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⌈ Secret Post #5921 ⌋

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Inspired by my love for The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks series and The Howliday Inn series.

Ah hahahaha.

Everybody in my middle school told me that The Lord of the Rings trilogy was too damned long to read.

I showed them. I usually read it all once a year till I hit college for the first time.

I've brought up the series here before in a different kind of thread but more than one of my fetishes that I have now as an adult stemmed from reading the Dinoverse books as a kid. I've never met anyone else who's read them and maybe that's for the best. Lol.

Well, I don't recognize the first one, but I totally read all about Bunnicula.

There was this book called The Seventh Princess that it feels like no one else ever read. Also, there were all the Ruth Chew witch books, like, a lot of people remember The Worst Witch books by Jill Murphy which came out around the same timeframe, but not Chew's books.

Bunnicula!

Bunnicula was amazing, I laughed so hard at those as a kid

I loved the Ruth Chew witch books! My favorite was the one with the fudge that let people talk to animals or turn into animals if they ate enough.

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Briar Rose by Jane Yolen messed me up. So did all of Robert Cormier's books. But I never had anyone to discuss them with.

Also, did anyone else read that series Shadow Children Series by Margaret Haddix?

The Changeling.
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.

Hmmmm. Well, at least the Oz books are much less well known than the Wizard of Oz movie. I loved those books as a kid, pretty much the whole series (at least the ones by the original author).

I loved the Oz books too, and they're so different from the movie!

One that I barely remember and can't find again.

It was a book series for children's/early teens about a group of teenagers. I think the main character (a girl) moved to a new town in the beginning to live with a relative after her mother died/disappeared.

The MC's mother was a witch, who are generally evil, but the MC's mother wasn't and got out of the coven. MC finds out she also has magic.

The witches are always beautiful, aloof women and have flying fish as pets and the series was about foiling the evil coven's plane, or something. Possibly the evil witches tried to kidnap the MC at times because she was special?

I don't really remember as I was very young when I read them. Our library had them and I'd read them over and over but they removed them when I was in my early teens.

I tried to find them again but "children's book about witches" is about as generic as it gets.

I got really into Jacqueline Wilsons books as a kid. Although most in my classmates at the time had at least read The Story of Tracy Beaker (mainly due to the tv series), I could never find anyone to talk about her other books - especially my favourite The Illustrated Mum (I guess in fairness its one of her more depressing books, which was probably why I loved it alongside The Suitcase Kid, The Worry Club and Lizzie Zipmouth).

I don't know about nobody, but The Young Wizards series by Diane Duane and the Wayside School series by Louis Sachar were always available at my library and I think I've only heard about the former from other people here.

Both of those were great! I definitely didn't know anyone who read the Young Wizards series IRL, but I think the Wayside School books had some popularity.

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Lloyd Alexander's Westmark books! Plenty of people read his Prydain books, but the Westmark books seem way less well known. I loved them though. They had great characters and really interesting worldbuilding - basically a no-magic fantasy version of 18th century Europe - and they were full of revolution and plots and politics and noble sacrifice and all that stuff. So much fun.

I don't know if I love it, per se, but I have thought about Thwonk! by Joan Bauer a lot the older I've gotten. Even with a Cupid-like cherub (named Jonathan, oddly enough) as one of the main characters it was one of the more realistic romance stories I've ever read. It was geared for teenagers, but honestly I think adult romance writers could benefit from reading it. The female protagonist grows a lot over the course of the story, and the ending showed the value in being single. I feel like kind of message has always been underrated, and in my endeavor to write my own original romance stories I think about that novel as a North Star of sorts for character development.

Not books but there were two TV shows I loved as a kid that I've never been able to find anybody else who remembers them. Tomfoolery and the Curiosity Shop. I was only able to find two very brief clips on youtube, one of which was very grainy black and white. And they don't seem to exist at all on DVD or Blu ray, while every piece of crap Hanna Barbara ever did is on video.

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The Howliday Inn series is and remains very popular, though.

I've seen a few people mention books with witches, did anyone else read Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Witch books? I remember finding them excitingly creepy as a kid and I was always trying to memorize the spell rhymes.

Half Magic, and I fondly remember the Killer Brussel Sprouts, though that was my little sister's.

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Blue Willow by Doris Gates. I adored that book and have yet to meet someone else who’s read it.

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Kit Pearson was my first favorite author. I think she won lit awards here in Canada, so she couldn't have been TOO obscure, but I never really saw her talked about or anything like that. I loved A Handful Of Time when my father read it to me, and then I read the Guests Of War trilogy and Awake And Dreaming on my own. Awake And Dreaming is pretty brutal, IIRC, but I was an insensitive child so I just ate it up. I also remember reading Looking At The Moon, and very uncritically shipping Norah with Andrew, and being desolate that her massive crush on him never came to anything (I gave not one single solitary fuck that he was nineteen and she was thirteen. I was ten; as far as I was concerned thirteen was like so mature.)

In my country we have this popular children's author with a series about girl and her adventures. This series had several adaptations into movies and cartoons. Actress was a heartthrob for a lot of teenagers and also there is a creepy stalker story. Anyyyway. This is a very popular author.
The author had a YA dystopian alien invasion book before YA was even a thing. And no one ever heard about this book. I adored it to bits when I was a child. It's just a little bit sexist because he somehow degraded from being feminist writer in the 70s to traditional guy in the 90s (tragic). But omg still so good.

The Bailey School Kids series -- which were a mix of sci-fi/paranormal for kids.

The Storm breaker series -- featuring a teenaged James Bond. Even had a shitty movie come out about it much later.

AAAnd the Princess Diaries series -- not the Ann Hathaway series, but the ones that were more or less fictitious diaries of women who became rulers when they were kids/teens.

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