Mostly fiction but non fiction is welcome too, not sure what examples to give. But a bit melancholic, a bit sad… and mostly on childhood. And how it ends.
It’s a bit long but it’s incredibly nostalgic and an overall incredible book. It really makes you feel what it’s like to be a kid again.
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Bradbury’s *Dandelion Wine*.
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Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. It’s somehow both cute and heartbreaking
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Starling by Kirsten Cram.
Beautifully written story about two children in a remote Canadian town. It’s genuine and sad, but still has that magical childhood optimism despite all the hard things life throws at them.
This is the debut novel for this author and its self-published so it could be harder to find, but this is one worth supporting.
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The glass Castle- Jeanette Walls
The Book of Bright Ideas
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The Road Past Altamont, Gabrielle Roy
In many ways Little Women is about the end of childhood.
Everyone thinks To Kill a Mockingbird is mostly about race, but actually it’s mostly about childhood, and childhood’s end.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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In My father’s Court – I.B. Singer (memoir – Poland before and after both world wars, his eccentric, funny, warm, deeply religious family grapples as the world changes. Stunningly written)
House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros (Sweet, scary, sad, beautiful, fiction)
Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstien
(Poems — the title poem especially. Was one of my favorites as a kid, I feel like my childhood is in those pages and weird pictures, still, lol)
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The ocean at the end of the lane by Neil gaiman
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Sting-Ray Afternoons by Steve Rushin.
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Almost anything by [Gary D Schmidt](https://www.amazon.com/stores/Gary-D.-Schmidt/author/B001H6Q63Q). Most of his books deal with kids about 12-14 dealing with issues of loss (friendship, parent or parents, etc.) or self discovery. Kind of the melancholy and magic of growing up and seeing the world with more mature eyes.
The *Wednesday Wars* is the most well known, but not even the best in that series (*Okay for Now* and *Just Like That* wrap up the trilogy). *The Labors of Hercules Beal* is really good. All of these books are YA, but the nostalgia and melancholy are there for sure…
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Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon
It’s a bit long but it’s incredibly nostalgic and an overall incredible book. It really makes you feel what it’s like to be a kid again.
Bradbury’s *Dandelion Wine*.
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. It’s somehow both cute and heartbreaking
Starling by Kirsten Cram.
Beautifully written story about two children in a remote Canadian town. It’s genuine and sad, but still has that magical childhood optimism despite all the hard things life throws at them.
This is the debut novel for this author and its self-published so it could be harder to find, but this is one worth supporting.
The glass Castle- Jeanette Walls
The Book of Bright Ideas
The Road Past Altamont, Gabrielle Roy
In many ways Little Women is about the end of childhood.
Everyone thinks To Kill a Mockingbird is mostly about race, but actually it’s mostly about childhood, and childhood’s end.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
In My father’s Court – I.B. Singer (memoir – Poland before and after both world wars, his eccentric, funny, warm, deeply religious family grapples as the world changes. Stunningly written)
House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros (Sweet, scary, sad, beautiful, fiction)
Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstien
(Poems — the title poem especially. Was one of my favorites as a kid, I feel like my childhood is in those pages and weird pictures, still, lol)
The ocean at the end of the lane by Neil gaiman
Sting-Ray Afternoons by Steve Rushin.
Almost anything by [Gary D Schmidt](https://www.amazon.com/stores/Gary-D.-Schmidt/author/B001H6Q63Q). Most of his books deal with kids about 12-14 dealing with issues of loss (friendship, parent or parents, etc.) or self discovery. Kind of the melancholy and magic of growing up and seeing the world with more mature eyes.
The *Wednesday Wars* is the most well known, but not even the best in that series (*Okay for Now* and *Just Like That* wrap up the trilogy). *The Labors of Hercules Beal* is really good. All of these books are YA, but the nostalgia and melancholy are there for sure…