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Originally Posted by MWC
LOVED the Nancy Drew series.
Encyclopedia Brown.
My Side of the Mountain.
Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Harriet the Spy and its sequel.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The SHerlock Holmes series
Mr. Popper's Penguins made me cry the first time I read it.
There was a series by Joan Aiken that I really liked, but could not get either of my girls interested in  ... one in the series was Wolves of Willoughby Chase ... the series was about a stowaway on a Nantucket whaling ship, and her adventures at sea and on Nantucket.
There was another series that I loved, about a family of kids ... one of the books was The Four-Story Mistake ... another neither of my girls took to, but I read those again and again!
One book I ABSOLUTELY HATE is Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree." I kept yelling at that freakin' tree to knock that pig unconscious with a falling branch. That book was NOT about selfless giving, it was about martyrdom.
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aw, I love that book.
I read it to Ryan when he was 4... and when I read books, I use character voices, so at the end my tree's voice was all creaky and sad and old...
when we got to the very end, I looked up at Ryan... and his lip was trembling and he was blinking furiously and he opened his mouth, then closed it, took a deep, wobbly breath and yelled,
"WELL WHAT DID HE NEED A BOAT FOR, ANYWAY??"
poor baby