What books from your youth would you love to re-read?

[Fairyjuice]

I've just finished reading Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna and it's every bit as good as I remember it as a child. Summer of My German Soldier is next on my list, though I suspect I might not be so doe-eyed this time round. Would love to read the Across the Barricades books too.

What are yours? so that I can add them to my list

Across the barricades - what a series

Re read all the Enid Blyton books to my DCs - equally delighted and horrified at the violence and tales of naughty children and bad elves.

Re read recent all of the Anne series in PEI - she was a fabulous writer and I definitely want to visit some day.

@cookiechomomper
I think I remember that. It was set in a University city in North America, I think. Maybe Boston. Off to google.

I loved Through the Barricades and Into Exile by Joan Lingard

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasia_Krupnik

Didn’t realise it was so controversial!

Ballet Shoes
When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit
The St Clare's series by Enid Blyton

Ooh cookie I was just thinking about the Anastasia books! Her dad was a poetry lecturer and she had a head bust of Freud that she used to speak to. I remember buying 5 or 6 of the collection in my local charity shop and never knew of anyone else who had read them.

Forever by Judy Blume. I learnt a lot from that book

Yay they are the ones! I forgot about the Freud head. Might have a look on EBay.

I read a book once that I found in the library and I would love to know what it was because it stuck with me.

A boy called Richard, about 17, total geek, narrowly avoids a bus accident and finds that when he gets off the bus he is entirely changed. He’s “Ricky” and he’s cool and has great clothes and everyone loves him. He has to sneak out of a window at a pub for some reason I forget.

I bet it’s shite but I was 15 and desperately hoping to catch the bus that would make me cool 😂

Forever! Oh I loved that! Banned in our school as well, I was lent it by my cousin

I re-read the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House books quite frequently.

I do agree that our own children seem to be equally "meh" and "wtf" about most of our own childhood favourites- and maybe it's right that it's so. Dd tolerated the Faraway Tree and Narnia (read those herself after seeing the films) but others left her distinctly underwhelmed.

I loved Children of Morrow when I was young. Bit worried to re-read it in case it is not as good as I thought!

I came on to say under the hawthorn tree. I used to read it over and over. Might give it a reread now that I'm old. I used to love the Raging Quiet too, I found it on Ebay a few months ago. I still enjoyed it as an adult.

I did re-read My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, though perhaps that isn't really children's literature. I loved it.

Maybe I will try Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee, as I last read it when I was about 15. I am 52 now.

For books that are out of print then Abe books can be worth a try. It is online only. It was recommended to me by an assistant in Waterstones when my DD3 wanted to get hold of an out of print book as background reading for her A Level history course. I found it on Abe books.

The Anne of Green Gables series
The Little Women series
Ballet Shoes
The Painted Garden
The Greengage Summer
Brat Farrar
E Nesbitt (all)

Mistress Masham's Repose

Forgot about Judy Blume's Tiger Eyes and Are You There God It's Me Margaret?

The Talking Parcel

@fairyjuice
Are you there God is being made into a film.

@haverhill I have Felicia The Critic ! Some years ago I decided to track down the books from my childhood and this is one of the first I found. Love it.

All Enid Blyton but especially the Wishing Chair books and the Famous Five.
Most of Diana Wynne Jones, especially the Chrestomanci books
The Secret Garden (I bought my daughter an illustrated copy for Christmas last year...she was 6 months old at the time).
Green Knowe
A necklace of raindrops and The Serial Garden both by Joan Aiken
The Silver Crown by Robert O'Brien
The Little Witch
Just William
The Tale of Troy by Robert Lancelyn Green
Nancy Drew series
Alfred Hitchcock and the 3 Investigators series
The Moomins
Borrower of the Night by Elizabeth Peters
The little broomstick by Mary Stewart
The Worst Witch series
Gobbolino the Witch's Cat
The Brambly Hedge books
Bury the Dead by Robert Carter
The Borrowers

I think I might take a few of these on holiday with us.

On my little bookshelf of rediscover books are
Felicia The Critic
Grumble
Fifteen
Wild Pony
Ballet Shoes
The wheel on the school
The otterbury incident
Mademoiselle
Pippi Longstocking
Lyrico
Mrs Pepperpot
Teddy Robinson
Agaton Sax
Trick Belden
Jody and Jake mysteries
And if course assorted Enid Blytons!

The Machine Gunners, I'm going to dig it out. Also, the Fighting Fantasy books, I was obsessed with them