Books I read when I was young

Series (in alphabetical order):

- The Baby-Sitters Club and its spin-off, Little Sister (I was definitely Mary-Anne)
- Bad News Ballet
- The Bobbsey Twins
- Boxcar Children
- Cam Jansen
- The Fabulous Five and the "Tiffany Sinclair" books
- Fear Street and other R.L. Stine books
- Girl Talk
- The Gymnasts
- Little House
- Nancy Drew (both the classics and the new ones, including the crossover with the Hardy Boys)
- The Saddle Club
- Sleepover Friends
- Sweet Valley Kids/Twins/High

ETA:
- Campy Sunnyside Friends
- Friends 4-Ever
- Pen Pals
- Sweet Dreams
- Treehouse Times

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Authors (in alphabetical order):

- Louisa May Alcott (Little Women is one of my favs)
- Judy Blume (Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is one of my favs)
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden)
- Beverly Clearly (e.g., Ramona)
- Caroline B. Cooney (e.g., The Face on the Milk Carton)
- Roald Dahl (e.g., Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
- Paula Danziger (e.g, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit)
- Lois Duncan (e.g., Stranger With My Face)
- Louise Fitzhugh (e.g., Harriet the Spy)
- James Howe (e.g, Bunnicula, The Celery Stalks at Midnight)
- Gordon Korman (e.g., The Zucchini Warriors; my grade 5 teacher used to read the Bruno and Boots books to us all the time)
- C.S. Lewis (Narnia Chronicles)
- Lois Lowry (Anastasia Krupnik books)
- Margaret Mahy (e.g, The Haunting)
- L.M. Montgomery (I liked the Emily books which were much darker)
- Katherine Patterson (e.g., Bridge to Tarabithia)
- Kit Pearson (e.g, A Handful of Time, Guestwar trilogy)
- Christopher Pike (e.g., Chain Letter)
- Lois Sachar (e.g., Sideways Stories from Wayside School)
- Elizabeth George Speare (The Witch of Blackbird Pond)
- Cynthia Voight (e.g., Homecoming)

ETA:
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Alice books)


As you can see, I was a big dork when I was a kid. Who am I kidding? I'm still a dork...