I was at a YA Librarian day a few weeks back and Teri Lesesne spoke about having everyone in her class create a reading history. It sounded like fun, so I thought I'd give it a try.
My Middle School was 7th and 8th grade. I still loved talking about books with friends and I had a few who were readers. Sometimes a great book would get passed around between us all. Sadly, I don't really remember using the middle school library for fiction books. But the public library was just across the street from my house. I visited quite often. I would walk home with a huge stack of books - as many as I could carry in my arms.
Here's what I remember devouring (often still reading what my sister read)
I went through a horse phase:
![20 Good Books For Tweens That Will Make You Nostalgiac:](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9f/9a/a8/9f9aa865e856b1860c0acfdd7b9c794d.jpg)
I went through a creepy book phase:
![R.L Stine's Fear Street - my middle school addiction:](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/23/ac/8d/23ac8db0519fe4ccac1745af95f8db0f.jpg)
![I TOTALLY forgot about Christopher Pike horror novels....how could I forget?:](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1f/31/5d/1f315d3f43e4df97f47147bf1a823960.jpg)
There was a Sweet Valley High Phase
![Who doesn't remember Jess and Liz Wakefield (long before Sweet Valley High became SVH?) Still remember one glorious holiday where the books were on sale for $2.95 each and I bought about 20 of them. Good times.:](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d8/2a/1c/d82a1ce13fb5ddb52936127632d364a0.jpg)
Followed by Freshman Dorm:
![FD](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/d1/d7/a9/d1d7a99e07a1076c12b3e23f11dfc6cf.jpg)
I used to re-read this book until it fell apart - and beyond.
![I read this even after it fell apart.:](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9a/bc/f8/9abcf8bc6d7eaffc469be7671193b7d2.jpg)
I re-read this trilogy often:
![I read this trilogy at least once a year when I was in middle school and high school:](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0a/5c/37/0a5c37d085c4b9bd423c0e1bf45bcd0a.jpg)
I would visit my best friend's house. She had stacks of books in her basement. I would come home with piles of books. Especially by Lurlene McDaniel. I don't remember any of the titles, but I remember loving them (so different from my reading now where I just want happy books)
![.:](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5f/d0/02/5fd002d539953400fd027beb6e125e18.jpg)
Other books I remember reading:
![Baby Sister:](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/13/4d/d5/134dd5077a13825e28cdaacd47df30f8.jpg)
![I read this one until it fell apart:](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ee/f1/ea/eef1ea4d4a393ec18a5ea75b87273255.jpg)
Then I started in the adult section of the library. This was my first one and then I read all Mary Higgins Clark books I could find.
![Mary Higgins Clark:](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/04/83/b6/0483b6bd740adab3dd9567860c351fc7.jpg)
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