Childhood nostalgia poll

[rachelmanija]

Please reminisce, fondly or not, about any of these, or other books read in childhood, especially if they seem to have, deservedly or undeservedly, vanished from the shelves. I'd love to hear about non-US, non-British books, too.

[Poll #1720139]

Comments

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I managed to completely avoid those, although I seem to recall that most of the non-geeky girls in my school seemed to eat them up like hotcakes. (I'd pretty much abandoned YA by the time they started coming out, and had long since learned that non-genre "realistic" stories about girls my own age usually read to me like dispatches from a somewhat alien-but-in-a-really-boring-way alternate dimension. I'd branched out from F&SF and was in a bit of a mystery/thriller phase at the time -- lots of Dick Francis and Robert Ludlum and sundry forgettable Cold War spyfests -- just as alien, but with lots of exciting sex and violence!)