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Beingreal

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 3:36 pm

I will start! I loved libby lazewnik books...ruth benjamin lurlene mcdaniel...beverley clearly..ann. m. Martin...I was a bookworm!

little neshamala

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 3:38 pm

Gordon korman's books, particularly bruno and boots series.
Harry potter
The boys start the war series
The great brain series
Little women
The count of monte cristo
Pippy longstockings

Raisin

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 3:43 pm

Arthur ransome
e nesbit
Noel streatfeild
the family from one end street
the chalet school
sarah birnhack (search my heart and other novels)

Harry potter I love too but the first book was published after I was grown up.

amother

Emerald

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 4:42 pm

Misread the subject line.

BetsyTacy

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 4:49 pm

Did no one else love Carol Ryrie Brink?

Debbig

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 4:51 pm

Little Women
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Secret Garden
Anne of Green Gables
A Little Princess
Pollyanna
Harry Potter
The Thoroughbred series
Bakers Dozen
The English author Enid Blyton has so many great books I loved them all. I spent some time in England growing up. I used to buy books there & bring them back.

sequoia

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 4:55 pm

Louisa May Alcott
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Selma Lagerlof
Astrid Lindgren
Hans Сhristian Andersen

I’ll add more later

Fox

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 5:02 pm

The one I remember best was James Herriot. I still remember some of those stories, particularly the ones about Mrs. Pumphrey and her dog, Tricki Woo.

Kiwi13

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 5:04 pm

Babysitter’s Little Sister (the junior version of the Babysitter’s Club books).

Kiwi13

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 5:06 pm

Also I enjoyed the Full House books. And the Sweet Valley books. Goosebumps. Choose Your Own Adventure. A few other series, too, but I forgot which.

little neshamala

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 5:07 pm

Fox wrote:

The one I remember best was James Herriot. I still remember some of those stories, particularly the ones about Mrs. Pumphrey and her dog, Tricki Woo.

YESSSS!!!

Kiwi13

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 5:10 pm

Oooh... Encyclopedia Brown.

Kiwi13

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 5:11 pm

And my cousin was really into the Animorphs series, but I somehow never got sucked into those...

cbsp

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 5:24 pm

BetsyTacy wrote:

Did no one else love Carol Ryrie Brink?

I'm actually (re)reading Caddie Woodlawn now, trying to decide if it's appropriate for my 2nd grade daughter. Love it as an adult...

icebreaker

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 5:32 pm

Judy Blume, Babysitter’s Club, Goosebumps and the Fear Street series by R. L. Stine, Laura Ingalls Little House on the Prairie, Madeline, Eloise.

SixOfWands

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 5:33 pm

Kiwi13 wrote:

Oooh... Encyclopedia Brown.

Yes.

And I'll admit to reading the Bobsey Twins and Nancy Drew. And Cherry Ames, although those were hard to find. Pippi Longstocking. The B is for Betsy books.

The ultimate slacker girl reading list, I guess.

My favorite though was probably The Phantom Tollbooth.

There was also a series of historical fiction books at the school library. The only one I remember is Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, but there were maybe a dozen, and they were good.

All of a Kind Family.

Mommyg8

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 5:51 pm

My list will be really long... I was a real bookworm.

B is for Betsy series, the Eddie series (Carolyn Haywood)
Nancy Drew, the Hardy boys
Rick Brant
Herbert (Hazel Wilson)
Cherry Ames
Pippi Longstocking
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The Little House on the Prairie series
Caddie Woodlawn
Encyclopedia Brown
Ginnie and Geneva series
The Spotlight Series, and the Brillstone Garage series
Enid Blyton
Louisa May Alcott
Noel Streatfeild

And I have to admit to a place in my heart for - Richard Scarry.

And my all time favorite - L.M. Montgomery - every single thing she has written.

And not for children - James Herriot series, I still re-read them.

amother

Smokey

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 5:52 pm

I loved Lorlene McDaniel like Beingreal. My mother called them disease of the month club books.

Kiwi13

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 5:53 pm

Oh I totally forgot about a few of my absolute childhood favorites!!!

The Wayside School books!

BetsyTacy

Tue, Nov 14 2017, 5:54 pm

I love James Herriot but I only found out about him as an adult. Way too much animal-gyn for a kid. I would have freaked. Granted, if I had grown up on a farm, I guess it would all have seemed normal to me, but reading about bovine uterine prolapses would have been way too much.

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