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What book(s) did you read again and again as a kid?

»Posted by on Mar 26, 2010 in What I'm Reading | 10 comments

I just finished Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me, the latest Newbery Medal winner. The book is great. It’s easy to see why this book was selected as the winner. What I did find kind of cool was that the book referenced another Newbery Medal winner. It was more than a reference, in fact. It was pretty much an essential part of the book. Miranda, the main character of When You Reach Me has a favorite book. It is A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle and she reads it over and over and over again. A Wrinkle in Time was one of my favorite books as well, and I definitely read it more than once, but not quite as often as Miranda. I’m not sure how many times I read The Westing Game (another Newbery book) by Ellen Raskin, but it was definitely a...

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