Top 5 Sundays (1)

   

Top 5 Sundays is a new weekly feature hosted by Larissa's Bookish Life. and runs every Sunday. If you want to know more click here.

Rules:

1. Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme chosen for the week.
2. Mention Larissa's Bookish Life on the post and link back to it.
3. Feel free to use the Feature's image.
4. After you've finished your post, add your link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post.

This week’s theme is:
Childhood & Early Teenage Years Books.

This is a hard one for me. I didn’t read much when I was younger. In fact, I didn’t really starting reading until I was 22 years old, when I discovered Harry Potter. But here are the books that I do remember, that stood out for me whether I liked them or not.

5. The Cay by Theodore Taylor – Required reading 8th grade English. I don’t remember anything about this book except I want to say that the boy carved notches in a wooden stick, marking the days as they passed. (Did that happen in the book?)

4. Animal Farm by George Orwell – Required reading for my 9th grade English class. I had no interest in reading this book. I just remember it was about farm animals (of course) and it had to do with politics of some sort.

3. You Are a Millionaire (Choose Your Own Adventure, #98) by Jay Leibold and R.A. Montgomery – I loved these CYOA books! I would always read them through, hoping I selected the right path and if I didn’t, well, then I would find the ending that I wanted and back track from there. Yeah, I cheated.

2. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl – I read this when I wanted to escape my father’s college level math books. I was about 11 or 12 years old.

1. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein – My all time favorite children’s book. It’s short and simple but carries a strong message. I cry every time I read it. And yes, I have a copy of this book.