My favorite were babysitters club, boxcar children and sweet valley!
I just bought the first 6 of The babysitters club (original covers!) for my niece. Can't wait to give it to her!
What were your favorite books growing up?
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When I was really little Green Eggs and Ham.
When I was a little old The Babysitter's Club, Sweet Valley Twins and Goosebumps.
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i loved roald dahl books...james & the giant peach, the witches, bfg...
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Little Women was my absolute favorite, still is one that I very much enjoy. I also read Boxcar Children, Sweet Valley, Nancy Drew. DH read Hank the Cow Dog and is excited to read them to our LO when she's older.
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"Are you there God? It's me Margaret"
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Who didn't love the babysitters club?!
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH -- used to love that book! I was big into BSC, Sweet Valley Twins, Sleepover Friends and most other girly series of that time period.
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@JessLC: I also loved Roald Dahl! I've read everything he's written, the adult stuff too.
Babysitter's Club, Judy Blume, and Ramona Quimby too. Harriet the Spy -- I read it like 4 times!
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Babysitters Club, anything by Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary.
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Oh! And Encyclopedia Brown books!
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Are you there god? It's me Margaret. By Judy Blume
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I loved to read so much! All the above, plus American girl books, I also loved the westing game, from the mixed up files of
Mrs basil e frankweiler, the Anne of green gables and avonlea books...I had sooo many books! -
the babysitters club! loved those books...but when i think about it now, there is NO WAY in heck i'd let an 8th grader babysit my kid. much less mallory or jesse who were ELEVEN. crazy!
@matador84: anne of green gables is my *absolute* favorite book...i read it annually
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@mrscowgirl I have the whole series in pristine condition!!!
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@matador84: I read The Westing Game a few weeks ago when I was sick! And I used to love From the Mixed Up Files... as well!
Thought of another good one: Sideways Stories from Wayside School and all the sequels. I love kids books.
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@matador84: awesome! i love the first 2 movies, too...i walked down the aisle to the theme from the first movie and i have the soundtrack, too. i play it during writing workshop in my classroom as our quiet thinking music!
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@MRS. LEMON-LIME: I loved that book.
I loved Nancy Drew, all the Ramona Quimby books, anything Judy Blume, and Anne of Green Gables.
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@mrscowgirl that is so cute! Gotta love being a teacher!!
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Does anyone remember the book "Tales of a fourth Grade Nothing"? That was my all time favorite book. I used to read that literally every night before bed for months.
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@banana: yes! (but he was in fourth grade
) it's by judy blume and was followed by superfudge...i think otherwise known as sheila the great might have preceded it, too. i loved all those books!!
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@Mrs. Cowgirl: LOL! I realized I put fifth grade and edited it!
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Babysitter's Club and Sweet Valley
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I loved A Wrinkle in Time and the rest in that series!
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@JerricaBenton: omg, that book scared me. i'm easily scared, but i seriously had nightmares after that book. i don't even really remember it, but recall being FREAKED out.
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@ladyfingers: yes, i read his short stories for adults too! i think it was called switch b*tch...they were really interesting with some twist at the end.
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@Mrs. Cowgirl: Aww really? I guess it was a little freaky. I loved that there was a little romance
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i was obsessed with 101 dalmations for some reason. i also loved nancy drew, the babysitter's club, anything judy blume, roald dahl, anne of green gables, ramona quimby books... and i read all the sweet valley twins through high books!
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I loved this book called, My Side of the Mountain about a boy and his falcon:
http://www.amazon.com/Side-Mountain-Trilogy-Far-Frightfuls/dp/0525462694Probably my favorite book was Where the Red Fern grows. I also really loved the Tripod trilogy (City of Good and Lead, etc.):
http://www.amazon.com/Tripods-Trilogy-White-Mountains-City/dp/0020425716 -
@Rubies: I LOVED Encyclopedia Brown! Do you still read mysteries? I do!!
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Where the Wild Things Are
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I also read tons of "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. Those were fun!
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Make way for ducklings
A pocket for corduroy
Velveteen rabbit
Paddington bear
Beatrix potter books
Betsey, tacy, and tib
Boxcar children
Nancy drew
Anything horsey (the saddle club, misty of Chincoteague, black beauty)
Chronicles of narnia
Anne of green gables
little women
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@JerricaBenton: omg! I looovvveeedddd those books.
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@JerricaBenton: Those were awesome books!
I read basically anything I could get my hands on and enjoyed most of it but my all time favorites were probably Nancy Drew.
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@mrbee: I LOVED that book.
Ah man. K, here goes - Wrinkle in Time, The Dark is Rising series, Anne of Green Gables, Babysitters club, Boxcar Children, Narnia, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Little House on the Prairie series, The Blue Castle, Ramona Quimby, Encyclopedia Brown, Little Princess, Secret Garden, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Giver, Caps for sale, Through the looking glass (but, oddly enough, not Alice in Wonderland), The Borrowers, How to Eat Fried Worms, Dear Mr. Henshaw, Julie of the Wolves & whatever the sequel was, The Railway Children, anything by Tamora Pierce but especially The Song of the Lioness series, Dragonriders of Penn.....and, I can't remember, but the one where the mom abandons four kids in a car and the oldest takes them to their grandma in Chesapeake Bay? Arrrgh....
ETA: Got it - Homecoming by Cynthia Voight. actually I liked a lot of her books....
uh, ya. Stopping now.
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Too much magic!
Also loved babysitters and sweet valley!
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@mrbee: oh I loved my side of the mountain!
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Ella Enchanted was my absolute favorite. I still think it's one of the most perfectly written books I've ever read! I also devoured Nancy Drew, Redwall, and the Dear America series.
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My absolute favorite book growing up was Island of the Blue Dolphin. I must have read that thing hundreds of times.
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I loved the babysitters club! And the little sister books, with Karen.
When I was really young, I liked Officer Buckle & Gloria and Corduroy
) it's by judy blume and was followed by superfudge...i think otherwise known as sheila the great might have preceded it, too. i loved all those books!!
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