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Mine was Little WitchLittle Witch by Anna Elizabeth Bennet. Consequently, bears the name of my favorite Female heroine from Pride and Prejudice. <3.


I was 8 when I first read it and loved it. I made my mom get me the other books in the series!





But I remember the first book I LOVED was The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I remember when I was 13, I was hesitant (and afterward proud) of myself that spent my monthly savings of $35 for the box set of The Chronicles of Narnia. I recently passed the box set to my cousin's kid.

But I think the first books that really had been loving books was the Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? novelizations from the mid-1990s. I loved that series, they were adventurous and you were learning about geography, history, etc. at the same time. I think the books also solidified my love of those subjects, lol.
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I have always loved sweet little stories of poverty-stricken children and their maudlin life struggles. It seemed to me that was practically all that my Catholic all-girl's school had in the library, and that was just fine with me. I wish I had the titles of all of those books written down, so I could find some old beat-up disintegrating copies of them to keep.