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Island of the Blue Dolphins

Sing Down the Moon

Jacob Have I Loved...

Bridge to Terebithia

A Wrinkle in Time

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Beverly Cleary books (The Mouse on a Motorcycle, the Ramona series, Dear Mr. Henshaw, etc)

The Forgotten Door (by Alexander Key)

Where the Red Fern Grows

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I'm sure there are more but that's all I can think of right now.

Anything from Rick Riodan that man is a legend

I also used to read The Magic Treehouse books when I was very young. they were knowledge bit that I wanted to know.

Anything by Judy Blume was golden back in the day to me too.

There were so many books I read as a kid. I remember a few on your list, too--The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was fantastic and introduced me to the fantasy genre, and Where the Red Fern Grows was something I remember reading with my gradeschool class that made me sob. Bridge to Terabithia was another great story, another sad one. The ones that stand out the most that made my childhood all the sweeter are these:

Goosebumps
Hank the Cowdog
Babysitters Club
Charlotte's Web
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Hobbit (something I read when I started getting into my teens)

That's all I can think of off the top of my head, there were honestly hundreds upon hundreds of books that I've read and enjoyed as much as the ones I've listed!

Yaaay. I like it when people have experienced and enjoyed the book that I read as a kid. Yep yep! I had a thing for sad stories I guess. I love the ones that move me. I'm still that way with movies too.



Oh I thought of another one.

Escape to Witch Mountain

Anybody remember that one? Loved that book.

Yep, Rick Riordan is really good! And Judy Bloom. Haven't heard of the treehouse books.

The princess diaries series was good

The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker was also a favorite, and having re-read it semi-recently, it's actually still pretty okay :>

Any and all Nancy Drew books. I stayed up so late reading them when I was 10 (late for me at 10 being 10pm WOAH BUDDY)

A Wrinkle in Time
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Anything by Tamora Pierce (I actually met her in middle school, I was the chosen ambassador for my school library so I got to go to a book signing)

Entire Redwall series

Junie B. Jones, Goosebumps, and Dork Diaries.

I swear to god, goosebumps was a stepping stone to reading Stephen King.

Confession time: I was and still am a terrible reader. As a kid, I preferred atlases and encyclopedias to chapter books and the like. Now I find it incredibly difficult to read unless there is nothing else to do, and even then I’d prefer to be writing or sleeping! My favorites are short stories and poetry.

Dracula doesn't drink lemonade or something like that was my first chapter book (followed soon by an abridged version of Bram Stoker's Dracula). Anything to do with vampires and I was ON IT. I was a big horror buff and loved R L Stine's Fear Street Saga. I also followed animorphs for a bit when the series first came out. Like any good millennial, I grew up on Harry Potter. I also read the Chronicles of Narnia until my books fell apart. I also really loved the books Juniper and Wise Child and still reread them sometimes, but it's late and the author eludes me. I basically consumed anything I could get my hands on.

The only books that interested me were tolkiens most specifically hobbit.

The Harry Potter series, Dr Suess for the rhymes, and Series Of Unfortunate Events.

As an adult, pretty much anything by JD Robb/ Nora Roberts. (Same person, but different content under each name.)

Chronicles of Narnia
Bunnicula series
Redwall
LotR and the Hobbit
Young Jedi Knights, X-Wing series, and anything else Star Wars
Anything Orson Scott Card

When I was a kid (which was early than most of RPR for reference my first console was SNES when it was still very new, and my first Game Boy was the limited edition Ice Blue when those were brand spankin' new) my parents would ground me from everything... Except books. Reading quickly became my favorite pastime (aside from Lego) because it was something that I could always do. I'd get in trouble in Junior High and High School because I'd be reading when I wasn't supposed to be.

I loved Bunnicula! (No surprise, vampires.) I got super into Orson Scott Card in high school and absolutely inhaled his women of Genesis trilogy. I also got my English Dept to start teaching Enders Game because I wrote my standardized test essay on it. His writing is amazing.

I really enjoyed a lot of the Redwall books as a child, especially The Pearls of Lutra.
Another series I really enjoyed was called Broken Sky. It was absolutely amazing as a child/adolescent! c:

Yes! Orson Scott Card! Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes! He's amazing.

I can't remember the names of his books I read other than Ender's Game and all it's sequels, but I went through an Orson Scott Card phase where I read all of the books they had at the library with his name on them. Love that guy. ♥️

And oh yeah. I remember Bunnicula!

I'm happy this thread has gotten so much traction. I'm enjoying everyone's answers. Thank you. So much variety too.

It's interesting hearing about the young Jaybird!