Blog post challenge: List 10 books you read growing up that have stuck with you

The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Photo credit: Wikipedia) was one of my favorite books when I was a pre-teen.

Lately I’ve been seeing this new social media challenge going around on Facebook and various other outlets and decided to get in on the fun: List 10 books you read growing up that have stuck with you. Here’s my list for today (although, if you ask me the same question tomorrow, I will probably have thought of ten other books that I should have used insteadJ)

1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain is my celebrity crush.)
2. The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Elizabeth George Speare)
3. The entire Little House on the Prairie series (Laura Ingalls Wilder,) but especially the final book where the tone of the series changes so dramatically.
4. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
5. Julie of the Wolves (Jean Craighead George)
6. Ghost in the Garden (Carol H. Behrman)

10 Day Writing Blogger Challenge: Day 7

Day 7 Prompt: Profile 2 books you’ve read and loved lately.

• Wool, by Hugh Howey: Read my recent profile here.
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston: Janie marries young to a man her grandmother thinks will keep her secure. But there’s no love in that marriage, and Janie is soon carried down the road by a smooth talker with big dreams. Janie’s second husband makes her a rich and respected mayor’s wife, but he keeps a short leash on her. She doesn’t grieve but a few months after his death before she falls in love with Tea Cake, a man ten years her junior with nothing to offer but “hisself.” Is it just me, or does no woman in this world (the story world or the real world) ever get more than just a very short, sweet time with “the one?”
• Delirium by Lauren Oliver: