Almost finished with my Favorite Books from Childhood bookshelf! This is the fourth of five installments and I know, I know, I should be posting pix as well.:( Below, the junior high age delineations get squidgy, as I read one or two of these in elementary school. I’m not counting as favorites some school-mandated ones that nevertheless had great impact, like Lord of the Flies, Ethan Frome, and Death Be Not Proud. (My takeaway from the latter: death is horrible, and a brain tumor will eventually push your eyeball out. Ugh. But I still love the John Donne sonnet.) Anyway, onward:
Junior High favorites:
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Wrinkle in Time and sequels, by Madeleine L’Engle
The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann D. Wyss
Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
The Moon-Spinners, by Mary Stewart
Fifteen, by Beverly Cleary
The Private Worlds of Julia Redfern, by Eleanor Cameron (series)
Up a Road Slowly, by Irene Hunt
A Light in the Forest