Phoenix84
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Post by Phoenix84 on May 9, 2013 13:27:42 GMT -5
Tomorrow the War Began was a good series oped. When we were teenagers my mother would read that one whenever we were on vacation.
Though the concept of a forign military power invading Australia was a little far fetched.
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Post by Pants on May 9, 2013 14:34:43 GMT -5
Tomorrow the War Began was a good series oped. When we were teenagers my mother would read that one whenever we were on vacation.
Though the concept of a forign military power invading Australia was a little far fetched. Erm. Australia is a commwealth of England, because they occupied it on their world tour. The dutch occupied the other side, but they mostly died. Just because we don't say that early European settlers of places were "invading" that's usually what it looks like to indigineous populations. Also, I would totally invade Australia, given the chance. It's kind of the bomb.
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on May 9, 2013 15:01:53 GMT -5
What the Wind Told, I still have it and read it to DS. I loved Judy Blume books and Stephen King. Weird choice for a young kid but I love to be scared.
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Post by movingforward on May 9, 2013 15:10:43 GMT -5
I read the Outsiders in 8th grade. It was good but not one of my favorites. I liked the other choice: Of Mice and Men, better. Depressing as all hell but such a good book! I forgot about The Outsiders. I loved that book. I enjoyed all the S.E. Hinton books. As a little kid my favorite book was The Velveteen Rabbit
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Post by Apple on May 9, 2013 20:58:03 GMT -5
The Velveteen Rabbit was so sad!
I started reading Stephen King around age 12. I'd deliver the newspaper and read my book--only had to back track to a house I missed a couple times.
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Post by Pants on May 9, 2013 22:09:55 GMT -5
Remembering some of the ones I loved in Australia:
Playing Beatie Bow Tom's Midnight Garden Goodnight, Mr. Tom Back Home The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
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Post by whoisjohngalt on May 11, 2013 10:26:10 GMT -5
My the MOST EVER favorite book was and still is Karlson by Astrid Lindgren. It was so spectacularly written that even as I was getting older, I wasn't bored with it, bc it has a LOT of those funny/sarcastic things in it that you can only understand as an adult.
I hope I can find it in English to read it to my kids....
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Post by beergut on May 11, 2013 20:42:29 GMT -5
Loved Judy Blume and Donald J. Sobol, author of Encyclopedia Brown and One Hour Mysteries.
Anything by Gordon Korman. Loved the Bruno & Boots series, even though I never lived in a boarding school.
Read The Three Investigators series, which made it impossible for me to like the Hardy Boys. Found Hardy Boys to be too predictable.
Read all of Chris Crutcher's published works in HS. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes has already been mentioned, but his first book was Running Loose. Stotan! was also excellent, The Crazy Horse Electric Game was the most painful. I recommend all of his works for any young adults.
I was into Stephen King young, and The Stand still tops my list as my all-time favorite book.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2013 8:35:15 GMT -5
Chronicles of Narnia.
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Post by mmhmm on May 12, 2013 9:07:54 GMT -5
Oh, my! That's a looooong time ago! As a little one, I loved Black Beauty, Aesop's Fables, The Jungle Book, Tom Sawyer (all of 'em), Robin Hood ... there were so many of them. Both my parents were avid readers, and both read to me until I could read for myself. Once I was on my own and could check out books from the library (daddy got me an adult card), I liked the Topper series (Topper Takes a Trip, et al), anything scary or supernatural, and (of all things) Mickey Spillane books. My fifth grade teacher was none too happy when I decided to do a book report on Kiss Me Deadly.
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Post by servant_of_dog on May 12, 2013 10:18:07 GMT -5
My the MOST EVER favorite book was and still is Karlson by Astrid Lindgren. It was so spectacularly written that even as I was getting older, I wasn't bored with it, bc it has a LOT of those funny/sarcastic things in it that you can only understand as an adult. I hope I can find it in English to read it to my kids.... Oh! Astrid Lindgren wrote the "Pippi Longstocking" books! Loved those! And someone else mentioned Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, which were also fun. I also had a very cool "illustrated Shakespeare" book, which was a collection of some of the more popular plays in "story" format, with (duh) pictures. It was a great way to enjoy and become familiar with some plot lines and major characters. I really enjoyed the stories as a youngster, and found that it made reading the plays/attending performances much more accessible when I was a bit older.
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