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  • #46
    Little House Series
    Little Women
    Nancy Drew Mysteries
    Catcher in the Rye
    The Great Gatsby
    VC Andrews Dollanganger series books
    The Ramona Books
    All of the Judy Blume books *yes, all. I was a child of the 70s and early 80s.
    Silas Marner
    Pride and Prejudice



    Hmmm, more later maybe.
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    • #47
      I am a bookworm. Some of these are childhood and probably into jr high and what not

      Little House series
      the Anne of Green Gables series
      Canterbury Tales (jr high/high school)
      Nancy Drew
      Babysitter Club
      Jane Erye
      Diary of Anne Frank
      Judy Blume books
      Little Women
      Choose your own adventure

      I know there are a lot more then that but I can't remember them
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      • #48
        Ah yes, the Babysitters Club!
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        • #49
          Grim's Fairy Tales (Originals none of this namby pamby Disney stuff)
          The Peter Rabbit series
          Pride and Prejudice
          Mother Goose
          Beowulf. (yes my grandma read it to me as a kid, explains a lot doesn't it?)
          Wuthering Heights
          And any 'Little Golden Book' I could get my grubby paws on.
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          • #50
            Oh, the Babysitters Club! LOve it. Though I found it odd they never seemed to age.....they'd have summer vacations, then go back to the same grade....so odd. Though I loved that they were from CT
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            • #51
              -de-lurk-

              Hm.. also guilty on the bookworm charge. I used to get in trouble during English class because the class would be reading one story, and I would have already zipped through it and started reading something else further in the book.

              But as a kid I loved the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books
              Catwings (I still have that book and plan to read it to my own children)
              Sideways Stories from Wayside School books
              Mail-Order Wings
              Where The Wild Things Are
              Any of the Oz books, though my favorite was and still is The Patchwork Girl of Oz

              Also, I loved reading Readers Digest as a kid, my grandmother had tons of them. Tons upon tons. As well as the collection books of Bloom County/Opus. <3
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              • #52
                The Little House series
                Anne of Green Gables
                The Babysitter's Club
                The Ramona books
                Nancy Drew
                Chronicles of Narnia series
                Treasure Island
                Little Women
                Judy Blume books
                1984
                The Oz books

                My mom was an English teacher so she strongly encouraged my brother and I to read. Also, some of my uncles owned a bookstore briefly when I was a child, and when that went out of business, I got a ton of books. This was when the chain bookstores became popular, so it was bad timing to try to run an independent store.

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                • #53
                  I was just thinking about the Ramona books the other day, and reminding myself to look for them in the library, because my daughter is 8, and I think she'd like them!

                  Its funny how many of us in this thread have felt compelled to add that we were "a bit weird" for liking to read a lot as kids. We were not weird, it was all our contemporaries that *didn't* read! Now *that* is weird.

                  My favourites were:

                  Black Beauty
                  Ruby Ferguson's "Jill" books (pony stories)
                  Everything by the Pullein-Thompson sisters (posh pony stories)
                  The Biggles books
                  The Famous Five books
                  The Magic Faraway Tree books
                  The Tiger Who Came To Tea
                  Harry The Dirty Dog
                  Lester and The Unusual Pet
                  Ameliaranne And the Green Umbrella
                  Everything Roald Dahl ever wrote
                  Willard Price's "Animal Adventure" stories, which was a series about two boys who travelled round the world collecting animals for zoos.
                  My Family & Other Animals, and all Gerald Durrell's other stuff. I was very young when I first read My Family, and didnt get all the more adult jokes, but I loved the parts about animals, and envied young Gerry's carefree life on Corfu.

                  And erm,

                  The Dam Busters. Not the normal choice of reading for an 8 year old girl, perhaps, but I liked aeroplanes, and I had a distant relative who flew with the Dam Busters, so felt a special connection to the story.
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                  • #54
                    Let's see...in no particular order:

                    Little House series
                    Anne of Green Gables series
                    early books in The Cat Who... series
                    an edited version of Morning Glory
                    The Babysitters Club series
                    Sweet Valley High series
                    Sweet Valley Twin series
                    Judy Blume books
                    Beverly Cleary books
                    Where the Red Fern Grows
                    Gone With the Wind


                    ...and so many others, it's not funny.
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                    • #55
                      Went to BookFest yesterday and found a copy of 'There's a monster at the end of this book.' for Jazzy and Bubbles, in perfect condition for 50 cents. Copyrighted in 1971! They love it, of course.
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                      • #56
                        I loved the early-to-mid books in The Cat Who series also, but that last one... ... was so bad. I mean really, really horrible.
                        I forgot about The Magic Schoolbus series, Curious George, Madeline, Heidi, and Pollyanna.

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                        • #57
                          When I was a Tween, I remember finding and devouring the Rosemary Sutcliff books.

                          I'm American and she was British but I loved her historical novels about young people. My absolute favorite was 'Dawn Wind'. It was about a brother and sister who had to flee Londinium when the Romans withdrew. It was a harrowing journey to an uncle who lived in Aquis Sulus, what now would be called Bath.

                          There was another one about a teen aged physician's assistant serving with a Roman Legion on Hadrian's wall and another book about a young Saxon invader.

                          They were all so different from Cherry Ames or Nancy Drew that I loved them. Those books also got me interested in the history of Ancient Britain. That's an interest that has continued to this day and I'm now 63 years old.
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                          • #58
                            Well, before age 10 I liked:

                            Charlotte's Web
                            Encyclopedia Brown
                            The Chronicles of Narnia
                            The Hobbit
                            The Indian in the Cupboard
                            The Babysitter's Club
                            Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (OMG I saw this book a couple of years ago and the pictures are STILL super-creepy)
                            Stories from Greek Mythology
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                            • #59
                              Tom's Midnight Garden. What a wonderful story!

                              I also liked the Encyclopedia Brown books.

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                              • #60
                                Quoth Mishi View Post
                                Went to BookFest yesterday and found a copy of 'There's a monster at the end of this book.' for Jazzy and Bubbles, in perfect condition for 50 cents. Copyrighted in 1971! They love it, of course.
                                EEEEEE!!! Lucky!! I love that book!!

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