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Schott’s Original Miscellany. I was a strange third grader, and I’m happy to report that I have grown stranger since.
When I was very young, 10 or under, there was a book I read that I remember almost nothing about, just that there was a kid who found or built a bunch of robots to do various things. The only robot I really remember is the one made to row a boat, named (appropriately) Row-bot. It had a bell built in that would ring every time it made a stroke. At the end of the book all the robots have to leave the boy, and the last scene is him watching them rowing away and hearing the bell fade into the mist. That I even remember any of the book tells me I really liked it.
Besides that, I was gifted a copy of Ender’s Game for my 15th or 16th birthday. I really loved it and it was the first time I can remember being really blown away by a plot twist.
Edit: The first book may be Andy Buckram’s Tin Men.
Honestly I can’t remember. I’ve been reading books since 2nd grade and there’s been numerous I loved
Not even one above all? Or the last one you read 😀
The Black Cauldron Series.
I hadn’t thought about it, but those may have been the first books I absolutely adored.
After that, I got into Perry Rhodan, a German science fiction serial that has been published weekly since 1961 (yes, they are past issue #3,300 now).
They translated about 140 into English, and I had every one, hunting through used book shope to complete my collection.
I have gone back to read some, and at least the early ones really were abysmal in writing, plotting and early 1960s prejudices. At the time, the scope of the space opera – and the fact that there were so many of them – thrilled me.
By Lloyd Alexander? If so, those were great! I remember reading those to keep me busy at my older sister’s girl scout meetings.
There were books? I just remember the animated film.
I read most of Dan Brown’s books as a child and I really liked The Digital Fortress, Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code, but the one that marked me the most in my prepubescent years was probably Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho.
When I was a kid I remember reading a Dragonfall 5 science fiction novel and enjoying it.
A few year’s later I read To Kill A Mocking Bird for a school assignment and being impressed by Harper Lee’s writing style and finding the story and topics really interesting. Around that time I also fell in love with Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels.
As a small child: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
As a teen: Lightning by Dean R. Koontz
As a high-schooler: Island by Aldous Huxley
Fox in Socks, Dr Seuss.
The first one I remember really being moved by was Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. But the first one I truly loved was Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny.
I see many of my favorites, so I’ll throw down the first book I really remember loving as a kid because it is so touching:
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The one that really struck me was “Starstreak: Stories from space!” It was a collection of short sci-fi stories including The Haunted Spacesuit and Who Goes There.
Turned me into a lifelong SF reader.
There was one early teen book series that my school library has where it was a town with weird things happening and kids investigate. Twice aliens came to get help from the kids. I can’t remember the name of the series though.
Probably a Hardy Boys book, I used to devour those as a pre-teen.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, if I remember correctly is the first novel I remember reading. When we were kids, our parents bought us kid-friendly versions of the novels. I don’t really remember anymore if they were condensed versions, or just the same length but with a couple of pictures added per chapter.
Where the Red Fern Grows
I was a very sad child and that book gave me lots of excuses to be crying all the time xD
