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

[Sixofone]

I've recently started re-reading books I read as a child and teenager, having a fantastic time doing it so thought I'd share, would love to hear your books! As you will see there is a strong Enid Blyton theme....

Famous Five (but not all of them)
Malory Towers
Faraway Tree
Goodnight Mr Tom
Black Beauty (who was this by?)
the Little HOuse on the Prairie series
Nancy Drew

The diddakoi by Rumer Godden.
The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I often re read childrens' books when I feel sorry for myself!

BTW think Anna Sewell wrote BB

I stopped reading from 11-16 - secondary school just beat it out of me. Before that I was a voracious and precocious reader, my friends and I were reading Virginia Andrews at primary school! I remember the original Brothers Grimm and HCAndersen fairytales with fondness, very gruesome.

I loved Goodnight Mr Tom. I loved the My Friend Flika series. Wish i could remember who wrote them. I had all of my mums books but her partner threw them away when i moved out! Ignorant b@~£&*#!

adrian mole diaries

Oh,and i had a real thing for James Herbert and Stephen King. I hate them now! I read all the Virginia Andrews books at primary too. Didn't she die and someone else take over writting? Wish i could remember the names of what i used to read - i know the stories but never the author or title!

Oooh Little Princess, loved that one! And Ballet Shoes, always related to being the dumpy not especially pretty one who secretly was an ace dancer!

all enid blyton, anything by dianna wynne jones and nancy drew.

oh and sweet valley high...

Oh glad I'm not the only one with irresponsible parents. Not sure I'd let my kids read her.

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - I just LOVED that book and read it many times as a child.

I was thinking the other day that I would love to read the hardy boys again.

so

hardy boys
what katy did (all three)
nancy drew
sweet valley high

cheesetastic

Great OP, and good timing too as I spent the weekend sorting out old books at my father's house.

I've found lots of old Chalet School books and some Noel Streatfield ones that I remembered - White Boots, Ballet Shoes - and some I didn't remember - Thursday's Child, The Circus is Coming. And the Flambards quartet as well, which after many many re-readings over the years I can't probably quote verbatim if asked!

Does anyone else remember The Children Who Lived in a Barn? And any ideas why so many children's books are about children at school or abandoned or otherwise lacking in parents?

I used to have a great Enid Blyton one - which I hope to purchase a copy of later today from Ebay.

I also had a lovely illustrated poem book which I loved with classics such as "winkin blinkin and nod' in

I'm on a mission to find the latter as I am now re-living my childhood reading with my DS1 who is 4.

Lois Duncan 'Summer of fear' it was very good

Anything by Judy Blume (Tiger Eyes, Forever, are you there god its me margaret).

Whats that Lois Duncan one, that rings a bell

When Marnie was there - Joan G Robinson. One of my all time favourites.

Also the Jill books by Ruby Ferguson.

Seven Little Australians, can't remember who by. (by whom?)

I read one called'The Terrible Temptation' and to be honest I didn't really understand all of it but it was v grown up and iirc was about a girl deciding whether to do IT with a boy- it was in the 6th form library but I was so fascinated I took it out on a long term loan (30 years and counting!)

due to the frequent mention of virginia andres books on threads lke these i have read the whole of the flowers in the attic series.

they are AWFUL!!!

but still i was gripped

*andrews that should be

Complete shite but kind of compelling. Although the big head doppleganger thing still haunts me

i kept thinking "why am i reading these?" yet couldn't put them down.

they were lent to me by a friend who has a phd in literature so she should be even more than me!!

Campfire Nights? I can't remember what series it was from but as I remember it was American.

I also read all of Virgina Andrew and then moved onto Jean Plaidy

Rebeccas' world.
It's out of print and seels for a fortune on amazon and/or ebay. I really want it.

I loved goodnight mr Tom may have to find it again

I reread the flowers in the attic series when i'm dow in teh dumps as they remind of when I was a lazy teenager with nothing to worry about

Also love rereading when hitler stole pink rabbit as I can now read it as an adult and understand it more rather then when i read it as a child it was just an adventure about a little girl moving to lots of diffrent countries