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s/o: What were your fav book series as a kid?
Mine were Babysitter's Club and anything by RL Stein
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Re: s/o: What were your fav book series as a kid?
Nancy Drew
Babysitter's Club
RL Stein
Christopher Pike
Younger - Little House on the Prairie series, Judy Blume books, and mysteries, including Encyclopedia Brown and Hawkeye Collins and Amy Adams books.
Older (7th/8th) - A lot of Lois Duncan (suspense)
Sadly, after 8th grade, I stopped reading for pleasure.
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Ramona quimby
Little house on the prairie books
Encyclopedia brown
LOVED choose your own adventure books and would read them over and over!
I didn't read a lot of the series books that were later, like the goosebumps, sweet valley high, babysitter's club.
In high school I got hold of all my mom's Danielle steel and Jackie Collins books...lol. Wheeeee!
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Encyclopedia Brown was a classic, my dad and I would read them together and I always thought he was the smartest man ever when he would solve them first (I was around 6).
Anything Beverly Cleary, (ramona quimby, ralph s mouse, etc), every babysitter's club, there was a similar one-sleepover friends maybe?
Any and all Judy Blume- started with books like Blubber, and then remember Forever? scandalous! it got passed around 7th grade and a teacher found it and no would would admit it was theirs.
Ditto choose your own adventure, I would keep a finger on a page I wanted to go back to and try another choice, I'd end up with 10 fingers in the book trying to keep reading.
so many great kid and tween books.
Yep! All of those. I read constantly when I was a kid.
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
Bev Cleary
LOVED Judy Blume, but I don't consider that a series.
I remember Encyclopedia Brown, but I don't remember ever reading thm. But I got some for Sam for Christmas, and we're having a lot of fun with them.
Chronicles of Narnia
I loved BSC the most, and wanted to be Stacy. Remember the really big ones when they would go on vacation? There was one to Disney World, can't really remember where else they went. I may sneak and re-read them as Emily grows up just for the memories, or read them along with her.
I also loved Sweet Valley Twins & Sweet Valley High--remember when they made the TV show? Yeah, I watched it. Have you read the most recent Sweet Valley book, Sweet Valley Confidential? It's about Elizabeth & Jessica after college. Interesting who Todd ends up with...
RL Stein scared me, and I vaguely remember Christopher Pike. I tried to get my students in to Beverly Cleary because I enjoyed her so much, but my kids just weren't in to any of it.
I also enjoyed the Little House series...there was a series about another group of girls, too, maybe it was 4 girls? Hmmm...I can't remember now...
This
Babysitters Club
Sweet Valley Twins
Choose Your Own Adventure
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Boxcar Children
Beverly Cleary
Judy Blume
Berenstain Bears when I was younger
Nancy Drew
Little House on the Prairie
I was too old for The Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley High when those came out (way too old).
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Chronicles of Narnia
America Girls
Little House on the Prairie
Anne of Green Gables
I read pretty much all the others mentioned above too, but these 4 were definitely my favorites.
Anne of Green Gables
Little House on the Prairie
RL Stein
Christopher Pike
Little Women
Nancy Drew
Chronicles of Narnia
I always forget Little Women is actually a series. I read those books until they fell apart.
Also, three by Madeleine L'Engle: The Wrinkle in Time Quintet, The Austin Family series, and the O'Keefe Family series.
Goosebumps
Incognito Mosquito (I think that was a short series?)
Choose Your Own Adventure
American Girl books
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Boxcar Children
Madeleine L'Engle Books
In high school I read all the John Grisham books and the Ender series from Orson Scott Card...I still have and have re-read that series, Speaker of the Dead is one of my very favorite books.
Same here. I also read the Little House books, but these were my faves.
Anything Judy Blume
Choose Your Own Adventure
Chronicles of Narnia
The Hobbit & LoTR series
I read the entire VC Andrews- Flowers in the Attic series. I still remember thinking how crazy that whole mess was.
DH read the Tin Tin series. I never did but we have all of those books to pass along to C.
Love this post. I read the same books as everyone else. Little House, BSC, Christopher Pike, etc. I think I'm going to see if I can download Little House on my kindle tonight! A much more relaxing read right before bed than The Hunger Games or The Girl Who Kicked a Hornets Nest. I need some stress-free time at the end of the day!
They're not available for Kindle
Can't believe I forgot these!!!
I read most of the ones mentioned except for the American Girl books--those were a bit after my time. The only ones I didn't see mentioned were the Fabulous Five (in elementary school). Babysitter's Club, Nancy Drew, and Christopher Pike were definitely my favorites though.
The Borrowers! I forgot about them! Oh I LOOOOOOOVED The Borrowers and their tiny little miniature world!
Sweet Valley High
Babysitter's Club
Boxcar Children
Goosebumps
Create your own adventure
This. Even the Fiat commercial during the Superbowl reminded me of Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield:).
I had never even heard of Tin Tin until a couple of years ago when Sam's class took a field trip to the Toy Museum here. They had a big case full of memorabilia. I guess it's more of a European thing? Then there was the movie that came out, and now I see it everywhere. So strange.
I also read the VC Andrews series, but not until college. I was in summer school and bored senseless when I wasn't in class, and a friend of mine had all of them. CREE. PY. I always wondered what possessed VC Andrews to write about that particular subject.