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I read a lot of books when I was a kid, but I have to say the one that sticks is Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott.( I hope I spelled that right) Anyway, I think I got it in the second or third grade and that is one I will go back to time and time again.
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The Watchers by Dean Koontz.................great book and movie :wave:
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I liked reading a lot when I was a kid, but Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut is the book that made me really enjoy sitting and reading all day. It was the first book I finished in just a few days. Before that it would take me weeks to finish a book.
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Ceratinly not the first books I ever read, but the greatest books ever are the Redwall books by Brian Jacques.
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:wave: I love books. I turned my spare bedroom into my own private library, and it is my favorite room in my house.. I guess my very favorite book of all time is, "To Kill a Mockingbird" , by Harper Lee.
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My mom used to read to me The Little Engine That Could, Dr. Seuss books, & Berenstain Bears Books. That's when it began.
When I got a little older and could read on my own....I read books like A Dog Called Kitty and The Cay, Sounder, Diary of Anne Frank and would get so into them, I would cry. I love/loved to read.
My daughter is going off to college in August and I"m turning her room into my office/library too. I've got book shelves all over the place and storage bins full in the garage. I CANNOT pass up a book.
I also love To Kill a Mockingbird.
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The Watchers by Dean Koontz.................great book and movie :wave:
W.H.A.T..?
i've read that one! well, i've read quite a lot of dean's work ;p i'm a HUGE fan<333. the christopher snow books ('fear nothing' and 'seize the night') are my favvvorites!
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The Hobbit, LOTR.
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The Famous Five by Enid Blyton.....
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the diary of an frank, it was really intresting and i learned alot about the holocaust
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Hmm, the book that got me started? *Thinks* My favorite books of all time, which have great artwork and I recommend to kids of all ages, from 1-99, is Dinotopia, Dinotopia: the world beneath and the third one which escapes me...the author, also painted the illustrations....it took years for him to do each book because of those.
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Honestly, I didn't get hooked on reading because of a book. My parents used to read to me when I was two or three years old, and the way they would tell the stories got me interested. Well, they bought me a full set of Childcraft books, and that series was the first reading I ever did for myself. Those were good times.
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As a kid, the Beverly Cleary Ramona books. As an adult, my favorite is A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The Stephen King Dark Tower books are a close 2nd.
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Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. Also pretty much anything by Clive Cussler.
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Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, I was around eight then. After Anne Frank and then Shakespeare, but NC and HB took the cake. :thumbsup:
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Holes
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I was animal crazy, especially horses. I read Black Beauty, then Black Stallion, return of the Black Stallion, and some others I don't remember. We had to write book reports and my teacher told me "no more horse stories", that's when I read old yeller. :) Later on I read "Where the Red Fern Grows" twice.
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That book by C.F. Hawthorne called "For every black eye".
It's a good book for women that have been in abusive realtionships to read.Very inspiring.
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Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, I was around eight then. After Anne Frank and then Shakespeare, but NC and HB took the cake. :thumbsup:
i loved nancy drew when i was a kid!
read those books all the flippin' time ;p
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I love horror genre books when i was little, soooo my very first & favorite books back then was the Goosebump Series lol. I collected them all & actually still have them ;D
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When I was 9, I read "Alice in Wonderland." From that moment on, I was HOOKED.
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Mine was Palamino, by Danielle Steele. I now own every one of her books in hardback. I also now read Sue Grafton, Janet Evonavich(sp?), John Grishom. I love them all.
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That question is hard. I loved reading as a kid. But I dont remember what the first book was that made me fall in love with reading!
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Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind...book one of the Sword of Truth Series
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Night by Elie Weisel
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The Watchers by Dean Koontz.................great book and movie :wave:
Oh my goodness! That is my answer! I was going to post it as soon as I saw the title, didn't think anyone else was going to have the same answer! I LOVE Koontz.... poor Trixie....
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Harry Potter hahahaha, they came out when i was in elementary school!
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Hard to say really. I read soo very much as a child. I read all of the Little House on the Prairie books, allot of Nancy Drew, The Bobbsey Twins , My Sweet Audrina (which led me to all of the other wonderful V.C. Andrews books!), The Indian in the Cupboard, TONS of Beverly Cleary books and soo many more!
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I dont remember the very first book i read, but i read all the time now. i have a bookshelf in my bedroom and i keep all my books there. v.c. andrews used to be my favorite, now i would have to say fern michaels. :wave:
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The Giver by Lois Lowry in 3rd Grade. Still a great book lol.
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The Watchers by Dean Koontz.................great book and movie :wave:
Oh my goodness! That is my answer! I was going to post it as soon as I saw the title, didn't think anyone else was going to have the same answer! I LOVE Koontz.... poor Trixie....
omgz, i'm a HUGE koontz fan! as i've posted on here a few times ;p
woot, woot!
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The first Harry Potter book by J.K. Rowling
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When I was nine years old I started reading every Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys book there was! So, it was no particular title, it was the whole series.
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:( I hate books...I love articles. Books go and go...Chapters, more chapters... some times I do not like what they are writing about. Articles are
synopsis...condensed version of a text: a summary...now, that is better, much, much better than a whole book! And that is what I like!
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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The first book I read to get me reading was Eragon. Great book and great Author
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dean koontz intensity
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Oh Boy
I think I was born to read
I can't remember the first thing I ever read
Dr Suess?
Probably Mark Twain got me going on the novels
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The Box Car Children when I was a kid. First chapter book and never stopped ready after that
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Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. Also pretty much anything by Clive Cussler.
AHHHH
Clive....Clive
I used to have the complete Dirk Pitt collection
I quit when his kids came into the pic
Traded my whole collection for Larry Murtry Novels and never looked back
He's probably supporting an alcoholic son and a crackhead Mom by now
OH Grandpa Dirk
where is Sanders when you need him most?
LOL
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I grew up across from a library in a tiny Indiana town. I could literally walk down my drive way, cross a street and go in the front door. I think I read all the books in there but my favorite were the kid's mystery series -Nanvy Drew, Hardy Boys and the Bobbsey Twins! Lots of books.
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i think it may have been the Nancy Drew books...
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flowers in the attic by v.c. andrews. i've read every one of her books since then. shes the best!
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I used to read alot of Dean R. Koontz. I only read those books, 4 times a year, at a poll. I simply do not have time. I read and type the Bible now.
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The Novels of Tiger and Del- by Jennifer Roberson (series of 4 novels Sword Dancer, Sword Singer, Sword Maker, Sword Breaker) I was probably 8 or 9 when I read them and they blew my mind, outside of school reading assignmnts and childhood favorites, it was my first page turner and I had never read ANYTHING like them. Plus I think I fet like I was doing something naughty and getting away with t because the series was intended for a MUCH older demographic. ;)
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What my
mother doesn't know!
it was a great book.,
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Hmm. several childhood books stand out...
Velvatine rabbit
BoxCar children
Nancy Drew
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Oh, I read Pet Cemetary by Stephen King, then moved on to Dean R. Koontz, dont' read too much of that anymore, I am Focused on Scripture, unless an election, and it is slow, I will take a good mystery to read, but that is the only extra time I have.
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The first book that made me fall in love with reading was "The Diary of Nancy"...it is a true story, actually it is an actual diary, of a teenage girl. It is such an incredible read. I highly recommend it. I will not reveal anything about the book because it is such an amazing and compelling story of this girls life.
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Alice in Wonderland was my first love to read book, along with the original Raggedy Ann and Andy books (not the watered down ones of today...)
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The first book I read that made me love to read was Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
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The first book I read that fueled my love for reading was To Kill A Mockingbird. It was a required read in the 9th grade. Since then I read it at least once a year. I now love to read, and encourage my children to read.
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In the fifth grade I read a book called Hummer about a girl and the horse she loved. After that I loved reading!!
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Anything by Dr. Seuss. We share the same birthday!
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I LOVE The Watchers.
But the first book I ever loved was definitely Runaway Ralph XD haha
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I fell in love with the book King of the Wind as a child and from there read every book written by marguerite henry and walter farley both excellent writers for young children.
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Of course we all had to read *bleep* and Jane when we were little, but what made me starting to love to read was Are You There God?? It's Me Margerite. Does anyone remember that one?? And what keeps me reading today are novels like The Meaning Of Night. Very good topic by the way....... :notworthy:
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The first book I read that started me out was It by Stephen King. Now I have tons of his books and Dean Koontz books.
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The Nancy Drew and Thr Hardy Boys mysterys.
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Hmmm I don't remember the name of the book. I wasn't very old. My mom gave me a little book of stories and poems when my siblings didn't want me tagging along with them.
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I LOVE The Watchers.
But the first book I ever loved was definitely Runaway Ralph XD haha
I remember that book too :thumbsup:
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My mom bought me the disney books like, Cindrella, Snow White, 101 Dalmations and had a whole collection from 3 to 5 years old from then on I made her take me to the library alot to get diffrent books, I loved it.
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my love for reading stared with *bleep* and jane and see spot run.
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I've read and re-read the Kim Harrison series of witch/vampire books. Do NOT compare to the whole Twilight craze! This is an actual story line and it's great. Really interesting and well thought out and stimulating. Loved it!
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As a kid I read Nancy Drew books.
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I wanted to start with something small, so I went with the page count of the books and found 'The Alchemist' and read it. It was then that I realized that reading books was a great way to pass time.
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Bunnicula!
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The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown when i was 11
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:cat: all of the Space Cat books by Ruthven Todd!
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone when I was.. 9ish?
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I read this entire thread trying to jog my memory....have always loved to read but the first book that comes to mind is "Heidi" ...4th grade teacher read a chapter to us each day!
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harry potter, read the first and got hooked, also read the sookie stackhouse series (true blood), and the twilight series
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The first books I read with chapters and no pictures were Judy Blume books. I loved "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and "Superfudge"
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I don't remember the exact name of the first book. It was the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. I just loved them.
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In Kindergarten I can remember some good picture books like The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Where the Wild Things Are, the Little Golden Books, Dr Seuss, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs.. :binkybaby: In grade school I like reading Amelia Bedelia, The Berenstain Bears, Madeline, Wacky Wednesday... in my teens I read some Sweet Dreams series / Sweet Valley High before upgrading to something more sophisticated like the Harlequin novels until I eventually got bored with them. Now I only prefer to read nonfiction books. ;D
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"Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr Seuss.
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I'm sorry...was the question "when did I find my first love?" lol I really can't remember what kicked it all off...I remember my mom always had her nose in a book, usually romance novels by Bertrice Small or Johanna Lindsey and I read them even now for a "guilty pleasure" read. I remeber reading The Babysitters Club books, and There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom! As much as I love reading, I had such a hard time getting into the books on the school summer reading list. But today I can't get enough of the classics like Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott. I read Diana Gabaldon, Terry Goodkind, Dean Koontz, Dan Brown.....so many books! I'd rather go to the book store than the mall! Now I read to my daughter everyday, I hope she gets the same love I do for reading!
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My favorite book and my 1st real chapter book that I read was THE LOVELY BONES. I also watched the movie but ofcourse it wasnt nearly as good as the book. its a very sad but interesting story :thumbsup:
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When I was younger I read Pet Semetary, and then started reading all the Dean Koonz books.
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i love to read books about horses the black stalion series was one of my favs
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Chicken Soup for the Souls bwahahaha
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I honestly can't remember what book made me love how to read....but my 17 yr. old son had NEVER read a book that wasn't needed for school or a report until I bought him the book, The Hunger Game. That was right before Christmas and he is now on the third book in the series Mockingjay. So if you have a non reader I think its just about finding a book that they can enjoy and get into. I am glad I finally found one and hope he continues to search out books to read!
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I read a lot of RL Stine as a kid. I couldn't say exactly which book was the one that started it all, but it was probably in the Goosebumps series, or maybe a Fear Street.
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The first book that I read that made me want to read more books is "A Little Princess". I use to act out the book and even play it out in my room. Now, that I think back on it, I laugh, but childhood is so magical and when you grow up, how you wish you could be a child again and go back to those days of "acting" in your room! ;D
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I really dont know what the first book that i read that i loved. I remember always loving to read. It took me away to a better place growing up in an unstable home. reading about people who were falling in love and so on was always a great escape.
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A book that made me love to read? I haven't found that book yet and i don't think it exists.
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Lord of the Flies
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I think I was born loving to read. I know that my early on I loved to read Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy Mysteries. To this day my favorite books to read are mysteries. I also love Karen Kingsbury books.
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stephen kings pet cemetery and the hobbit still my two favorite books
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I got ahold of a Stephen King book, Rose Red, when I was just starting to read, I was about 3, and I insisted my mema help me read it. I loved it,and I kept reading either on my own or with my mema if it was a little advanced. Now I read a book everyday, literally an entire book because I love to read so much.
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I can't name 1 book that got me hooked on reading. I've always loved to read, and do read everything I get my hands on including cereal boxes :) The first book I remember really loving and reading over is Where the Red Fern Grows. I still read it on occasion.
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The one book I love to read over and over is the Bible. :heart:
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"The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss :wave:
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Call of the Wild- Jack London
But I don't love reading :)
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The first book I remember as a kid and love it was The Box Car Kids.
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Great question. Mine was the Goosebump series. Loved those books
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Probably some of the required reads in school such as The Giver or something. Although, I didn't do a lot of free reading until I was in highschool when I started with some Inheritance Cycle, Lord of The Rings, and Harry Potter books ( :icon_rr:)
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angels and demons.
I guess you can count harry potter too, since I read that years before angels and demons.
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it was holes for me i read it and started to like reading or at least did it more lol
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Curious george!
Little House on the Praire books. And then i just took off. Beverly Clearly, Judy Blume, The boxcar kids, Louise M Alcott, just to name a few.
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holes is good, its an interesting story
i love Captain Underpants lol, the interactive pages and lame humor was funny
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Was short story: The Smallest dragonboy by Anne McCaffrey.
Made me read the entire series then branch out to other books.
Just got finished reading the first Temeraire book, hope to have time for the others.
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also those hardbooks like the time machine and the red badge of courage. and the hardy boys!
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The Call of the Wild. I received it for Christmas when I was 8 or 9.
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it would have to b paper chasers :icon_rr:
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I read a lot of books when I was a kid, but I have to say the one that sticks is Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott.( I hope I spelled that right) Anyway, I think I got it in the second or third grade and that is one I will go back to time and time again.
I remember being so proud of myself by finishing Little Women when I was younger because it was the longest book I had read, up until that point. I also go back to it and re-read it occasionally.
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R.L. Stine books... ha, ha, ha... that was sooo long ago. I used to read all the time from scary stories to fairytales... but then I started having wierd dreams and later realized that it was because I read sooo much that my imagination was running double time... ;D
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The Bible, cos it speaks directly to you and gives advice on everything.
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anatomy and physiology
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maybe this is odd, but the series of books that got me hooked on reading was the Animorphs series
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Red Badge of Courage, when I read that book it made me want to read more like it because the way it was written makes you smell the smoke and feel it burning your eyes. My second favorite is a Rose in Winter, same thing you can visualize the scenes in the book.
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I think it was "Where The Wild Things Are." 40+ yrs later and still a favorite of mine. RAWR!!!! I'LL EAT YOU!!!!! ;D
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I read all of the Boxcar children series and Little House on the Prairie
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The first book I read that made me love to read was Who Stole My Cheese by Spencer Johnson.