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teen witch posted:....(because I couldn’t give a poo poo about Johnny Tremaine)... lol this thread had me thinking of old Johnny Tremaine. I gave a lot of shits about poor Johnny, with his injury and stuck working at a hot, dangerous forge all day. I remember thinking, well, school's not so bad compared to that....
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What was the book about the lost kid who lived in a tree and ate acorn soup?
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I might have missed any references to "The Three Investigators". An "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" series of mystery books. A little more "gritty" than the Hardy Boys, but same idea. These three fellows had the coolest HQ in a junkyard with tunnels and secret doors. They were kinda James Bond-esque with gadgets IIRC.
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Powered Descent posted:
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teen witch posted:Technically not a chapter book but I’m ride or die for Uncle Shelby, Shel Silverstein. I remember my mom reading The Giving Tree to me from the library when I was really young, and my grandma got me four of his other books. I was blown. AWAY. When I learned Shel Silverstein had this whole adult side. Eye opening. Fun song about smoking weed: The Smoke Off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjewmFr9b0Y
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but read some after moving here as an adult and I had to pause a few times to just sorta lie there and think.
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When I was in 4th grade we got the Scholastic Newsletter, which was like a newspaper with real news and stories, but for kids. Anyways, being a turbo nerd who watched the news regularly and read almanacs for fun, I spotted a factual error in a story, and after checking with my Dad, I wrote Scholastic a letter informing them of their mistake. They wrote back, saying I was correct, and included a certificate for 5 free books at the next book fair. I was on cloud 9, the King of the Scholastic Book Fair. I forget what I got, but I've been riding that high ever since.
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I read a book about "Indians" when I lived in Indiana and it somehow struck deep within me. The book (for kids) described how they walked silently through the forest on the sides of their feet, and I of course immediately began walking on the sides of my feet for max stealthiness....
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Did you cheat at CYOA books?
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I remember surreptitiously reading "Are you there God, it's me, Margaret".
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I'd like to take this opportunity to praise Comic Books. I am old enough that when I was young, Comic Books had a very distinct negative association with them. They're trash, garbage, junk, bad influence, etc. But around age 4 or so I got a Spider-Man comic and was immediately hooked, devouring every comic I could get my hands on. My parents were cool in that they were not anti-comic at all, we were just poor AF so comics were too expensive for the most part. But I got what I could and read them over and over and over. Reading, for kids, is a GOOD THING. So I would think we should encourage kids to read whatever they want, so long as they are reading. I vividly remember reading words I did not know, and going to the dictionary to look it up. Learning! With Spider-Man!
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