These books are my childhood! I started first grade in 1970, so these books were all published with me in mind (I started reading early). Wonder how many of them hold up better than bell bottoms and disco?

Sounder by William H. Armstrong – xxx

Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars – xxx

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien – xxx

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George – xxx

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox – xxx

M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton – xxx

The Grey King by Susan Cooper – xxx

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor – xxx

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson – I sob every time I read this book, and I reread it fairly regularly, so that’s a lot of Kleenex. Sobbed at the end of the movie even though I knew what was coming.

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin – xxx

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