Books you read as a child/ teenager that you would love to read again!

Chalet School series.
Little women
Good Wives (eek!)by Louise May Alcott

• apparently she wrote a really steamy pot boiler after these!

Oh, and the whole Mallory Towers series, wish I'd kept them, though don't suppose ds would read them anyway

Haven't read all the posts, saw the one that mentioned sweet valley high, forgot how much I loved it when I was younger! I loved the "Anne of Green Gables" books. Got a couple off Amazon recently and re read them and still love them.

Great thread!

Has anyone mentioned The Ramona Quimby books, by Beverly Cleary? (Sorry I havent got the will to read all the posts!)

Nothing summed up being an eight year old girl more for me than these books. I still read them, they make me feel all cosy.

So many of the titles on this thread I've read, loved and forgotten about!

We still have A wrinkle in time somewhere, but isn't it a bit old for 6-7 year olds? I read it when I was quite a lot older than that.

Greensleeves, I loved the Silver Crown, and Wrinkle in Time - though I tried some others by Madeleie L'Engle, and was disappointed in them.

I tried reading Carbonel to my niece who's just turned 6, but she didn't get into it...I was looking forward to reading it again, so I might keep trying. After all, when I was little, the only book her mum would ever read to me was Miffy at the Zoo. Endlessly!

Hildegard ..have you read the last one...The other wind.? If possible even better than the earthsea ones. She also wrote some other more adult books which i really love

The city of illusions
Four ways to forgiveness
And a few other series which I cannot now remember.

Does anyone else like Anne McCaffrey ..especially the dragon books?

The Family from One End Street

The Earthsea Trilogy is fantastic, thanks for reminding me Fireflytoo.

Greensleeves, I've just ordered Carbonel and Gobbolino for Christmas. for the dds, obviously , but I'm looking forward to meeting Carbonel again.

ANything by Ursula le Guin...still

Something called.."My side of the mountain".. Can't remember the author so can't find it again
A book (IN Afrikaans) called Pretend land (Kammaland)...I must have read it 10 times when I was about 8 or 9....and once again don't remember author so can't find again.

This is making me sad....

Rosaluxembourg, Madlabowner, Kittylouise

Thank you. For the last ten years, I have been trying to remember something about the Trebizon series. Now I have been on Wikipedia and discovered there are a whole load I never read. Off to ebay.

God I wanted to be that girl.

I have Carbonel lined up

Gobbolino
The Silver Crown
A Wrinkle in Time
Carbonel and Calidor
The Owl Service
The Brain Sharpeners

The witch's Roald Dahl......I loved it!

I have got away with reading lots of the best to my dtds at bedtime -

The entire Narnia series
The Faraway Tree books
The Demon Headmaster
My Naughty Little Sister
Mrs Mopple's Washing Line (it was the original copy too...can anyone else remember this?)

And many more.
Mallory towers is next.
We tried The Famous Five but i didn't get past book 1 because of the names. I just couldn't say Dick without smirking and the dtds just had hysterics whenever Aunt Fanny was mentioned!

Has anyone else ever read The Winter of Enchantment, about a magic mirror? I loved that book, in fact I must get it out again to re-read.
Lois Duncan books all really good
I can't remember if I mentioned it before on this thread but Seaward by Susan Cooper is good too.

Amelia Jane
Mrs Pepperpot
My Naughty Little Sister and Bad Harry
Famous Five
Anastasia books
Anything by Paula Danziger or Judy Blume
My Best Fiend
My Twinkle Annuals

The eyes of Karen Connors by Lois duncan is another good book, it's about a girl who's psychic

The Lois Duncan wrote a book called stranger with my face? it's about a girl who discovers that she was adopted and that she was a twin. She keeps seeing herself in places or dreams and discovers that her twin is coming to her through astral projection. It's a good book and I still have it, might re-read it again soon.

I read loads as a child and I still read loads.

I also have an Enid Blyton theme,
read all of the Famous five, never read the secret seven.
Malory Towers
The islands of adventure etc series
another mystery series by Enid Blyton- the Ring O'Bells mystery etc
The naughtiest girl in the school?
Six cousins at mistletoe farm was another favourite
Mr Galliano's circus, I actually bought another copy of this from E-bay as I lost mine in a house move as a child.

Ballet shoes, I'm so excited to see that it's being made into a tv programme.

Children of Green Knowe, watched that on tv as well.
Milly Molly Mandy
Roald Dahl books
the Family of One End Street
I've read Charlotte sometimes by Penelope farmer
Toms Midnight Garden is also brilliant
there were ballet stories about a girl called Drina, still got those too.

When I was older I read Judy Blume and Paula Danzigar still have all of those as well.

Famous Five
Pippi Longstocking
Machine Gunners
Goalkeepers Revenge
Brownie Annual (every year)
Mr Men Series
Virginia Andrews.

I stayed with my aunty for a week one year and all she reads are Mills and Boon. Bloody awful. The 3 books I read had the same story just different names!!!

A book called 'The Enchanted Forest" illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.

It was my Grandmother's & she would read it to me everytime I went to stay with her.It was a magical ,magical book & plays a strong part in my childhood memories.
I would love to have it now for ds.

What Katy Did!! Ooh, I loved that. And What Katy Did Next. And What Katy Did After That.

I may have made that last one up.