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

Hmm does it turn up something unrelated to children's books vampirethriller?

What were the names of the pony books that were the sisters (possible twins, or maybe cousins!!!) Think the surname began with a T.

I could be wildly off, but they were pony stories, other than Jill's points!!

wind in the willows
a series of books about a girl called Jinny & her horse but can't remember at all what they were called

Do you mean the books by the Pullein Thompson sisters?

vampirethriller yes I do!!

The twins I'm think about are probably the Thompson Twins. 😂

Red do you mean the Pullein-Thompson books - the authors were the sisters/cousins (not sure which) - wrote TONS of pony books

x-post!

Diana, Christine, Josephine I think?

The little white horse
Marianne dreams
And who can help with this, an evil doll called dido who walked around. Family of children on an island? Scared the crap out of me!

Jacqueline Wilson’s back catalogue. I bought my 8 yo DD a box set for her birthday so I’m reading them to her at bedtime and loving it .

All of the Robert Cormier books. Anyone else read those?

Ooh After the first death @mintier? Brilliant!

Sorry @minttea2!

@BedraggledBlitz yep, and The Chocolate Wars, Fade etc. Quite disturbing books looking back on them!

Does anyone remember a book about a white girl and a black boy, both ostracised at school, who ran away to Devon (or Cornwall or similar) and camped in a forest? Young adult book that I remember reading in the early 90s. I’d love to read that one again!

The Runaways

Is this the book?

All of the Robert Cormier books. Anyone else read those?

After the first death.

They had that in the library. I remember being really scared by it.

Does anyone remember a book about a white girl and a black boy, both ostracised at school, who ran away to Devon (or Cornwall or similar) and camped in a forest?

Hadn't they found some money?

Omg thanks guys, that’s the one!

The machine gunners - loved it. I'm going to dig it out for my children this week

I rebought all of the Tamora Pierce ones, they have definitely stood the test of time!
Others on my Kindle include;
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
Railway Children
Just William
Swallows and Amazons
His Dark Materials
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
What Katy Did
Laura Ingalls Wilder collection
All of the Anne books!
Little Lord Fauntleroy
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
the Children of the New Forest
Almost everything Noel Streatfeild wrote!
Plus lots of Rosemary Sutcliffe

I’ve inherited lots of children’s books from my parents and Jacqueline Wilson goes down well, Enid Blyton, Saddle Club, Animal Ark.

Must try the 11 yr old on Judy Blume, she has loved Anne Fine.

Loads of the ones already mentioned, but shout out for the fairly bonkers but totally brilliant Box of Delights (although I already re-read it most Christmases...)

Geoffrey Trease fans, have you read Moonfleet? Similar kind of historical adventure story, which I read so many times as a kid and loved. It's so creepy, sinister, heart warming, poignant, exciting - all at once.

@thatmustbenigelwiththebrie I love Carrie's War, the ending is definitely one for the adults isn't it? That went completely over my head when I read it as a kid. Also, there is a great dramatisation of it on BBC Sounds, beautifully read. I listen to it quite often!

JE 17 I bought all three in the series by gwen grant recently and they are still as good.

Oooh yes yes yes to Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising and Alan Garner's books. I recently read Red Shift for the first time and that is seriously odd - kind of creepy and compelling and really not very children's lit at all.

Did anyone love Helen Cresswell? I adored her Bagthorpe Saga, as well as books like Moondial. And anything by Joan Aitken. And the brilliant Diana Wynne Jones. So many fabulous books!

Yeesss!! DelurkingAJ and stargirl1701

Alanna! Forget bloody Arya Stark...She was first!!!! I have reread that right into my 30s. Its time to go back to Trebond!!!

And The Dark is Rising Sequence. Fuck. the most overlooked fantasy series ever.
They brought out a truly awful Anericanised film version based extremely loosely on one book in the series that was pure sacrilege. I shudder thinking about how bad it was. I reread that till it fell apart.

The Endless Steppe
Little Women
Tom Saywer I loved this reread about 4 times- Ds's weren't interested.
The Greengage Summer
Across the Steppes
The Peacock Spring
Into Exile
The loves of Carola Mountjoy
Jane Eyre
The Chronicles of Prydain/Taran Wanderer. Another greatly overlooked fantasy series!!

Still read the occasional Asterix book Asterix the Legionary being my favourite!

Great thread!

Sorry hadn't read page 6! I see there's a sizable Alanna fanclub. The books were available on Amazon up to about 3 years ago. I doubt that they are going anywhere soon. It has a huge following.

I once read a testimonial online from a woman who paired up with her boyfriend when they both discovered they had read the books, and started talking about them.
They took this as proof they were meant to be together forever and they got married, had a daughter and named her Alanna

A book I had from the library about a girl captured for slavery in Africa, her boat ride in chains and life on a sugar plantation in America. There was a red bead that recurred in the story. Anyone know it?