Books I read from 80s to early 90s

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PackageNorth8984@reddit

Did anyone read this absolute banger?

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Sufficient-Aspect77@reddit

I can't remember if I read this or Hatchet. Or both honestly, does he live in a shack in this one and go trapping, or is that Hatchet?

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PackageNorth8984@reddit

He lives in a hollowed out tree in this one.

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Sufficient-Aspect77@reddit

Hmmmm. That might be what I'm thinking of. I should just read them both again . Why not

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I ran away from home twice because of this book. I didn't make it more than two hours. However I did eventually work at a living history museum which seems a direct consequence of reading about acorn pancakes.

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onamonapizza@reddit

I "ran away" once...which equated to me loudly declaring I was running away, then taking a blanket out to the front yard with some toys and snacks.

Apparently, my idea of running away was a picnic.

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PackageNorth8984@reddit

Gotta ban Mortal Kombat, Marilyn Manson, and My Side of the Mountain. Who knew.

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fighthouse@reddit

I loved watching the movie when I was a kid too!

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sunnyclyde@reddit

Love it, still have my copy, and my son (12) refuses to read it. Maybe like I refused to read Anna Karenina and Jane Eyre, my mom's favorite books.

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joe-gonna-go@reddit

I got a copy for my kids too. They never touched it.

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joe-gonna-go@reddit

This was my favorite. I still have a copy.

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NoStuff4852@reddit

Wanted to run away into the woods all summer the year I read it 🥰

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Sassifrassically@reddit

My parents read this one to me as a bedtime story. I loved it.

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Traditional_Isopod80@reddit

I loved that book.

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LeftHandStir@reddit

This book was my Bible at 11 y.o.

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saltnshadow@reddit

Loved this book and thought the concept of living inside a hollowed out tree was hardcore.

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CrouchingDomo@reddit

It’s my retirement plan!

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SixAlarmFire@reddit

Too bad there's no more trees big enough to do it

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iama_triceratops@reddit

Yep. Being a parent now and thinking back on this book it’s absolutely wild.

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PineappleHaunting403@reddit

This is the best book ever.

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MaddyKet@reddit

And the two sequels.

Man talk about how parenting was different back then. 😹

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Legal_Scientist5509@reddit

I loved Amelia Badelia!

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norcalgal819@reddit

Loved sooo many of these. Tempted to go to the library for some re-reads!!!

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chungusXL316@reddit

Superfudge

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qbprincess@reddit

I read the heck out of those "updated" Nancy Drew books in the 90's

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dementio@reddit

This is one of my oft remembered childhood books (along with Kit Williams' Masquerade)

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dementio@reddit

This is one of my oft remembered childhood books (along with Kit Williams' Masquerade"

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ThePettyCoroner@reddit

OMG the chocolate touch!!! Wow I completely forgot about that book. I used to read it all the time!!

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TabChomper@reddit

Gem:

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NoStuff4852@reddit

Read this book hundreds of times in the 80s/90s

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RookNookLook@reddit

Just a light hearted story about a boy and his dogs, lots of great laughs. 4/5

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idsingalongwthebirds@reddit

they read this to us in THIRD grade!!!! of course i loved it (here for a good cry always) and read again and again

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NoStuff4852@reddit

We read death be not proud in 6th grade 🥲

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NoStuff4852@reddit

My mom would walk by and just see tears streaming down my face, I’d finish it and start it again. Never asked why I was crying or what book that was. Children were not main characters in my 80s/90s childhood lol.

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UltraconservativeBap@reddit

I had to read this for school and I remember crying like a baby while reading it and then being angry at my school for making us read it

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Issy117@reddit

I still have my copy from 6th grade!

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Andress_Jade@reddit

I read this book and loved it.

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megxennial@reddit

I only recently learned that it was based on a true story, but my teachers never mentioned the history. That would have made the book even more interesting to me in 6th grade.

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RookNookLook@reddit

Oh shiiiiit I was wondering where my dolphin bros were at lol also around this time for me was House with the Clock in it’s Walls and the Frog (little boat full of chef boyardee)

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LaRoseDuRoi@reddit

One of my favourite books. I had an old copy from my mom and I distinctly remember reading it in the bathtub and dropping it in the water, and the mad scramble to get it out and dried off. The book was stained and slightly wavy after that, but I still re-read it many times.

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Born-Introduction-86@reddit

I bought it for my niece a year back - read it beforehand to make sure there wasn’t anything horribly out of touch that 11yr old me couldn’t remember- holds up!!

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punkrawkchick@reddit

I love little critter! I have so many of these books still.

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GingerbreadmanCDN@reddit

There are a lot of good books listed here that I remember. I'll add Hiccup Champion of the World by Ken Roberts, and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

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dustractor@reddit

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agentsecr3t@reddit

These were my favorite

And the George and Martha books

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Berserkshires-@reddit

This was my favorite when I was young. No one’s ever heard of it and I’ve passed it along to traumatize new generations. Anytime I plug something in or have to cross a street I have flashbacks. The 80s really were a different time.

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Berserkshires-@reddit

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Berserkshires-@reddit

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Berserkshires-@reddit

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Lagunitas1117@reddit

Viola Swamp was nightmare fuel

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nolavert@reddit

LOVED Miss Nelson/Viola Swamp!

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nolavert@reddit

Anyone else have the Value Tales books?

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EverydayAdventures2x@reddit

Anyone remember this book?

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LopensCouisin@reddit

Yes to all of the above!

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Business_Curve_7281@reddit

Where’s the Babysitter’s Club books?

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ahawk99@reddit

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antricparticle@reddit

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TabChomper@reddit

Absolutely loved book as a kid! I felt like I was the only one who read it too….

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SexyStayPuft@reddit

I think we had to read it in 4th Grade. Couldn’t really tell you what it was about but I remember liking it and that it was odd.

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PrestigiousMaize2368@reddit

I read the Curse of the Ruby necklace about a 110 times in 3rd grade.

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

I wrote a story in class that was basically the same thing as curse of the ruby necklace lol. I was obsessed with that book

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Key_Fennel_2278@reddit

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LaRoseDuRoi@reddit

I still have these paperbacks of the entire series, and read them every couple of years. Also, Emily of New Moon!

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cellrdoor2@reddit

I used to really like the Emily books but the older I get the less I can stomach Dean.

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cellrdoor2@reddit

I loved this entire series and read all the books. Still have most of my copies too but as I’ve gotten older my favorite by LMM is probably The Blue Castle.

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ritybuds@reddit

The blue castle is amazing! Absolutely one of my all time favorites!!

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mallorn_hugger@reddit

Oh Anne Shirley, what a real person you were in my young life. I inhabited this world.

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xMsMooglex@reddit

No love for George and Martha?!

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ZombyAnna@reddit

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MaxPowerrr85@reddit

I think this was the first book that traumatized me...but it was worth it

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ConspiracyParadox@reddit

Judy Blume?

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psycho_pirate@reddit

Redwall

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MaxPowerrr85@reddit

Redwall was my favorite series for a while in middle school! I read all of them up to The Long Patrol in '97

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Individual-Schemes@reddit

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Individual-Schemes@reddit

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Individual-Schemes@reddit

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Individual-Schemes@reddit

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NikiTeslasPigeonWife@reddit

My all-time favorite book ❤️

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Individual-Schemes@reddit

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ResurgentClusterfuck@reddit

Mallory and her 7 siblings, huge house, but were "poor"

That was the one thing I hated about the BSC books....none of them were poor

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hisamsmith@reddit

I always assumed that either the family a. Inherited the house, b. The house came as a deal with Mr. Pike’s job c. They bought a “fixer upper” for cheap and upgraded everything themselves or d. they bought the house and then had 4 kids in 2 years (if I remember correctly Mallory is 11 with 10 year old triplet brothers) and the medical bills from the triplets pregnancy/birth/NICU stay left them with medical bills out the bum. Supporting 8 kids on a single salary is something that you would have to do carefully. So maybe they weren’t poor but to a 11 year old kid growing up in an upper middle class area not being able to have brand name clothing or the same things her friends with only 2 kids in their family could afford felt like she was poor.

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ArchitectVandelay@reddit

I never read the books, but hearing this comment makes me a bit sad about the reality of money/class/status for girls, even today. As a boy, none of that mattered growing up. I mean sure some envy at my friends for having the cool toy, but growing up a poor boy wasn’t that bad. My sister felt it hard though and we had way more money/status when she was a kid. I’m not saying some boys don’t struggle with this, but it seems so much more pervasive with girls and it’s just too bad.

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ArchitectVandelay@reddit

Bunnicula was 🔥

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Delilah_Moon@reddit

I reference Bunnicula so much and am amazed at how many Xennials don’t actually know this masterpiece. There’s was also the 1000lb Goldfish.

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oracleoflove@reddit

I just finished this book with my kids last week. It was a hit lol.

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SilverMitten@reddit

Loved Bunnicula! I need to track down a copy for my kid, she’s just about the right age!

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MaddyKet@reddit

All the books in this series were great.

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RogerClyneIsAGod2@reddit

For me it was everything Judy Blume.

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DoveOnTheInternet@reddit

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kkmats@reddit

I think this was in another Fudge book but every time I ride my bike I close my mouth so I won't become a member of the ISAF club lol

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StartCalm6925@reddit

The TV show was amazing

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ersatzfukko@reddit

phantom tollbooth????

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Cabaline_16@reddit

🥰🥰🥰

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RogerClyneIsAGod2@reddit

Hilary Knight also illustrated Eloise! He also did illustrations for dish towels. I own this one but mine is much better shape.

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RusticGroundSloth@reddit

Oh my god I’m not the only person who read these!

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Mattya929@reddit

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cellrdoor2@reddit

My kids really liked these too! It’s funny because I assumed they wouldn’t like being preached to about manners but they liked them just as much as I did as a kid. Their favorite was the one about tattle tales with the black clouds that floated up each time the kids tattled. I remember also liking how cozy the after school snacks etc sounded. Hot cocoa, cookies, apples, and cake!

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LoveYouNotYou@reddit

OMG! Loved the Berenstain Bears. I started collecting my childhood books in case I ever get grandchildren or I'm asked to watch some youngins.

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RogerClyneIsAGod2@reddit

"In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived 12 little girls in two straight lines......And the smallest of all was Madeline."

I don't recall the middle bit but that's what I will always remember. She was my fave as a kid too.

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gotbock@reddit

Berenstein

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Somebody_or_other_@reddit

I have been collecting my childhood favorite books for my children, at least that's my excuse. A lot of them are out of print so I have to check every op shop (also an excuse).

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

I've been doing this for years, and I don't have any children. I own a lot of out of print library rejects that I bought on Thriftbooks, Abebooks, and Amazon.

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thinkspeak_@reddit

Oh I own this one too, I remember reading it in 1st grade when the cartoon series came out, then reading it to my kids when they were younger

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DarkNStormyNet@reddit

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ashlyn42@reddit

Anyone remember this one?

We read it aloud in class - because crying at school is normal.

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minicpst@reddit

OMG. I couldn’t remember the name of this book, but I remember the end and think of it often!

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ashlyn42@reddit

It was like 4th / 5th grade for me - and our teacher (or sometimes a student) would read a chapter out loud for the 15 minutes or so after lunch recess to calm the class down after the transition.

I just remember her describing the hanging tree and the execution scene and most of the class quietly crying. Super depressing day

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minicpst@reddit

Of all the execution scenes I've read (fictional or historical), that one has stuck with me more than others. I'm sure I cried, but I don't remember. I don't remember how old I was when I read it.

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Sassifrassically@reddit

We didn’t read it out loud but it was assigned reading in middle school

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EaSpo40@reddit

Any love for Madeleine L'Engle?

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Perfect_Programmer29@reddit

Omg i read so much Sweet Valley High series

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i_kick_hippies@reddit

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Andress_Jade@reddit

I remember reading The Dollhouse Murders.

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MexicanVanilla22@reddit

The art is iconic, but the messages always rubbed me the wrong way: bribe people to make them like you, and only value people who can give you things.The entitlement of those plain fish. 😡 And now it just makes me think of the villain in The Incredibles, when everyone is special no one is.

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Ill-Advantage-3294@reddit

Can’t forget this one!

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Individual-Schemes@reddit

I didn't discover Edward Gorey until I was in my 20s, but I love this book!

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ProfessorJNFrink@reddit

Me too. I got familiar with his art in my 20s. I love his drawings and creepy subtitles that go along with them.

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

I have a collection of John Bellairs books. He wrote The House with a Clock in its Walls, and many other spooky stories. All of his first edition books were illustrated by Edward Gorey.

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Ill-Advantage-3294@reddit

I remember having an aunt read this to me when I was young. She was very cool, very wacky and I miss her so much!

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BogOBones@reddit

anybody else read Sweet Pickles books?

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dystopika@reddit

Loved Sweet Pickles. Loved children's book series that were a shared universe like Sweet Pickles and Mr. Men / Little Miss.

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BogOBones@reddit

There was another one of these that I got books from the public library called the Munch Bunch. Does anybody remember those? The names Scruff Gooseberry and Dick Turnip have never left my memory.

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cellrdoor2@reddit

I still see those vans and think, Oh, the Sweet Pickles Bus!

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

I never read these books, but a friend in high school had them as a child and told me what a disappointment they were. There were no friendly animal characters pulling up to your door to deliver your books like in the commercial!

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FunkyChewbacca@reddit

I remember all of these!

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fubo@reddit

The Stickybear educational computer games were by the same guy.

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Tall-Introduction414@reddit

We had Stickybear at school on the Apple 2s.

I can't help but to think the name is a bit homoerotic

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krunkandjiggy@reddit

Stickybear is how I learned how to type! Before Stickybear typing class was all dictation and I hated it and was terrible but for some reason ol Stickybear made it stick! Prepared me for the days to come of AIM and buddylists

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BogOBones@reddit

I remember those. I thought they were Sweet Pickles games.

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Commercial_Job_7451@reddit

"Smart moms know how kids might grow!"

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Sugar74527@reddit

I recently realized fish and flips was a play on fish and chips. 🤯

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someoneelse0826@reddit

Loved these. The map of the town in the front (or back?) was the best

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BayouLuLu@reddit

I loved Sweet Pickle Books! Goose Goofs Off was my favorite.

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Dr_TattyWaffles@reddit

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ProfessorJNFrink@reddit

My Dad was a truck driver and so was the boy’s dad in the story. It’s what made him lonely and write to Mr Henderson.

I loved this book and read it over and over too. I should find a copy and reread it.

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SixAlarmFire@reddit

I always wonder if the dad telling the kid to keep his nose clean meant to not do drugs.

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Beetso@reddit

Who is Mr. Henderson?

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MayorWomanana@reddit

An author- I think the class had to write to authors.

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iahayan@reddit

De liver de letter De later de letter De madder I getter

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SixAlarmFire@reddit

I read this book sooooo many times

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cellrdoor2@reddit

I always wanted to try making the lunch box alarm.

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Huzul34@reddit

Indian in the cupboard series and where the red fern grows for me

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Anthony12125@reddit

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revdon@reddit

Could this be the beginning of MAGA hysteria?

/s

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ArchitectVandelay@reddit

Dude, this is nonfiction. WAKE UP!!!

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brzantium@reddit

Bruce Coville all day

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Harlockarcadia@reddit

I loved his series about miniature aliens, Aliens Ate My Homework was the first book

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LeftHandStir@reddit

Bought this for my kid! Classic

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flambethegreat@reddit

Poot?

POOT!

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SixAlarmFire@reddit

I always think about the fire alarm spraying ink and him using the human glove that he stole from the alien

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SilverMitten@reddit

I forgot about this book until right this second

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Luthwaller@reddit

I loved Encyclopedia Brown!

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ArchitectVandelay@reddit

This was the only book series I read. I think the Hardy Boys was a bit outdated for me. This hit better.

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Lavender_r_dragon@reddit

If we went on a road trip with both parents, one parent would read them out loud to us so we could try to solve them!

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ImOnlyHereForTheCoC@reddit

The Three Investigators were my boy detectives of choice.

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CatSplat@reddit

Yes! And then The Three Detectives later on.

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revdon@reddit

Or the rival character, Concordance Taupe!

/s

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pants_party@reddit

I was just about to search if anyone posted this yet!

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Im_A_Real_Boy1@reddit

The man himself

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saltnshadow@reddit

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lacyhoohas@reddit

I just posted this one too! And my son loves those books.

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saltnshadow@reddit

Sorry, I guess I didn't scroll far enough! I remember my 2nd grade teacher reading these books to us, and I was so down for story time.

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lacyhoohas@reddit

No no you posted it first. I didn't see yours but yeah they are SO MUCH FUN!

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lumiranswife@reddit

Love your friendliness!

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lacyhoohas@reddit

Aw you are so sweet

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ArchitectVandelay@reddit

Glad to hear they hold up. Bought my nieces a copy a few years back when they were in elementary school 4th grade or so. Not sure they read it but it’s there in case they want to pick it up.

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biblioteca4ants@reddit

So does my son, we listened to the audio books and they are narrated by Louis Sachar too!

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lcl0706@reddit

My son loved these books too. I enjoyed sharing a part of my childhood with him!

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tronassembled@reddit

I talked to an eleven year old who was reading this and got SO EXCITED

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Anthony12125@reddit

Turn you into a fucking apple you little shit

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Pyro_vixen@reddit

And sideways stories from wayside school. Who was the kid that always got sent home on the kindergarten bus?

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RPnina@reddit

that's todd

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Pyro_vixen@reddit

Yes! Sigh time to go look these up now on ebay too. And my ebay wishlist grows haha

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RPnina@reddit

I still listen to them to go to sleep sometimes even though i'm in my thirties hahaha. they hold up

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Pyro_vixen@reddit

My favorite story was the kid flavored ice cream. Dont know why i just got a kick out of that one haha

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SilverMitten@reddit

I really liked the one about the kid who turned out to be a dead rat wrapped in newspaper and coats. Sammy, maybe?

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Modem_Handshake@reddit

Haha I almost forgot about this!

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FormidableMistress@reddit

Whenever something is happening that shouldn't be happening I say "There is no Miss Zarves. There is no 19th story."

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thedudeintx82@reddit

Hatchet was a great book. But my favorite book when I was little was called The Cow and the Elephant. My niece has a copy of it from when she was little.

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AiringOGrievances@reddit

Instead of the Hatchet, our class read The Cay.

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babyBear83@reddit

I read a lot of the American Girl books. I had all the Samantha set and her doll and accessories. It was pretty cool back then. I did get some of the other books, like Molly and Felicity but mom was not going to buy me all the dolls lol. I did really want the Molly doll though. I think she was the one that lived through the 40’s. It was fairly educational for historical stuff. For Samantha’s stories, I did learn about the dangerous child labor of the times and especially where children worked in the factories making spools of thread.

And I still have all my books. I have over 20 Berenstain bear books and several little critter books. I loved them so much. I wanted to be an illustrator from a very young age due to those books.

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Karrik478@reddit

I read Watership Down when I was 10 and it is still one of my favourite books.

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barefootincozumel@reddit

These bring back so many memories of such a simpler time that it makes me want to cry

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Traditional_Ad_1547@reddit

My 6th grade teacher read hatchet to the class and I was completely mesmerized. Lead to me falling in love with Jack London novels.

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PlatypusDependent271@reddit

No Mike Mulligan and his steam engine?

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Neat-Outside-3498@reddit

What about Ramona Quimby?

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ParticularYak4401@reddit

I know so many xennials loved Judy Blume books but my heart belonged to Beverly Cleary, the Quimbys, and Henry Huggins. Maybe because the books took place in Portland, Oregon and I grew up outside Seattle. I think I just related to Ramona more. Still do and I sometimes make my capital Q’s into a cat. (From Ramona Quimby, age 8). And she named her doll Chevrolet for gods sake. The girl was ahead of her time.

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mikeeperez@reddit

I was a little Hispanic boy from South Texas and I loved Ramona Quimby!

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CalamityClambake@reddit

I taught my children that the word for their bedside lamps was "dawnzer."

I regret nothing.

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Harlockarcadia@reddit

Loved Henry Huggins, Dear Mr. Henshaw, and The Mouse and the Motorcycle!

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mikeeperez@reddit

I’m basically rereading all my childhood favorites with my daughter now.

Between 2024 & 2025, we read all the Ramona Quimby and Mouse on the Motorcycle books, followed by the Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing/Fudge series. When Fudge swallowed the turtle, my daughter wept for days!

We’re now on the final Bunnicula book in that series, and while I loved Howliday Inn as a kid, the series just isn’t as good as I remembered. My daughter is decently entertained though.

We tried the Borrowers a few months ago, but she really wasn’t into it. Loved the Littles, though!

She’s also gone through most of the newer Amelia Bedilia books on her own, and of course my stack of vintage Little Golden Books, which is mostly how she learned to read in English. For me, these bedtime stories are a blast from the past!

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OldCreezy@reddit

Big ups to Beezus.

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ViciousSnatch@reddit

The Pee Wee Scouts cover art looks a lot like the Ramona art. I wonder if it’s the same illustrator.

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SilverMitten@reddit

I thought so too! The girl in front could be Ramona after she gets her hair cut in Ramona Forever.

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ViciousSnatch@reddit

Yes!!

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

I never read those either but I do remember them

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Annual_Monk_9745@reddit

I came here to say “no Beverly Cleary at all?!”

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Positive_Document_90@reddit

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onamonapizza@reddit

I feel like I didn't read much as a kid, but this thread is proving me wrong. What a trip down memory lane...

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maggie320@reddit

Amelia Bedelia was the funniest thing when I was little.

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Muppetude@reddit

My daughter started reading the newer books, where they made Amelia a child for some reason. She stopped reading them because she felt sorry for Amelia. Which makes sense.

In the original books, where she’s an adult, it’s easy for a child reader to sit and laugh at the silly misunderstandings by this grown-up who’s a little slow on the uptake, and the subsequent angry reactions she gets from other grown-ups.

But when it’s a child who’s getting yelled at for making the same mistakes, it comes across as a little cruel. Everyone knows a child who is a little bit slower than others at picking up on stuff, and it just seems wrong to make them an object of ridicule.

I’ll probably get my daughter some of the original books, and see if she likes them better.

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

Always a hot mess, is what I remember haha

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MaddyKet@reddit

She was just extremely literal. 😹

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iwasnotarobot@reddit

I came across a theory that she might be autism coded.

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cellrdoor2@reddit

I have two kids on the spectrum and have been known to tell my husband that it was all Amelia Bedelia up in here today. I had to be very very careful with my choice of words when they were small.

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MaddyKet@reddit

I wouldn’t be surprised

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ProfessorJNFrink@reddit

I forgot about this book. I definitely read its

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SilverMcFly@reddit

We listened to it as a class on audio book in 7th grade. That entire semester is a core, cozy memory for me. I often think about doing it again, but I haven't gotten around to it.

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mallorn_hugger@reddit

I loved this and still remember it 34 years later!!

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BeneficialType6789@reddit

To this day still one of my favorites!!

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brzantium@reddit

I was talking to my wife about this the other day. In third grade, we were nudged to move on to "chapter books". I resisted for a long time. I finally checked out this book. My ADHD ass never finished it.

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HexOnLex@reddit

I just made my 8 yo read my old copy of The Chocolate Touch!

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KLOWN1420@reddit

I recently got a hold of these I'm sharing them with my kids I had a tote full of hardy boys books but I sold those

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

That’s amazing! I probably would have loved hardy boys too but as a young girl I wanted the female lead lol

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KLOWN1420@reddit

Yeah the only kind of comparable one almost like Hardy boys for girls was Nancy Drew

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SmellenGold@reddit

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dreadwhimsy@reddit

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SmellenGold@reddit

I LOVED THIS BOOK

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

I read this as an adult! I loved it actually

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DoveOnTheInternet@reddit

The candle-clock puzzle still lives rent free in my head 30+ years later

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DoveOnTheInternet@reddit

I am so happy somebody remembers this book! I read it til my copy started falling apart.

Just found my old copy the other day!

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No_Solution_2864@reddit

I remember taking turns reading it aloud in class. One of the character I think was the inventor of the paper diaper, but I didn’t know that that was how diaper was spelled, so I was constantly reading aloud “Inventor of the paper…dye-apor?”

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DTFChiChis@reddit

This was mine.

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revdon@reddit

And The Tattooed Potato.

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Pleasant_Knee5567@reddit

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SmellenGold@reddit

I tried to read this to my 5 year old and we were like…nope. We’ll try again in a few years.

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Prossdog@reddit

Holy crap. I haven’t thought about this in probably 30 years.

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lamentable_@reddit

omg I loved this book as a kid!!

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gentlewesternwind@reddit

This guy!

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Fair_Blood3176@reddit

I still remember the Hatchet fairly well.

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SmellenGold@reddit

Hatchet was my absolute favorite for 5 years. I read it so many times. Now, my favorite Tv show is Alone. 🤷‍♀️

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amccune@reddit

Gary Paulson was a gateway to Jack London, who was a gateway to Ernest Hemingway.

At least it was for me.

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Melodic_Bet4220@reddit

His plane goes down, right?

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Fair_Blood3176@reddit

I think there's a hatchet involved

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Melodic_Bet4220@reddit

I think I remember his plane goes down and crashes in a lake. The pilot dies in the crash. Later, he has to dive down into the plane to gather resources and the pilot is still in it... Really freaked me out as a kid.

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HebbieB@reddit

I don’t even recall if the description was as intense as I remember it, but him seeing the pilot always stuck in my head. I also loved horror and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark around that time, so I probably combined the images to that moment

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jRok57@reddit

There was a follow up book, too

Story goes: some author wants to write about the kid's experience in the wild and they end up getting stranded again. Survival ensues

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cracklincornbread@reddit

I just remember the kid using his earwax as a lubricant for his bow.

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CrowandSeagull@reddit

The plane crashes because the pilot had a heart attack. Hatchet and My Side of the Mountain were two of my favourites!

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Enxer@reddit

The shunk was great. He finally had someone to talk to.

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Fair_Blood3176@reddit

Ok your memory is a lot better than mine.

I think I just remember it the most because it plays out like an adventure video game. I guess today it would be categorized as survival.

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Melodic_Bet4220@reddit

That's why I remember it too. My favorite video games are heavy on resource management.

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Inedible-denim@reddit

He ate fish that were eating the pilots lawd

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ItsMattyDavid@reddit

Didn’t he have to scalp himself a few times in this book?

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saltnshadow@reddit

This was my brother's favorite book.

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Toppdeck@reddit

And My Side of the Mountain

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

Adding this to the comments

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garden__gate@reddit

She came to my school and j remember her being so nice. 🥰

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thinkspeak_@reddit

Oh yes, read this in 3rd grade

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Financial-Moment6413@reddit

Same here, it’s funny how something from back then just randomly pops up again years later. As a woman, it always hits a bit differently rereading things you first saw as a kid, like you notice layers you totally missed before.

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MarsR0ve4@reddit

Holy shit! What a flashback!

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TheREALBaldRider@reddit

I read the first few of these but not the entire series

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

I only read these in school

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1877KlownsForKids@reddit

They're not bad. The second or third one the author clearly read a singular book on native culture and set about trying to summarize the whole thing to the readers. Kids won't pick up on that though. One of the last (or maybe the last) books about how the medicine cabinet got made is just weird but enjoyable.

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hisamsmith@reddit

My favorite was the crazy one about how the medicine cabinet was made.

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BayouLuLu@reddit

TIL this was a series. I only read the first one.

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Adventurous_Cloud_20@reddit

I loved The Indian in the Cupboard series, now I feel like I ought to go sift through my parents house and see if I can find them in our old things.

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Sunshineal@reddit

I was a big Judy blume fan

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Prossdog@reddit

I got PTSD just seeing the cover to the Scary Stories book.

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lukin5@reddit

Where the Sidewalk Ends

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spderweb@reddit

My kid has all my little critter books. They're going to be passed down for as long as there are kids in my line.

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Hyperion1144@reddit

Hatchet taught me to avoid the outdoors no matter what. I was already going to grow up and be a city person, but Hatchet turned a tendency into a lifelong commitment.

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mutantbabysnort@reddit

I missed Hatchet somehow and just read it as an adult. It still holds up. Great book.

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Sassifrassically@reddit

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mallorn_hugger@reddit

One of my favorites to this day

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UN901@reddit

Such a good book

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Sassifrassically@reddit

It was one of my favourites

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Sassifrassically@reddit

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TruthorTroll@reddit

no mentions of Where the Sidewalk Ends? Kids used to fight for that and the Guinness Book of Records from the library.

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Irish_swede@reddit

The Cay

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MeatPopsicle10@reddit

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RookNookLook@reddit

WHITE CARROTS!

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hahahahahahahaFUCK@reddit

I can’t believe I was able to borrow Scary Stories from the school library in 3rd grade. Warped my mind.

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Cold-Fly-900@reddit

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RookNookLook@reddit

All i can remember is the nonsense game at the end and something happened at the baseball field lol

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tess_erzsebet@reddit

I couldn’t get enough John Bellairs as a kid. I still re-read to kick off spooky season every year.

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LaRoseDuRoi@reddit

That book scared the crap out of me when I was 10, so of course, I read it at least a dozen times!

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cellrdoor2@reddit

Man, this cover just gave me a jump scare! I don’t really remember reading the book but I must have because it immediately made my heart beat a little faster when I recognized the cover.

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BeneficialType6789@reddit

Chocolate touch Forgot about that. Also was it me but was Nancy’s bestie Bess described in an unflattering light due to her “plumpness”?

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knitvincible@reddit

Yep, and her other bestie George was always described as a tomboy. I think they were hooking up when they weren't with Nancy. 😂

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Tall-Introduction414@reddit

Stone Soup always gave me weird feelings

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UltraconservativeBap@reddit

Don’t ask me why but I always imagined the stone soup to be delicious

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hahahahahahahaFUCK@reddit

We actually made it in 4th grade. I remember it being not bad.

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

I devoured Nancy Drew, especially around 5th grade. At the time there was a Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys collab series, early 90s I suppose, and I was really into that. I remember a random adult making me feel like it was time for me to grow out of them. I kept reading but I did start phasing them out. Books must have been cheap back in the day because I was never without.

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knitvincible@reddit

I was obsessed with the Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries!

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Lavender_r_dragon@reddit

I preferred Hardy Boys …. I remember thinking Nancy Drew was less exciting

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superficialdynamite@reddit

I just sold my Nancy Drew hardback collection, had almost all of them.

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Careful-Use-4913@reddit

I sold mine nearly 20 years ago. It was a bit painful, but I needed the money.

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ShortOfOrdinary@reddit

Oh that must have hurt.

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Careful-Use-4913@reddit

I actually had a younger friend’s mom ask to borrow mine when I was done with them, so complete opposite experience. She said her girls weren’t ready for them yet, but she loved them as a kid and would like to read the newer ones. 😃

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alwayssoupy@reddit

Is this the one that shows a vacuum cleaner sucking up a teddy bear? This started a neurosis for my 3 year old daughter.

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Born-Introduction-86@reddit

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Starlose@reddit

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Born-Introduction-86@reddit

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bananabastard@reddit

I remember a phase of reading lots of "choose your own adventure" books. Where you make decisions and turn to specific page based on what you want to do. Though I would usually end up reading all possible options anyway. Can't remember the name of a single one of those books, though.

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26isfordicks@reddit

Yes! I remember there being scary ones like Goosebumps or Fear Street…I specially remember one where they’re in an amusement park.

Which just made me think of this, which now suddenly got unlocked in my brain:

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DTFChiChis@reddit

The Beast was a real wooden roller coaster in Ohio! I rode it! No idea about the book. Could have forgotten.

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RezorTEclipez@reddit

It's still up and running to this day

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MadMarcAgain@reddit

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eamus_catuli_@reddit

Lots of worm-eating back in the day. Remember there was a song too?

🎶Down goes the first one, Down goes the second one, Oh how they wiggle and squirm! Long, thing, slimy ones. Short, fat, juicy ones. Itsy-bitsy fuzzy-wuzzy worms!🎵

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cellrdoor2@reddit

And Beetles Lightly Toasted

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plasticbagroadkill@reddit

ADHD here, I remember looking at the cover of some of these books….

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LunaR1sing@reddit

What about the Christopher Pike books??!! Obsessed!

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JennPenn071@reddit

This book scared the crap out of me when I read it.

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Delilah_Moon@reddit

Killer Lifetime movie with Kelly Martin.

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

Omg yes I read this a few times. Checked it out from my school library

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

Omg yes. I read this a few times

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CalamityClambake@reddit

I credit this book for my lifelong obsession with true crime.

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deth-redeemer@reddit

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s-face@reddit

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Pleasant_Knee5567@reddit

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lamentable_@reddit

core memories unlocked, with the ribbon book mark right??

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HorsePersonal7073@reddit

I had read books before this, but this is the first one I really got into.

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singleguy79@reddit

I remember reading the Little House on the Prairie books, don't know why I picked up that series.

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singleguy79@reddit

Aw, you're from the -stain universe.

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mydeadface@reddit

So you didn't read goosebumps?

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kid_christ@reddit

Hatchet!!

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OldCreezy@reddit

These books right here!

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chocki305@reddit

No Frog and Toad?

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OldCreezy@reddit

Everybody talks about Hatchet, but My Side of the Mountain was my jam!

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

Who here read Flat Stanley and then had to make one to send to some out of town relative for them to take pictures with?

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taleofbenji@reddit

I hate the Amelia Bedelia kids books. What a dim wit!!!!!

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Same_Map_2902@reddit

1978

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

Our teacher in 2nd grade read this to us when we did a unit on weather. Core memory right there

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ColeusPalace@reddit

Pee Wee Scouts was my jam!!

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Anthony12125@reddit

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ViciousSnatch@reddit

I still tell my (grown and almost grown) daughters, “I’ll eat you up, I love you so!”

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

This was my dad's favorite to read to us as kids

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Cutthechitchata-hole@reddit

No Christopher Pike?

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

Man I wish I remembered to add him because I loved his books.

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nefarious_angel_666@reddit

The original Fear Street and Christopher Pike books. I was probably too young at the time to read any of them

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

Loved Christopher pike!

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Space-Representative@reddit

Me too! Goosebumps were getting boring so I moved up to Christopher Pike and then Stephen King way too young lol

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Terrible_Tell3115@reddit

Same. Pike was peak.

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nstc2504@reddit

Hah Julia Goolia.. thats funny

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shirtleneck@reddit

I read all of these, too! Books meant so much to me as a little kid. Then I grew up and started working at a major publishing house. Now I work with a few of these classics, promoting their anniversaries or special editions and attracting new readers to old classics. Full circle moment!

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

Wow that’s so cool!

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jpetersell@reddit

Scary Stories is a classic. My husband is a child of immigrants and wasn’t read to or read much as a child. As an adult I introduced him to Scary Stories and he was all “how old were you when you read this?” I was also a giant fan of Sweet Valley High. Around 1992, 7th grade for me, we were introduced to Christopher Pike. And as a small private school it was quickly banned, which just meant we passed the same book or so between all of us and just read it at home. Though I’m not sure if anything affected

Me more a a kid than this series. I think this is the middle book, but I’ve read the before and stars and I think about them often.

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

Ugh I loved Christopher pike! I think I read roll of thunder in school but I don’t remember it

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Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit

I had an autographed copy of Hatchet from 1989 when he Gary Paulsen won a book medal in Vermont and all the school librarians in the state were invited to bring students who had read the book.

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Skywren7@reddit

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spiralaalarips@reddit

Yes, very familiar with most of those! ❤️

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Skywren7@reddit

That chocolate touch book cover used to scare me when I was a kid. The mom just looked like she was in so much physical pain from being transformed.

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pearlfelici@reddit

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Harlllley@reddit

All classics

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not_a_martyr@reddit

Where the red fern grows

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often_awkward@reddit

Every single one of those books is on a shelf in my basement. We're a book dragon family. But also my wife is a high school English teacher so she maintains a library in her classroom too.

I read those and so did my kids.

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Redtomkidd@reddit

I’m drying trying to remember this book (or series of books?) I’ll I can remember is that it was illustrated and in a style similar to Each Peach Pear Plum but the main character wore a rainbow polka dot dress. It was pretty wacky and a story where something gets out of hand.

Any help?

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morganalefaye125@reddit

I totally forgot about the Chocolate one! I loved that book! I would also like to add Bunnicula. It was one of my favorites!

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Elegant_Situation285@reddit

every page of a Mercer Mayer book has a spider hidden on it.

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No_Solution_2864@reddit

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26isfordicks@reddit

Damn no mention of Sweet Valley High yet?!

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pbellyup@reddit

Loved these. I listen to two podcasts “Sweet Valley Hive” and “Sweet Valley Diaries” that do fun recaps of each book.

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strawberrylemonapple@reddit

oh man, you should check out Double Love - two Irish women comedians taking the absolute piss out of the books! Really funny.

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BulimicMosquitos@reddit

I loved reading the Barenstein Bears books. I also loved my previous parallel universe.

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SeventyBears@reddit

Dont you mean bloodstain?

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TheQueefyQuiche@reddit

Parallel universe Barenstein Bear here as well! We remember the truth.

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BulimicMosquitos@reddit

gif

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LMurch13@reddit

☝️

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yayoffbalance@reddit

truth

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nicepeople303@reddit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_Till_Helen_Comes#/media/File%3AWaitTillHelenComes.jpg

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Kuroude7@reddit

Did anyone else read the ‘what if?’ Follow up to Hatchet, Brian’s Winter?

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Kuroude7@reddit

Did anyone else read the ‘what if?’ Follow up to Hatchet, Brian’s Winter?

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Barbiedawl83@reddit

Goosebumps and the Little House on the Prairie series

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mareliana@reddit

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LaRoseDuRoi@reddit

One od the creepiest books I ever read. Right up there with The Dollhouse Murders.

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Yummers78@reddit

Loved this book growing up

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Pyro_vixen@reddit

OMG peewee scouts! Core memory unlocked! How could I have forgotten them

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

Loved pee wee scouts. I think those were my first chapter books

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thinkspeak_@reddit

Same! Pee Wee Scouts and The Littles were all I read for a few years, then I read probably every single Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Boxcar Children, Babysitter’s Club and Babysitters Little Sisters, Sweet Valley High and Sweet Valley Junior High. I read other books as well but these books are what really set me up for a love of reading and specifically a love for reading series

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Pyro_vixen@reddit

Yes yes yes to all of those. I also had the entire boxcar children series. And Trixie belden! Loved her more than Nancy drew

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LaRoseDuRoi@reddit

Loved Trixie Belden! I re-read the first 6 books a couple years ago, when I found them on Kindle.

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thinkspeak_@reddit

I’ve heard a lot of people say that about Trixie Belden but our library didn’t have her so I think I’ve only read 2 of hers. Maybe it’s time to deep dive…

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Pyro_vixen@reddit

Weren't there badges on the back cover you could cut out that matched the ones they earned in the book? Course my mom would never let us haha

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thinkspeak_@reddit

I think so but mine all came from the library so I never got to cut one out. The library taped the spine and back cover on the paperbacks

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

That I don’t remember but I bet you’re right

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Pyro_vixen@reddit

Darn now I need these back in my life. Let me go hit up ebay 😂

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Ashamed_Response_168@reddit (OP)

They’re either cheap or $25 ea lol

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lorenzo463@reddit

Awe rat’s knees!

Yes, they did have cut out badges. There’s a copy of one at my parent’s house that I tried to get my kid to read when they were the right age, but they were not interested.

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DTFChiChis@reddit

Our school system was conservative af and the approved reading was overwhelmingly some kid and their dog.

Island of the blue dolphin Stone fox Ol yeller Where the red fern grows

That’s just off the top of my head at 4 am 40 years later. Which did I miss?

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123fro@reddit

Loved me some chocolate touch

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MuchAligned38@reddit

Love this

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cellrdoor2@reddit

anyone read this? I think it’s what got me into gothic literature.

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VonBrewskie@reddit

This was one of my favorites as a kid

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Lotus-child89@reddit

I’ve had a funny observation about Amelia Bedelia as an adult. I have a daughter on the autism spectrum and while reading the books to her it hit me that Amelia comes across as ASD. Her taking everything literally, her attention to details, her awkward interactions all remind me of neurodivergence.

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cellrdoor2@reddit

100%. I have two kids in the spectrum and have thought about this many times. Both of them absolutely loved Amelia Bedelia books.

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78Sparkles@reddit

Especially For Girls book club member! I even remember the song in the commercial!

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cellrdoor2@reddit

I remember Ghosts Beneath Our Feet!

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Reasonable-Company71@reddit

I was all about The Boxcar Children and Encyclopedia Brown!

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Poison_Ivy_Rorschach@reddit

My absolute favorite book in 5th grade…

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YouAggressive8549@reddit

Me too!

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ren986@reddit

Cool?

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aksnowraven@reddit

Happy cake day

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cleffawna@reddit

My mom was annoyed that I would blaze through Goosebumps books in a single night and she was paying for a new book once or twice a week. She told me to read something at a more advanced level so ....

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Terrible_Advice_195@reddit

In grade five, one of my best friends and I both had The Plains of Passage confiscated. We'd hide under the desks and read. I think it had just come out a year or two earlier, so our respective moms were done with their copies. And yes, that means we'd read the previous books. And I was pretty sure it meant our teacher was familiar with the contents, because she seemed shocked lol

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cleffawna@reddit

Paleolithic smut was a good way to start reading more advanced books in my opinion. I read all the series and the less smutty People of the ______ books by that anthropologist couple about indigenous American adventures.

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Terrible_Advice_195@reddit

I inherited my love of paleolithic smut from my mother, and my love of sci-fi from my father. I think I read Dune and Foundation around the same time. Throw in some Lord of the Rings, and I was very well rounded.

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yasipants@reddit

🤣

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erween84@reddit

The House of Dies Drear! I loved this book when I was in jr high.

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FunkyChewbacca@reddit

I had the Justice Cycle books by her!

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girlxdetective@reddit

This was my absolute favorite book for like a year because the little boy protagonist was just like me, wandering around, reading, having amazing adventures, and having no friends.

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FearMeIAmRoot@reddit

Where Boxcar Children????

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Sassifrassically@reddit

I read so many of these

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ProfessorJNFrink@reddit

That would be one on my list for sure.

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Mountainman1980@reddit

YouTube of Read-Along cassette with book pages

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4AlohaMama@reddit

I love little critter! I read them to my girls too 💗

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uncle_monty@reddit

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Lord_Darlantan@reddit

I had one of the first series. Grandma and Me. In fact I’m 90% sure it’s still around here somewhere. 💚 loved the Berenstain Bears too.

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greenbeer317@reddit

The Hardy Boys. Was even cooler seeing as how I lived in Bayport.

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SloppyHoseA@reddit

The knight who was afraid of the dark & There’s a nightmare in my closet

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qualityskootchtime@reddit

I always liked the Choose your Own Adventure series

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RegardedDegen@reddit

I can smell these pictures.

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qualityskootchtime@reddit

Judy Blume gotta be in there

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rwent117@reddit

Why does Nancy Drewb look 45 years old on that cover? 😆

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rythmicjea@reddit

THE CHOCOLATE TOUCH!!!

Okay. I'm in the first grade and an upper class was reading it and their teacher at recess (if you knew the password) have us a Hershey's kiss and then drew "chocolate freckles" on our faces with her eyeliner.

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FeelTheWrath79@reddit

No love for Cam Janson?

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TrixieBastard@reddit

Cam Jansen was awesome! I only had one of her books, but I loved it

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101violations@reddit

The Little Miss and Mister

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ProfessorJNFrink@reddit

I had a stuffie of one of these, I think Little Miss Sunshine. I loved these characters.

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101violations@reddit

Little Mrs Chatterbox was my favorite. Her name was on almost all my report cards too 🤣. "Very smart but a bit of a chatterbox".

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L_wanderlust@reddit

Shel Silverstein and Goosebumps and Babysitters Club!

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TrixieBastard@reddit

I remember that babysitter Berenstain book! I had it and the junk food one 😂

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ProfessorJNFrink@reddit

I read all of the Roald Dahl books. James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Witches, etc.

Also, all of the books of poems and the Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

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LeftHandStir@reddit

This was a bookfair classic!

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LeftHandStir@reddit

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LeftHandStir@reddit

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Interesting-Heart841@reddit

No fucking way! RAD!!!

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AshDogBucket@reddit

OMG PEE WEE SCOUTS!!! Did she ever get with Kevin or what???

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RoundTheBend6@reddit

Yes

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ViciousSnatch@reddit

Pippi will always be my favorite. I love her so much I got a tattoo of one of the illustrations of her.

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Savedbythebell98@reddit

I have this EXACT version of Pippi Longstocking. It was my Mom’s when she was a kid.

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ViciousSnatch@reddit

That illustrator was top notch.

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Antigravity1231@reddit

Oh man, I borrowed some of these books from friends at summer camp. But really I pretty much launched out of The Wrinkle In Time straight into IT and The Stand. My mom was concerned but my teachers said as long as she’s reading that’s all that matters.

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MelodiousPun@reddit

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MelodiousPun@reddit

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MelodiousPun@reddit

There was some book I read when I was SUPER young, so possibly even written in the 70s or 60s, about some kind of friendly monster that lived on the other side of a mossy/bushy wall with a secret passage lit by glow worms. If anybody recalls that I’d be grateful.

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frackleboop@reddit

Have you tried r/whatsthatbook ?

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MelodiousPun@reddit

I haven’t! Thanks!

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shitsandwichson@reddit

I grew up with these. Then I heard about the Mandela Effect and Berenstain became Berenstein. Then it flipped back about a year or so ago to Berenstain. Wtf is going on? I know peeps who swear they grew up with Berenstein. I tried to prove it was the opposite and couldn't. Now we're back to Berenstain.

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AtmosphereInside2521@reddit

Where is Superfudge?!

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JennPenn071@reddit

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Cody-512@reddit

No Hardy Boys? I read them in early middle school, lol. The Little Critter was a series my mom got me the books for too bc my room was so messy. I forgot about that guy until she moved in to a house and the previous homeowner left behind a few boxes. Inside one was a Little Critter stuffed animal

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JennPenn071@reddit

This was the original Twilight but less creepy.

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PsychologicalLog4179@reddit

I call my daughter Azalea Badalia, a lot of people think I just made up a word that rhymes.

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alphacreed1983@reddit

Hatchet was the shit. I’m 42 and still think about it from 4th grade.

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Bookophillia@reddit

The Mouse and the Motorcycle was pivotal in my life. I still have my original copy 🥹

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EmRuizChamberlain@reddit

My kids favorite series!!!

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AQuietViolet@reddit

Bunnicula and Wayside School series

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Munchkin531@reddit

These are some of my favorite books from childhood. Did we just become best friends?

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lumiranswife@reddit

We loved looking for the mouse every night!

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fubo@reddit

Here's an obscure one: The War Between The Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids (1980).

Featuring ultimate villain Mr. Foreclosure (who strongly resembles an ant) wielding the Status Quo Solidifier!

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brocbolo@reddit

The Chocolate Touch! Thanks for the reminder.

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OshetDeadagain@reddit

Hatchet is one of my absolute favourites. I bought the 30th anniversary special edition awhile back.

A bit of a niche book, but anyone who likes it would also enjoy Touching Spirit Bear.

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jimtobin@reddit

I don't know what happened to me. I remember being young and reading the Amelia Bedelia books and loving "The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Grey Bridge" but I don't remember anything else I read for fun until getting into Michael Crichton when I was 12.

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thelaceserpent@reddit

My second grade teacher loved Miss Nelson is Missing and had a pretty sick hand made viola swamp costume, with a mask that, from my memory, kinda looked at lot like jigsaw haha

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Just_a_lazy_lurker@reddit

You and I would have had an amazing book club in a ramshackle hut in the woods. I would have to swap out Nancy Drew for Boxcar Kids and Hardy Boys though. It would be great to compare Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy plots though.

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