ebunny Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Hah, ain't that the truth. I remember picking up a later Heinlein (80s maybe) thinking it would be like Moon is a Harsh Mistress or something. Halfway in they were having orgies and he was explaining how there was no need to worry about birth control because all the kids would be raised in institutions somewhere so the adults could keep on with the orgies. :001_smile: Here is a list of the books he wrote for the YA phase. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 I had almost the exact same experience with ATGIB! I read it as a kid and liked it, along with Betty Smith's two or three other books. Then I bought the audiobook for my 10 yo daughter and me to listen to on a long road trip, and geez--I had zero recollection of the child molester, to name one. Oops! My mom loved ATGIB so much that she read it out loud to me when I was pretty young. I was aware that she was skipping or editing parts here and there and was a bit shocked when I read them myself later on. It's one of my favorites, though. It's part of my family's psyche, almost, and we often think of the description of the library, of Francie reading on the fire escape with a bowl of candy, of the children pouring coffee down the sink. We loved it long before Oprah made it cool. ;) As a side note, Joy in the Morning so affected me that I was later absolutely devastated to learn that Betty Smith and her first husband had divorced. :( 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicianmom Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Tales of the Frog Princess series by E.D. Baker Shakespeare Stealer trilogy by Gary Blackwood 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Keeper Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Arundel, and others by Kenneth Roberts (historical fiction set in Revolutionary New England) The Moosepath League series by Van Reid (good, clean fun) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRAAB Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 I don't know if these have been mentioned already, but my dd has enjoyed: Jules Verne Rudyard Kipling Robert Louis Stephenson Edgar Allen Poe Brian Jacques Edgar Rice Burroughs James Herriott David Eddings (Pawn of Prophecy) Eragon (Christopher Paolini) William Horwood Diana Wynne Jones Cornelia Funke Arthur Conan Doyle Fahrenheit 451 Mrs. Mike Island of the Blue Dolphins My Side of the Mountain Dove Twenty-one Balloons The Hobbitt Lord of the Rings Where the Red Fern Grown Shane Giant The Scarlet Pimpernel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 What about Shakespeare, the original works? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitestavern Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 I haven't read through the thread, but what about Enid Blyton? Or the Swallows & Amazons series? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cecropia Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 I don't think anyone has mentioned the Andrew Lang Fairy Books? Those should last a while... Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis, also his Space Trilogy Hornblower series by C. S. Forester Father Brown series by G. K. Chesterton The Neverending Story by Michael Ende Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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