What was your favorite pre-high school book?
>>25315035When I was in 5th or 6th grade, I remember being curious about this book and skipped to the end to see what the point was. I didn't quite understand what was going on at the time, but it seems to fit into the category of books written by boomers who want to make some sort of "powerful" statement about contemporary America but so full of horseshit it might as well be fantasy. (I would say Maniac Magee also fits into that same sort of category.
>>25315035I remember loving this in elementary school. Only thing I remember is "subtraction soup" that makes you hungier.
>>25315170also this one for middle school. As an angsty 8th grader this was a great followup to Catcher in the Rye
For assigned reading, Treasure Island in 8th grade, for fun Hank the Cowdog
>>25315035The Hobbit
>>25315170Is this the book where someone walks out into infinity or something? I've been trying to remember wtf I was remembering that from for like the last month lol, ty.
>>25315183I can't remember much but that sounds right to me.>The Mathemagician leads Milo to a window, where a line stretches to the ground and keeps going forever. If he keeps going forever and turns left, he’ll find the land of Infinity. Milo says he doesn’t have that much time, so the Mathemagician leads him to a flight of stairs. Milo bounds up the stairs, asking Tock and the Humbug to wait for him.Maybe this?
>>25315189Yes, I distinctly remember the mathemagician now. I completely forgot about all of this lol.
>>25315191Hell yeah. I just remember it feeling like such a fun and immersive fantastical world, but one that was more math/magic instead of like dragons and orcs and shit lol. I've never loved fantasy books but this one really worked on my child brain. Would def give it to my kid if I ever have one
>>25315035The Outsiders. I remember at first I didn't know a heater was a gun. I thought they were carrying around a portable heater.
>>25315203I think that illustration was alluding to the average household at the time having two and a half children with him being the half.
>>25315035King Soloman's Mines. I used to read that book every couple of months when I was a kid. Wanted to go to Africa on an adventure with my own Hottentot buddy.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Zettel's Traum, probably, it all started with my drunk stepdad hitting me with it.
>>25315176God, this one really hurt my heart when I was a kid. Related way too hard and had this awkward period where I was close friends with a mousey looking lesbian girl who also loved it. She was cool>>25315035Really enjoyed picrel in like 5th grade. Made me feel clever and special. Hard to pick a favorite though, also really liked Encyclopedia Brown mysteries in like 2nd grade/3rd
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>>25315035Probably HG Wells "The Time Machine". I loved Back To The Future as a kid and time travel always fascinated me. I now am going university for world history
>>25315035I didn't start reading books until junior high but I went hardcore with 1984, Farenheit 451 and Poe stories and novellas.
>>25315035I really didn't read much before I was a teen
We read this in 8th grade.
>>25317241I haven't read this book in over a dozen years but I think about it all the fucking time.
