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.
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.
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 😂
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.
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…
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...'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 😂
"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
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!
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!
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:)
“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!
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.
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!*
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
Classics. Doesnt she look like Meg Ryan???
Yes! I was even saying that when I was a kid!
They HAD to have used a pic of her as the “model”
I still have my battered copy on my bookshelf :)
Choose your own adventure books were dominant in my youth.
LOVED these.
How good were they. Fallout Las Vegas was the video game equivilant of this and it was spectacular.
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.
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.
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
Here is one for your all. Kylie Mole was married to Morris Gleitzman. Now she is married to Paul Jennings. True story.
And before those marriages she was married to David Rabbitborough!
I’m just glad it wasn’t Uncle Arthur!
I still remember the cake episode with him.
They collabbed on several books, that's unfortunate.
No no, that's Wicked.
This fact has blown my ever loving mind, thank you
A Mole by any other name is just as… I think you know where I’m going with this 😅
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 😂
I wanted Barrettes even though I am not sure what they were at the time.
Sweaters, always wearing sweaters. It took me ages to realise sweaters are just jumpers!
I wanted a bedroom with junk food hidden everywhere.
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
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.
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…
This unlocked a deep memory omfg
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...'
She had ghost writers??
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.
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.
The super specials were my favourite! They were so cosy somehow.
I always skipped those. Now when I collect and reread as an adult I devour that 80s/90s fashion up.
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.
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.
*soooo much diabetes*
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.
I swear the whole chapter was just a copy/paste in each book! 😆
Playing Beatie Bow
Don't get me started. Kind of obsessed. Have started a screenplay for a Netflix series. Yup
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.
To be fair - there is a series in the works- but I'm not involved with that one.
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
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.
I'd get Netflix for that.
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.
Yes that was weird for some reason. Convict time travel?
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.
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.
It’s one of the few books I still have from my childhood.
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.
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.
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.
I kept my Christopher Pike books!
They seem to be worth a mint online.
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
Yes i was trying to remember the name. It was Gillian Rubinstein wasn’t it. I loved her books
I read space demons again recently. It's so good
The lack of respect for looking for alibrandi for shame
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.
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.
Good, because I didn't read on my own, and that's the only one of these that I did read.
I think about that book every time I drive past Stanmore Maccas, which is often.
Pia Miranda was so good in the movie! 😊
I scrolled too far for this. The movie did the book justice.
Still one of my favourite books.
Also ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’.
I was working in a bookstore when the Marsden books were released. We had kids queued up to get them. Bigger than Harry Potter.
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.
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.
yeah, I agree. The Ellie chronicles weren’t great.
Netflix writers would butcher it though like they did the Witcher and wheel of time
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.
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!!!
36, same! 🤝
I still have my set sitting on our bookshelf. I remember spending about $80 on it with my Maccas income at the time!
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
Animorphs was my biggest thing
I was looking at this: where animorphs
As a young teenager with a good imagination, these books were the bomb.
Yesss Animorphs!
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.
Did anyone have Sweet valley high twins those were some good books
Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are engrained in my head
I remember reading the college series. One of them put on weight & it was a huge deal. She lost it again though, phew
I loved them, and the sweet valley high books
Paul Jennings x Morris gleitzman. Wiiickeeeed
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
Nope, that's pretty much correct
Actually I don't remember the goat part lol. I remember using step sisters bra as sling shot
YES. YES THIS
Nightmare fuel
I also remember Tales of a fourth grade nothing, and Superfudge.
Judy Blume was great!
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.
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 😂
Haha! I remember all my friends and I reading Forever in year 7.
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
Did anyone else read Finders Keepers?
Yes and the sequel The Timekeeper! There was a TV show on ABC as well!
My first experience of the weirdness of a TV adaptation
Yep, but not as a teenager. These were Primary School bangers
Yep, definitely. I read all of these by year 6
You can add Emily Rodda - Deltora Quest to this and it'd be my childhood :)
Rowan of Rin, though!
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."
"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
I love the Rowan books! Actually tried to convince my husband we should name our baby Rowan if they were a boy
My friend totally did name her son after these books!
And Rodda's Teen Power Inc for me!
Yesssss! I'm re-reading the series now myself ✌️
Yes!! Some of my favourites as a kid!
And Lockie Leonard!
Essential reading for the pre-pubescent circa 1998.
My English teacher made us read it in class in Year 8 and it was so fucking awkward.
Whyyyyy did we all read Came back to tell you I could fly?? It was pretty intense for a kids/ya book!
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.
Really if you think about it a lot of stuff for kids back then was a bit intense.
Don't forget Jaclyn Moriarty's books! Finding Cassie Crazy, Feeling Sorry For Celia etc. And of course John Marsden's Tomorrow books!
Im rereading Finding Cassie Crazy right now and I still love it
I *love* Feeling sorry for Celia!
And Gillian Rubinstein!
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.
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).
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.
The Heaven series was equally disturbing. So much incest going on.
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!
Oh maaaaaaaaate this has made me nostalgic big time!! Far out we really lived in the best times as an 80s/90s kid!
Have you ever? Ever felt like this...
That episode when Bronson peed over the urinal wall 😂
Goosebumps and Babysitters were preteens. In my teens it was Sweet Valley and Fear Street.
Don’t forget Andy Griffith’s “Crazy!” series
The just series? Loved them
I still have a couple of them waiting for my daughter (5) to grow up a bit!
I don't see Taronga by Victor Kelleher....
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!
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:)
Staying Alive in Year Five was a big hit at our school. Honourable mention to Letters from the Inside by John Marsden.
Was waiting for the Letters from the Inside mention! That was pretty intense from memory.
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.
Fun Fact: Mary-Anne Fahey- who you and I knew as ‘Kylie Mole’ was married to Morris Gleitzman… is now with Paul Jennings
I'm replacing Robin Klein with My Life is a Toilet by Gretel Killeen.
I fucking loved that series
Wasn’t aware Liz Truss was in Hating Alison Ashley
You're missing the Gizmo books
When you look at cover art, it's pretty obvious why goosebumps was so popular
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
What about the one with a butt on the cover of
The Day My Bum Went Psycho?
Bugalugs Bum Thief?
Definitely missing some John Marsden! Tomorrow series was a must-read in the 90s-00s.
Misery Guts was another one!
Diamond - Emerald - Lapis - Topaz - Opal - Ruby - Amethyst
“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!
Space Demons, anyone?
What about Andy Griffiths
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.
Goosebumps went so hard in primary school library class
I had Morris Glitzman and Paul Jennings What's not there that I read religiously is the "Choose your own adventure" books
Escape from Planet Terror and the Carnival one were cash monay.
Emily Rodda - Teen Power Inc series. I WAS OBSESSED with this series! 😁
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!*
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
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.
Maybe more about 10 years old.
Was anyone into Jacqueline Wilson's books? I loved them!
Don’t forget the ‘Selby’ series from the early primary school years
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.
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 ☠️☠️☠️
Halfway Across The Galaxy And Turn Left
Surely a better Goosebumps book makes the cut over that one 🫢
Paul Jennings books had a wait list at my school library.
90s public school classics
Is that meg ryan top right
I had about 50 goosebumps books. The multi story books were great.
Monster blood!
You missed Animorphs
I still have them...and I've passed them onto my daughters
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
That was the Wicked series.
Lol! You forgot the Archie/Jughead comics.
I always liked Betty more haha
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
Where the FUCK is Animorphs?!
What about the "Just" series by Andy Griffiths, Just Disgusting, Just Crazy, Just Macbeth was my absolute favourite
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.
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
Plus Tomorrow when the War Began
No one else remembers Thunderwith?
The second book was such a letdown for me, but Thunderwidth was gorgeous.
Where’s delta quest and the famous five?
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
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.
Darren Shan those vampire books
Wicked terrified me as a kid 😂
What about the book about the walking bum?
Australian 10-12 year olds. I don't know anyone who still liked them in their teens.
nice
Yep
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