Is there a book from your childhood that stands out?

[TigersUnderFoot]

Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce is ultimately the book that got me obsessed with reading. I kept my first copy of it and still read it on an annual basis.

[Bibliophile97]

Yeah, this one series about this girl named Cam who had an eidetic memory. It was kinda like a younger version of Nancy Drew.

[Endless-Starry-Mind]

The book Lord of the Flies really stood out to me. As well as the book The Giver. I recommend both of those to even adults. I also remember Bridge to Terabithia and a couple others whose plot lines I remember but titles I can't recall.

[krichardson]

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce. This book started me on a path to nerdy book worm. Thanks Tamora!

[ness85]

Even being a huge reader back then, I rarely read anything on the school syllabus.. just got by (surprisingly well) by winging it through assignments, tests and class discussions in English. That said, I have very fond memories of "Danny, the Champion of the World" by Roald Dahl and "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson.

I read a lot of "The Babysitters Club" too.. but I would equate those to trashy magazines - they're enjoyable but the content lacks substance and doesn't linger.

My 6 year old daughter and I are currently working our way through Roald Dahl's books - it seems a lot of us have fond memories of reading his words. My daughter named her budgie James after the character from "James and the Giant Peach".

"Pride and Prejudice" (yes.. I am one of those), was my favourite book as a teenager, and still is one of my favourites to this day.

I recently went back to my school syllabus and read "1984", and loved it but that is a different story.

[NovaJay2415]

"The Giving Tree," is the first book I remember listening to and once I could read, I reread it many times. It is defiantly one of my favorite childhood books!

[Bookwise]

I will always remember reading a beautiful copy of The Secret Garden, I wish I still had it.

[Winter]

I read The Story of My Life by Hellen Keller when I was in second grade. It made a real impact on me because it was such an amazing life story. I was pretty small, so I really responded to her accounts of her childhood.

[cam_gold]

A couple of books stand out from my childhood. One is a romance mystery set in the islands entitled The Sun Salutes You. And if you ask what I was doing reading romances as a child, well, this one wasn't any kind of torrid affair. Mostly, it stood out because it was set on the island where I am from, and the characters were people of color - something that was pretty rare back then.

The other book was a fictionalized biography of a white plantation owner who was considered an evil witch who killed all five [?] of her husbands. She was very cruel to her slaves, terrifying them to death. She was violently killed by some of the slaves. Her plantation house was preserved as a museum and although I have never been there, it is said that the blood-splattered walls where she was killed is still there.

The book is called The White Witch of Rosehall.

[Jen319164]

For me definetely a girl who could fly oh I read that book probably 15 times with no exaggeration

[prarich]

Loved Enid Blyton's series, couldn't ever stop reading them! Also loved the Nancy Drew mysteries as I was growing up.

[Nirvana]

Enid Blyton, the Famous Five. I remember it so much, so fun when you're younger

[PashaRu]

A few, actually. Hardy Boys, The Three Investigators, Where The Wild Things Are, Charlotte's Web

Oh, and does anybody remember "Frosty, A Raccoon To Remember"?

[chstress]

That would be Charlotte's Web by EB White. M y third grade teacher began reading a chapter every friday after lunch and I could not wait at all to find out what happened the next week; so I had my mom go out and buy it for me before the teacher ever finished. I did enjoy listening to her read it but I could not be patient enough not to know what happened and my love off books was born and right after that book I read every Nancy Drew book within a month, AND THEN IT WAS ONTO THE Happy Hollisters and the Hardy Boys.

[V_bansal2912]

The Famous Five...and any Nancy drew book...!!