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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mixed-up Files is a terrific book. It totally held up for me and both my kids loved it.

Other favorites from my childhood that I love to reread (and that my kids also loved):

Charlotte' Web
The Trumpet of the Swan
The Little House books
The Melendy books (The Saturdays, The Four-Story Mistake, Then There Were Five, Spider Web for Two)
The Wizard of Oz
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
How to Eat Fried Worms
The Secret Garden 
My Side of the Mountain
Harriet the Spy
The Great Brain books
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Tisha
Cheaper by the Dozen
The Grounding of Group Six
The Ghost of Dibble Hollow
Caddie Woodlawn
Just about anything by Beverly Cleary
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I'm the Mixed-Up Files fan from above.  Totally agree with you about Charlotte and Beverly Cleary books.  For Cleary fans, her memoir, A Girl from Yam Hill, is illuminating and beautifully written.

Just wondering . . for those who read Mixed-Up Files and Are You There , God?, did the NYC suburban setting influence your feelings about the books?  I grew up in NJ suburbs (kinda -- Princeton), and the Mixed-Up Files felt a lot like my childhood.  Less so, Are You There, God?; though the movie brought back a rush of memories.         [/quote]

Hi.  I liked Mixed-Up Files because of the art and the mystery and the hiding in a closed building.  I guess I liked to speculate about whether it was really possible to avoid detection.  Corduroy bear had some similarities and I always liked that book.  I also liked the sibling interaction.  So nothing to do with the NYC setting.  Except it did make me want to visit the Met.  I grew up in the Bay Area.

Did not like "Margaret". I thought it was vulgar and didn't find it particularly realistic.  My friends and I had better things to do than try to grow bigger boobs.  Also my mom gave it to me as a didactic book.

Julie and the Wolves - yuck.  Found it depressing and weird.  Between the vague attempted SA and eating wolf barf, I couldn't figure out  why grownups thought it was so great.  Same with Island of the Blue Dolphins, which I think may have gotten "cancelled" for some reason.  [/quote]

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