Correction:
The other side of the mountain.

PP from above again:
Helen Keller autobiography
My side of the mountain - Jill Kinmont story

Once and Future King
All the Narnia Books
The mixed up files....book which pp mentions-and for all the same reasons
Harriet the Spy

Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

I was in 3rd grade when I read those.

You should probably read it again. You surely wouldn't have had the life experience back then to understand half of what was going on in the story.

The Silver Chair (book 4 of Narnia) by CS Lewis
Red Planet by Robert Heinlein
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

I was in 3rd grade when I read those.

"Flowers in the Attic." by V.C. Andrews.

I realized that I wasn't the only one who was attracted to my brother.

All kidding aside.

"Are You There God? It's Me Margaret." by Judy Blume.

I got my full sex education from just that one novel.

Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones when I was 8.

Also Chronicles of Narnia, and Hobbit/LOTR which our dad read to us - yes all of it, though he probably skipped parts.

Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope

Jacob Have I Loved (5th grade). Still one of the best illustrations of the fact that life isn't "fair" but you can make your own path and be happy.

Anonymous wrote:My side of the mountain.

A boy spends a year surviving outdoors. Learns to feed himself, befriends animals , goes thru seasons and occasional human interaction.

+1. Also Island of the Blue Dolphins and Julie of the Wolves. I was an outdoorsy kid and loved all those "fending for yourself in the wilderness" type books.

Anonymous wrote:Narnia and Anne of Green Gables books for sure. Always made me think an adventure might be around the corner and that true friends/loved existed. (Now that I'm an adult, I know better.)

Bridge to Terabithia is a very powerful book about loss.

Loved Rats of NHYM and The Mouse and His Child

Also To Kill a Mockingbird (4th grade) Sherlock Holmes (6th grade)

I'm so sorry.

Sounder. I read this in 6th grade. I'm black and had a very sheltered childhood so I was still learning about how blacks were are treated in this country.

Anonymous wrote:The Phantom Toolbooth. I was 7.

+1 for this, too. Loved this book at about the same age.

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (4th grade)

The story of a boy surviving alone in the woods really captured my imagination and fed my independent streak. Scenes from it still come to me from time to time, and it encouraged my love of nature which influenced my career.

I'm female, but can't wait to read it to my son.

The Phantom Toolbooth. I was 7.

Narnia and Anne of Green Gables books for sure. Always made me think an adventure might be around the corner and that true friends/loved existed. (Now that I'm an adult, I know better.)

Bridge to Terabithia is a very powerful book about loss.

Loved Rats of NHYM and The Mouse and His Child

Also To Kill a Mockingbird (4th grade) Sherlock Holmes (6th grade)