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⌈ Secret Post #5489 ⌋
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Re: Favorite Childhood Reads
I've previously mentioned Zilpha Keatley Snyder, especially The Egypt Game (I was so into ancient Egypt as a kid too) and The Changeling (which is honestly even a better read as an adult where I know what I'm reading).
There was a lot of stuff in that vein, children's fantasy or sci-fi. I remember a book called Half Magic that I read over and over, about some kids who could make wishes but would only get half of what they wished for, that was a lot of fun. And I remember there was this fascinating story about a girl who ordered a concoction that would give her wings, and it did, but then she started turning into a bird for real and had to go to the lab where the stuff was created and find the antidote. The author had another book I liked but that's all I remember now.
The Oz books and Madeleine L'Engle are no-brainers of course.
...I just googled because I remembered another one (and actually the title too!), Out of the Dark World, which I actually bought (didn't have much money so mostly I didn't own books). Apparently by Grace Chetwin, and a really odd but somehow workable blend of fantasy, slightly-future-tech, and Welsh folklore (could this be any more up my alley?).
And of course I read all the standard stuff. Sweet Valley Twins/High, Babysitter's Club, Beverly Cleary. A couple non-standard things that I'm sure I didn't fully comprehend at such a young age like Watership Down and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. And when I was very very young and just starting out, I had about a hundred vintage Bobbsey Twins books. (Which were apparently horribly racist, I recently learned. o_o I was like 4-5, I didn't know.)
And then around age 13-14 after having already been dealing with years of chronic illness holding me back, I picked up Dragonlance after a classmate mentioned it and oh my dear boy Raistlin understands exactly what I'm going through. XD
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Also Black and Blue Magic! :D
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But I still have, or had, a copy of The Changeling, and am kind of worried about the fact I haven't been able to find it for years. I suspect I may have loaned it to a friend to read (because I could never figure out if I was more Martha or more Ivy, but she was certainly Ivy to the Martha parts of me, and Martha to the Ivy parts of me) and never got it back.
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I have had to stop loaning books; too many never returned. I'm sorry about that!
I do know you can find copies on line, so it *is* replaceable, even if it's not the same.
The copy i read was actually my brother's copy, so I had to get mine own eventully, heh.
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https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/The-Changeling-9780595321803
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