Anne!

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Christina

The Little Princess

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Sheikh

Reap van winkle

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Savannah

Pooh Goes Visiting and Pooh and Piglet Nearly Catch a Woozle by A.A Milne, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, and Corduroy by Don Freeman 🙂 When I got a little older, anything by E.B White, or Roald Dahl, the Nancy Drew books, Black Beauty, Peter Pan, The Little House on the Prairie books, Anne of Green Gables, and Little Women, which is still my favorite book of all time 🙂

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Elizabeth

Cordoroy! And Pooh! <3!

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Ruby

Matilda, the little house on the prairie series

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KC
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Beckie

The Borrowers

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Elizabeth

A friend has pet ferrets. I feel so disloyal to Arrietty if I play with them!

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Amber

Giving Tree

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Kathy
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Julie

Anne of green gables

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Patricia

Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter

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Deb

Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

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Ergene

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

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Dawn

Island of the Blue Dolphin, read it about 100 times and any and all of the Nancy Drew books

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Angie

Loved that one

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Mary

Princess Bride, before the movie!

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Tasnia

The Magic Faraway Tree, and all others by Enid Blyton!

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Renee

Charlottes Web

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Sonja

Any Amelia Bedelia books

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Jenn

Love Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie, and anything by Gene Stratton Porter… Freckles, Girl of the Limberlost…

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Angie

Loved Girl of the Limberlost!

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Jenn

There is nothing like it!

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Sara

The secret garden

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Kate

The Water Babies …in a beautifully illustrated antique edition …given to me by my grandmother

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Dawn

I used to love reading that at my aunt’s. She probably had the same illustrated book. I remember it was beautiful. We lived in NJ and she lived in Michigan, first thing when we got there I would find that book

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Tricia

Harry Potter

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Tricia

Hungry hungry caterpillar and Harold and the purple crayon

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Bethany

The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis and Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianne Wynne Jones

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Susan

Misty of Chincoteague

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Bethany

A good one ❤️

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Sabrina

The cow jumped over the moon, where the wild things are, all Judy b Jones, magic treehouse books, Winnie the Pooh

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Leilanie

UncleSam bedtime stories

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Rose

I read any and everything I could get my hands on–but there were a few years that The Babysitter’s Club gave me somewhere to go when I had no other retreat. I owe Ann Martin for that bit of paradise. 🙂

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Rob

No, David!

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Kerrie

Where the Red Fern Grows, My Side of the Mountain

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Sandra

So many of these! But also Lois Lenski books, and the All of a Kind Family books.

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Janet

Little House on the Prairie. The first book I was given to read by myself was Two Plus Two is Four (I was four) and I still have the book. That was a looooong time ago.

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Hildegunde

Books by Enid Blyton And Astrid Lindgren.

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Kate

and this …Do Not Disturb: Adventures of M’m and Teddy https://i.pinimg.com/originals/00/e0/e6/00e0e6228f892e808d9c7461b89fd333.jpg

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J.R.

D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths and Lois Lowry’s Anastasia Krupnik series.

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Elizabeth

Oh, that was my book of Greek Myths too!

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J.R.

It’s one of my top three books of all time.

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Mea

The rainbow fish

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Eve

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth @Graham.

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Justine

A Wrinkle in Time in 6th grade; Amelia Bedelia in 5th grade; Ramona the Pest in 4th grade.

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Pam

Grimm fairy tales

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Sandra

All the Beverly Cleary books!

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Lee

All the Nancy Drew books!

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Jennifer

Oh Yeah I totally forgot about Nancy Drew, and The Hardy Boys. My Grandmother introduced those to me when I was 5th and 6th grade. I think Ive read almost every one of them.

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Jennifer

The Wrinkle in Time trilogy. I read it in 4th grade for the 1st time. And several times again after that. The Indian in the cubard was a favorite as well.

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Stephanie

The hobbit and Watership Down

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Mathilda

Enid Blyton

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Johanna

The Secret Garden

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Samantha

The Stinky Cheese Man

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Joan

A Room for Cathy and Little Women

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Elaine

Harriet the Spy, the Malory Towers series by Enid Blyton, and A Wrinkle in Time.

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Grace

Gulliver’s Travels!

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Grace

@Jane, so tempted to write “The Baltimore Caticism”. I read that more than any other literature!!! ?

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Kris

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

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Shannon

The owl and the pussycat

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Jennifer

Ramona the Brave

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Donna

Nancy Drew

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Charon

The land of OG.

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Karen

I have been trying to remember the name of that book for years ! Thank you!

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Charon

@Karen Pierre Berton. I loved it

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Krystal

Nancy Drew, The Farthest Away Mountain, Dealing with Dragons. When I was a very little kid it was Dr. Seuss ABC’s.

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Eleanor

Nancy Drew series, Lad A Dog series.

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Cass

The Babysitters’ Club!

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Brigitte

Pippi Longstocking

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Carla

Charlotte web or the sweet valley series

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Emery

Harriet the Spy, Hatchet (so good), and My side of the mountain.

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Sarah

Malory towers.

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Aisha

Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret

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Carolyn

Absolutely.

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Erin

Alice in Wonderland

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Beth

Judy Bolton and Nancy Drew mysteries

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Ana

Alice in Wonderland and all Nancy Drew

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Linda

Are You My Mother? Dr Seuss

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Jessie

Flowers for Algernon

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Betty

Anderson and Grimm Fairytales, my Grandparents gave me the two books. I read them over and over.

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Mary

The Boxcar Children

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Salma

আরব্য রজনী আর গোপাল ভারের গল্পের বই।

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Cheryl

Now you’ve got me interested. These were books about knights or the night? And the go-load story is about what? I bet we’re losing something in the translation. I hope what I am asking makes sense to you when translated.

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Margaret

Black Beauty, Nancy Drew, Oliver Twist

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Ashley

The foot book by dr seuse

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Janelle

Jane Eyre…3rd grade and every year thereafter.

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Mary

The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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Ashley

The giving tree – silver stien ….. Oh the people u will see (dont rememer the author)

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Brittany

I loved Tamora pierce. Especially the Alanna series.

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Jeff

I had two, The Barbapapa series, and Bedtime for Frances 🙂

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Elizabeth

I swear I _was_ Frances!

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Tinamarie

Oh The Places You’ll Go and anything by Roald Dahl!

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Emmalene

There’s a Monster at the End of this Book.

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Maricel

Cinderella

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Viola

Big Red, Black Beauty, Little Women, Little Men things like that

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Laura

Mathilda

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Kevin

‘Stranger from the Depths’ by Gerry Turner. Also one of my first solid pieces of science fiction.

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Teri

So many hard to choose but I got The Snow a Queen and Other stories for my 8th birthday and I still have it. I have read it to students.

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अन्क़ा

Amar chitrakatha

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Cheryl

What was this story about? I’m curious ??‍♀️

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अन्क़ा

Stories about Indian mythology.

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Cheryl

@अन्क़ा
I’ll check it out. Thanks!

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Marvin

Street Rod by Henry Gregor Felsen.

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Marina

A Tree Goes In Brooklyn. Also Nancy Drew series

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Umbreen

Tales of fourth grade nothing- Judy Blume.. and Anne of Green Gables

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Aimée

Winnie the Pooh and The Jungle Book

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Tanima

The Nancy Drew series.

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Aly

I loved reading these! In elementary school I always looked forward to library day so I could get a new one!!

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Frank

“The Bottle Imp” by Robert Louis Stevenson! Omg … my mom read it to me a zillion times till I could finally read it myself. Loved it.

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Mattie

The Princess Diaries

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Nancy

Charlotte’s Web

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Joyce

Hard to pick just one. I remember my mom reading me over and over the teeny tiny lady when I was very young though.

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Barbara

I remember you reading the “Tiny Teeny Lady” to me! Thanks for being a terrific big sister! ❤️???

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Bonnie

Nancy drew books

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Laura

In ascending age:
All things “Pooh”
Wind in the Willows
Just So Stories
The Blue Fairy Book (+ others in series)
Pippi Longstocking
The Bobbsey Twins series
Nancy Drew series
(And so many others that I feel a sense of betrayal in not naming!)

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Dorothy

So many! James & the Giant Peach and The Trumpet of the Swan probably tie for 1st, though.

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Donna

Harriet the Spy

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Darcy

Little Women and Charlotte’s Web.

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Dorothy

OMG – Charlotte’s Web. Yeah. Great book

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Betsy

Tricked Belden Series

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Sandra

Trixie?

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Betsy

Got me yes Trixie.

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Dorothy

Then again -. . . biographies written for youth caught my attention early: Bios of Helen Keller, of Thomas Paine, and of Henri Christophe, the Haitian revolutionary – those were good stuff! True story. Still love biographies.

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Nekesa

Miss Nelson is Missing

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Sandra

Nancy Drew books and I loved Patrick Dennis, too.

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Mike

This one. It was old when i discovered it as a child and i still love it. Bronson was trained as a wildlife illustrator but he had the soul of a cartoonist.

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Cheryl

Black Beauty and Little Women

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Maudeen

Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I had my own little house via my grandparents’ homestead on the North Dakota prairie with no running water. I never experienced the blizzards of winter but can easily imagine their life. As an adult have visited many of the Ingalls home sites.

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Michelle

Grover for younger age, Black Beauty and Black Stallion for mid-age.

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Dani

I love the Grover book! My mom read it to me when I was a kid; I read it to my step-kids when they were small. Any time I see them for sale, I snatch up every one to give as gifts.

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Michelle

I’ve not seen them in years! But just last Christmas, I saw them selling like hot cakes in Kohl’s. I should have bought a few, instead I got none (too focused on Xmas shopping/needs). LOL Will have to keep looking.

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Dani

I’m glad I kept one for myself, I haven’t seen them in years.

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Julie

Black Beauty

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Betsy

The Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Betsy

Also, Jack and Jill, by Louisa May Alcott

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Betsy

Before these, when I was younger: Flicka, Ricka and Dicka; B is for Betsy; Betsy-Tacy series; the Bobbsey Twins; Cherry Ames series; Little Maida series. Oh, si many . . .

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Valerie

Where the Wild Thing Are

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Mehreen

Heidi

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Jade

nancy drew, yellow book series and where the sidewalk ends

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Tanya

The Happy Hollisters series.

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Joan

I have all but 2 of the Happy Hollister books in my collection!

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Tanya

My Mom gave all of mine to a younger cousin but about 20 years ago I started recollecting them and have the entire series with dust jackets.

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Okew

My big book of Bible Stories.

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Stephanie

Chronicles of Narnia….so many others!

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Caron

Island of the Blue Dolphins

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Mickey

Virginia Dare
Black Stallion
Big Red
Little House series…
Even as a kid I couldn’t pick just one.
I don’t know how many times I read Virginia Dare

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Karen

The Little Train That Could, Nancy Drew Mysteries, Tom Sawyer, Fury, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, The Yearling, The Hardy Boys, Little Women, all the Dr. Seuss books, and many more.

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Mickey

Ah! The Yearling! Nancy Drew!
Just too many to name!!

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Bėlén

Sweet Valley Twins/ Sweet Valley High

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Kim

Yes! Me too!

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Bėlén

Archie , Danielle Steel , Sidney Sheldon ❤

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Donna

R.L. Stine Fear Street books and The Boxcar Children