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

I've got my favourites-
Jill Crewe pony series
Jinny at Finmory
Dream of Fair Horses, also Patricia Leitch
The Horse and His Boy
The Last Unicorn
I have a reread every couple of years.

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.

Yes, I remember that one.
In the end he finds a middle ground between the two personas and becomes ‘Rich’.

Yes! He does! LarryGreysonsDoor I cant even remember if it was any good, but I’d like to give it a quick read anyway.

Point Horror were also a favourite of mine!

I am David..... our teacher read it to us in year 6. I loved it!!

Also most of the pony books mentioned by pp particularly the Jill books. I suspect they haven't aged well though.

I think it was probably shit but it was a time when there was very little young adult fiction about.

A couple from the 'Teen Tracks' imprint (think it was Penguin trying to be cool). One was called Kessa, about a girl with anorexia, which I thought was amazing, and one was called Mel, about a girl growing up really poor and finding a way to make her life better (including accidentally shagging a pop star, but mainly by being self-reliant).

I wonder if they are terribly dated? I loved them both and both made a big impression on me with their gritty realism (I thought).

What Katy Did (loved this, would start it again once I had finished!)
What Katy Did Next
What Katy Did at School
Any of the Point Horror books
The Trebizon books - more that I used to start again straightaway.

YY to Anastasia!

My absolute favourite at about 10/11 was The Secret World of Polly Flint. I read that so many times!

I also loved Tom's Midnight Garden
Goodnight Mister Tom
The Chronicles of Narnia
Point Horror books (my mum found a box of these in their loft a couple of years ago, and I was really pleased that DS1 (13) gave them a read and loved them too!
Anything by Christopher Pike too

Around about 12, maybe younger, I started reading my mind Dean Koontz, Sidney Sheldon, Stephen King etc so not a huge list of 'kids' books I'm afraid!

Yes to Narnia too. Might have to reread those.

'That Hideous Strength' by C S Lewis, first read when I was about ten. I've read it as an adult, different perspective of course but love the book.

The Indian in the cupboard.

I loved 'A Little Princess', 'When Marnie Was There', 'Ballet Shoes' and 'White Boots' and I'd love to read them again, also 'The Diddakoi'. I'm not sure if any of them would take an adult read but I spent many a happy hour as a child reading and rereading these.

ALL of Judy Blumes books

Anything by Jacqueline Wilson

And does anyone remember the "making out" series about a group of teens who lived on an island off the coast of Maine. I've got all of them to re read, DH found them in a charity shop

All that @whiskyremorse said too. And The Wind in the Willows, The Secret Garden, I Capture the Castle, Alice in Wonderland/through the Looking Glass.

Also the Bagthorpes. Still love those.

I kept nearly all my books. DH thought I was mad but humoured me. Many of them are coming out again for DC...I do reread lots of them and particularly wonderful to me still are:

• Green Knowe
• Narnia
• Chalet School (yes, actually drivel but I do love them)
• Diana Wynne Jones
• Geoffrey Trease
• the Alanna Books (by Tamora Pierce)
• some Enid Blyton (The xxx of Adventure and The Faraway Tree in particular)

The Faraway Tree on audiobook (read by Kate Winslet I think) are brilliant...both DC (6 and 3) were transfixed.

Oh the Bagthorpes, yes! And others by Helen Cresswell (I remember loving the BBC adaptation of Moondial). And When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.

@Elphame, look on Ebay. A few there.

Does anyone remember Flossie Teacake's Fur Coat? I loved that so much.

Buddy, and Buddy's Song, by Nigel Hinton.
The Deptford Mice
Currently reading Hatchet by Gary Paulson to DS. Think I'm more into it than he is

@lotusbell - thank you

I recently purchased some of the "Jill" books by Ruby Ferguson from eBay to relive my horse mad youth! I wish I'd saved them, and all the Saddle Club books I had.

I loved National Velvet as a child and much preferred the book to the film.

The Bagthorpe Saga!!! I'd completely forgotten them. Brilliant books - that precocious child (Daisy?) writing "all the bees are dead" and the cleaner Mrs Fossdyke (Tiggywinkle) who moved like a hedgehog. I might visit the children's library ....

Following this thread for the Book Club I have set up at Ds1's school, for years 5 & 6.

We have just finished reading Stig of the Dump. I enjoyed rediscovering it & am curious to see what the children make of it.