Favorite books in elementary school?

[writingwithheld]

Most of my "fluffy reads" were really books I read as a kid.

What books did you love when you were 10?

--Harry Potter
--Series of Unfortunate Events
--A Wrinkle in Time
--Anything by Nancy Farmer
-- The Egypt Game

[angnshaun]

Nancy Drew
Anne of Green Gables
Black Beauty
Little Women

[mrshandy]

Little House on the Prairie (all of the series) is the only one that really sticks out.

[mollymoe]

I loved Katherine Paterson. My favorite book was Jacob Have I Loved.

[2curlydogs]

May 16, 2012 15:16:04 GMT -5 writingwithheld said:

Most of my "fluffy reads" were really books I read as a kid.

What books did you love when you were 10?

--Harry Potter

Oh, God, I'm so fucking old.

Ahem.

Baby Sitter's Club
Sleepover Friends
The Chronicles of Narnia Books
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
Calvin and Hobbes (I still own all of the books)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM

Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea

[2curlydogs]

May 16, 2012 15:21:07 GMT -5 mimosas said:

Boxcar Children
Bobbsey Twins

These as well!

[qbert]

May 16, 2012 15:16:04 GMT -5 writingwithheld said:

Most of my "fluffy reads" were really books I read as a kid.

What books did you love when you were 10?

--Harry Potter
--Series of Unfortunate Events
--A Wrinkle in Time
--Anything by Nancy Farmer
-- The Egypt Game

You read Harry Potter when you were 10? How old are you?

[chicacocodrilo]

Loved Judy Blume. Was big into Sweet Valley Twins/High. I read The Little Leftover Witch all the time because I thought the story was so cute. There was also a Helen Keller bio that I always checked out of the school library.

I also loved my brother's Time Life Enchanted World books. Not really literature, but they were great for a scare.

[qbert]

I loved BSC
Name Your Own Adventure Books (I'm a nerd, I know)
Goosebumps
Nancy Drew

[qbert]

And Judy Blume!

[sparrowsong]

Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Little Princess
The Secret Garden
Little House on the Prairie and anything remotely related, biographies, non-fiction etc
Stargirl - a book about a native american girl. Loved this one so much I tracked down a copy on ebay a few years ago. It's out of print now.
The Girl With the Silver Eyes
The Dollhouse Murders
Jacob Have I Loved
Beverly Cleary books
Judy Blume books

So many, many more I'm sure I've forgotten. I grew up in the days of no cable tv, no video games, no internet, after all. Being lazy or bad usually meant reading too much. ; )

[sparrowsong]

May 16, 2012 15:25:26 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

Oh, God, I'm so fucking old.

I'm too old to have read Babysitter's Club. Does that make you feel better?

[bluelikejazz]

BSC
Goosebumps
Superfudge
There's a Boy in The Girl's Bathroom
Dog's Don't Tell Jokes

[PinkSquirrel]

Nancy Drew
Ramona Quimby books
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken and Pat Marriott
The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare
I also had a thing for Roald Dahl

[mollymoe]

May 16, 2012 15:32:10 GMT -5 qbert said:

May 16, 2012 15:16:04 GMT -5 writingwithheld said:

Most of my "fluffy reads" were really books I read as a kid.

What books did you love when you were 10?

--Harry Potter
--Series of Unfortunate Events
--A Wrinkle in Time
--Anything by Nancy Farmer
-- The Egypt Game

You read Harry Potter when you were 10? How old are you?

I'm glad you asked! I didn't want to out myself as an old lady but I think I was reading Harry Potter in college

[PinkSquirrel]

May 16, 2012 15:25:26 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

May 16, 2012 15:16:04 GMT -5 writingwithheld said:

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM

OMG I loved the Rats of NIHM

Also, I'm old too. I was definitely not 10ish when HP came out

[2curlydogs]

May 16, 2012 15:49:58 GMT -5 mollymoe said:

May 16, 2012 15:32:10 GMT -5 qbert said:

You read Harry Potter when you were 10? How old are you?

I'm glad you asked! I didn't want to out myself as an old lady but I think I was reading Harry Potter in college

Well, it first came out in 1997. Which is now - jeebus - 15 years ago. So, at most, she's 25.

[2curlydogs]

May 16, 2012 15:38:16 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

May 16, 2012 15:25:26 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

Oh, God, I'm so fucking old.

I'm too old to have read Babysitter's Club. Does that make you feel better?

Slightly. ;D

[moreace01]

Sweet Valley High
Anything Christopher Pike

(I also read some horrific series similar to Sweet Valley High that I don't care to name at this point...)

[GilliC]

May 16, 2012 15:49:56 GMT -5 PinkSquirrel said:

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken and Pat Marriott

This is on my bookshelf right now, because I've never read it!
I loved Black Hearts in Battersea, which was the sequel, so I figured I should read Wolves of Willoughby Chase (and Nightbirds on Nantucket) at some point.

[BlackCanary]

BSC
A Wrinkle in Time
Sweet Valley High
Ramona Quimby
The Dollhouse Murders
Harriet the Spy
Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler
Dear America series

I know there are a lot more.

[PinkSquirrel]

May 16, 2012 16:16:13 GMT -5 GilliC said:

May 16, 2012 15:49:56 GMT -5 PinkSquirrel said:

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken and Pat Marriott

This is on my bookshelf right now, because I've never read it!
I loved Black Hearts in Battersea, which was the sequel, so I figured I should read Wolves of Willoughby Chase (and Nightbirds on Nantucket) at some point.

There was a sequel? Oh man, I'm going to need to reread and then continue on with the sequel

[lemondrop]

Nancy Drew, Judy Bloom, some other randoms

[Deleted]

Y'all have good memories. I remember Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary but I think those were after elementary school for me? I remember reading a lot of Encyclopedia Brown.

[SallyJ]

Secret Garden
A Wrinkle in Time
Sweet Valley High
Babysitters Club
Little House on the Prairie
Wizard of Oz
Rats of NIHM
And this makes me laugh, but The Life Cycle Books - I was completely enthralled with all things that were the human body and growing up. It helped me tremendously with questions on puberty and sex, especially because my parents divorced when I was 11 and I went to live with my dad who didn't know how to have those conversations with me.

Then when I was a little closer to 12
VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic series especially

[falada45]

Little House on the Prairie series
The Black Stallion series
Thoroughbred series
Catherine Called Birdie
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
My Side of the Mountain
From the Mixed Up Files of Ms. Basil E. Frankweiler

[charlatti]

Christopher Pike! I remember saving my very own money to buy Slumber Party.
Babysitter's Club
Sweet Valley High

ETA: I apparently can't read subject lines. Those were middle school. Elementary was Judy Blume, but I can't remember anything else.

[writingwithheld]

There are so many good books I forgot about! Roald Dahl especially.

And yep, I'm "at most 25," which really means 21. I first read Harry Potter when I was 8, y'all. I also collected Beanie Babies and ate Oreo O's for breakfast.

Do I still get to be in the club? I promise not to overrun it with YA (haha)

[rootbeerfloat]

Um, Harry Potter came out when I was in college!

In elementary school, I read a lot of Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary and Nancy Drew.

[Nerd Alert]

I read the same books as most PP have stated. My dad took us to the library every weekend. I also recall begging my mom to buy books every time we got the book club form at school. Anyone else remember those?

HP came out when I was graduating HS, though it took me until a few years past college to finally read them.