QOTD 1/15

minionlover

What book did you read when you were a kid that you absolutely loved? It can be any book from when you were 18 or younger.

mana8503

I remember rereading Charlotte's Web 3-4 times.  But we're going 18 and below... I LOVED the first 4 HPs.  I say it's a tie.

WillyH19

Little Women. I still do a re-read every year or so.

MrsH1027

A Time to Kill was the first book I remember reading and actually enjoying.  I think it's the only book I had to read in high school that I enjoyed.  I read WAY more now that I get to pick what I want to read!

ramstein1027

Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park and anything by Jack London or Stephen King.  I was a weird kid!

goatlady12

I think the only book I enjoyed in high school was Remember Me by Christopher Pike.

lehc723

I LOVED a lot of crappy Babysitter's Club and Sweet Valley books, but examples I'm not embarrassed of, off the top of my head:

To Kill A Mockingbird

Little Women

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (still my favorite book!)

Oh, and all of the Anne of Green Gables books

mrshall1027

I loved Garden of Shadows by VC Andrews.  I think I was around 12 or 13 when I read that and I thought it was so scandalous! 

snuff9861

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

The first couple of Harry Potter books

Anne of Green Gables 

Pride and Prejudice

xxjen015

Harry Potter (any and all!)

Sloppy Firsts and the rest of the Jessica Darling series by Megan McCafferty (I still re-read this every so often!!)

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

pengy16

The Giver
it's going to become a movie this year

sjs1013

I loved Bridge to Terabithia, The Joy Luck Club, Little Women, and Charlotte's Web.

consciousdear88

I think I was at least 18 and under for most of the Harry Potter series.. It was a rather nice surprise as a kid--I was getting allergy treatments at this one doctor's office from the time I was maybe 8 or 9 up until junior year of high school and the secretary at the office got me the first 3 or 4 of the series in hardback as a gift. I still have those.

I also remember enjoying Little Women, The Secret Garden and the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. (I finally found an ebook version with all the Oz books, so I'm a bit excited about finally reading the rest. I've only read two from the series.)

sjs1013

@consciousdear88 I got the Wonderful Wizard of Oz series last spring after seeing the movie.  It was a special in the kindle store the weekend the movie came out for like $2.  I've only read a little bit but I want to read the entire thing.  I may work on it this weekend.

consciousdear88

@sjs1013 I got lucky and it showed up in my recommendations on my kindle. I did start rereading the first book on the way to my inlaws.

minionlover

Wow this post makes me feel old since the first HP book came out after I turned 18!! I didn't read the first one until I was 23.

Anyway...I loved all of Christopher Pike and VC Andrews books. That's pretty much all I read when I was a kid.

WillyH19

Cathyl7910 said:

Wow this post makes me feel old since the first HP book came out after I turned 18!! I didn't read the first one until I was 23.

Anyway...I loved all of Christopher Pike and VC Andrews books. That's pretty much all I read when I was a kid.

Me too! I started reading them in college.

mbuckley85

The Giver!!! I have wanted to see it in a movie FOREVER!!

linnae939

jwrenne said:

The Giver it's going to become a movie this year

no way! I hope they don't ruin it! This is my choice, even though i didnt get the end until i read it after about 8 years of not reading it and was blown away. I still read it and number the stars occaisionally.

and...jurassic park. LOVE IT

pengy16

Here is a link to imdb showing its coming August 2014: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435651/

xxjen015

linnae939 said:

jwrenne said:

The Giver it's going to become a movie this year

no way! I hope they don't ruin it! This is my choice, even though i didnt get the end until i read it after about 8 years of not reading it and was blown away. I still read it and number the stars occaisionally.

and...jurassic park. LOVE IT

I'm scared of the movie because they did cast Taylor Swift in it....eek!

sjs1013

@linnae939 I forgot about Number the Stars.  I loved that, too!

linnae939

xxjen015 said:

linnae939 said:

jwrenne said:

The Giver it's going to become a movie this year

no way! I hope they don't ruin it! This is my choice, even though i didnt get the end until i read it after about 8 years of not reading it and was blown away. I still read it and number the stars occaisionally.

and...jurassic park. LOVE IT

I'm scared of the movie because they did cast Taylor Swift in it....eek!

uhoh!