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My mom is an elementary school teacher with a minor in psychology. She started reading to me the moment I was born because she knew it would help with my literacy.
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My mom started teaching me to read with flashcards when I was only 2 years old.
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This was about the time when I developed a real love for animals. I loved books about animals, so most of the books that I would read had an animal as the main character.
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I became obsessed with books about monsters because of my grandfather's nick-name for me. He used to love reading to me.
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My grandfather used to call me "Monsterella." My name is Cinda, so it's a play on words with my favorite movie around this time, which was Cinderella. The nick-name is also attributted to the fact that I loved cheese, and "Monsterella" kind of sounds like "mozzarella."
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This book was about animals AND monsters, so it really piqued my interest.
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I really enjoyed this book as a child. It really opened my eyes to the fact that people are judeged because they are different. It made me sad that not everybody was treated the same.
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I loved this book for many reasons. The main reasons were that we had a pussy willow tree in our back yard, and that I loved cats very much.
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My mom and I used to read this book together. In the middle of this book, the monsters all have a "rumpus" that lasts for four pages without any words. My mom and I would rumpus around the house at this time roaring our terrible roars and gnashed our terrible teeth and rolling ourr terrible eyes and showing our terrible claws.
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This was the first book that got me really emotional. It was the first time that I realized that literature could really affect a person.
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I fell in love with "Love You Forever" in 3rd grade. This book helped me realize how much I really loved my family.
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This book is wonderful, even as an adult I have read and reread it. This book really showed me what being human is all about. It's about love, compassion, and emotions.
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"Hatchet" taught me the meaning of independence. It showed me that I couldn't rely on help in all situations. This book made me really think of what I would do if I was all alone, and it really shaped my future and made me a strong, independent person.
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This book got me incredibly curious about the Halocaust and World War 2. I didn't understand how a person could commit such terrible crimes, all the while thinking they were doing the right thing. Because of this book, I began researching information on my own solely because I was interested, and not because somebody told me I should.
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Harry Potter was the first book that I read because I wanted to. All of the other literature that I read up until this time was read to me by my mother or an assignment in school. I remember that my mother read it first because of the contreversy about religion and witchcraft in school. After she read the first book she told me that I would probably enjoy it, so I read it and absolutely loved it.
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This series really opened my mind up to fantasy reading. This book really shaped a huge part of my life, as I have always been really interested in books and games that involve fantasy.
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This series was very emotional for me. To read about such a young girl going through all these hardships really showed me that I had a wonderful childhood. I cannot even begin to imagine what my life would be like if I was in the main character's shoes.
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I now work at the local library in Pahrump, NV. I am constantly surrounded by literature and have the opportunity to read whenever we are slow. This job has really opened me up to several different types of literature, and I am enjoying every moment of it.
