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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 17, 2011 13:19:47 GMT -5
Babysitters Club was another one of my favorites (it was the only reason I bothered to look at the e-mail Stony Brook University sent me). After being diagnosed as T1 diabetic, I went back to reread one or two of the Babysitters Club books because I remembered that Stacey was diabetic. Soooooo much misinformation in those. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 17, 2011 16:50:51 GMT -5
Oh right, Peter Pan. That was a decent elementary school read.
If we're not counting stuff that was assigned? Ella Enchanted, Alanna: The First Adventure, The Raging Quiet... I feel like I shouldn't include The Wheel of Time and other grown-up high fantasy series here, though I read them in 6th grade, which others have included in their lists.
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Post by flute88 on Jun 17, 2011 22:56:47 GMT -5
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi was always my favorite, and I still love it to this day. I can't count how many times I've read it and how many copies I've gone though. (I gave my last copy away to our exchange student, but I found another one at my library's book sale for a quarter, so now I have it again.)
Other books I loved included The Fledgling; Catherine, Called Birdy; Number the Stars; Chasing Redbird; Walk Two Moons; the Animorphs series; Harry Potter (I read the first three in sixth grade, I think the fourth one came out the following summer); Maniac Magee; Ella Enchanted; Bridge to Terabithia; Ginger Pye; the Boxcar Children; Hatchet; Dogsong; The Great Gilly Hopkins; Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind; A Fine White Dust... I could go on and on, I'm sure.
The one book I never did read that everyone else did was The Giver... I think that I tried to, once or twice, but I only got a few pages in. I checked it out from the library recently, though, so I'll get around to reading it soon.
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Post by cyanea on Jun 18, 2011 4:19:31 GMT -5
Thank you for that. I've been trying to remember the name of that book for a few days now. I've been wanting to read it while I'm on this YA kick.
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Post by o on Jun 18, 2011 11:14:28 GMT -5
The Giver, Gathering Blue, The Messenger, Number the Starsand The Egypt Game.
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Post by sandiek on Jun 18, 2011 17:18:24 GMT -5
The Outsiders was a definite favorite, and I taught myself how to read upside down from that one chapter in 'Sideways Stories From Wayside School'.
Twenty years later, and people are still thrown by my ability to read (and write, for that matter) upside down as well as right side up. Go figure.
I also loved the Boxcar Children and Encyclopedia Brown.
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Post by Marina on Jun 18, 2011 18:37:57 GMT -5
I didn't know English well enough in elementary school to read books in English. But you could say that my favorite elementary level books were probably Artemis Fowl and Magic Tree House... that I read in middle school...
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Post by Dobby on Jun 18, 2011 20:28:58 GMT -5
I loved the Magic Treehouse books! Some of my other favorites were Harry Potter, (I read the first five books in the first couple months of third grade), Ella Enchanted, The Witches, The Babysitter's Club, The Boxcar Children, Chasing Vermeer, The Devil's Arithmetic, Homeless Bird, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (Especially since it was written by Julie Andrews), and the Royal Diaries series. I loved to read when I was little. And I still do.
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Post by alyoshka on Jun 19, 2011 13:19:13 GMT -5
I liked Little Women, Narnia, Picture of Dorian Gray, and Series of Unfortunate events.  |
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 19, 2011 19:34:02 GMT -5
I liked Little Women, Narnia, Picture of Dorian Gray, and Series of Unfortunate events. I lovvvveee Little Women! I have never been able to forgive Alcott for pairing Jo with the Professor and not Laurie. I some others I remember reading were My Side of the Mountain, Cricket in Times Square, and The Downsiders. |
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