If you grew up in the 80's what books did you enjoy?

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I am on the hunt for books I read as a child to give to dd1.

I read lots but can only remember Enid Blyton books.

What did you read that may trigger my memories?

There are loads more Tamora Pierce books, not just the Song of the Lioness series, I still collect them now. Thanks for the trip down memory lane all, so many fab books, it makes me want to read them all again!

Loved

A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair By Nicholas Fisk and The Ogre Downstairs By Diane Wayne Jones.

Plus the Choose Your Own Adventure series

Watership Down

A reading scheme called Tim and the Hidden People by Shelagh McCullogh

Also:

The Sheep Pig and The Queen's Nose by Dick King Smith
Moondial
Lizzie Dripping
Stig of the Dump
Rebecca's World
Tarka the Otter
Lots of Enid Blyton
Roald Dahl
Racso and the rats of NIMH
Olga da Polga
Nurse Matilda
Charlotte's Web
Little House series
And a fab book I can't remember the name of but it was about a boy that went off by himself to live wild in the forest.

Robin Jarvis Whitby witches trilogy!

The Bagthorpe Saga by Helen Cresswell. She wrote some other books, too.

(Hated Nicholas Fisk. Grinny. Really didn't enjoy it.)

Also, if you can get them in English, Dietlof Reiche's Hamster Freddy series. I've only got them in German, but they have been published in English.

Oh and Back Home by Michelle Magorian

The Ramona Quimby books!

Willard Price
The children of cherry tree farm - who was it
Gerald Durrell
I capture the castle - Dodi Smith
George Orwell
Rumble Fish - about gangs
Jill and her ponies books
Anne Mcaffrey - her Pern dragon books
The naughtiest girl books by EB
Malory Towers & St Clare's

Cherry tree farm and the other farm books were Enid Blyton again.

Flossie Teacake, I think the series was by Hunter Davies.

The Alfred Hitchcock books mentioned earlier would have been 'The Three Investigators'. Good fun. Liked the Hardy Boys books as well, although not at 7. :)

Yes, Anne McCaffrey..especially if dd is an angst ridden teen, 7 might be a bit young to engage but they have good, strong, female characters. The Narnia chronicles were entertaining at that age (though reread them to ds1 when he was 7 and the language/themes were a bit archaic and needed putting into context, particularly the expectations of girls). Loved Black Beauty and Swallows and Amazons, Pigeon Post etc

..and someone mentioned the Born Free books... loved them especially the pictures of Elsa & Joy.

Most of mine have already been mentioned, but as a horse mad child, I also loved the 'Jinny at Finmory' series by Patricia Leitch.