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Old 05-13-2009, 06:15 PM   #31
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Anne of Green Gables, the whole series...I still get teary when I think of poor Walter's death...
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Old 05-13-2009, 07:10 PM   #32
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I think my progression of favorite books went from The Little Prince in elementary school, to The Giver, to Harry Potter books 2, 3, and 4 in middle school (maybe the last one was in high school? I can't remember). I also used to read a lot of books from the Goosebumps series.
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Old 05-19-2009, 07:04 PM   #34
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Old 05-20-2009, 08:50 AM   #35
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This will never be in ebook I bet :P Anyone else remember the Junior Deluxe version of King Arthur and His Knights by Henry Frith?

I've still got it heh.. I loved it so much as a kid.
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Old 05-20-2009, 09:51 AM   #36
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Anne of Green Gables- being originally from the east coast and being able to actually walk around in her house as a kid got me hooked.
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Old 05-20-2009, 09:56 AM   #37
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Anne of Green Gables, the whole series...I still get teary when I think of poor Walter's death...
And Tuesday (?) the dog waiting for Jem to come home...must go find kleenex now.

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Old 05-20-2009, 10:53 AM   #38
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Little House books
Little Women
The Chalet School books

I read lots as my family collected books - many were out of print before I was born and passed down from my grandparents or my mother and her sisters. It let to an interesting collection. Although I had no interest in riding I read lots of books about girls riding because one of my aunts collected them! The ones above are the ones I remember for a specific reason, and ones that I reread at every opportunity.
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Old 05-20-2009, 11:09 AM   #39
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Old 05-20-2009, 12:27 PM   #40
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pre-school to kindergarten:
Brer Rabbit (Enid Blyton)
Peter Rabbit
Cinderella (still my favorite fairytale)
Snow White
Sleeping Beauty
Little Red Riding Hood
Thumbelina
Hansel and Gretel
The Frog Prince

elementary:
books regarding Greek Mythology
books regarding Norse Mythology
books regarding King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table
Grimm's Fairytales
Little Women
A Midsummer Night's Dream (our school library had a Shakespeare for children collection)
Macbeth
Hardy Boys
Nancy Drew
Ghost Twins
Goosebumps
R.L. Stine
Babysitter's Club
Sweet Valley *cringe*

Wow, looking at my reading list during childhood, it feels like I've regressed. Nowadays, I often read trashy romance novels to de-stress.
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Old 05-20-2009, 03:03 PM   #41
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I loved Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court when I was ten-ish: probably where I got my fetish for time bending and alternate history. A little later I acquired Born into Light by Paul Samuel Jacobs, about the appearance of uncanny feral children around the world, and a slim anthology called Out of This World, which introduced me to Vonnegut, Asimov, LeGuin and Bradbury, as well as classic stories like To Serve Man, Betelgeuse Bridge, and A Bowl of Biskies Makes a Growing Boy.

I'm pretty sure all of these were scored from RIF.

EDIT: and Fritz Leiber! He had a great story in there, A Bad Day for Sales, about a robot salesman roaming nuclear winter in search of a prospect, like Wall-E without the happy ending.

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Old 05-20-2009, 04:25 PM   #42
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Old 05-20-2009, 04:50 PM   #43
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My favorite childhood books-- the books that turned me into a reader-- were the Tom Swift Jr. Books by Victor Appleton II (pseudonym). These were great books by the Strattemeyer group who did the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew but they are different from the original Tom Swift books that my grandfather read.

All of the original Tom Swift books are available at Manybooks and other places, but so far I've only seen 2 (of the 34) Tom Swift Jr. Books. They are at Manybooks: Tom Swift and his Electronic Hydrolung and Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X.
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Old 05-22-2009, 08:45 AM   #44
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The book I remember most. Dr Seuss, GO DOG GO.

http://books.google.com/books?id=mAi...+dog+go&pgis=1

When I got older I was into ANN of GREEN GABLES.

When I was an early teen I was reading Barbara Cartland, regency romances and Comic books. By the time I was 14 I was reading Science Fiction and Shakespear.

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Old 05-22-2009, 01:20 PM   #45
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Agree w/ many of the books listed here --- the only one I would suggest which isn't listed here is Hal Gordon's _DIvers Down! Adventure Beneath Hawaiian Seas_

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