What’s my favorite childhood book?
A few books and series stand out as being favorites at one time or another during my childhood. The first is A Light in the Attic, as well as Where the Sidewalk Ends. Never ever will I forget the drawing of the boa constrictor slowly eating a person. Horrifying!
Though I never got into the Sweet Valley High series, I was a big fan of the original Sweet Valley Twins. Enamored by the blonde beauties, I resonated most with bookish writer (Elizabeth) while secretly wishing I was popular like her snobby yet sensitive twin sister Jessica. I read every Sweet Valley Twin book the school library had. By the time I was old enough to read the high school series, the girls were on my nerves.
Curiously, I had a long-running interested in the original R.L. Stine Fear Street books in middle school, and I remember being significantly scared when it was time to go to bed at night. The dark was frightening, as were all the shadows in my bedroom, and it was all because of those dang books… and yet I kept reading them.
When I wasn’t reading these books, I was totally reading Teen Beat.
