I read a couple of L'Engle books very young, and I barely recall anything about them -- probably another case of like-but-not-love like Prydain. I loved Pippi and Dr. Doolittle, though, and went through Andre Norton like candy. (And I am endlessly thrilled every time I find people online who read McGraw, because I reread her Egypt books obsessively and never met anyone else who'd even heard of them until I got online.)

I never managed to finish The Dark is Rising -- the school library I was using at the time only had part of the series, and it somehow never crossed my mind to look for the rest at the larger public library...it was probably around the time when I was spending more and more time in the adult stacks there, because I could.