Is there a book from your childhood that stands out?

[cherrera]

E.G. Burroughs, John Carter series. I started when I was nine and finished up with the series around 13. A couple of years ago I ran across Princess of Mars online and re-read it. The imagery is still just as striking as it was then.

[Moogle]

I read Junie B. Jones when I was a baby!!!!!

[Mel Carriere]

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. I read this book several times and I had to hide when I read it because the ending made me cry. I tried to chop down a tree after reading this book (the book's readers will understand), and my Mom stopped me. It was made into a rather campy movie that does not stir the imagination like the book does.

[Connie_88]

Probably the Harry Potter series. I started reading them when the first one came out when I was 8 and carried on all the way through until the last one came out when I was 18.

I read the last one in a day because I was so desperate to find out who died and by the time I got to the end I was in floods - bye, bye childhood!

[Mel Carriere]

My second childhood was spent reading the Harry Potter series as well, which I confiscated from my son when he was about eight years old to see what the hubub was all about, and then couldn't put it down.

[Hoilett]

Yes there are a couple.....One was "In Tune With Wedding Bells" by Grace Livingston. Reading it as a young teenager it affected me emotionally. It is the story of a young man who becomes the protector of a young woman who if I recall correctly had an accident. It was nicely written. I am not sure how I would react to it now....but then it was one I re-read a few times.

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

The Little House Books

[TimeKeeperApprentice]

Technically, I'm still in my childhood. So, The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney is far the best books I've ever read.

[Bighuey]

Another bunch for me were the OZ books. I read just about all of them when I was a kid.

[primrose777]

I may be showing my age but my favourite books from chidhood were the Enid Blighton books "The Enchanted Wood, "The Magic Far Away Tree", later "The Wishing Chair' and of course "The Twins of St Clairs" and the " Naughtiest girl in School". Loved them all, read them all many, many times. Happy days.

[Jazminsdaddy]

Choose Your Own Adventure books
Lloyd Alexander
Robert Aspirin's Myth Series

[Auggie]

There are many, but I'll put a few out there.

Negative Impact: "The Iron Dragon's Daughter". I can't remember how I got a hold of this book, but I was WAY too young to read it. It was one of those 'train wreck' books that you just can't put down despite how much you want to. I was tremendously traumatized.

Positive Impact: "East Wind West Wind" and "The Good Earth" were two books that really stuck with me growing up. They opened me up to an interesting world of mixed culture and change.

[RuqeeD]

One that I've just remembered is Jermiah in the Dark Woods. Which is a mixture of a lot of fairy tales in a modern setting....the big bad wolf on a motorbike....uhm that's all I remember really but I do remember the main character's name, it always stuck with me - Jermiah Obadiah Jackenory Jones.

[Bighuey]

E.G. Burroughs, John Carter series. I started when I was nine and finished up with the series around 13. A couple of years ago I ran across Princess of Mars online and re-read it. The imagery is still just as striking as it was then.

@ cherrera, if you are interested I just saw a trailer from a John Carter movie that is coming out. I would like to see it, just to see if they screw it up as bad as the Tarzan books into movies.

[AlysonofBathe]

Aside from the always popular HP series, I was enamored with Kit Pearson's Guests of War Trilogy.