Goodreads: Celebrating Young Readers Week with My Favorite Childhood Books
Did you participate in Book It during elementary school (You know, where you log the time or pages, I can’t remember which, you read and get rewards from Pizza Hut)? Well, I did! And even though most of the prizes were in pizza form (And I’m not a pizza fan, wouldn’t even touch it as a kid), I loved it!
This week, the Book It program is celebrating National Young Readers Week, and I thought I’d celebrate, too, wish sharing some of my favorite childhood books!
Heads up: If you’ve read Tierasta, my old Blogger blog, this may look a little familiar :)
10 Favorite Childhood Book Series
(See the original here)
1, Nancy Drew Mystery Stories by Carolyn Keen (Helped defined my childhood)
2, The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin (I totally wanted to be club secretary)
3, The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (Thank you, book orders!)
4, The Ramona Quimby Series by Beverly Cleary (She was so precocious)
5, Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar (Unique and quirky)
6, Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol (He was a genius!)
7, Choose Your Own Adventure (I read them over and over, different every the time)
8, Goosebumps by R.L. Stine (As a third/fourth-grader, these books were so scary)
9, Kent Family Chronicles by John Jakes (Better than textbook American history)
10, Shel Silverstein (His works are still very close to my heart)
10 Favorite Childhood Novels
(See the original here)
1, Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse (She was one of my heroes)
2, Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix (The Village totes ripped this off)
3, Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh (Yes, I tried to spy on my neighbors like her)
4, The Giver by Lois Lowry (A powerful and rewarding reading experience)
5, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Cute/sad/comforting/upsetting)
6, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (I want a secret garden)
7, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (I also want a horse)
8, Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell (Real life Blue Lagoon, Castaway, Pocahontas, girl power)
9, Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (I think I had a thing for orphans)
10, Drive-By by Lynne Ewing (My first intro to the pain of gang violence and drugs)
I wanna know, did you read any of these as a kid? Love ‘em as much as I did? What books were your faves growing up?
Xoxo,
Tiera
PS: To keep up with what I’m reading, find me on Goodreads! Let’s be book buddies :)
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