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10-02-2008, 08:56 AM
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So Bree got me thinking.... dangerous i know ;)
But what are some oldies but goodie books that you remember reading when you were growing up. Does anyone remember Miss Piggly-Wiggle? i am trying to remember some others too.
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10-02-2008, 08:58 AM
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oh and ramona by beverly cleary (how could i forget that one)
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10-02-2008, 08:58 AM
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Oh I remember that one! When I was very young I used to read Bearenstein Bears and Spot. As I got older Encyclopedia Brown was one of my favs- that was one where there were different endings and you could read other ways the story could end. Those were fun! The Beverly Cleary books I read all the time too. I've always loved to read!
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10-02-2008, 08:58 AM
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10-02-2008, 08:59 AM
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I always loved Judy Blume, The Boxcar Children (not sure who wrote this) and Shel Silverstein
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10-02-2008, 09:00 AM
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And do you remember those choose you own adventure stories where you would read to a certain point then you got two options and you went on to a certain page depending on which option you chose and each book would have literally a dozen or more stories depending on what you chose to do?
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10-02-2008, 09:01 AM
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Narnia, Little Women, Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys, Little House on the Prairie, Harlequin romances, Dahl, (yes....my grandmother abused me ROFL), man..the list is HUGE. But those are ones I remember that impacted me. I didn't read a lot in my younger elementary days (or don't remember a single book, but come third grade, I exploded in my love, and was reading tons - WHATEVER I could get my hands on (thus the harlequins).
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10-02-2008, 09:03 AM
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Oh I read Little Women too. I remember reading it in second or third grade. Loved it. I also loved Nacy Drew Mysteries. I would go to the library and get ten or fifteen at a time and devour them. I would stay up til 1 or 2 in the morning reading on some days
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10-02-2008, 09:05 AM
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yes! i remember those choose your own ending books. those were a lot of fun. i wish authors would write more of those now days.
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10-02-2008, 09:07 AM
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ahh Judy Blume..pretty sure all the stuff I learned about being a woman I learned from Judy Blume lol
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10-02-2008, 09:07 AM
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man, i am irritated with myself now. we were just at books-a-million at the Legends mall in KC, well actually i was there 2 days in a row and forgot to look for skippyjon jones books, DUH!!!!!
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10-02-2008, 09:10 AM
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The first book I remember reading was "Catundra" It was a story about a fat cat who ate everything he could find and he catches a mouse and the mouse makes him a deal that if he didnt eat him he would help him lose weight. I read that around the age of 5 or so. It was one of my favorite books
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10-02-2008, 09:26 AM
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what age were you girls when you read Are you there God it's me Margaret book?? i am thinking i was in 5th or 6th grade
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10-02-2008, 09:29 AM
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Judy Blume for sure...I think I was in grade 4 or so when I read Are you there God It's me Margaret.
Benjamin LOVES the Fudge books. LOLOLOL I loved Ramona too, and I used to read a lot of The Hardy Boys!!!!!! LMAO!
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10-02-2008, 09:30 AM
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My favorite was "The Monster at the End of the Book" With Grover. I read it to my boys and they love it.
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10-02-2008, 09:37 AM
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I remember reading Are You There God Its Me Margaret a lot. I was maybe 4th grade the first time. There was also book called... The Pistachio Prescription...I think, about a teenage girl with asthma who's parents are getting divorced. One day she decides to tweeze her eyebrows & does such a bad job she wears huge sunglasses to school & gets in trouble for refusing to take them off.
I remember reading a lot of Ramona Quimby, Nancy Drew, Encyclopedia Brown & there was one about some kids who ran away & lived in a museum - the Mixed Up Files of Mrs...somebody or other.
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10-02-2008, 09:43 AM
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this isn't a classic series but cass loves loves loves the animal ark books.
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10-02-2008, 10:12 AM
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what about the babysitters club? anyone read those.
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10-02-2008, 10:15 AM
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I looooved Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume. I was a big reader also of Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, Boxcar Children. Also loved the Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High series-LOL, they were never ending!!!!
I also loved Me and Katie(the Pest)!! But by the time I was in jr high, I was reading Stephen King. I've always been a big reader and read anything I can get my hands on. LOL, Darcy, I started on the Harlequin Romance books when I was waaaaaay young! I stayed at my Grandma's house one summer, and those were the only books she had laying around, so they were fair game!
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10-02-2008, 10:17 AM
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10-02-2008, 10:18 AM
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ROFL!
Well, I didn't admit to the really bad ones. A ten year old has no business reading Sidney Sheldon or Jackie Collins (but I did. Learned WAY too much about stuff I had no business knowing ROFL)> And it came from the same thing- staying at grandmother's house in the summer, sleeping in the living room with all the books, and staying up later than everyone else in the house reading 'her' books. 
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10-02-2008, 10:23 AM
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Nancy Drew was always my favorite - I think I read every single one that our local library had and then I moved on to the ones where she teamed up with the Hardy Boys after that.
 And of course, Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary (I loved Ramona!), Little Women - this list could go on and on because I loved to read!
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10-02-2008, 10:37 AM
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The Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler. Why do I remember that? LOL I loved Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, etc. Oh yes.. Babysitters club, Trixie Belden.. the SVH series too....
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10-02-2008, 10:40 AM
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I was also very into the Babysitters Club! In fact they came out with some movies based on the books and there was only one video store in town that rented them so I made my parents get a membership there so I could see the movies! I love threads like this lol!
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10-02-2008, 10:54 AM
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I remember reading Nancy Drew series, Trixie Belden series, Cherry Ames series, Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, Wizard of Oz series. Oh yes, loved Encyclopedia Brown too; I still remember some of the stories.
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10-02-2008, 10:58 AM
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I was a Nancy Drew freak. Loved those!
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10-02-2008, 11:02 AM
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I was a big reader when I was a kid (still am!). I remember loving Pipi Longstocking, A Cricket in Times Square, The Wolves of Willowby Chase, Charlotte's Web, and I must have read the Narnia books 100 times. I can't remember when I started reading Agatha Christie books but I read a whole slew of those too.
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10-02-2008, 11:09 AM
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Oh - totally forgot about Black Stallion and Misty of Chincoteaque Island series, and anything by James Herriot (which I'm currently reading to my boys right now). I didn't read Nancy Drew because she was a girl. I disliked girl books. The reason I loved Little Women so much was because of Jo. Little House on the Prairie wasn't about girls. It was about a family living on the prairies - no silly girl stuff really (yeah, dolls for Christmas, but it wasn't silly girl stuff LOLOL)
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10-02-2008, 11:12 AM
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darcy you sound exactly like Cass!!!! rotfl it is almost scary how much you two sound alike
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10-02-2008, 11:16 AM
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ANNE OF GREEN GABLES were, are, and will always be my favorite books. They shaped me so much in my adolescence and how I viewed marriage and true love. I would have done ANYTHING to have some man love me like Gilbert loves Anne... and to write like Lucy Maud!
I pray all the time to have a little gurl with red hair (which is actually possible since my biological father had red hair & FI has some Irish on his side, too), and if I do, I will be hard pressed to NOT name her Cordelia Blythe with Cordelia being the name Anne wished was her own before she was adopted by Matthew and Marilla and what she tries to tell Marilla is her real name when they first meet and Blythe being Gilbert's (and eventually Anne's) last name. This is also why I MUST visit Prince Edward Island before I die. To stand on the same shore, walk through the same woods... heaven. *lol* Warning: romantic idealistic book nerd over here!
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10-02-2008, 11:26 AM
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that is so sweet leandra!! that sounds sooo romantic. i never could get into those books though. not sure why. i wonder if i could now?
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10-02-2008, 11:31 AM
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LOL Another babysitters club fan here! I was a big time reader as a kid so I picked up just about anything. I also really loved the goosebump series and my all time favorite book was The Diary of Anne Frank. There were quite a few more I just have preggo brain right now lol!
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10-02-2008, 11:35 AM
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10-02-2008, 11:46 AM
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Anyone read the Secret of the Unicorn Queen books? OMG, I loved them!!
  I guess there were only 6 of them written from the website I found says. I know I only read 4. I would totally go back and read these again if I could find them all. I remember wishing I could be swept away by a time machine to a time of unicorns! These are definately on my list to get for the girls. I hope they like to read as much as me!!
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10-02-2008, 11:52 AM
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Oh I could make a LONG LONG list here...
Ramona books by Beverly Cleary Judy Blume (we must, we must, we must increase our bust...) Miss Nelson is Missing The Mouse & the Motorcycle The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Sunfire romances (still have all of them boxed up somewhere) Nancy Drew mysteries Emily's Runaway Imagination (loved this...still have a copy to read to Rachel) Encyclopedia Brown Voyage to the Mushroom Planet Frog & Toad Ferdinand I could add ALOT more...and thankfully I have alot of these books, either from hoarding LOL, Ebay, or garage sales. I can't wait to share them with Rachel.
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10-02-2008, 12:35 PM
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I LOVED Ramona!!!!
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10-02-2008, 01:02 PM
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 ALL-TIME fave childhood book!!  fave Jr. High book!  fave High School book!
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10-02-2008, 02:19 PM
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I've read voraciously since first grade (back in the prehistoric days of 1960). I learned to read with Dick and Jane,lol. I read the Bobbsy Twins (don't recall plots,lol). I had absolutely gorgeous fairy tale books. I read Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book in second grade. But I was so into horses (and dinosaurs); I read a lot of Marguite Henry's books like Misty of Chincoteague, Born to Trot,etc. There were a few Walter Farley's like The Black Stallion and The Red Stallion. But if a book was in the shelves at home (my parents always had lots of books. My mother had been an english major and had LOTS of great literature), I read it (they approved it of course).
I still love reading about as much as anything I can do. Last edited by Brooke W; 10-02-2008 at 02:25 PM.
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10-02-2008, 03:34 PM
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I loved the Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley books, Charlotte's Web, Ramona...
My all time favorites were Anne of Green Gables. I still read them. At least once a year. LOVE them! I own the movie too... watch that every year after I finish the book series, lol!
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