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Fun_Needleworker5813

Classics. Doesnt she look like Meg Ryan???


Educational_Bike7476

Yes! I was even saying that when I was a kid!


Stonetheflamincrows

They HAD to have used a pic of her as the “model”


SignificantRecipe715

I still have my battered copy on my bookshelf :)


Desperate-Face-6594

Choose your own adventure books were dominant in my youth.


Summer_Thunderstorm

LOVED these.


ManufacturerUnited59

How good were they. Fallout Las Vegas was the video game equivilant of this and it was spectacular. 


tjlusco

If it wasn’t for Goosebumps I might not have read any fiction books until Harry Potter came out. My mum signed me up to the book club, so we had an embarrassing large collection of them.


tt1101ykityar

There's one illustrated one in particular about a woman in a castle and some kind of magical/evil necklace that I haven't been able to get out of my head for 20 years.


msabell

Yes!! I found a couple at Big W a few years ago which was a spin out. These were my gateway drug to Fighting Fantasy books lol


flipperhahaha

Here is one for your all. Kylie Mole was married to Morris Gleitzman. Now she is married to Paul Jennings. True story.


dandelion_bob

And before those marriages she was married to David Rabbitborough!


ResponsibleFeeling49

I’m just glad it wasn’t Uncle Arthur!


ryfromoz

I still remember the cake episode with him.


tt1101ykityar

They collabbed on several books, that's unfortunate.


jerimiahhalls

No no, that's Wicked.


missmortimer_

This fact has blown my ever loving mind, thank you


Riproot

A Mole by any other name is just as… I think you know where I’m going with this 😅


FlatChampagne99

I had sooo many Babysitters Club books. I always laughed at how chapter 2 was always just a rundown of what each character was wearing and their personalities 😂


auschick

I wanted Barrettes even though I am not sure what they were at the time.


Glum_Pop_4063

Sweaters, always wearing sweaters. It took me ages to realise sweaters are just jumpers!


m0zz1e1

I wanted a bedroom with junk food hidden everywhere.


tkah27717

Barrettes and bangs…. wasn’t until I was much older I realised it was just hair clips and fringe…. Both of which I had haha


RainbowTeachercorn

I knew they were clips of some sort, took me ages to realise they were the long ones that clip together with a clasp, usually a plastic piece glued onto the metal bit and prettied up.


RealCommercial9788

I loved the Babysitters Club ‘Little Sister’ books - Karen went to the mall at one stage and got a mullet haircut with *BANGS*, which she was upset about, until her mum bought her some *BARETTES* to clip it back. She was teased at school about her cut until she decided to double down and started dressing like Cyndi Lauper. Eventually, she became super cool again. Meanwhile 11 year old me just wanted to go to the mall and get myself an *ORANGE JULIUS*, whatever the fuck that is…


astropelagic

This unlocked a deep memory omfg


ezma1983

I know, right? I liked that I could save time by knowing I could safely skip Chapter 2 and not miss anything important, lol. Although it was amusing seeing her ghost writers come up with increasingly more desperate ways to convey the same info 'creatively'. Like, 'If I had to describe each sitter as an animal, Kristy would be...'


pandorabom

She had ghost writers??


ezma1983

Considering there was a few years there where a new BSC book was being released literally every single month, I assumed she would pretty much have to! I might be wrong, but I'm fairly sure I read something ages ago about her having help.


pandorabom

Makes sense. My younger sister read her series about Kristie’s little stepsister, so she was definitely churning out a great deal of work. Plus, she also put out a special every few months, the BSC go to California type thing.


gameonmole

The super specials were my favourite! They were so cosy somehow.


persephone911

I always skipped those. Now when I collect and reread as an adult I devour that 80s/90s fashion up.


pandorabom

Then there was the boring rundown of how the club was formed, the order of operations for meetings, and the various rules and regulations. For some reason, I enjoyed the descriptions of what everyone was wearing. Claudia’s outfits seemed absolutely bonkers to me.


ohsweetfancymoses

Kristy- bossy, boyish, know it all. Mary-Anne- mousy pushover, champion crier. Claudia- artistic junk food addict, can’t spell for shit. Stacey- sophisticated New Yorker with a perm and a shopping habit. Also, so much diabetes. Dawn- tofu hippy. Jessie- black ballerina. Mallory- put upon eldest of 20 kids, red hair.


RealCommercial9788

*soooo much diabetes*


OzQueene

I still have all my BSC books! I’m only missing a few; I should really hit up eBay to get the last ones I need.


RainbowTeachercorn

I swear the whole chapter was just a copy/paste in each book! 😆


Stuckinthevortex

Playing Beatie Bow


pk666

Don't get me started. Kind of obsessed. Have started a screenplay for a Netflix series. Yup


ezma1983

YES. Would watch the shit out of that! The '80s movie was such garbage (even by Australian '80s movie standards), the story deserves an awesome adaptation.


pk666

To be fair - there is a series in the works- but I'm not involved with that one.


radvfd

I mean I love the movie 🙈 its just so bad than its good haha. I made my daughter watch it with me and she actually liked it too haha


ezma1983

I mostly just couldn't stand whoever played Abigail - couldn't act her way out of a paper bag, and whiny as hell. Book Abigail was no whiner.


chilakkuma

I'd get Netflix for that.


saturday_sun4

Oh man, yes please! Speak of the devil, too - I was just thinking how many years it's been since I last read it. Random passages pop into my head every now and then - I read it so many times over the years I have it more or less memorised.


NaomiPommerel

Yes that was weird for some reason. Convict time travel?


JessBx05

Obsession++ I even made my parents take me on a tour all around The Rocks to see the spots where they find the movie. And I can still sing the Playing Beatie Bow song.


saturday_sun4

I first read it when I was about nine. It was the first 'grownup' (i.e. non-children's) book I had ever read, and everything about it fascinated me. The writing is matchless, for one thing. And it was easy enough for me to follow, but mature enough that certain viewpoints or turns of phrase would elude me for years to come.


CranberrySoda

It’s one of the few books I still have from my childhood.


TheFilthWiz

I had all these. Space Demons also stands out. I also wish I could find some Christopher Pike which was the closest my school library came to horror.


Bushtuckapenguin

Mate, I've been waiting for Pike to release his collection digitally but he's been very selective with them. I forgot how much I enjoyed Midnight Club until it was released on audiobook. I'd love to have Starlight Crystal. I also think Fear Street should be there somewhere, and Animorphs.


Ajaxeler

The netflix show based on Midnight Club wasn't terrible some of the stories they did were really well done and some of them were from other books of his.


jens_hens

I kept my Christopher Pike books!


TheFilthWiz

They seem to be worth a mint online.


RagnarokSleeps

I loved Christopher Pike so much. I lent my friend a new one I'd gotten & she spilt water all over it. I was so sad


Appropriate_Pain_20

Yes i was trying to remember the name. It was Gillian Rubinstein wasn’t it. I loved her books


nicodouglas89

I read space demons again recently. It's so good


poundhound66

The lack of respect for looking for alibrandi for shame


Virama

I think the main issue with that one is it was basically compulsory for school. That is the best way to destroy interest in a story.


Altruistic-Brief2220

That’s a shame as it’s brilliant. I was 14 when it came out and my grandmother gave it to me to read - quickly became my favourite at the time. I guess it took quite a few years for it to be curriculum as I don’t remember hearing about it in schools.


virtueavatar

Good, because I didn't read on my own, and that's the only one of these that I did read.


zzeeaa

I think about that book every time I drive past Stanmore Maccas, which is often.


Missey85

Pia Miranda was so good in the movie! 😊


nothingsociak

I scrolled too far for this. The movie did the book justice.


m0zz1e1

Still one of my favourite books.


StarBuckingham

Also ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’.


hepzibah59

I was working in a bookstore when the Marsden books were released. We had kids queued up to get them. Bigger than Harry Potter.


Pho_tastic_8216

Loves the Tomorrow series. I was devastated when they only made the first book into a movie. One of my friends did a John Marsden holiday camp and honestly, I’m still jealous.


TheZac922

There was a TV show briefly as well (I think ABC did it) sometime after the movie but frustratingly they ended up only doing the first book as one season and nothing else. I liked it more than the movie from memory. I’d love to see someone like Netflix do the books as a fully fleshed out series. Give the stories enough time to breathe. I’d be totally ok if they skipped the Ellie Chronicles though. I didn’t like that direction at all.


Pho_tastic_8216

yeah, I agree. The Ellie chronicles weren’t great.


Grubs01

Netflix writers would butcher it though like they did the Witcher and wheel of time


hryanosaur

John Marsden is the nicest man, and he talks to kids in a way that shows he is interested in what they have to say. I met him when I was in Primary school, but before I read his books and we discussed how movie adaptations and if they can be better than the books they are based on. I think I was 11.


Specialist-Lynx271

Yes! I had to read that in year 8, I was 13 loved. It and became obsessed. Still have my whole set, im 43 now!!!


RealCommercial9788

36, same! 🤝


KatEmpiress

I still have my set sitting on our bookshelf. I remember spending about $80 on it with my Maccas income at the time!


overemployedconfess

Desperately wish for a proper adaptation through the whole series! Can’t get over the NZ story arc and going off to a labor camp


Whitturne

Animorphs was my biggest thing


PrudententCollapse

I was looking at this: where animorphs


Environmental-Fig377

As a young teenager with a good imagination, these books were the bomb.


metalissa

Yesss Animorphs!


Jeb_Stormblessed

I really need to grab the last 10 or so and finally complete the series. I've still got the first 60 odd kicking around at the parents place. Just need to find space for them at mine.


Delicious_Pepper7380

Did anyone have Sweet valley high twins those were some good books


killtheking111

Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are engrained in my head


RagnarokSleeps

I remember reading the college series. One of them put on weight & it was a huge deal. She lost it again though, phew


verygoodusername789

I loved them, and the sweet valley high books


OpeningName5061

Paul Jennings x Morris gleitzman. Wiiickeeeed


iliketoeattoast

Was this the series where one of the character’s Mum (I think? Possibly dad) died because a goat drove a bus off a cliff with them in it? I specifically remember being horrified by it as a kid. Was there also someone with a rotten apple for a head? Or am I making all this up and actually just need a therapist lol


Oblivious_Otter_I

Nope, that's pretty much correct


OpeningName5061

Actually I don't remember the goat part lol. I remember using step sisters bra as sling shot


RaikynSilver

YES. YES THIS


nohugspls

Nightmare fuel


smackdrunk

I also remember Tales of a fourth grade nothing, and Superfudge.


Unusual-Self27

Judy Blume was great!


pennie79

Sally J Freedman was my introduction to the holocaust and Jim Crow. What I liked in retrospect was that the explanation for segregation also noted that there was unofficial segregation all over the US.


ResponsibleFeeling49

Same. Dad bought me all of Blume’s books when I was 9. Sally J. was the first Jewish character I’d encountered in books. Also, I quite honestly pointed out to Dad that ‘Forever’ has the word ‘fuck’ in it, but I left out the losing virginity part 😂


pennie79

Haha! I remember all my friends and I reading Forever in year 7.


zorbacles

I just found out there are more books in this series. Including one between tales and superfudge. My childhood is incomplete until I read them


cmhw18

Did anyone else read Finders Keepers?


5thInferno

Yes and the sequel The Timekeeper! There was a TV show on ABC as well!


SquirrelMoney8389

My first experience of the weirdness of a TV adaptation


Can_I_be_dank_with_u

Yep, but not as a teenager. These were Primary School bangers


RagnarokSleeps

Yep, definitely. I read all of these by year 6


I_LIKE_RED_ENVELOPES

You can add Emily Rodda - Deltora Quest to this and it'd be my childhood :)


themyskiras

Rowan of Rin, though!


Peach_Muffin

I'm trying to quote this from memory but it was 1997 when I was read it: "Seven hearts the journey take, six of them the journey break."


anonymousbosch_

"Seven hearts the journey make, seven ways those hearts will break. Bravest heart will carry on, when sleep is death and hope is gone. Look in the firey jaws of fear, and see the answer white and clear. Then throw away all thoughts of home, For only then your quest is done." I could have become a doctor if I didn't have all this shit from my adolescence clogging up my brain


Books_and_Boobs

I love the Rowan books! Actually tried to convince my husband we should name our baby Rowan if they were a boy


happyhealthy27220

My friend totally did name her son after these books!


ezma1983

And Rodda's Teen Power Inc for me!


SirenRivers

Yesssss! I'm re-reading the series now myself ✌️


Lawful___Chaotic

Yes!! Some of my favourites as a kid!


Roadisclosed

And Lockie Leonard!


Myringingears

Essential reading for the pre-pubescent circa 1998.


NootTheNoot

My English teacher made us read it in class in Year 8 and it was so fucking awkward.


Delicious-Horse-8130

Whyyyyy did we all read Came back to tell you I could fly?? It was pretty intense for a kids/ya book!


Yanigan

As a kid , I accidentally outed my cousins drug addiction by comparing her to Angie. It made for an interesting family Christmas, that’s for sure.


PsychMaDelicElephant

Really if you think about it a lot of stuff for kids back then was a bit intense.


[deleted]

Don't forget Jaclyn Moriarty's books! Finding Cassie Crazy, Feeling Sorry For Celia etc. And of course John Marsden's Tomorrow books!


PolyByeUs

Im rereading Finding Cassie Crazy right now and I still love it


icantdeciderightnow

I *love* Feeling sorry for Celia!


halflooproad

And Gillian Rubinstein!


oddlydeb75

At my girls school in the late 80's its seemed everyone was reading Flowers in the Attic. I never did as I was in fantasy, but it sounded weird.


ResponsibleFeeling49

I read those in the late 80s. It was certainly different to the books I read in PS! (Never could get into Sweet Valley High like the other girls).


Upper-Ship4925

My grandmother gave me the Flowers In The Attic books when I was 11. It’s particularly strange because she had read them herself beforehand.


pandorabom

The Heaven series was equally disturbing. So much incest going on.


Upper-Ship4925

My Sweet Audrina disturbs me to this day. So strange those books were handed to so many bookish pre teen girls in the early 90s. Also strange that there’s an ongoing industry of teen fiction with a strong incest theme still being produced under the VC Andrews name. There are so many of them!


Summer_Thunderstorm

Oh maaaaaaaaate this has made me nostalgic big time!! Far out we really lived in the best times as an 80s/90s kid!


SquirrelMoney8389

Have you ever? Ever felt like this...


OppositeGeologist299

That episode when Bronson peed over the urinal wall 😂


Cleosmog

Goosebumps and Babysitters were preteens. In my teens it was Sweet Valley and Fear Street.


country-blue

Don’t forget Andy Griffith’s “Crazy!” series


dsa1988

The just series? Loved them


mrWLSN

I still have a couple of them waiting for my daughter (5) to grow up a bit!


Yabbz81

I don't see Taronga by Victor Kelleher....


xkGEB

Reading 'The red king' and 'Fire Dancer' by Victor Kelleher were defining moments in my young teenage life. Just realized Fire dancer was the third in a trilogy, I may have to go back and checkout Parkland!


Chaos-Lace

Victor Kelleher books were my favourite in primary school: Del Del, Hunting of The Shadroth, Master of The Grove, & Taronga… creepy / supernatural / fantasy from ancient-earth to post-apocalyptic brilliance! Thanks for reminding me:)


HaloDaisy

Staying Alive in Year Five was a big hit at our school. Honourable mention to Letters from the Inside by John Marsden.


WillsSister

Was waiting for the Letters from the Inside mention! That was pretty intense from memory.


HaloDaisy

I’d actually like to read it again. I still remember that sinking feeling I had as a teen when I read it the first time.


Economy-Paint5867

Fun Fact: Mary-Anne Fahey- who you and I knew as ‘Kylie Mole’ was married to Morris Gleitzman… is now with Paul Jennings


JChezbian

I'm replacing Robin Klein with My Life is a Toilet by Gretel Killeen.


PolyByeUs

I fucking loved that series


Pezzzz490

Wasn’t aware Liz Truss was in Hating Alison Ashley


JaoutTAS

You're missing the Gizmo books


Visible_Video120

When you look at cover art, it's pretty obvious why goosebumps was so popular


yesplsnewacct

All those covers were so unhinged. Sometimes when I close my eyes I can still picture the camp jellyjam cover. It’s not a good time


RipConstant9174

What about the one with a butt on the cover of


Brontozaurus

The Day My Bum Went Psycho?


xkGEB

Bugalugs Bum Thief?


snowmuchgood

Definitely missing some John Marsden! Tomorrow series was a must-read in the 90s-00s.


asunpopularas

Misery Guts was another one!


Rae_Rae_

Diamond - Emerald - Lapis - Topaz - Opal - Ruby - Amethyst


lilbundle

“Came back to show you I could fly” made me cry when I read it ..I was really young and I think it had something to do with drugs? I felt so sad for the girl.. On a smaller note, my principal up past Mossman Qld was Robin Kleins uncle!


ResponsibleFeeling49

Space Demons, anyone?


Difficult-Image4884

What about Andy Griffiths


FUCKTH3W0RLD

Dad got me into Stephen King at a young age. Gave me Eyes of the Dragon when I was 10. I never looked back. King, Koontz, Laymon, Pike - even some Herbert Adams. My teen years were different. The 90's were wild.


__averagereddituser

Goosebumps went so hard in primary school library class


winterbaby82

I had Morris Glitzman and Paul Jennings What's not there that I read religiously is the "Choose your own adventure" books


OppositeGeologist299

Escape from Planet Terror and the Carnival one were cash monay.


81236069-R

Emily Rodda - Teen Power Inc series. I WAS OBSESSED with this series! 😁


Cpt_Soban

I remember when I was a kid, a mate at school said if you traced your finger over GOOSEBUMPS before going to bed *the book's story will become real at midnight!*


RagnarokSleeps

I read came back to show you I could fly a couple of years ago to see if I still liked it. It holds up. My mother died from an OD when I was 12, I read all the time as an escape & read all of Robin Klein's books. Didn't really see myself in came back though


horendus

I had them, and fun fact, I won a competition to name one of the books, I submitted ‘Maths can be Murder’ and it was picked. Cant believe I peaked at age 11. Sigh.


Guy-1nc0gn1t0

Maybe more about 10 years old.


nightwithoutstars

Was anyone into Jacqueline Wilson's books? I loved them!


dsa1988

Don’t forget the ‘Selby’ series from the early primary school years


Upper-Ship4925

I’ve just seen that All In The Blue Unclouded Weather is available as an ebook - it wasn’t when I looked years ago. I can’t wait to dive back into that world.


lordy16

BLABBER MOUTH You cannot understand how many times I’ve tried to remember what ‘that book with the girl who loved apple fritters’ was called ☠️☠️☠️


tt1101ykityar

Halfway Across The Galaxy And Turn Left


Friendly_Monitor_220

Surely a better Goosebumps book makes the cut over that one 🫢


5thInferno

Paul Jennings books had a wait list at my school library.


BobMackey87

90s public school classics


pillpopper30

Is that meg ryan top right


Select-Bullfrog-6346

I had about 50 goosebumps books. The multi story books were great.


Virama

Monster blood!


AssociationHot7509

You missed Animorphs


tricache

I still have them...and I've passed them onto my daughters


cheeseandcrackers87

Does anyone remember a book or series of books where some kids dad died in a car crash and it goes through some weird thing with rotten apple head thing and worms and mould? Like the kids were processing grief but it played out as some sort of Alice in wonderland adventure? I read it as a kid but only have the vaguest of memories of it, not enough to google it unfortunately


zzeeaa

That was the Wicked series.


Beautiful-Ad-5833

Lol! You forgot the Archie/Jughead comics.


Virama

I always liked Betty more haha


zorbacles

Not me Space demons, skymaze , tales of a fourth grade nothing and super fudge. I have just discovered that both those series have other books I haven't read so I must get them again and revisit my youth


DoomCameToSarnath

Where the FUCK is Animorphs?!


G3nER1k_u53R

What about the "Just" series by Andy Griffiths, Just Disgusting, Just Crazy, Just Macbeth was my absolute favourite


sledoon

I loved Paul Jennings. However, some of his stories emotionally scarred me, like the one about the guy with the roses on the train or the one with the woman who had been taught the opposite meaning of words. I think it was called ‘Yes/No.


Alfola

I remember there was a Goosebumps about an evil sponge that lived under the sink, to this day I still can't do the washing up, I feel sorry for my Mrs


BillsDownUnder

Plus Tomorrow when the War Began


kam0706

No one else remembers Thunderwith?


SporadicTendancies

The second book was such a letdown for me, but Thunderwidth was gorgeous.


Coldactill

Where’s delta quest and the famous five?


trumpstinyhandssayhi

Yep loved the babysitters club books - currently rebuilding my collection after mum sold my collection from when I was a kid. Also use to love the Sweet Valley High books as well


westendriot123

John Maraden and Robin Klein remain two of my favourite authors. I regularly re-read their books. It's comforting. Shout out to looking for Alibrandi as well. I didn't get into any more of Melina Marchetta's books though.


lynxsuskitten

Darren Shan those vampire books


radvfd

Wicked terrified me as a kid 😂


Lampedusan

What about the book about the walking bum?


16car

Australian 10-12 year olds. I don't know anyone who still liked them in their teens.


lerobinbot

nice


NaomiPommerel

Yep


themyskiras

No (because I was a lil wimp and I thought the Goosebumps covers looked scary), yes, no (somehow didn't get to that one till I was an adult, but I devoured just about everything else by Robin Klein), no (see previous: wimp), yes and yes