When I was really young my favorite book was Jillian Jigs as an older kid I liked the Trixie Belden books and The Bunnicula books---they were about a vampire rabbit.
When I was really young my favorite book was Jillian Jigs as an older kid I liked the Trixie Belden books and The Bunnicula books---they were about a vampire rabbit.
Post by asoctoberfalls on Aug 16, 2013 19:00:41 GMT -5
I LOVED the Five Little Peppers series by Margaret Sidney. I also loved Revolutionary and Civil War fiction. My favorite was Johnny Tremain. Oh, and the horse books by Margaret Henry!
Did anyone read the All of a Kind Family books, about a Jewish family with five daughters in 1900ish New York? Loved those books, they had lots of great descriptions of food lol and I loved learning about all the Jewish holidays.
I LOVE these books! They just recently released the whole series for Kindle, so I re-read them. Still great!
I was such a big reader when I was a kid. I loved Paula Danziger ("Thames Doesn't Rhyme with James," the Matthew series), Camp Sunnyside, Sleepover Friends, Barthe DeClements ("Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade"), the "Too Many Murphys" series, the "Alice" books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (still being released, and I still love them as an adult)... I could go on and on.
I also loved reading my mom's old books from when she was a kid -- Baby Island, Ginnie's Babysitting Business, and Just Plain Maggie were all favorites.
The Perilous Gard. I fell in love with it when I was 14, and I still read it every year or so. Turns out the author had a connection to DH's hobby--go figure.
They Caged the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Birch. I read it in fifth grade and several times after. Very sad memoir but I couldn't stop reading.
They Caged the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Birch. I read it in fifth grade and several times after. Very sad memoir but I couldn't stop reading.
OMG! Dh teaches this book and I read it one night. So effing sad!!!
Oh! The other one that I read over and over again was Wait Till Helen Comes.
Holy crap! I'd totally forgotten about that one! I read it over and over and thought it was sooo scary! May have to buy a used copy and re-read.
I also read Scott O'Dell and Lois Lowry books, as well as The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle... But I remembered those were all required reading in my fourth grade class, so I figured everyone read them.
Did anyone read the All of a Kind Family books, about a Jewish family with five daughters in 1900ish New York? Loved those books, they had lots of great descriptions of food lol and I loved learning about all the Jewish holidays.
Bonus random: the What Katy Did trilogy by Susan Coolidge, written in the late 19th century. I loved reading about how kids lived in the past.
More modern stuff I liked: the Saddle Club and the Thoroughbred series. I was one of those horse obsessed girls for sure.
I loved these books! I also loved Trixie Belden. Encyclopedia Brown was a series I liked-- they were super short mystery stories. The Westing Game is another fave.
From the Mixed up Files of Basil E. Frankenweiler was a favorite. In these Girls Hope is a Muscle was another. I, too, was horse obsessed and read the entire Saddle Club series.
From the Mixed up Files of Basil E. Frankenweiler was a favorite. In these Girls Hope is a Muscle was another. I, too, was horse obsessed and read the entire Saddle Club series.
A few years back, I saw a Saddle Club TV show made in Australia. It was hilariously bad, I couldn't manage to watch more than an episode or two but the actor they cast as the Max, owner of the stable was quite handsome.
From the Mixed up Files of Basil E. Frankenweiler was a favorite. In these Girls Hope is a Muscle was another. I, too, was horse obsessed and read the entire Saddle Club series.
A few years back, I saw a Saddle Club TV show made in Australia. It was hilariously bad, I couldn't manage to watch more than an episode or two but the actor they cast as the Max, owner of the stable was quite handsome.
They were terrible, but I remember liking Camp Sunnyside Friends and Sleepover Friends a lot. Also the Taffy Sinclair series.
I read these. I remember there being a girl in them whose favorite color combination was red, black, and white. I remember obsessing about what MY favorite color combination was. lol.
I was obsessed with LJ Smith's Secret Circle trilogy as a middle schooler:
I LOVED the Five Little Peppers series by Margaret Sidney. I also loved Revolutionary and Civil War fiction. My favorite was Johnny Tremain. Oh, and the horse books by Margaret Henry!
I also liked Johnny Tremain, and I read 5 little peppers. And Trixie Belden. I tried very hard to learn their special whistle.
I read a lot of Christian YA lit series, favorite was Christy Miller by Robin Jones Gunn. I still own some of them. Discovered a couple of years ago that she followed it up with a series about Christy's friend Katie and I definitely read those at the age of 26!
I loved pretty much anything by Tamora Pierce when I was growing up - especially her Song of the Lioness quartet.
I also tended to enjoy Vivian Vande Velde's work.
Omg love Tamora Pierce! Her Song of the Lioness quartet was out of print when I first discovered it in the library around 5th grade. I scoured every used book store I could find until I collected the whole set. Of course then she made it big and they were everywhere!
They were terrible, but I remember liking Camp Sunnyside Friends and Sleepover Friends a lot. Also the Taffy Sinclair series.
OMG I loved Taffy Sinclair/Fabulous Five books!!
I also loved Nothings Fair in Fifth Grade. I read that one well into HS.
I was also a big fan of Christian romance novels. I visited my grandparents every summer and our first stop was the Bible Book Store in town, I loved Janette Oke (they made terrible movies out of the Love Comes Softly series) and the Mandy books. I also loved Hilda Stahl but those weren't well known. There were only 3 in the series because she died, but I loved her Blossoming Love/The Makeshift Husband/The Accidental Wife books. I still have them and love them.
ETA: I should add...I am not religious in any way. My grandparents were Lutheran, but not particularly churchy. I haven't been to church since about 2000. I just love those stupid books. So chaste, so great.
Now you are speaking my language. Did you read the Christy Miller series?
I loved pretty much anything by Tamora Pierce when I was growing up - especially her Song of the Lioness quartet.
I also tended to enjoy Vivian Vande Velde's work.
Omg love Tamora Pierce! Her Song of the Lioness quartet was out of print when I first discovered it in the library around 5th grade. I scoured every used book store I could find until I collected the whole set. Of course then she made it big and they were everywhere!
I didn't discover Tamora Pierce until I was an adult.
Saddle Club, The Black Stallion series (I think I had every.single.book by Walter Farley), Jim Kjelgaard's books about dogs, Marguerite Henry's books about various horses (King of the Wind, the Chincoteague pony books, etc.). I was more than a little horse-crazy.
I loved Meredith Ann Pierce's Firebringer series, and the Darkangel trilogy. Those books, more than any others I read as a kid, have held up so well over time.