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I have some first-edition Choose Your Own Adventure books in a basement somewhere. I doubt they're in good shape anymore, though.
I still have a copy of my Reading textbook from like 3rd or 4th grade. It's a collection of short stories, and there's an abrdiged version of The Hobbit in the back. But the reason I kept it was because one of the first stories is a sci-fi story, probably one of the first I ever read. It's about these two kids who go to a swimming hole at night, and in the swimming hole they can see a star reflected in the water, only when they look up they can never find the star. Eventually they go diving deep down through a series of underwater caves and come out on another planet. One of the kids stays behind and becomes a rock-creature-alien while the other swims back home. It's not a great story but it's sentimental.
My sentimental book is Ben Bova's The Star Conqueror's, which was in our gradeschool library and which I fell in love with a year later. But I don't have that copy; I had to buy one from a rare book collector for like $300.
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