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The book I read 12 times- "Are You There God? it's Me Margaret.". The perfect book for a 12 year old girl.

I'm a little late on seeing this however I have dozens of educational books that I would love to donate. The local goodwill does not take textbooks which I have many of as well. Any suggestions!?

I still re-read Alice in Wonderland from time to time:)

As a girl, I read, and reread, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

I also love Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time and her other young adult fiction.

As I child I loved books that tore at the seams of conventional children’s tales. These were the stories that weren’t merely read to me, but spoke to me. They were engaging and thought provoking, even now.

My top picks:
Oswald the Silly Goose
Were the Wild Things Are
The Green Caterpillar
The Giving Tree

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Forty-eight years ago, when I was just six years old, I broke my arm. Way back then it was a serious deal requiring a four day stay in the hospital. A gift of a book called "Barney Beagle", the very first book I owned, helped me endure the loneliness, the fear, and the pain. Now I buy, for a quarter or less, all the children's books I can find at thrift stores or County libraries. These books are left in book bags on door steps of homes where children in need of books are living:=)

Search Amazon for authors Strike, Otto Snow, Uncle Fester. Get Date Rape, Meth Lab resources and murder via roadside bomb and Sarin Gas. Ending these sales is not censorship or a denial of free speech. The author is free to write and sell whatever he wishes within the limits of free speech, and there are and always have been limits. A corporation's decision to sell or not sell a product is just that. Johnson & Johnson is not cramping the second amendment by not selling AK47's. They are making a corporate decision about what they want to make money from. Amazon is not the institution charged with defending free speech. It is a giant for-profit corporation which has decided to make money by facilitating the spread of evil actions, including rape and murder.

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The same is true of Barnes and Noble and to a lesser extent Borders.

Well unlike most of you I never had a favorite book, because I couldn't read. Getting by was what I did...I even graduated from High School a functional illiterate...that changed, believe me, 37 yrs ago...

If nothing else happens in a humans life, reading should be on the top of the list..I am an advocate for Literacy, a college student at 62 yrs old and plan on getting my PhD in Literacy.

My favorite author is Toni Morrison...

My favorite book(s) are anything between two covers.

Make a pledge to yourself and your family, make sure that kids and adults have the chance to read, write and comprehend. You will save them from a life a isolation.

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Sharon

My favorite books are too many to list. I'll do a few though.

The whole Harry Potter series
The Mortal Instruments series
Shiver
Beautiful Creatures

I'm off to read to my family now. We're half-way through Beautiful creatures. I loved it so much that I had to read it to them. :)

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My mother believed children benefited from reading biographies, so I read a lot of those growing up. She also encouraged me to read Greek and Roman mythology. Over the years I've learned that many writers have been influenced by ancient mythology.

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Every child should have some Dr. Seuss books.

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I remember when it seemed like everyone was reading V C Andrews books. My cousin used to eat them up.

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I recall some great experiences with candy fiction, meaning it entertains but dissolves quickly. I've read so many of those over the years that I recall the plot elements of some but not the titles.

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I love The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery, the author of beloved Anne of Green Gables books.

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It's terrific that you're doing something to make textbooks accessible to more students. The brutal economics of textbook pricing may be the number one reason to be excited about the dawn of e-books. This is a great way of keeping a spotlight on the issue of textbook costs.

I'm a reading specialist, so of course I think books are wonderful! I loved Judy Blume books as a child, as well as Beverly Cleary books.

Yes, so subversive! Also remember finding the holy grail of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex while babysitting.

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I've taken a lot of trips as pilgrimages to writer's homes or book locations. I never went home from my first trip to Florida, which was influenced by reading Hemingway's letters to Fitzgerald. In them he talked about Key West (went there, stole plant snippings from plants said to have been his) and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' place near Gainesville. I love writers' places.

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That is a funny concept. I think I may have inadvertently used Life of Pi as a test book in a budding friendship. Gotta be able to hang an a non-linear non-literal world if you wanna hang with me.

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And not just too look up grown-up words. We still like to play the Dictionary game, where one person selects a word and the others make up plausible bluff definitions.

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I just spent the afternoon with a book and realized that in a broad way every book changes your life a little.

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I loved Pride and Prejudice. I read it for English class in high school. It taught me that life can be looked at in many different ways. And that you should never settle in love.

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All time favorite. Read it at about 12 and wanted to be just like Jo! Blast! THAT didn't happen. Hope you reach your goal!

I loved being read to and then reading on my own. I am loving watching my children share my love for books. I couldn't possible pick favourites as I love them all. 'Alligator Pie' :)

Now that you mention Madame Bovary, I'm surprised it didn't make my initial list. In my early years online my screen name at a writing site was Emma Flaubert, taking my name from the character, Emma Bovary, and her creator, Gustave Flaubert. Shows how easily we forget information when asked to make a list. :-)

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The Betsy Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace Best series ever. Hands down. I think I have re-read the books hundreds of times.

I know I've already commented but there are just so many to choose from! I'm still an avid reader & am thankful for my parents instilling a love of reading & learning in my at an early age.

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For a wonderful cause. Literacy is important!

I just love this! Reading is such a big part of our family's lives. I hope we can make it a special part of someone else's life!!

I've read the entire Narnian Chronicles, too! Loved every single one of them! I was so sad when it was over. I read the entire series while sitting at my son's hospital bedside in 2005! Read a LOT of books during that year!

*Be Blissful Always*

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I read Madame Bovary when I was 17 and the loneliness moved me. Still does.

The idea that a woman can be and often is disatisfied...was something I related to but had never read or heard it expressed.

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Has anyone said The Dictionary yet? I'm kind of surprised if nobody has... particularly TW who has a serious thing for them.

The first dictionary that was my own was hard back, red covered. I wore it out - literally. pages falling out left and right. After that, I think my parents stuck to buying me paperback because they were cheaper and they knew I'd just destroy them because I spent so much time reading word after word after word.

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Someone gave me a set of hard bound Lousa May Alcott books when I was about 10. I read every one of them, over and over and over again. I loved them. The binding, the feel of the paper. BEST books on my shelf (besides my Nancy Drews.)

When I got married and moved out, I left them home - thinking I could get them later... then my parents split up, my dad had a yard sale and my books... MISSING!

Thankfully, we found them... and I toted them with me all over the world after that. Then, when I got divorced... I left some boxes behind and my ex brought them to me... but my boxes of Nancy Drews and my Louisa May Alcott books were MISSING.

Thankfully... he did find them and they're on my shelf right now. Up high where they won't disappear again.

I keep looking up at them as I type and I'm tempted to read Little Women again, just because I can!

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Another Mother Tongue and Blood, Bread and Roses .... those of you who know me are saying, "Ah well. That explains it." And it does.

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I lifted this one from my mother long before I probably should have read it. Fascinating to me as a teenager and it stuck with me for the rest of my life though I had to read it again in my 20s to really GET what Greer was trying to say.

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Published in 1983... my oldest daughter was born in 1983... oy. That was a good year but also a rough one.

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Oh what a stir this book caused in my elementary school. There was one copy that was passed around - I have no idea if it was a library book or a book off of a teacher's personal library shelf - but whatever it was, it made the rounds.

We'd whisper about it, ask who had it now - who was going to get it next - and what the heck was in there that caused everyone who had read it to giggle and whisper and blush?

When it was finally my turn to read it - ah hah, that's why there was such a stir. Quite risque for my conservative southern schoolmates. I told my 7th grade teacher that we were all passing around one copy and she brought two more to school and dispersed them to two girls who were on the "waiting list" for the original copy.

She was a good teacher. Some parents probably would have had a fit, though.

That was the first time I realized people might "whisper" about a book. Before that, I don't think I knew that some books might be considered off limits or things to be hidden and whispered about.

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posted a few days back about books that opened my world as a kid.

it's still happening. philosophy/cultural books like Judith Butler's Gender Trouble give me language for things i've been butting up against for years.

other people's frames on the world open my own.

posted a few days back about books that opened my world as a kid.

it's still happening. philosophy/cultural books like Judith Butler's Gender Trouble give me language for things i've been butting up against for years.

other people's frames on the world open my own.

posted a few days back about books that opened my world as a kid.

it's still happening. philosophy/cultural books like Judith Butler's Gender Trouble give me language for things i've been butting up against for years.

other people's frames on the world open my own.

When I was little, we owned two sets of Encyclopedias - the World Books (they were a creamy white color) and Colliers (they were a gorgeous black with red trim.)

I loved both sets. The World Books for easy reading - the Colliers for more indepth studies - and for the transparency plates of the human body and various systems of the body. They were fascinating and I loved them.

My brother and I also used to use them to build forts with.. and to make "encyclopedia brick roads" to walk on, push cars along, and just to fiddle around with.

I cannot believe my parents never suggested we NOT do such a thing with the encyclopedias, lol.

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Reading changed my life!

I didn't own this as a child, well I did but it it was in a book of children's stories and this was the story I used to beg my mother to read over- and over - and over again.

I think she ended up hating that book because I asked for it so often.

It was also one of the first books that I bought when I was pregnant with my oldest daughter.

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Wuthering Heights was one of my favorites in high school.

I also read Great Expectations, perhaps too young, but still remember it well.

Wow, there are just so many that made and continue to make an impact in my life.

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As an adult, I was blown away by "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond. An amazing non-fiction book explaining why early Europeans had greater advantages over other early humans primarily because of a fortunate confluence of geography, botany and zoology. Read it, and it will change your view of human history.