- The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales.
- Stellaluna.
- A Wrinkle In Time.
- The Jolly Postman series: I loved taking the letters out and reading them over and over.
- Amelia's Journal series: I got my own composition notebook and tried to make it as cool as hers. I failed.
- Judy Blume books: Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret? (The pencil under the boob test fascinated me), Blubber, the Fudge series.
- Beverly Cleary books: Ramona Quimby series.
- The Phantom Tollbooth.
- Z for Zachariah.
- American Girl series: Felicity was my favorite.
- Angelina Ballerina.
- Island of the Blue Dolphins.
- From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler.
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
- Roald Dahl books: The BFG, Matilda, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More and The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me were my personal favorites.
- Babysitter's Club series: I think I related to Mary-Anne the most.
- Goosebumps series, of course. Especially the Nightmare of the Living Dummy!
- Stuart Little.
- The Seven Chinese Brothers.
- The Chocolate Touch.
- Hatchet.
- Chrysanthemum.
- The Miss Nelson series.
- Strega Nona.
- Henry and Mudge series.
- The Stupids series.
- The Teacher from the Black Lagoon series.
- Bunnicula.
- The Little Engine That Could.
- Little Critter series.
- Amelia Bedelia series.
- Corduroy Bear.
- Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel.
- Nancy Drew series: The Clue of the Dancing Puppet was my personal favorite.
- Sweet Valley High series: Great role models, those self-absorbed, boy-crazy twins.
- Bridge to Terabithia.
- Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters.
- Naya Nuki.
- Stone Soup.
- Serendipity series.
- The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series.
- Kat Kong.
- The Boxcar Children series.
- Dear America series. Voyage on the Great Titanic was my favorite.
jan 13 2008 ∞
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