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[Sublunary: --enter the moonlight--]

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[Tokusatsu (Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Ultraman)]

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[Harry Potter + Pokemon, Wonder Woman, Anne of Green Gables, Looney Tunes]

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[Kyuuketsuki Hime Miyu]

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[Usagi Drop]

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[Ranma 1/2]

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Pretty much what it says on the tin.

What were you reading, the year you turned 10? What books did you love (and hate!)? And what books for much younger readers did you still love at 10 (and older)?

We-ell, not 10, because I wasn't really reading then, but at the age of 11 I got into reading novels when I nicked my brother's book "Dream Thief" by Steven Lawhead. I haven't reread it for several years (and I think my brother has it with him anyway), but last time I read it I still had no problems with it.

In comparison, I got a bit tired of David Eddings' tendency to be a bit coy about sex, not to mention I felt he ended his writing on a bad note with a series he wound up with a huge deus ex machina.

When I was 10 my favorite book was a collection of Lovecraft stories. I toted that thing around everywhere. I also read through the Narnia books, and Julie of the Wolves and a few other childrens' novels.

I can't think of any books I hated at the time. And for books I loved, I Spy, and David Macaulay's books and the Eyewitness Books.

Before Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George wrote a series of nature books for children called The Thirteen Moons. I remember being crazy about them in about 4th grade, which is weird when I reflect that I didn't discover Julie of the Wolves until much later. Or My Side of the Mountain either--I don't even remember that being in our children's library, possibly because they didn't want to encourage kids to run away from home! Or maybe someone took it out and kept it as a survival guide!

Every Enid Blyton book ever written.

A Wrinkle In Time. Bridge to Terabithia. The Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce.

I don't remember if I was exactly 10 while reading these books. I do know I wasn't quite out of 6th grade, so close enough I hope.

Wayside school series

the Aliens Ate my Home Work series (I actually want to reread these to see if they were as cool as I remember them.)

Shel Silverstein poetry books

Dougal Dixon's Dinosaur Book

These books that had stories about Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures in them (I can't remember what they were called. All I remember is that they were roughly text book sized, were 3 of them, two focusing on Dinosaurs and the other one on Ice Age animals.)

Edited 2016-02-19 06:44 (UTC)

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. I read that when I was 10, and that book was to me what the Harry Potter books were to most of my peers- it's the book (series) that inspired me to love reading for pleasure.

I was probably around 10 or so when I read Stargirl, which I absolutely despised.

And I have always & will always adore Goodnight Moon. It's my go to recommendation to give as a gift for baby showers because it was my favorite book as a very small child.

The Fudge series by Judy Blume
The Flunking of Joshua T. Bates
The Bingo Brown series
Maniac Magee
A lot of Gordon Korman books (But mostly The Twinkie Squad and The Toilet Paper Tigers)
Ramona Quimby (except fuck Ramona, she was annoying as hell)

As for things meant for younger kids, I leafed through Sweet Pickles books, Dr. Seuss and Little Critter books for a long time.

I turned 10 in 2003 and at that point I was devouring all the Harry Potter books. Like, I think I had read the first at least ten times by the time I turned 10 and I just didn't stop. The Order of the Phoenix was the first I read at release and I pulled my first all-nighter while reading through all of it on the very first day/night, and then pissed off my friends when I showed up at school in tears and spoiled Sirius' death for them.

I think that was the year I read Lord of the Rings for the first time and tried to get through The Silmarillion, but that got a bit too much for me. I may have read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants around this time too.

In general I was a bit 'over' kid books (Harry Potter aside) though, as I was quite a pretentious kid and started to read more adult books. At this point I had started to look through my parents' bookshelves and I think this was the year I read, and at the time fell in love with (though I now know a lot of the issues with it), Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. I also tried to read The Girls He Adored by Jonathan Nasaw and got through the first chapters before my mother found out and stopped me as she deemed it way too scary for me, which in turn made me a bit obsessed with it for awhile as I personally felt I was old enough. I also remember being a bit upset that my school library wouldn't lend me the Sherlock Holmes books as they deemed me too young, and that they were just there for the 7th graders.

I was always reading significantly ahead of my age group, due to a combination of factors: my general intelligence, being surrounded by books on every wall*, and the desire to keep up with what my older sisters were interested in/reading. So at 10 I was definitely reading YAs that were beyond the skill of most of my classmates, and adult novels at 11-12. Some things I remember reading at roughly 8 to 10:

•ALL the Oz books, ALL the Mary Poppins books, and ALL the Betsy-Tacy books.
•Anything E. Nesbit: Psammead books, The Magic Castle, Whereyouwanttogoto & other stories.
•Anything Edgar Eager: Magic series, especially The Time Garden, Magic by the Lake, and Seven-Day Magic.
•Started getting into Diana Wynne Jones: Chrestomanci books (first 4; the others hadn't been published yet- I was 10 in 1999), Dalemark books, The Homeward Bounders, Howl's Moving Castle; many more soon after!
•Rumer Godden's doll books: The Doll's House, Miss Happiness & Miss Flower, Little Plum
•Lots of historical fiction, and non-fiction too. I was very into art history at 9-10, so I had tons of art books and artist biographies. Also stuff on ocean animals, although that was a little before.

*Seriously every spare wall, except kitchen/bathrooms (and there were still some books in those rooms...). Here a demonstration of what I'm talking about, with adorable kitties! That's not my childhood home, it's the house we moved into when I was 11 because there wasn't enough room in that house for all the books. Custom floor-to-ceiling bookcases in the library and study. Still not sufficient; landing, bedrooms, many other rooms covered and now overflowing.

That's right--you're the other Betsy-Tacy fan!

While I thank those up thread who reminded me of the Wayside School and Gordon Korman books, the series I was coming here to mention was My Teacher is an Alien.

Are they still writing those low key kinda weird books anymore, or have they been absorbed into the massive hype trains of things like Harry Potter?

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