Kid/YA books

[knile]

I've been thinking for a few years now that I'd like to collect the books that I enjoyed growing up (grade 2-5, give or take) into a nice set, for my own hypothetical kids or for friends' or just for my own having. A few:

Judy Blume - Fudge series (reaallly don't like the new covers)
Jamie Gilson - everything 1978-1989
Suzy Kline - Orp and the Chop Suey Burgers
Louis Sachar - Wayside School Series
Beverly Cleary
It's Like This, Cat
My Teacher Is An Alien
Interstellar Pig
Madeleine L'Engle
Journey To An 800 Number
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Maniac Magee (author is a Hopkins alum!)
Roald Dahl
The Indian in the Cupboard series.
The Cay
Shel Silverstein
The New Kid on the Block

For younger kids:
Mama Don't Allow (featured on Reading Rainbow)
Mouthsounds by Fred Newman, which introduced me to the sound of the bilabial fricative. At least, I think it was Mouthsounds before it was George Carlin.

Not much later I moved on to Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, Stranger In A Strange Land, and other really healthy literature.

For other posts about "what to read when becoming an adult human American", see Read's bleg and MelK's mixed bleg & current-reading list.