This is a special one because I actually have a picture of my tiny-self reading it. Feast your eyes on this:
Let’s just just skip over any discussion about my wonderful hair, or the fact that I’m wearing a long Tweety Bird shirt with blue leggings.
Let’s talk about American Girl. Who didn’t love these books? The [...]
Ramona Quimbly, Age 8, by Beverly Cleary
This flashback is going to reveal something about my personality that you probably don’t know and wouldn’t guess.
When I was in second grade, I had a teacher that I absolutely hated. Her name was Mrs. Adams and she was old and mean and horrible. Once, she got mad at [...]
The Nancy Drew Series, by Carolyn Keene
So I know that this one is fairly unoriginal. What girl DIDN’T love some Nancy Drew while growing up? I put off using this as my flashback for a long time, but for whatever reason I’ve been referencing Nancy Drew a lot lately and have decided to quit avoiding [...]
A Little Princes, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I have a distinct memory of the first time I read this book. I was maybe 10 or 11 years old and I was spending the weekend at my grandparent’s house and they were old and…well… boring. She always had those True Confessions magazines but I would read through [...]
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret., by Judy Blume
Of course I had to eventually have a flashback about this book. I bet that 90% of women could talk about the first time they read this book and how it affected them. It’s just this really genuine coming of age story that really has stood [...]
Love You Forever, by Robert Munsch
My younger brother was born when I was 6. I was already a little bookworm so from the time he was born, I was reading books to him. This is one of the books that he had and I remember reading it to him and, even at six, being unable [...]
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, by Jon Scieszka
This is a pretty fun flashback. When I was in third grade, I kind of had this wonderful teacher. I talked about her before in my Matilda flashback. I loved her.
She read us this book one day and we all loved it. It is the [...]
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Oh, The Hobbit. Such fond memories. We had a great collection of the Lord of the Rings books while I was growing up. They were paperback and all fit in this tidy little box together. In fifth grade, we had to choose a book to do a book report on [...]
After doing my flashback on Forever Angels last week, it got me thinking about how I really did have a thing for sad, twisty books when I was middle school aged. I’m not really sure why. I had a pretty normal family life, didn’t know a ton of people who had died, [...]
Forever Angels Series, by Suzanne Weyn
So, in fifth and sixth grade, my friend Tiffany and I went through an angel phase. It was actually a little bit bizarre. We read all these books about angels that were way beyond our grasp, we wore angel jewelry, she redecorated her room entirely in [...]