Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
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Anonymous
| A Seperate Peace |
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I was a total bookworm as a kid, and the first book that came to mind was Phantom Tollboth.
I also loved the Secret Garden and wrinkle in time. |
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Dominic by William Steig
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Anonymous
+1 |
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Heidi
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Number the Stars Anne of Green Gables |
Anonymous
| CS Lewis's Narnia Books (ages 8-10) helped me learn about loyalty, bravery, integrity, and other character traits. |
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+1 |
Anonymous
Agreed. Great book! |
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Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
Age 10 or 11 Really made me feel compassion and has stuck with me Sunshine I think this was the title but not sure. About a young mother who finds out she is dying from skin cancer and writes a journal to leave for her baby daughter. Tearing up just thinking about this. I was a teen when i read it. Wifey Probably in middle school when my mom didn't hide this one. She should have hidden it. I wondered if i was still a virgin after reading Judy Blume's very adult porno-novel lol |
Anonymous
I loved that book too. Probably from the time I was 10. I loved the mystery. Part, and the idea of travel. Had never Ben to New York City and it sounded so exotic. And I loved concept of being a girl who ran away. |
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The Fourteen Bears in Summer and Winter. A toddler book really. I have my original copy from 1975. Its out of print but the illustrations are so amazing. I remember just being entranced by that book.
Kaffir Boy-Mark Mathabane. My mom gave this me in 8th grade when I was recovering from a tosillectomy. its the memoir of a black man living under apartheid and using tennis as a way out. it blew me away. A few years later he spoke at my high school. A lot schools in South where I am from have tried to ban the book. It has a ton "mature themes"- because it deals very frankly with the atrocities, violence and sexual violence in the slums. Im really glad in hind sight that my parents never censored our reading material. It was just the most amazing book at a really impressionable time in my life. |
Anonymous
| Teen not pre-teen, but The Daughter of Time. |
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Yeah!
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Anonymous
| Peppermints in the Parlor. I was in elementary school. I think it made an impact on me because it was my introduction to gothic novels (which really grabbed me for some reason) and page-turners. It made me want to read more novels. |
Anonymous
| Nancy Drew. Jk. |