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The Seventh Tower?
I remember those. I tried them, but they were a bit too "young" for me at the time so I never really got into them.
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Favorite YA lit from your childhood?
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The Seventh Tower?
I remember those. I tried them, but they were a bit too "young" for me at the time so I never really got into them.
Lionel Mandrake
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I also used to like Neal Shusterman's stuff, though I doubt it would hold up as well today.
As an avid reader of the Hardy Boys, I was pretty weirded out when I discovered the relaunch where everything went insane. They went from "Let's solve the mystery of the abandoned lighthouse!" to "They just killed my girlfriend, and now they're making us dig our own grave!"
Brian Fellows
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I loved this series when I was in like 2nd grade.
This!
RatskyWatsky
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Animorphs.
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
Also classic. Loved these books like crazy.
Count Dookkake
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Yes.
Please ignore the terribad film if you have ever seen it. The Dark Is Rising sequence was an absolute favourite of mine growing up - I read this one, the second in the series, first, but they're all very good in their own ways.
A friend of mine rereads all five books every Christmas because they defined her childhood so much. Really great stuff.
I also loved when I was younger all the Tamora Pierce books in the Alanna and Wild Magic series. Maybe they're a bit Mary Sue-ish and I'm definitely not the target audience with that pesky Y chromosome getting in the way, but at least Alanna and Daine actually did stuff to have kings and sorcerers fall in love with them.
Nice to see the Abhorsen trilogy, the Chronicles of Prydain, His Dark Materials etc. already represented in this thread.
Lionel Mandrake
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What kind of an ending was that? There wasn't any resolution. Just crippling sadness... The end. Never bothered with the sequel.
Hooooly shit nostalgia overload for me, I completely forgot these books existed. They always carried a certain allure for me because they were in my elementary school's library, but only for third graders and up. Everytime we were in the library a group of us would look at the covers and wonder what was in them
Edit: I didn't see anyone mention Sammy Keyes yet. I don't know if they were well received everywhere but they were kind of a fad for us in fourth grade after our teacher read the first one out loud to us
Taco_Human
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Every book in the Captain Underpants series.
+1 for Animorphs.
This shit blew my mind when I was like 14.
*The* formative book in my formative years.
This shit blew my mind when I was like 14.
Deified Data
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What kind of an ending was that? There wasn't any resolution. Just crippling sadness... The end. Never bothered with the sequel.
Hated this book, probably because I was assigned to read it. That's a sure-fire way to make a kid hate something.
Lionel Mandrake
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I don't know. I was assigned to read The Cay and The Giver, and I still think they're pretty good. There are a lot of those books that I don't remember, but every now and then we had a good one.
bengraven
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I read so many books from this series.
They must not have been popular in my area. I hadn't even heard of the series until I was nearly 30.
There are soooooo many books here that I never heard of when I was a kid that I wish I could go back and read with a teenage or pre-teen mindset.
That was these two:
(and yes, I go out of my way to find the exact cover of the book I'm talking about for maximum nostalgia)
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The Giver...I had the good fortune of being able to choose which book I'd be assigned to read, and I chose The Giver out of a list of 5. True. Sometimes you'd be assigned a gem.
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I got in shit in the fifth grade for reading that ahead of the class. I had to sit in a room by myself and she gave me the sheets to do for the rest of the book.
Yep, this. I had almost all of them. Loved visiting old, crummy used-book stores because they would always have one or two Hardy Boys-books that I didn't already have. Tried reading them again when I was 15 or so. Not a good idea, totally crushed my rose-tinted glasses. Those books are as cookie-cutter as it gets. But they're perfect for 10-year olds, and I'll keep mine for my own kids.
ColtraineGF
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Animorphs was my first favorite. Then Harry Potter.
1 or 2 years ago, I got around to reading the entire series (Animorphs), back-to-back. Man, I wish that the author didn't end it like that...
I've read about 90% of the books mentioned so far, so I'll throw in a few from William Sleator that weren't mentioned:
Interstellar Pig
The Duplicate
Singularity
1 or 2 years ago, I got around to reading the entire series (Animorphs), back-to-back. Man, I wish that the author didn't end it like that...
I've read about 90% of the books mentioned so far, so I'll throw in a few from William Sleator that weren't mentioned:
Interstellar Pig
The Duplicate
Singularity
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VGChampion
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I always wanted to read Abarat but never got around to it. Plus the big font turned me off a little despite wanting to read it.
roodiculous
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Love working at the library. Gotta go with my fave "A Wrinkle in Time".
Best cover design by far.
Best cover design by far.
Artemis Fowl
Read that book so many times. They kind of dropped off after the 5th, couldn't match the 4th one.
Really enjoyed the Artemis Fowl series up until the 4th. Lost interest afterwards.
Harry Potter's the staple for me, having grown up as the books were coming out.
Goosebumps were huge and I had a shit ton of them. I lost half my collection due to someone borrowing them and not giving them back. I was pretty salty about that for a while (salt intake increasing at the thought
)I also read Eragon and Eldest when they came out. Thought they were pretty good read despite the negatives I've heard about the series. I also have Brisinger, but I still haven't bothered reading it.
A Series of Unfortunate Events was also a good one. I started reading book 6 until 13, so I missed out on their back story. The movie filled in the blanks for what I needed, though.
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I grew up as the Harry Potter series came out, but I never touched a single one until my senior year of high school. The whole series was released by then - it was nice being able to go through the whole series without any long waits between entries.
Oh I loved this one.
Also: I read and loved all the Bunnicula books as a kid.
bengraven
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Love working at the library. Gotta go with my fave "A Wrinkle in Time".
Best cover design by far.
Ouch, how the fuck did I forget to post this?
And yes, I already owned a newer copy, but specifically bought that cover at a thrift store because of the nostalgia factor.
Deified Data
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Love the passive-aggressive jab at Potter.
This. I read the full set including the unnumbered ones in less than a month once when I was younger.
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The best thing about Animorphs were the covers - catching the kid mid-transformation from human to animal. They were freaks.
Pshw, that juvenile, this is young adult.
Deified Data
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That was added much later, and I'm sure it has nothing to do with Barron.
I read so many books from this series.
Word. This series was the axis of my imagination for a few years.
Dahl and Hardy Boys, too.
elrechazado
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you fail the simpsons quote test
jon_irenicus
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Probably not my favorite YA lit but I used to re-read this many times over:
My favorite "choose your own adventure" style book (I loved Egyptian mythology when I was younger):
My favorite "choose your own adventure" style book (I loved Egyptian mythology when I was younger):
Deified Data
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Guilty as charged.
Yeah, that was the impression I got. Publishers being publishers.
parrotbeak
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Scott Corbett was my favorite writer when I was like 8. I even wrote him a fan letter for class.
That is a fucking fantastic title. :]
Man, I can't believe I forgot to mention Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, and Brian Jacques. They were a huge part of my childhood. A lot of Jacques' books were pretty samey, but when they were good they were damn good (to my fifth grade mind, anyway; not sure how they'd hold up now). And as somebody else pointed out, those food descriptions made me drool every time.
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