and i don't mean Dr. Seuss type stuff. i mean the first actual "books" you sat down and read

my list:
- "trapped in death cave" by bill wallace
- "a light in the attic" by shel silversteen
- Matt Christopher's Sports Series (i.e. "The Kid Who Only Hit Homers"
- "Hank the Cowdog" series by John R. Erickson
- "My Teacher is an Alien" by Bruce Coville
- "Choose Your Own Adventure" series

the indian in the cupboard series

Hatchet... anyone else read that one? I cant remember who wrote it.

Edit: Gary Paulsen


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Oh and the classic... Where the red fern grows. One of my all time faves.

my side of the mountain

Great Brain books.
Soup. Soup and Me.

Where the Red Fern Grows and My Side of the Mountain are classics.

the giver

the matt christopher ones were awesome...i had kind of forgotten about those

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I read that in sports clips last month!

How about:
Sign of the Beaver
Brave Buffalo Fighter
I forgot the name, but the books about Taran
The Outsiders

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Great Brain books.
Soup. Soup and Me.

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God, I loved both of those series.

I also liked the black stallion series.

Is that gay?

Hank the Cowdog above all
Louis L'Amour books
Hardy Boys
Friday Night Lights (I read it in 5th grade)
World Book Encyclopedia (no, I'm not making that up)
any book about baseball, from almanacs to novels to biographies to books about old ballparks

Superfudge, and there's really no debate.

Superfudge Series
Boxcar Children
Lord of the Rings
Where the Red Fern Grows
Goosebumps

Any book about space, baseball or football.

The Hobbit by Tolkien

Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
Over Sea, Under Stone
The Dark Is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree

Wrinkle in Time Series by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters

The Chronicles of Pyrdain by Lloyd Alexander
The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
the Castle of Llyr
Taran Wanderer
The High King

Also loved thumbing through Almanacs.

the Nate the Great series was badass

The Giving Tree

DanTheMan55,

I read all those as well. A book called "King of the Wind" was one of my favorites.

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agreed

I think i read that book about 10 or 12 times when I was younger. Awesome book. Pretty funny stuff.

I don't know how many times I read Superfudge. I did a book report on it every year from like 2nd grade to probably 6th grade or so. I think I probably read maybe five other books in that whole time span.

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"The Westing Game" - strong suggestion.

My brothers got me into "The Three Investigators" series that were affiliated with Hitchcock. It amazes me those were never made into movies.

A lot of good suggestions so far.

The Yearling was good as well.