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My opinion, when I was ten years old:
BAD:
Anything by John Christopher
Anything by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Phantom Tollbooth
Anything by Madeleine L'Engel (I know, I know)
The Indian in the Cupboard
Caddie Woodlawn
Books that address the death of a friend (Bridge to Teribithia, On My Honor, Beat the Turtle Drum, That one about the kid who jokes all the time but is really allergic to bee stings and dies)
Black Beauty
GOOD:
My Side of the Mountain
Hatchet
Ghosts I Have Been/ The Ghost Belonged to me
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Susan Cooper's the Dark is Rising series
The Westing Game
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Great Brain books (Joanis liked these too, I know)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Anything by Beaverly Cleary (Ramona/Beezus/Henry/Ribsy more so than Ralph S. Mouse)
Anything by Roald Dahl
Anything by John Bellairs
Anything by Zilpha Keatly Snyder
Stepping on the Cracks
Slake's Limbo
Maniac Magee
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