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Good Night Moon
My introduction to reading, when I sleep I usually require something to listen too. This has been a positive and negative part of my life. -
Dr. Suess
I began to read harder books at a young age, in kindergarten I was the only want to read at my level -
Harry Potter
My sister who is three years older than me loves the Harry Potter books and in first grade I began to read them. Harry Potter is a pretty big part of my life and I enjoy the connection between me and my sister. -
Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite comic of all time, it helped me through any problems I had because I would read it until I passed out and it kept my mind off of other things -
Captain Underpants
As a second grader I was quite the class clown and that got me into a little trouble, just like george and harold. This book helped me become the person I am because of its sarcastic approach -
John Grisham
I began to love the sports novel genre and graduated to more chapter books. Baseball was a huge part of my life until injuries hindered my ability to play my favorite position, catcher. -
Spiderman Comics
I began collecting comic books and I had a copy of the original spider-man comics that topped the collection and was worth almost $50. This began my love for making money because I started to buy comics and sell them to collectors. -
Holloween
Jerry Seinfeld was my favorite comedian because he was so spontaneous and at the time I found that very enveloping. We red this in my library every Halloween and it soon became my favorite book and one of my favorite holiday experiences. -
Goosebumps
Goosebumps was one of the series that grabbed me and made me purchase almost every installment and caused me to love to read. This was at a point in my life I first experience anxiety before sleeping -
A series of Unfortunate Events
This is the first series I waited for the new books to come out as I collected them throughout their release. These books challenged the reader and that was something I liked in books. -
Artemis Fowl
This series challenged me as a reader and gripped me with a series of books with a really infectious story line and a lovable protagonist. -
Harry Potter 7
The release of HP7 and the deathly hollows was a massive part of my life as we stood in line outside copper fields for 4 hours. Me, my sister, my grandma, and my mom waited in the cold to read the book and it was an amazing start to my midnight release career. -
Vladimir Todd
The author of this book came to my school when her novel was first published, she was a great person and we all were in love with her book. It talked of a high schooler turned vampire and his ways to remain normal and keep other people safe. He was rebellious and I believe that is why this novel caught fire at my school. -
The Hunger Games
This book was my favorite story and most vivid imagery i have seen in a book. I felt as if I were in the story because it was so easy to read chapters into the night. -
Percy Jackson
I was late to the series and wish that I began reading it when I was younger. I was inspired to read this after we watched the first movie in 7th grade -
Stephen King
Stephen King is an amazing author who can write a story about anything and make it infectious to flip pages. When I was younger we were challenged to read as many pages as possible and I read 5 Stephen King books totaling 4,000 pages in a summer. -
Garth Nix
The fantasy genre was my favorite genre in middle school because it sparked imagination, the fantasy genre is endless and can be adapted by anyone. It made me want to start writing stories and I wanted to be a screenwriter for sometime -
To Kill a Mockingbird
My first high school reading assignment and one of the first books I have liked that the school has assigned. The project that we did was a drawing of the street and a map of where we thought everyone lived. I enjoyed this so much because it helped increase my ability to imagine scenes in my mind. -
Romeo and Juliet
The hardest thing I have read probably to this date, the story is widely known but hearing and reading the original piece was defiantly different and made me enjoy reading plays and scripts a lot more. -
Macbeth
Macbeth was a classic story that people knew because the lion king was a rendition of the original text. The lion king was my favorite disney movie and reading this felt as if I were watching my favorite movie -
Raisin in the Sun
This book appeared to me as a very boring book, but after continuing to read it I became very interested in the story of segregation. This was the last book in high school that I enjoyed reading front to back -
Into the Wild
Finally into the wild, this story first cme across to me as a stupid kid wandering into the wild accepting his death. After reading it and learning his story Im glad we read this book and it was a good end to my school literature career
