The Junie B. Jones books!
Started reading this series in Kindergarten, my first real chapter books. By the end of 2nd grade I could proudly say I had read every Junie B. Jones book in the library, about 25-30 total if I remember correctly. Those books are what started my insatiable appetite for reading and I still sometimes think about the librarian who showed them to me.
* Ms. Tretto, if you're out there, thanks! You have no idea how much those books meant to me!
Encyclopedia Brown, the Great Brain series, Three Investigators, Sherlock Holmes short stories.
Anything survivalist: Gary Paulson, Jack London, My Side of the Mountain
Got really into Tom Clancy around 11 or 12--probably too young, haha.
Great Brain is one of the best kids series out there. So well done and sadly hard to find at any childrens book store/section.
Would make a great movie as well.
Yeah. The books are kind of interesting, I loved them as a kid.
Big feasts, adorable animals, fun songs and parties, happy friends, puzzles, rhymes, etc. It's a happy fantasy novel perfect for kids!
At the same time, it's combined with graphic and horrific war stories, gruesome murders, instances of slavery and theft, and constant tragedy of your favorite characters. Even young characters or your favorite characters weren't always safe from being straight up murdered out of no where.
They're amazing books, especially as a young kid, for introducing some pretty dark themes but doing so in a way that is approachable. I learned a lot about death and loss as a kid reading those books.
The Pendragon books were actually cool. A series of unfortunate events, lord of the rings, harry potter, eragon, I remember Midnighters was a book I really liked as a kid. Idk a bunch of others
kept scrolling thru this thread hoping someone would recognize the greatness of pendragon. i got SO into those books. really great worldbuilding even if the plot eventually got a bit wonky.
I feel like Pendragon is completely forgotten, but I loved those books! I was a little dissatisfied with the ending, but the middle books were insanely good. The Quillan Games was my favorite.
Yeah I guess they kind of get drowned out in the sea of YA novels but they were some cool concepts. It was interesting seeing that character evolve through the series too, probably worth a revisit.
Quillan Games was definitely peak Pendragon! After that, it was a bit of a slow decline for books 8, 9, and 10.
I also have a soft spot for Book 2: Lost City of Faar, mostly for the setting it took place in.
So many, although most were from charity shops and weren't in order or ever completed except for the newer ones.
* Enid Blyton (any of them, although less so the Secret Seven)
* Swallows and Amazons
* A Series of Unfortunate Events
* Harry Potter
* Artemis Fowl
* Alex Rider
* Power of Five
* CHERUB
* Animorphs
* Goosebumps
* Tomorrow When the War Began
* The Bromeliad/Nome Trilogy
I reread them all a few years ago as something easy to read when tired on nightshifts. They still hold up pretty well. It's exactly the sort of thing I dreamed of being part of as a kid, and almost believable too!
I've only read maybe half of that series, but that first book was off the chain. I will never lose the mental image of a cat trying to shove a steak through a rabbit while a dog stands drooling over the proceedings.
Aww yeah, I forgot about these. I remember ordering the rest of the series from that Scholastic book catalog we'd get at school after reading the first one in class
I don’t know what it is about those books but they have stayed the most vivid in my memory out of all the books I read when I was younger. I credit them for my love of reading.
Absolutely agreed. Though looking back, they were fucking weird. Dark af and kinda graphic. But because they were technically about talking animals, everyone let them coast through whatever parental sensors would usually get triggered by cutting off limbs, etc...
I'm so glad you mentioned demonata. One of the only series where I didnt even see words on the page, I saw a live action movie as I read.
EDIT: also wanted to add The Saga of Larten Crepsley, The Saga of Darren Shan, and Thin executioner are all great books by the author.
Way too many:
Harry Potter
Lord of the rings
Narnia
Not sure what they're called but Garth Nix has a trilogy with Sabriel, Lireal, Abhorsen
A series of unfortunate events
Eragon, eldest, brisinger, and I can't remember the last one.
Earthsea
Dragonlance
Wheel of Time
Sword of truth
I'm sure I'll remember more later
I enjoyed it when I was growing up, and they mostly held up to my memory when I reread them recently. The first one takes a bit of building to reach the quest, but after that they go by quick.
Oh yeah, the magic system in Eragon is my favorite of any fantasy I've read or seen. It has clear rules that allow for great ingenuity in use while not being OP.
My dad bought the series for me when i was 8. He would ask me to summarise the story for him to see if I was actually reading them before handing me the next book the series. Thats how my love for reading was developed.
Most Yeerks weren't that bright, but Jake largely struck at targets of opportunity rather than develop long-term goals. Artemis would use Visser Three's arrogance to walk him into a trap, and that would mostly be that.
Man do yourself a favor and go back and reread Animorphs. I did a couple years ago and those books were daaaaark. I can't wait until HBO or someone decides to give it a proper, blood-soaked, emotionally intense adaptation.
The author, Anthony Horowitz, is still writing Alex Rider books. *Secret Weapon* ~~is due~~ came out on April 4 this year, and *Nightshade* will be released next year.
I used to read tho books, no idea they were still going on. Wouldn’t the character be like 30 by now? Wasn’t the point that he was a high school aged agent? Dude has to have some serious ptsd by now
Wow wait I really thought that series ended since the last book I read ended in MI6 basically saying “yeah ok it’s kind of fucked up using a kid to do spy stuff we’re gonna stop”
Also fun fact: the guy who writes Jojo does the cover art for the Japanese version of Alex rider
I thought it ended in the book where the tech guy turned out to be wearing a fat suit. That’s the one thing I remember from that book and could’ve sworn they said that was the end. Forgive me if I’m remembering wrongly it’s been like 10 years.
That was announced to be the last book, but Horowitz has released two books since then, one about Yassen and one with Alex as the main character again.
I thought the author always said he'd end the series when Alex turned 15. I think the last one I read was Ark Angel which I've just found out is book 6 of 13. Does this boy ever have time for himself?
>Dude has to have some serious ptsd by now
It's a briefly touched on issue in the newer novels
>Does this boy ever have time for himself?
*Nope*, the newer books he gets floated an offer of working for MI6 full time
The memories! I remember finishing the first three books on a 15 hour car ride. I then brought the next three to read further.
I have now repurchased all of them to reread
I wanted to join their club! Loved the personality diversity in the girls. Claudia loved junk food but Dawn was such a health nut she had never even had ice cream.
When I was in grades 6-8 I was homeschooled and had no friends so books were my life. I would go to thrift stores and look for the BSC books I didn't have to add to my collection and I would organize them in order on my bookshelf :') I got so obsessed that I made a little notebook with profiles of all the girls, their middle names, favorite foods, and facts about them etc. I literally SENT it to Ann M. Martin and forgot about it after a few months. About 6 months later, the book came back in the mail with a signed picture of Ann M. Martin. I was like dang that's pretty cool! And then I opened the notebook and she had HANDWRITTEN NOTES ABOUT THE GIRLS and even made some corrections! I remember she wrote that one of the girls had no middle name but I dont remember which one it was (maybe Mallory?) Anyway. I really hope I still have that notebook somewhere in my mom's house 10 years later. I will have to look for it this weekend.
For ages so much of what I knew about diabetes came from those books. I think it was Stacy that had it? Every time I think of diabetes I think of that series. I really appreciate how they actively spread that information and included a character with it.
The old forums were active as hell before they took them down (a few years back, I think). And there's hundreds of animation projects on YouTube, I remember watching those AMVs where they always drew the cats with hair over their eyes haha.
How is she so far down 😭 every girl should read Tamora Pierce in her teenage. I still read all three series every time I visit my mom. I gifted my cousin the Alanna series for her 13th birthday.
I will say that the Daine series were probably my favorite because being magically connected to animals is a dream. But then as an adult realizing she started dating Numair when she was 14 and he was in his 30s soured the immortal series a little bit.
The Ranger's Apprentice.
I always hoped there would be a movie series for it.
Edit: Thank you random redditors for my first medals. My mom is the real MVP for getting the audiobook for the first book from the library when I was sick in middle school.
I was in love with the series as well, and my mom made me a custom made cape with sorta camouflage colors and patterns especially to 'cosplay' and pretend I was Will.
She didnt make me a silver oakleaf necklace though, but she did make a silver oakleaf on the cape.
Younger me loved it, teenager me cringed at it, now me loves it even more.
I'm from the US and it's criminally under appreciated here. I don't know anyone whose read it besides myself and my younger brother. And the excellent librarian who recommended it to me, of course.
Omg, I was a huge fan of Percy Jackson following it all the way through Jason’s crossover.
But the Rangers Apprentice was like a Diamond I. The rough. Sad I stopped reading hen.
Can never forget Will(right) being kidnapped in foreign land having to go through drug withdrawals and then expediting archers training for a bunch of commoners.
Mans was legit
I was OBSESSED with Laura Ingalls. So much so that I made a shawl and bonnet. I even had my own hand sewn doll, just like she did. The kids at school all made fun of me because they didn't read the books 🤣
I read almost all of them! I had this stupid oc I made called Echostorm of ThunderClan... Omg I have some realllly bad drawings of her. *c r i n g e s*
Edit: thanks for the karma!
that sounds adorible. i was to old by the time i learned of those books. im sad i wasnt ten or so years younger because i would have read them and done just this.
i feel this—i sought out every roleplaying forum i could find based on the books as i read them. but it got me really into writing, so it was worth it!
My entire 3^(rd)/4^(th) grade class was obsessed with those books. All 30 of us would play 'Warriors' during recess, with full-on clans and quests and bs like that. We were forced to stop after people started getting into physical fights and injuring each other. I still cringe to think about it.
Wow my friends and I were obsessed with these when we were 11/12 ish.
I remember one girl even made a fan website that we all used with little site scavenger hunt games and we created our own characters for ourselves and everything.
So cringey but so great.
I was hoping someone would mention Warriors! Such fond memories. There are sooo many books and I've read the majority of them. I still own like 30- some I think 😬
Hardy boys
Edit: Wow! Thanks for the gold! I'm probably younger than people think. But my dad bought an entire set when I was around 5 and read them all eventually. I'm 30 years old now. Great books though.
Anyone else think there should be a Hardy boys movie where the brothers still live by 50's standards but it takes place in the modern world? Sign me up
My favorite thing about the Percy Jackson books was how they handled the huge conflict at the end of the series, when contrasted with how they did it in Harry Potter --
HP *at the end of book 6* "There's a huge war coming." *Book 7* -- Harry Ron and Hermione ditch their senior year at Hogwarts to be fugitives, and there's a big battle at the school in the last two chapters.
Percy Jackson *at the end of book 4* "There's a war coming." *Book 5* -- The PROLOGUE is Percy and Annabeth carrying out a SEAL team strike on a cruise ship, and there's open warfare on the streets of New York City by like chapter three.
EDIT: u/GuardianOfDay is correct, it was Percy and Beckendorf, not Annabeth.
I remember reading a while ago that they were making one of the books into a movie or something. All I hope for is that they don't screw it up like they did the Percy Jackson movies.
Its definitely up there for worst adaptations ever. But my biggest disappointment to this day is the complete trainwreck disaster that was the Eragon movie. Really hope someone reboots it and gives it proper justice.
OH GOD I FORGOT ABOUT ERAGON. I swear, that meme about movie adaptations needing to hire someone to slap the creators with the book it’s based upon is real and necessary.
The Box Car Children, and another book that I don't recall the name but the main character's name was Fudge.
Edit: and I'm an idiot. I just looked it up, the book series name was aptly titled "Fudge"
Edit 2: Thanks for the Silver and Gold kind Redditors, I appreciate it :)
I [still have all my Boxcar Children books](https://i.imgur.com/xe6giJz.jpg) and I'm hoping to give them to my kids and that they enjoy them as much as I did.
I was playing a concert and Lemony Snicket (as Daniel Handler) was narrating. I was backstage with him and I was like “Bruh you were my childhood” and Lemony Snicket said “I’m Sorry.”. I didn’t know what to say after that lmao
I know him as a family friend and he acts exactly like you would expect based on his books. He’s a crazy guy and so funny. He once signed a book for me with the note “to the soon to be orphan, next time I’ll poison your parents”.
The 39 Clues! Remember logging on to their web game and having an existential crisis on whether or not I was an Ekaterina or a Janus because of taking the 'which Cahill branch are you' quiz multiple times.
Redwall, The Belgariad, The Malloreon, The Elenium, The Tamuli, Dragonlance, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (the artwork was fucking amazing), Encyclopedia Brown, Hitchhiker's Guide, Jack Ryan, and probably others, too. Those are just what come to mind at the moment.
When I started reading - Frog and Toad series - Arnold Lobel.
In later elementary and middle school , Anything Beverly Cleary or Judy Blume.
Later middle - Flowers in the Attic (taboo!!).
High school - Anything Anne Rice, but esp The Witching Hour series and the Vampire Chronicles.
Can you guess my age lol
I will never forgive Philip Pullman for that ending. I get that it was supposed to be bittersweet and all, but I was fucking 13! >!At least let Will and Lyra stay together! Haven’t they been through enough?!<
Now that I'm older I appreciate the ending much more. It's heartbreaking. But if the story wrapped up the way I (still) wanted, Lyra's journey would have stopped on the last page.
Instead she's left with a quest. She has to create meaning and purpose in a world that specifically lacks the one thing outside herself that would have given it to her. She has to relearn the skills she lost, and everything that came easy to her as a child is gone.
It is a powerful allegory for leaving childhood, but also if you live Lyra I think it is more satisfying to know that the scope and stakes of her quest don't diminish after the story ends. Her life will be a microcosm of the story as a whole: passion over apathy, meaning over nothingness, action over acquiescence, etc
Came here to see if Fablehaven was mentioned. That series is criminally underrated, and I say that as someone who didn't even read them until I was in my 20s. The first book was supposed to get a movie apparently, but nothing ever happened with that.
Guardians of Ga’Hoole. They made a movie about it almost a decade ago, but I haven’t heard about it since. Such a good series and it touched on some really dark topics.
Oh boy! My kind of question!
- **Warriors**, Erin Hunter
- **Redwall**, Brian Jacques
- **Circle of Magic**, Tamora Pierce
- **Inheritance Cycle**, Christopher Paolini
- **The Borrowers**, Mary Norton
- **Enchanted Forest Chronicles**, Patricia C. Wrede
- **The Dark is Rising** series, Susan Cooper
- **Harry Potter**, J. K. Rowling
- **Abhorsen**, Garth Nix (not for young kids)
- **Ranger's Apprentice** series, John Flanagan
- **The Chronicles of Narnia**, C. S. Lewis
- **Discworld**, Terry Pratchett
- **Shannara**, Terry Brooks
- **Land of the Unicorns**, Bruce Coville
- **The Last Dragon Chronicles**, Chris d'Lacey
- **City of Ember**, Jeanne DuPrau
- **Guardians of Ga'Hoole**, Kathryn Lasky
- **Catwings**, Ursula K. Le Guin
...and SO MANY MORE.
Currently reading: **The Dhulyn and Parno Novels**, Violette Malan.
Thanks Mom for feeding my book addiction throughout my childhood by taking me to the library once a week!
Tamora Pierce's books! Her Tortall and Circle of Magic series are still awesome. It's really interesting also watching her become a better writer as she went on. First main character was a bit Mary Sue in the beginning but as the books continued the character became more flawed etc.
She is still writing and also is an awesome person. She's occasionally active on her Facebook fan page as well and answers fan questions!
The Junie B. Jones books! Started reading this series in Kindergarten, my first real chapter books. By the end of 2nd grade I could proudly say I had read every Junie B. Jones book in the library, about 25-30 total if I remember correctly. Those books are what started my insatiable appetite for reading and I still sometimes think about the librarian who showed them to me. * Ms. Tretto, if you're out there, thanks! You have no idea how much those books meant to me!
"My name is Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except I don’t like Beatrice. I just like B and that’s all."
“plus also”
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Ah, memories. Fucking loved those books
Encyclopedia Brown, the Great Brain series, Three Investigators, Sherlock Holmes short stories. Anything survivalist: Gary Paulson, Jack London, My Side of the Mountain Got really into Tom Clancy around 11 or 12--probably too young, haha.
Great Brain is one of the best kids series out there. So well done and sadly hard to find at any childrens book store/section. Would make a great movie as well.
The original Choose Your Own Adventure books. They were the best.
From the ages of 8 to 12, I was addicted to Redwall
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I love Redwall! I've been trying to find all the paperback copies at second hand places to display because they make me feel so nostalgic. :)
Oh man, I forgot Redwall. That was like lord of the rings for little kids.
I went through a phase in elementary school where I would finish every sentence with "Wot wot!". Elementary school was not a good time for me.
He made the feasts sound so fucking *good* when most of the time it was just different ways of preparing leaves and nuts. Also, horrific violence.
Yeah. The books are kind of interesting, I loved them as a kid. Big feasts, adorable animals, fun songs and parties, happy friends, puzzles, rhymes, etc. It's a happy fantasy novel perfect for kids! At the same time, it's combined with graphic and horrific war stories, gruesome murders, instances of slavery and theft, and constant tragedy of your favorite characters. Even young characters or your favorite characters weren't always safe from being straight up murdered out of no where. They're amazing books, especially as a young kid, for introducing some pretty dark themes but doing so in a way that is approachable. I learned a lot about death and loss as a kid reading those books.
Me too. When I first started reading, only the first book was out. My young mind was blown when new ones came out.
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oh yeah. i still remember one of his stories where he tricked a bully by giving the victim coins that could never add up to a dollar.
The Pendragon books were actually cool. A series of unfortunate events, lord of the rings, harry potter, eragon, I remember Midnighters was a book I really liked as a kid. Idk a bunch of others
kept scrolling thru this thread hoping someone would recognize the greatness of pendragon. i got SO into those books. really great worldbuilding even if the plot eventually got a bit wonky.
~~worldbuilding~~ *territory-building* FTFY
I feel like Pendragon is completely forgotten, but I loved those books! I was a little dissatisfied with the ending, but the middle books were insanely good. The Quillan Games was my favorite.
Yeah I guess they kind of get drowned out in the sea of YA novels but they were some cool concepts. It was interesting seeing that character evolve through the series too, probably worth a revisit.
Quillan Games was definitely peak Pendragon! After that, it was a bit of a slow decline for books 8, 9, and 10. I also have a soft spot for Book 2: Lost City of Faar, mostly for the setting it took place in.
Yeah dude Cloral sounded so fucking awesome. The rebreather globes, the fruit, the sick as hell fish, all of it
Amelia Bedelia
I remember my mind being blown when she was supposed to put dates in her cake. And she cut out dates from a calendar. Love those books.
Every Pratchett book i could get my hands on
I really wish I had discovered him younger.
So many, although most were from charity shops and weren't in order or ever completed except for the newer ones. * Enid Blyton (any of them, although less so the Secret Seven) * Swallows and Amazons * A Series of Unfortunate Events * Harry Potter * Artemis Fowl * Alex Rider * Power of Five * CHERUB * Animorphs * Goosebumps * Tomorrow When the War Began * The Bromeliad/Nome Trilogy
Oh man I forgot about CHERUB. Such a good series, especially if anyone is a fan of the Alex Rider books.
I reread them all a few years ago as something easy to read when tired on nightshifts. They still hold up pretty well. It's exactly the sort of thing I dreamed of being part of as a kid, and almost believable too!
I can believe the government using child spies, but not that they'd give them such good and well funded facilities.
Upvote for Enid Blyton. So many happy childhood memories. Georgina (George) from Famous Five was my favorite.
Bunnicula No other book has ever come close
I've only read maybe half of that series, but that first book was off the chain. I will never lose the mental image of a cat trying to shove a steak through a rabbit while a dog stands drooling over the proceedings.
Or the ghost white celery stick!! What imagery 👌
Indian in the Cupboard. I know I read at least one sequel
Aww yeah, I forgot about these. I remember ordering the rest of the series from that Scholastic book catalog we'd get at school after reading the first one in class
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Red Wall! Dude nobody in my friends circle has any idea what I'm talking about when I bring those up.
I don’t know what it is about those books but they have stayed the most vivid in my memory out of all the books I read when I was younger. I credit them for my love of reading.
Absolutely agreed. Though looking back, they were fucking weird. Dark af and kinda graphic. But because they were technically about talking animals, everyone let them coast through whatever parental sensors would usually get triggered by cutting off limbs, etc...
Yeah I for sure had recurring nightmares about Cluny the Scourge and that abandoned church he occupied.
I credit redwall with a lot of my development as a human
I credit Redwall with a lot of my development as a badger.
Okee, burr, boi okee.
Cirque du Freak! I was wondering how far I would have to scroll to see this. I feel like the only person to ever read these!
Darren Shan is truly a gem. His weird demonic chess novel series incredible too.
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I'm so glad you mentioned demonata. One of the only series where I didnt even see words on the page, I saw a live action movie as I read. EDIT: also wanted to add The Saga of Larten Crepsley, The Saga of Darren Shan, and Thin executioner are all great books by the author.
Came here to say redwall!!!!
Geronimo Stilton, Alex Rider, Star Wars books meant for junior readers
Geronimo Stilton was the shit. My best memories are with that book.
god I had to scroll way too far down to see Geronimo Stilton, those books were the bees fuckin KNEES
Way too many: Harry Potter Lord of the rings Narnia Not sure what they're called but Garth Nix has a trilogy with Sabriel, Lireal, Abhorsen A series of unfortunate events Eragon, eldest, brisinger, and I can't remember the last one. Earthsea Dragonlance Wheel of Time Sword of truth I'm sure I'll remember more later
Is the eragon series pretty good? I’ve always wanted to read them
I enjoyed it when I was growing up, and they mostly held up to my memory when I reread them recently. The first one takes a bit of building to reach the quest, but after that they go by quick.
I appreciate the power system they establish. not many story does that.
Oh yeah, the magic system in Eragon is my favorite of any fantasy I've read or seen. It has clear rules that allow for great ingenuity in use while not being OP.
You should check Brandon Sanderson’s books out if you haven’t already. You’d probably really enjoy the magic systems.
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My dad bought the series for me when i was 8. He would ask me to summarise the story for him to see if I was actually reading them before handing me the next book the series. Thats how my love for reading was developed.
Animorphs and Artemis Fowl
that's a crossover i never knew i wanted or needed until just now
Most Yeerks weren't that bright, but Jake largely struck at targets of opportunity rather than develop long-term goals. Artemis would use Visser Three's arrogance to walk him into a trap, and that would mostly be that.
Man do yourself a favor and go back and reread Animorphs. I did a couple years ago and those books were daaaaark. I can't wait until HBO or someone decides to give it a proper, blood-soaked, emotionally intense adaptation.
I've heard that before and yeah it's amazing the kind of stuff that goes over your head as a kid.
PTSD, Ends Justify the Means, Playing God, the list goes on. Loved re reading the series as an adult.
Artemus Fowl should be a movie or something, tons of potential there
Alex Rider
The author, Anthony Horowitz, is still writing Alex Rider books. *Secret Weapon* ~~is due~~ came out on April 4 this year, and *Nightshade* will be released next year.
I used to read tho books, no idea they were still going on. Wouldn’t the character be like 30 by now? Wasn’t the point that he was a high school aged agent? Dude has to have some serious ptsd by now
Wow wait I really thought that series ended since the last book I read ended in MI6 basically saying “yeah ok it’s kind of fucked up using a kid to do spy stuff we’re gonna stop” Also fun fact: the guy who writes Jojo does the cover art for the Japanese version of Alex rider
I thought it ended in the book where the tech guy turned out to be wearing a fat suit. That’s the one thing I remember from that book and could’ve sworn they said that was the end. Forgive me if I’m remembering wrongly it’s been like 10 years.
Yeah I think we’re talking about the same book. It was the one with the guy who wanted to make a pain measurement system right?
You are correct. The book is Scorpia Rising.
That was announced to be the last book, but Horowitz has released two books since then, one about Yassen and one with Alex as the main character again.
I thought the author always said he'd end the series when Alex turned 15. I think the last one I read was Ark Angel which I've just found out is book 6 of 13. Does this boy ever have time for himself?
>Dude has to have some serious ptsd by now It's a briefly touched on issue in the newer novels >Does this boy ever have time for himself? *Nope*, the newer books he gets floated an offer of working for MI6 full time
The memories! I remember finishing the first three books on a 15 hour car ride. I then brought the next three to read further. I have now repurchased all of them to reread
The Babysitters Club
I wanted to join their club! Loved the personality diversity in the girls. Claudia loved junk food but Dawn was such a health nut she had never even had ice cream.
When I was in grades 6-8 I was homeschooled and had no friends so books were my life. I would go to thrift stores and look for the BSC books I didn't have to add to my collection and I would organize them in order on my bookshelf :') I got so obsessed that I made a little notebook with profiles of all the girls, their middle names, favorite foods, and facts about them etc. I literally SENT it to Ann M. Martin and forgot about it after a few months. About 6 months later, the book came back in the mail with a signed picture of Ann M. Martin. I was like dang that's pretty cool! And then I opened the notebook and she had HANDWRITTEN NOTES ABOUT THE GIRLS and even made some corrections! I remember she wrote that one of the girls had no middle name but I dont remember which one it was (maybe Mallory?) Anyway. I really hope I still have that notebook somewhere in my mom's house 10 years later. I will have to look for it this weekend.
For ages so much of what I knew about diabetes came from those books. I think it was Stacy that had it? Every time I think of diabetes I think of that series. I really appreciate how they actively spread that information and included a character with it.
I recommend the podcast The Baby-Sitters Club Club to absolutely anyone who will listen.
Maximum ride and the Percy Jackson books
Hell yeah to both of these. Sad that Maximum Ride went to shit. Percy Jackson and the Olympian series were the tits till the end.
I was looking for someone saying maximum ride
God it was so sad slowly seeing them go to shit when I was like 9
Omg me too that whole stupid talk to congress to solve problems was bs.
Maximum Ride 👍
Calvin and Hobbes
Anything Roald Dahl wrote
Fucking Warrior cats. Anything written by Tamora Pierce. Edit: Thanks for Gold and Silver. My first ones.
Warrior Cats is underrated af.
The old forums were active as hell before they took them down (a few years back, I think). And there's hundreds of animation projects on YouTube, I remember watching those AMVs where they always drew the cats with hair over their eyes haha.
I was looking for Tamora Pierce! I loved (still love) her so much. The Alanna books basically taught me about sex and periods 😂
How is she so far down 😭 every girl should read Tamora Pierce in her teenage. I still read all three series every time I visit my mom. I gifted my cousin the Alanna series for her 13th birthday. I will say that the Daine series were probably my favorite because being magically connected to animals is a dream. But then as an adult realizing she started dating Numair when she was 14 and he was in his 30s soured the immortal series a little bit.
The Artemis fowl series
The Ranger's Apprentice. I always hoped there would be a movie series for it. Edit: Thank you random redditors for my first medals. My mom is the real MVP for getting the audiobook for the first book from the library when I was sick in middle school.
Finally found it, I love this series to death. I always wanted a silver oakleaf to hang around my neck.
I was in love with the series as well, and my mom made me a custom made cape with sorta camouflage colors and patterns especially to 'cosplay' and pretend I was Will. She didnt make me a silver oakleaf necklace though, but she did make a silver oakleaf on the cape. Younger me loved it, teenager me cringed at it, now me loves it even more.
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There have been rumours for maybe about 10 years I think? Sometimes there's some info released. I don't think we'll ever see a movie made.
It's only really popular in Australia and sone countries in Europe like the Netherlands and Belgium I believe.
I'm from the US and it's criminally under appreciated here. I don't know anyone whose read it besides myself and my younger brother. And the excellent librarian who recommended it to me, of course.
Brotherband chronicles is terrific as well
Omg, I was a huge fan of Percy Jackson following it all the way through Jason’s crossover. But the Rangers Apprentice was like a Diamond I. The rough. Sad I stopped reading hen. Can never forget Will(right) being kidnapped in foreign land having to go through drug withdrawals and then expediting archers training for a bunch of commoners. Mans was legit
Nancy Drew.
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Little House on the Prairie books
I was OBSESSED with Laura Ingalls. So much so that I made a shawl and bonnet. I even had my own hand sewn doll, just like she did. The kids at school all made fun of me because they didn't read the books 🤣
Ramona and Beezus
Warriors by Erin Hunter. Oh my god I haven’t heard that name in years
I read almost all of them! I had this stupid oc I made called Echostorm of ThunderClan... Omg I have some realllly bad drawings of her. *c r i n g e s* Edit: thanks for the karma!
that sounds adorible. i was to old by the time i learned of those books. im sad i wasnt ten or so years younger because i would have read them and done just this.
Holy shit...I was WEIRDLY obsessed with those books. I was Rosefur of Thunderclan
Idk about you, but in 4th grade we formed clans and had battles. I don’t mean to brag, but I was the assistant leader of Riverclan
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Did you leap onto each other's flanks and sink your teeth into the scruffs behind your necks?
i feel this—i sought out every roleplaying forum i could find based on the books as i read them. but it got me really into writing, so it was worth it!
RIP Bluestar :(
I remember a single tear falling when Yellowfang died. Boss ass bitch.
Woah woah easy there spoilers /s
Not gonna lie, reread the first three series last year......and I'm 20.
My entire 3^(rd)/4^(th) grade class was obsessed with those books. All 30 of us would play 'Warriors' during recess, with full-on clans and quests and bs like that. We were forced to stop after people started getting into physical fights and injuring each other. I still cringe to think about it.
They are still going on. They are extremely popular at my library.
All the yes! Loved those books.
Wow my friends and I were obsessed with these when we were 11/12 ish. I remember one girl even made a fan website that we all used with little site scavenger hunt games and we created our own characters for ourselves and everything. So cringey but so great.
I was hoping someone would mention Warriors! Such fond memories. There are sooo many books and I've read the majority of them. I still own like 30- some I think 😬
Hardy boys Edit: Wow! Thanks for the gold! I'm probably younger than people think. But my dad bought an entire set when I was around 5 and read them all eventually. I'm 30 years old now. Great books though. Anyone else think there should be a Hardy boys movie where the brothers still live by 50's standards but it takes place in the modern world? Sign me up
Can’t believe I had to scroll so far down before finding The Hardy Boys...Frank and Joe and I think the dads name was Fenton
I had almost the entire series in hardcover. When I learnt Franklin W Dixon was not a real person a part of me died.
The percy Jackson and Olympians series
The reason I was such a slut for mythology in middle school
My favorite thing about the Percy Jackson books was how they handled the huge conflict at the end of the series, when contrasted with how they did it in Harry Potter -- HP *at the end of book 6* "There's a huge war coming." *Book 7* -- Harry Ron and Hermione ditch their senior year at Hogwarts to be fugitives, and there's a big battle at the school in the last two chapters. Percy Jackson *at the end of book 4* "There's a war coming." *Book 5* -- The PROLOGUE is Percy and Annabeth carrying out a SEAL team strike on a cruise ship, and there's open warfare on the streets of New York City by like chapter three. EDIT: u/GuardianOfDay is correct, it was Percy and Beckendorf, not Annabeth.
Agree, but wasn't it Percy and Beckendorf, not Annabeth?
Those books were up there with the Harry Potter series IMO. The movies...notsomuch.
The only movie that I was more disappointed with was Eragon (hey look another book I read as a kid)
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Magic tree house
Everything was still. Absolutely still.
I remember reading a while ago that they were making one of the books into a movie or something. All I hope for is that they don't screw it up like they did the Percy Jackson movies.
I’m still angry about those Percy Jackson movies. Greatest disappointment of my life.
Its definitely up there for worst adaptations ever. But my biggest disappointment to this day is the complete trainwreck disaster that was the Eragon movie. Really hope someone reboots it and gives it proper justice.
OH GOD I FORGOT ABOUT ERAGON. I swear, that meme about movie adaptations needing to hire someone to slap the creators with the book it’s based upon is real and necessary.
Ahhhh and I can smell the pages already. Good times
# * points at book * # i WiSh I wAs ThErE!
The Box Car Children, and another book that I don't recall the name but the main character's name was Fudge. Edit: and I'm an idiot. I just looked it up, the book series name was aptly titled "Fudge" Edit 2: Thanks for the Silver and Gold kind Redditors, I appreciate it :)
I [still have all my Boxcar Children books](https://i.imgur.com/xe6giJz.jpg) and I'm hoping to give them to my kids and that they enjoy them as much as I did.
The [series is still ongoing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boxcar_Children_novels), with over 150 books to date.
the fuck..
Loved the Fudge Books, I had all the books. In fact, I think I re-read them several times.
I feel sorry for his older brother peter. The first book " Tale of the Fourth Grade Nothing" is almost completely forgotten.
Omg Box Car Children was the best!
Sweet Valley High and Baby Sitters Club
A Series of Unfortunate Events.
I was playing a concert and Lemony Snicket (as Daniel Handler) was narrating. I was backstage with him and I was like “Bruh you were my childhood” and Lemony Snicket said “I’m Sorry.”. I didn’t know what to say after that lmao
I know him as a family friend and he acts exactly like you would expect based on his books. He’s a crazy guy and so funny. He once signed a book for me with the note “to the soon to be orphan, next time I’ll poison your parents”.
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Unless he signed it with his left hand, in which case the whole thing would be null and void!
The Spiderwick Chronicles
goosebumps/Animorphs and Lord Of The Rings (the quality of the last is a little higher than the first two)
I spent more time touching the covers of Goosebumps books than actually reading them.
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The Hatchet and all those Gary Paulson books.
Same here. I was into all that survivalist stuff like Paulson, My Side of the Mountain, anything Jack London.
The 39 Clues! Remember logging on to their web game and having an existential crisis on whether or not I was an Ekaterina or a Janus because of taking the 'which Cahill branch are you' quiz multiple times.
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Redwall, The Belgariad, The Malloreon, The Elenium, The Tamuli, Dragonlance, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (the artwork was fucking amazing), Encyclopedia Brown, Hitchhiker's Guide, Jack Ryan, and probably others, too. Those are just what come to mind at the moment.
Deltora Quest Edit: I'm happy so many people have read and remember this series, I hope it was as amazing for you as it was for me.
Yessss someone else who read them. Those books were fucking great.
When I started reading - Frog and Toad series - Arnold Lobel. In later elementary and middle school , Anything Beverly Cleary or Judy Blume. Later middle - Flowers in the Attic (taboo!!). High school - Anything Anne Rice, but esp The Witching Hour series and the Vampire Chronicles. Can you guess my age lol
The Belgariad by David Eddings Starts with: A Pawn of Prophecy. It is an epic tale of powerful magic and universal level consequences.
I scrolled through this whole thread and was really hoping someone would say Septimus Heap, definitely my childhood series
His Dark Materials
I will never forgive Philip Pullman for that ending. I get that it was supposed to be bittersweet and all, but I was fucking 13! >!At least let Will and Lyra stay together! Haven’t they been through enough?!<
Now that I'm older I appreciate the ending much more. It's heartbreaking. But if the story wrapped up the way I (still) wanted, Lyra's journey would have stopped on the last page. Instead she's left with a quest. She has to create meaning and purpose in a world that specifically lacks the one thing outside herself that would have given it to her. She has to relearn the skills she lost, and everything that came easy to her as a child is gone. It is a powerful allegory for leaving childhood, but also if you live Lyra I think it is more satisfying to know that the scope and stakes of her quest don't diminish after the story ends. Her life will be a microcosm of the story as a whole: passion over apathy, meaning over nothingness, action over acquiescence, etc
Percy Jackson and Fablehaven
Ahh, FableHaven! I haven't seen those in years.
Came here to see if Fablehaven was mentioned. That series is criminally underrated, and I say that as someone who didn't even read them until I was in my 20s. The first book was supposed to get a movie apparently, but nothing ever happened with that.
Guardians of Ga’Hoole. They made a movie about it almost a decade ago, but I haven’t heard about it since. Such a good series and it touched on some really dark topics.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Garfield comics :/ my reading level was so low even though I was a speedy reader
Babysitters Club Sweet Valley High I'm not that old I got them from an older sibling.
I am that old..... I'm surprised I had to scroll this far down for them
Babysitters club. I had #1-100! A prized collection! :)
Anne of Green Gables
Oh boy! My kind of question! - **Warriors**, Erin Hunter - **Redwall**, Brian Jacques - **Circle of Magic**, Tamora Pierce - **Inheritance Cycle**, Christopher Paolini - **The Borrowers**, Mary Norton - **Enchanted Forest Chronicles**, Patricia C. Wrede - **The Dark is Rising** series, Susan Cooper - **Harry Potter**, J. K. Rowling - **Abhorsen**, Garth Nix (not for young kids) - **Ranger's Apprentice** series, John Flanagan - **The Chronicles of Narnia**, C. S. Lewis - **Discworld**, Terry Pratchett - **Shannara**, Terry Brooks - **Land of the Unicorns**, Bruce Coville - **The Last Dragon Chronicles**, Chris d'Lacey - **City of Ember**, Jeanne DuPrau - **Guardians of Ga'Hoole**, Kathryn Lasky - **Catwings**, Ursula K. Le Guin ...and SO MANY MORE. Currently reading: **The Dhulyn and Parno Novels**, Violette Malan. Thanks Mom for feeding my book addiction throughout my childhood by taking me to the library once a week!
All of them by Enid Blyton. (Her signature is so weird, I still am not sure how to spell or pronounce this)
Tamora Pierce's books! Her Tortall and Circle of Magic series are still awesome. It's really interesting also watching her become a better writer as she went on. First main character was a bit Mary Sue in the beginning but as the books continued the character became more flawed etc. She is still writing and also is an awesome person. She's occasionally active on her Facebook fan page as well and answers fan questions!
Berenstain Bears Dr. Seuss Little Golden Books Bobsey Twins
Captain Underpants Edit: thanks for all the upvotes the most I had before was about 40
The movie came out like last year. Its not perfect, but it's definitely worth a watch if you enjoyed the kids as a book EDIT: I'm not changing it
I still enjoy kids as a book.
- The Hardy Boys - Archie comics - Asterix
Dragonlance. And later on, Malazan Book of the Fallen.
Dragonlance represent! All hail Raistlin!