Childhood Favorites

A favorite book I read when I was a kid was...

Nancy Drew books are the winners here!

Ms. Zmijewski: The Outsiders

Ms. Woznick: I read A Little Princess many times. Also, The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White and Caddy Woodlawn and The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (plus one of its sequels, Nightbirds on Nantucket!)

Mrs. Wood-Bell: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Tuck Everlasting, Bridge to Terabithia, A Wrinkle in Time

Mrs. Woitunski: Nancy Drew books

Ms. Williams: The Narnia series by C.S. Lewis, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Jo was my favorite character. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, this was my favorite book, but I also her whole series with this fictional sci fi family.Laura Ingalls Wilder books - On the Banks of Plum Creek, The Long Winter, Little House in the Big Woods, titles go on and on. Loved these books.

Miss Villanti: The Secret Garden, One Fish, Two Fish by Dr. Seuss

Mrs. Trider April Morning, A Night to Remember, required for Grade 8

Mrs. Tobin: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Mrs. Sullivan: Beverly Cleary books, Nancy Drew, Archie comic books, all animal books

Mrs. Spencer: I don't know why I liked it but it is the one book that I continue to think about since I was very young (I should read it again!) Miss Osbourne-the-Mop, by Wilson Gage.

Mrs. Sotirakopoulos: I've read almost all of Jodi Piccoult's books, Elizabeth Berg is another favorite of mine.

Ms. Snow oh goodness here we go ... Laura Ingalls Wilder series, American Girls series, Nancy Drew series, To Kill A Mockingbird, RL Stine, Berenstein Bears, Chronicles of Narnia

Mrs. Sherman: Bernstein Bears, Matilda by Rhoald Dahl, Nancy Drew, The Babysitters Club, Oh Beans series, Judy Blume books, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, I could go on.

Ms. Scoglio: The Princess and the Pea. Narnia. Beatrice Potter

Mrs. Roebuck Where the Red Fern Grows

Mrs. Robbins "The Little Train That Could"

Mr. Poska: Matt Christopher Series and the Hardy boys Mysteries

Ms. Place: The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Reiss

Mrs. Pasquarelli: Go Dog Go, The Giving Tree, Where the Wild Things Are, The Chronicles of Narnia Series, Judy Blume books in general, Babysitters Series, The Scarlet Letter, Catcher in the Rye, corny romance novels for young adults, College years - russian literature

Mr. Olbash: Red Badge of Courage - was lucky enough to have an outstanding teacher who made the book come alive.

Mrs. Nearis: Good night moon. The little train who could..

Mrs. Moffett: Nancy Drew series, Cherry Ames (nurse) series, Little House on the Prairie

Mrs. McWha: Caddie Woodlawn, Island of the Blue Dolphins, A Wrinkle in Time

Mrs. Martino: I most often would read the Nancy Drew Mystery series.

Mrs. Lydon: The Black Stallion Series by Walter Farley was my favorite.

Ms. Lague: The Indian in the Cupboard series.

Mrs. Klemm: The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mrs. Kersting: Follow My Leader, The Bobsey Twins books, Nancy Drew books, Johnny Tremain

Ms. Kehoe: Some of my favorite books as a kid were Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlotte's Web, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Horton Hatches the Egg, Goodnight Moon, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Mrs. Jodoin: Danny and the Dinosaur-Syd Hoff, David and the Phoenix-Ormondroyd, Yurtle the Turtle-Suess, Peter Pan-Barrie, Black Beauty- Anna Sewell, A Visit From St. Nicholas-Moore

Ms. Greenleaf: The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (chapter book) which I read when I was in second or third grade. I would take my book to bed with me along with a flashlight and read under the covers. Loved that book!

Mr. Goncalves: Chronicles of Narnia

Mrs. Gillette: The Little Prince, The Hardy Boys series, Chip Hilton series, The Call of the Wild

Ms. Forsyth: I loved Dr. Seuss as a kid (who didn't). My favorite story was The Sneeches. I really learned a powerful lesson from that book. I still love it. I also read any book I could about horses- fiction or non-fiction.

Ms. Flynn: Make Way for Ducklings

Mrs. Fish: Encyclopedia Brown, Mystery Books, Nancy Drew Mysteries, Judy Blume books.

Ms. Fila: Frog and Toad series

Mrs. Faria: As a little girl, my favorite book was Where the Wild Things Are. As I got older, I turned to The Phantom Tollbooth, the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and just about anything Beverly Cleary wrote, especially Ramona the Pest!

Mrs. Curtis: I fell in LOVE with The Velveteen Rabbit when I was little. I also like all of the Amelia Bedelia books.

Ms. Cooney: Nancy Drew books

Ms. Clark: Nancy Drew

Mr. Carr: Where the Red Fern Grows

Mrs. Blinderman: The Pokey Little Puppy, The Little Engine That Could, Corduroy

Ms. Bertone: Nancy Drew Series, Goodnight Moon

Mrs. Benosky: The Compleat Book of Dragons by E. Nesbit, Eloise in Paris, Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, Animal Farm by George Orwell

Ms. Arsenault: I read every book in the Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Trixie Belden and Bobbsy Twins series.