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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]

I'm the PP you quoted. No, I grew up in rural New England in the 70s. The first time I visited NYC was in college.[/quote]

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