Anonymous
09/09/2014 16:11
Subject: Re:Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
Nancy Drew. Jk.
Anonymous
09/09/2014 16:09
Subject: Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
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
09/09/2014 15:24
Subject: Re:Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
Yeah!
Anonymous
09/09/2014 15:19
Subject: Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
Teen not pre-teen, but The Daughter of Time.
Anonymous
09/08/2014 11:02
Subject: Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
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.
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
09/07/2014 23:41
Subject: Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
Anonymous wrote:From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E. L. Konigsberg. About age 10 or 11. Kid-powered adventure, independence, excitement, mystery. And even then, I loved museums, but I had only experienced the Smithsonian, so reading about the Met was a dream.
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.
Anonymous
09/07/2014 23:11
Subject: Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
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
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
09/07/2014 21:40
Subject: Re:Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A Seperate Peace
+1
Agreed. Great book!
Anonymous
09/07/2014 21:25
Subject: Re:Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
Anonymous wrote:A Seperate Peace
+1
Anonymous
09/07/2014 18:54
Subject: Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
CS Lewis's Narnia Books (ages 8-10) helped me learn about loyalty, bravery, integrity, and other character traits.
Anonymous
09/07/2014 18:52
Subject: Re:Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
Heidi
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Number the Stars
Anne of Green Gables
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Number the Stars
Anne of Green Gables
Anonymous
09/07/2014 14:21
Subject: Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
Anonymous wrote:I was a total bookworm as a kid, and the first book that came to mind was Phantom Tollbooth.
+1
Anonymous
09/07/2014 14:18
Subject: Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
Dominic by William Steig
Anonymous
09/07/2014 13:53
Subject: Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
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.
I also loved the Secret Garden and wrinkle in time.
Anonymous
09/07/2014 13:47
Subject: Re:Books that made an impact on you when you were a kid
A Seperate Peace