Mandi-chan
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What books that you read as a child do you still love to read today?
Mine are:
The Indian and the Cuboard series by Lynne Reid Banks: I've only read the first four books, just recently discovered that a fifth book had been released, and loved them. These books were HUGE when I was a kid, everyone was nuts about getting the whole series (Even though I'm 20 now, I would still like to get that last book! ^-^).
LOCH by Paul Zindel: This was a fun, and freaky, read when I was a kid. Zindel draws on his scientific background in this story of Luke Perkins, 15, nicknamed "Loch" after claiming to see a lake monster as a little boy. He and his younger sister, Zaidee, join their oceanographer father on an expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in Lake Alban in Vermont. Their leader, Cavenger, is a ruthless despot who would just as soon annihilate as preserve the Plesiosaurs, water beasts thought to be extinct for over 10 million years. The siblings and Cavenger's daughter befriend Wee Beastie and help it and its family escape to safety; Dr. Perkins, who has been diminished in his own and his childrens' eyes by selling out his ideals in his need for money, redeems himself. The book is really about what makes a family, whether human or creature, as Loch and Zaidee adjust to their mother's death and help their father regain his self-respect.
The Dear America series: Another smash hit at my school, these books act as diaries written by young girls during different periods of history. Highly recommended!
The Woman in the Wall by Patrice Kindl:Exceedingly shy Anna, 14, narrates her life story. When she is seven, her mother tells her she must go to school. The school psychologist arrives at the run-down family mansion only to mistake Anna for a doll and somehow ends up with her in her purse. This is enough to impel the child to hide in a secret room she has readied overnight by putting up a false wall in the family library. Over the years, she adds new rooms, passages, a kitchen, peepholes; and no one notices. Although she continues repairing, baking, and sewing as her family requests, gradually her mother and older sister, Andrea, choose to forget her. When one of Andrea's ignored admirers sticks a love letter addressed to "A" into a crack in the stairs, Anna answers it, thus setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her discovery. This was a cute and entertaining book for me, I'm so glad I picked it up and read it all those years ago.
And, of course, the Harry Potter series. Nuff said
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Mine are:
The Indian and the Cuboard series by Lynne Reid Banks: I've only read the first four books, just recently discovered that a fifth book had been released, and loved them. These books were HUGE when I was a kid, everyone was nuts about getting the whole series (Even though I'm 20 now, I would still like to get that last book! ^-^).
LOCH by Paul Zindel: This was a fun, and freaky, read when I was a kid. Zindel draws on his scientific background in this story of Luke Perkins, 15, nicknamed "Loch" after claiming to see a lake monster as a little boy. He and his younger sister, Zaidee, join their oceanographer father on an expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in Lake Alban in Vermont. Their leader, Cavenger, is a ruthless despot who would just as soon annihilate as preserve the Plesiosaurs, water beasts thought to be extinct for over 10 million years. The siblings and Cavenger's daughter befriend Wee Beastie and help it and its family escape to safety; Dr. Perkins, who has been diminished in his own and his childrens' eyes by selling out his ideals in his need for money, redeems himself. The book is really about what makes a family, whether human or creature, as Loch and Zaidee adjust to their mother's death and help their father regain his self-respect.
The Dear America series: Another smash hit at my school, these books act as diaries written by young girls during different periods of history. Highly recommended!
The Woman in the Wall by Patrice Kindl:Exceedingly shy Anna, 14, narrates her life story. When she is seven, her mother tells her she must go to school. The school psychologist arrives at the run-down family mansion only to mistake Anna for a doll and somehow ends up with her in her purse. This is enough to impel the child to hide in a secret room she has readied overnight by putting up a false wall in the family library. Over the years, she adds new rooms, passages, a kitchen, peepholes; and no one notices. Although she continues repairing, baking, and sewing as her family requests, gradually her mother and older sister, Andrea, choose to forget her. When one of Andrea's ignored admirers sticks a love letter addressed to "A" into a crack in the stairs, Anna answers it, thus setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her discovery. This was a cute and entertaining book for me, I'm so glad I picked it up and read it all those years ago.
And, of course, the Harry Potter series. Nuff said
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