My book club is doing a special meeting where everyone re-reads a book they loved from their pre-teen or teenage years. Everyone will read a different book and then talk about their own books at the meeting.
What book(s) would you choose for this prompt?
by NightReader5
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That Was Then, This is Now, by S.E. Hinton
Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
* To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
* The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
* Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
* The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
* A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
I remember being very freaked out by Christopher Pike’s Scavenger Hunt, and I remember next to nothing about it. Would be fun to take a look now.
What a fun idea!
I would like to re-read any of the following series:
“The Boxcar Children”
“The Baby-Sitters Club”
“Fear Street”
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
I reread Animal Farm and The Giver recently, enjoyed both so much more than in middle school.
“Down a Dark Hall” by Lois Duncan. I have read it since, and it actually still holds up. I think it was a good gateway into books like Haunting of Hill House and Rebecca.
From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
I think it’s actually a little pre-middle school, but it’s been rattling around in the back of my brain for a few months now.
I just reread Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett today. It was the first book of his I read as a tween & I was *hooked*. As an adult, I appreciate his wisdom & nods to literature & wordplay so much more than I did as a young reader.
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
The Giver
Hatchet
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm