Favorite books in elementary school?

[bookbunny]

I was one of those weird girls who loved horses like woah. I reread Black Beauty and Misty of Chincoteague over and over. I was also obsessed with mermaids, and was horrified but in love with the original Little Mermaid story.

When I read through all my BSC, Boxcar Children, and Lurlene McDaniel books, I raided my mom's bookshelf in the living room (I was a latchkey kid). My favorites were Gone With The Wind and Scarlett.

[pugz]

I was obsessed with BSC, also read the Little Sister books, some Sweet Valley too.
loved Little House books and the Rose books that were released in the early 90s about Laura's daughter.
I read the Lurlene McDaniel books too, totally thought I was going to get cancer as a teenager.

[dorothyinAus]

The Little House books
Anastasia Krupnik
my mother's Cherry Ames nurse series (probably no one here has ever heard of them)
and a series from the library on the Childhoods of Famous Americans -- I particularly enjoyed the one on Annie Oakley and Narcissa Whitman.

[AJL]

I was just thinking about this today. One of my favorite books from elementary/middle school was Say Goodnight, Gracie. I was so sad that my local library didn't have a copy.

I also read The Babysitter's Club series, Madeliene L'Engle, Beverly Cleary, and Judy Bloom a LOT.

[dcannie]

island of the blue dolphins
babysitter's club
sweet valley high
every single r.l. stine fear book

[grover]

BSC
American Girls
Sweet Valley
Boxcar Children
Animorphs
Judy Bloom

at 11 or 12 I started on VC Andrews. In 6th/7th grade I started on Dean Koontz.

[dvmmama]

Most of mine have already been said...

Little House on the Prairie series
American Girl books
Boxcar children
Goosebumps
Babysitters club
Judy Blume stuff
Cam Jansen series

[harmony11]

BSC
Nancy Drew (Nancy, Bess and George for life!)
Hardy Boys (but not as much as Nancy Drew)
Christopher Pike (that may have been more middle school though)
Sweet Valley
Bridge to Terabithia was one of my favorites in early elementary.

[secretlyevil]

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

Yeah - now I just feel old.

In 1997, I was a freshman in college. I didn't read the first one until I was in my early 20s, after college.

[stephm0188]

Babysitters Club
Everything Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume
Little House on the Prairie
Little House on Rocky Ridge - A series of books about Rose Wilder
Boxcar Children
My Side of the Mountain
Where the Red Fern Grows
Goosebumps
Hatchet
The Giver
Bridge to Terabithia
The Littles
American Girl series
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Wayside School is Falling Down
The Face on the Milk Carton

[SpartanGirl]

Judy Blume
Beverly Cleary (LOVED Ramona)
Harriet the Spy
Island of the Blue Dolphin
Boxcar Children
Chronicles of Narnia
Bridge to Terabithia
Sweet Valley/BSC

I'm sure there are more. I was a huge book nerd as a kid. I do regret never reading the Little House books though. I can't wait to read them with my kids.

Oh, and I didn't read Harry Potter until I graduated from college - so I was MUCH older than 10.

[bookwormjen]

The Babysitter's Club
Anne of Green Gables and the other Avonlea books
The Fabulous Five
A Wrinkle in Time - I think I started that in elementary school, but I may have been older

[whitepicketfence]

As a kid I loved the Goosebumps series. I easily had over 100 of these books.

Sweet Valley High

BSC

A Wrinkle in Time (although I think I read this in middle school)

Where the Red Fern Grows

American Girl books

R.L. Stine Fear Street series

[charminglife]

Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare. I was a sucker for YA historical fiction when I was young!

[ChillyMcFreeze]

Number the Stars. I was/am a Holocaust junkie.

My heart beat for The Babysitter's Club and The Saddle Club. Sweet Valley High was just a little old for me, but I am only a little bit ashamed that I bought "Sweet Valley Confidential" (the 10 years later book) last night.

[ThirdandLong]

I read a lot of Choose Your Own Adventure, Encyclopedia Brown, and Ramona books. I'm also too old for Harry Potter to have been out when I was in elementary school, but I don't think my dad would have let me read it anyway because of the "witchcraft." Of course I read the assigned literature, but I really can't remember liking any of the stories besides The Diary of Anne Frank, which I was glad that I had read.

[lemondrop]

May 16, 2012 18:17:06 GMT -5 bookbunny said:

I was one of those weird girls who loved horses like woah. I reread Black Beauty and Misty of Chincoteague over and over. I was also obsessed with mermaids, and was horrified but in love with the original Little Mermaid story.

When I read through all my BSC, Boxcar Children, and Lurlene McDaniel books, I raided my mom's bookshelf in the living room (I was a latchkey kid). My favorites were Gone With The Wind and Scarlett.

I forgot about Misty. Loved that. Was there one other one? I know I read both (or all). They blend together as one story now.