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Oh, wow, I had completely forgotten about that series. I had at least one, and I'm not sure I read any more than that. Hatchet was probably my favorite read as a kid; I read it a lot, and I still remember most of the story beats. I don't think I even learned about the existence of the sequels until I was in my 30s. I also re-read My Side of the Mountain a lot. I wanna say there was another book in the theme, about a boy and a wolf in the wilds, but it's way too vague to remember anything about it. I was into space as a kid (still am), and I had books 1-5 of the Young Astronauts series, but my parents could never find the 6th and final book. Eventually they agreed to put a 'wanted' ad in the kid's space magazine Odyssey, and I actually got a response and we managed to get the 6th book! I don't remember much about the series; I think it was a bunch of teenagers or young adults training for a big mission to Mars, and the last book or two they actually do travel to Mars. Another favorite was Bundle of Sticks, where a kid reluctantly attends a karate class and eventually beats up the school bully after he kicks the protag's dog on like the last day of school. Very cathartic, and I still remember 'horse stance'. There were a couple of Encyclopedia Brown stories I read, and a couple still stick with me--Brown disproving the nemesis' stupid cubic egg thing because his 'skydiver' didn't have a backup parachute, and that right-handed men trim their left sideburns higher than their right. I remember reading Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing and Superfudge, but not much else in the series. I still recall the sixth graders at the new school in Superfudge singing that they ran the school because they were in sixth grade now. I specifically remember being younger than them when I read the book, so they were the older kids, and they were obviously correct. Reading through the thread made me remember another book, that I wanna say was called Tweezers or something, because the protagonist always carried a pair with him and regularly solved minor problems with them (including knowing how to spell the word at a spelling bee). The Westing Game is probably the first time a book ever blew my mind with its reveal. By the time I hit high school, I was reading my dad's collection of old scifi paperbacks and Star Wars novels. Did a book report on The Stand in either 9th or 12th grade, the years I had the cool english teacher. I chose the ending of the book to read out because it was exciting, didn't involve the devil's semen, and it had swears he let me say in class.
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