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About My Library

Covers majority 'read but unowned' recalled. Favorite illustrators: Joseph Cellini, Paul Galdone, Charles Geer, Diane De Groat, Morgan Dennis, Wesley Dennis, Ted Lewin, Sandy Rabinowitz, Lydia Rosier, Ruth Sanderson, Sam Savitt.

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Useful links:

Vintage Scholastic paperback books, cover images http://bookscans.com/Publishers/scholastic/scholastic.htm

Book Lists (this explains how to include a basic HTML link)

* Boy/girl trees/nature/water etc cover--children's/YA fiction
* Camps -- children's/young adult fiction
* Boy (blind) and girl main characters -- children's/young adult fiction
* Blind or nearly blind horses/ponies -- children's/young adult fiction
* Camps, disabilities -- children's/young adult fiction
* Disabilities, science fiction -- children's/young adult fiction

* Blind/vision impaired author + characters -- children's/YA fiction
* Blind/vision impaired author + characters -- children's/YA nonfiction
* Blindness experience -- children's/YA fiction and nonfiction
* Deaf/hearing impaired author + characters -- children's/YA fiction
* Disability author + characters different -- children's/YA fiction
* Disabled author's autobiography

* Dogs -- children's/young adult fiction
* Boston terriers -- children's/young adult fiction
* Doberman pinschers -- children's/young adult fiction
* Dog training in children's/young adult fiction, non-fiction
* Greyhounds -- children's/young adult fiction
* Greyhounds -- biography
* Italian greyhounds -- children's/young adult fiction
* Newfoundland dogs -- children's/young adult fiction
* Retriever dogs -- Children's/YA/adult fiction+auto/biography
* Rough collies -- children's/young adult fiction
* Saint Bernard dogs -- children's/young adult fiction
* Whippets -- children's/young adult fiction
* Wolves -- children's/young adult fiction
* Wolf hybrids (half wolf, half dog) -- children's/young adult fiction

* Ghost horses -- children's/young adult fiction
* Ghost dogs -- children's/young adult fiction
* Talking dogs -- children's/young adult fiction
* Telepathic dog -- children's/young adult fiction

* Bicycles on cover -- children's/young adult fiction
* ESP, psychic powers -- children's/young adult fiction
* Two faces on cover -- children's/young adult fiction

* Dolphins -- children's/young adult fiction
* Dolphins -- children's/young adult non-fiction
* Seals and sea lions -- children's/young adult fiction
* Seals and sea lions -- children's/young adult non-fiction
* Whales -- children's/young adult fiction
* Whales -- children's/young adult non-fiction

* Carousel, merry-go-round horses -- children's/young adult fiction
* Flying horses and unicorns -- children's/young adult fiction
* Horses, fantasy -- children's/young adult fiction
* Miniature, little, tiny characters -- children's/young adult fiction
* Unicorns -- children's/young adult fiction

* Anorexia -- children's/young adult fiction
* Appendicitis -- children's/young adult fiction
* Cerebral palsy -- children's/young adult fiction
* Diabetes -- children's/young adult fiction
* Epilepsy in children's/young adult fiction
* Eyeglasses, fantasy in children's/young adult fiction
* Heart conditions -- children's/young adult fiction
* Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in children's/young adult fiction
* Leukemia / leukaemia -- children's/young adult fiction
* Mental disabilities -- children's/young adult fiction
* Mental disabilities, runaways -- children's/young adult fiction
* Muscular dystrophy -- children's/young adult fiction
* Polio in autobiographies/biographies
* Polio in children's/young adult fiction
* Horses and polio in children's/young adult fiction
* Spina bifida -- children's/young adult fiction
* Wheelchairs -- children's/young adult fiction

* Kidnapping -- children's/young adult fiction
* Kidnapping, asthma -- children's/young adult fiction
* Kidnapping, babysitting -- children's/young adult fiction
* Kidnapping, bus -- children's/young adult fiction
* Kidnapping, bus -- adult fiction
* Kidnapping, disabilities -- children's/young adult fiction
* Kidnapping, dogs -- children's/young adult fiction
* Kidnapping, Indians of North America -- children's/YA fiction/non-fiction
* Kidnapping, survival -- children's/young adult fiction

* Cyclones -- children's/young adult fiction
* Earthquakes -- children's/young adult fiction
* Fires -- children's/young adult fiction
* Flood, dam/reservoir -- children's/young adult fiction
* Floods -- children's/young adult fiction
* Hurricanes -- children's/young adult fiction
* Tornadoes -- children's/young adult fiction
* RMS Titanic -- children's/young adult fiction and non-fiction
* Runaways -- children's/young adult fiction
* Camping -- children's/young adult fiction
* Survival, camping -- children's/young adult fiction
* Survival, car accident -- children's/young adult fiction
* Survival, cats -- children's/young adult fiction
* Survival, caves -- children's/young adult fiction
* Survival, desert -- children's/young adult fiction
* Survival, dogs -- children's/young adult fiction
* Survival, islands -- children's/young adult fiction
* Survival in a plane -- children's/young adult fiction
* Survival, plane crash -- children's/young adult fiction
* Survival, shipwrecks -- children's/young adult fiction
* Survival, snow -- children's/young adult fiction
* White water rafting -- children's/young adult fiction

* Separated twins -- children's/young adult fiction
* Swap identities, trade places -- children's/young adult fiction
* Switched at birth -- children's/young adult fiction
* Twins or identical strangers? -- children's/young adult fiction
* Twins, disabilities/health conditions - children's/young adult fiction
* Twins, fantasy -- children's/young adult fiction
* Twins, science fiction -- children's/young adult fiction
* Death of one twin -- children's/young adult fiction
* Death of one twin -- adult fiction
* Death of human -- children's/young adult fiction
* Death of pet, or pet loss due to allergies - children's/young adult fiction

* Boys, girls, flying, fantasy -- children's/young adult fiction
* Historical fiction -- children's/young adult fiction
* Latchkey children -- children's/young adult fiction
* List makers -- children's/young adult fiction
* Mermen and mermaids -- children's/young adult fiction
* Museums -- children's/young adult fiction
* Novels in verse -- children's/young adult fiction
* One-room schools -- children's/young adult fiction
* Photograph illustrations -- children's/young adult fiction and non-fiction
* Scientific experiments (sci-fi, fantasy, realistic) - children's/YA fiction
* Time travel, historical fiction -- children's/young adult fiction
* Time travel, mirror -- children's/young adult fiction
* Time travel -- children's/young adult fiction
* Travel from real to fantasy world -- children's/young adult fiction
* Underground/dome to outside - children's/young adult science fiction

* survival
Three Without Fear by Robert C. Du Soe
Everglades adventure by James Ralph Johnson (survival training test, panther cub named Kit)
Good stones by Anne Merrick Epstein
Sisu by Sue Harrison (diabetes, wilderness survival)
The Riddle Of Bear Cave (Xtreme Adventures Inc.) by M. A. Harvey
Walk my way by Paige Dixon (14 year old Kitty, wilderness survival)
Wild venture by James Ralph Johnson (2 boys, week in wilds)
The Wild Kid by Harry Mazer
Stay Alive #3: Breakdown by Joseph Monninger
The Last Wolf by Michael Morpurgo
The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen
Coming back alive by Dennis J. Reader (mountains, nothern California)
Lost in the Everglades by Lucy Salamanca (downed helicopter, pilot leaves for help, boy survives in jungle)
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Terror on the Mountain (Original title: The Summer I Was Lost) by Phillip Viereck (summer camp, mountain, storm)
Crash in the Wilderness by Susan Black (plane crash, juvenile literature -- non-fiction)

* low vision--fiction (tag not technical definition; includes both legally blind + low vision)
The flash children / The flash children in winter / The view beyond my father by Mabel Esther Allan
The danger box by Blue Balliett
Half the battle by Lynn Hall (legally blind)
A Capital Trap by Ron Karley
One step at a time by Deborah Kent
Ghost boy by Iain Lawrence
From Anna / Listen for the singing by Jean Little (Anna has low vision; with glasses she is not legally blind)
A Dolphin in the Bay by Diana Noonan

Some children's/young adult science fiction authors include:
- Wilanne Schneider Belden
- Frank Bonham
- Isobelle Carmody
- Brian Caswell
- Nancy Etchemendy
- Peni R. Griffin
- Lee Harding
- H. M. Hoover
- Monica Hughes
- Jean E. Karl
- Alexander Key
- Louise Lawrence
- Suzanne Martel
- Pamela Sargent
- Mark Shirrefs / John Thomson
- William Sleator
- Louis Slobodkin
- Jean Sutton / Jeff Sutton
- Dark Wing by Carl West
- Jay Williams / Raymond Abrashkin
- G. Clifton Wisler (Antrian messenger trilogy)

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* List: Frequently sought stories - Name that Book group
* Frequently Sought Stories list on Name that Book

Book Search Tips

- Google Books advanced search or Google Books - Tools - Custom year range. "Juvenile fiction" and "library journal" can be useful keywords.

- Worldcat.org advanced search and filters.

- openlibrary.org has free eBooks to borrow.

- abebooks.com, .ebay, etsy, openlibrary, Google Images all useful to check book covers.

- When using a search engine include kirkusreviews to obtain book reviews, or Bulletin Center Children's Books.

- Game Books website
- Enid Blyton books
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About Me

Have you seen these? I'm looking for these childhood books: My Feelings by Charlotte Gibson, and, I want to be a vet by Dawn Beal.

Year - Number of books read
Picture books, short or longer chapter books.
2024 - 51 (31 chapter books)
2023 - 115 (28 chapter books)
2022 - 31 (23 chapter books)
2021 - 31 (29 chapter books)
2020 - 35 (25 chapter books)
2019 - 62 (13 chapter books)
2018 - 23 (12 chapter books)
2017 - 21 (19 chapter books)
2016 - 25 (19 chapter books)
2015 - 78 (64 chapter books)
2014 - 330 (118 chapter books)
2013 - 384 (165 chapter books)
2012 - 800 (157 chapter books)
2011 - 536 (175 chapter books)
2010 - 269 (152 chapter books)
2009 - 172 (124 chapter books)
2008 - 110 (102 chapter books)
2007 - 140
2006 - 27 (September onwards)
Did not tally beforehand.
From 15 December 2004 to 29 August 2006 - recorded but not tallied 145 books; may not be all books read in that time.

Childhood Favourites (see collections for more)

Books owned (picture books):

- Snuffle to the rescue by Elisabeth Beresford

- Gumdrop finds a friend by Val Biro

- Two for the show: starring Jim He son's Muppets by Horace B. T. Calhoun

- The three wishes by M. Jean Craig

- The Santa Claus book (A Golden Shape book) by Eileen Daly

- The little lamb by Judy Dunn

- The house of four seasons by Roger Duvoisin

- Sam and the firefly by P. D. Eastman

- Yogi Bear and the impossible ski tracks by Horace J. Elias

- The perfect ride by Lady McCrady

- Huge Harold by Bill Peet

- The digging-est dog by Al Perkins

- A good fish dinner by Barbara K. Walker

- Morris has a cold by Bernard Wiseman

Books owned (chapter books):

- Swiss School by Mabel Esther Allan

- The folk of the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton

- The adventurous four by Enid Blyton

- Swiss School by Mabel Esther Allan

- White Ruff by Glenn Balch

- A horse named Doodlebug by Irene Brady

- Baby island by Carol Ryrie Brink

- Lucy and the merman by Audrey Brixner

- Alice's adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

- The trolley car family by Eleanor Clymer

- R my name is Rosie by Barbara Cohen

- Mishmash and the substitute teacher by Molly Cone

- My wolf my friend by Barbara Corcoran

- George's marvellous medicine by Roald Dahl

- Charlie, the lost dog by Ann Doro

- Can I get there by Candlelight? by Jean Slaughter Doty

- Shadows by Lynn Hall

- Princess by Carolyn Lane

- The lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

- Clarence takes a vacation, Clarence goes to town by Patricia Lauber

- A devil to ride, Ride like the wind, The summer riders, (Since got the whole Jinny series.)

- Striped ice cream! by Joan M. Lexau

- Trina by Patricia Miles Martin

- Blind flight by Hilary Milton

- Laura's luck by Marilyn Sachs

- The secret garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

- Eye in the storm, Eye in the city by Judy Nunn

- Lakeland vet by Joyce Stranger

- Jason, nobody's dog by Joyce Stranger

- Animal Inn series by Virginia Vail (Pets are for keeps, Adopt-a-pet,, All the way home, The pet makeover). Since obtained whole series.

- Gypsy from nowhere by Sharon Wagner

- Adventure at Camp Schoonover (Pick-a-parh #16) by Richard Wenk

- The great baseball championship (Pick-a-path #3) by Richard Wenk

- Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

- Danny Dunn and the homework machine by Jay Williams

- A year at Sheepfold Farm by Susan Williams

- The First Travel Guide to the Moon: What to Pack, How to Go, and What to See When You Get There by Rhoda Blumberg

- Five true dog stories by Margaret Davidson

- The animals came in one by one by Buster Lloyd-Jones

Books owned with lots of text and colour pictures:

- The Muppets Take Manhattan : a movie storybook by Danny Abelson.

- The wishing chair again (De Luxe edition) by Enid Blyton

- Noddy in Toyland by Enid Blyton

- Anna Sewell's Black beauty by Jane Carruth

- Aesop's fables by Margaret Hughes

- Heidi (Illustrated classics) by Johanna Spyri

Books my primary school had, subsequently obtained:

- There's something about Mondays by Elizabeth Hutchins

- The twits by Roald Dahl

- The cats by Joan Phipson

- Moon-dark by Patricia Wrightson

Books my high school library had, subsequently obtained:

- A walk in the dark by Joyce Stranger

- All alone (except for my dog Friday) by Claire H. Blatchford

- Watership Down by Richard Adams

- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

- Emma & I by Sheila Hocken

- The peppermint pig by Nina Bawden (Chivers Press ed.)

- Light a single candle by Beverly Butler (and sequel Gift of gold)

- Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody (The farseekers, Ashling)

- Who stole Kathy Young? by Margaret Goff Clark

- Julie of the wolves by Jean Craighead George

- The shy ones by Lynn Hall

- The dream catcher by Monica Hughes (and Devil on my Back)

- Mom, the wolf man and me by Norma Klein

- Waiting for Anya by Michael Morpurgo

- Five children and It by E. Nesbit

- The kidnapping of Christina Lattimore by Joan Lowery Nixon

- Prove yourself a hero by K. M. Peyton

- Climb a lonely hill by Lilith Norman

- The bird smugglers by Joan Phipson

- The hundred and one dalmatians by Dodie Smith

- Jodie's journey by Colin Thiele

- The kingdom by the sea by Robert Westall

- Charlotte's web by E. B. White

- Into the dark by Nicholas Wilde

- The witches by Roald Dahl

Chapter books the public library had, subsequently obtained:

- Lassie come-home by Eric Knight

- Double trouble squared, Shadows in the water, A voice in the wind by Kathryn Lasky

- Double spell by Janet Lunn

- The dogs of Pangers; and, Pangers Pup by Lorna Wood

- The cay by Theodore Taylor

Favourites read after childhood

- The view beyond my father by Mabel Esther Allan

- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

- Tangles by Errol Broome

- A dog to trust : the saga of a Seeing-Eye dog by Joseph E. Chipperfield

- Mystery at Camp Triumph by Mary Blount Christian

- Stranded by Matt Christopher

- Guide dog by Dorothy Clewes

- The Messenger series by Monica Dickens

- The seeing summer by Jeannette Eyerly

- The world around the corner by Maurice Gee

- The world of Ben Lighthart by Jaap ter Haar

- Half the battle by Lynn Hall

- Lynn Hall's dog stories by Lynn Hall

- The unfrightened dark by Isabelle Holland

- Only child by H. M. Hoover

- The winds of Mars by H. M. Hoover

- Dog driven by Terry Lynn Johnson

- Ghost dog secrets by Peg Kehret

- Jessica's dying light by Jan Kenneth

- One step at a time by Deborah Kent

- From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

- From Anna by Jean Little (and Listen for the Singing)

- Little by Little : a writer's education by Jean Little (and Stars Come Out Within)

- Mine for keeps by Jean Little

- The giver by Lois Lowry

- Bringing up Beauty by Sylvia McNicoll

- Stranded by Ben Mikaelsen

- Mayday! Mayday! by Hilary Milton

- Emergency! : 10-33 on channel 11! by Hilary Milton

- A dolphin in the bay by Diana Noonan

- The girl with the silver eyes by Willo Davis Roberts

- A girl's best friend by Harriet May Savitz

- The silent spillbills by Tor Seidler

- Mister Wolf and me by Mary Francis Shura

- Stranger on the bay by Adrien Stoutenburg

- Thursday's child by Joyce Stranger

- The trouble with Tuck by Theodore Taylor

- Now you see it ... by Vivian Vande Velde

- The lake is on fire by Maureen Crane Wartski

- Dead end bluff by Elizabeth Witheridge

- Is Chelsea going blind? by Alida E. Young

Favorite Authors

C. W. Anderson, Frank Asch, Allan Baillie, Glenn Balch, Stan Berenstain, Elisabeth Beresford, Judith M. Berrisford, Val Biro, Enid Blyton, L. M. Boston, Carol Ryrie Brink, Errol Broome, Clyde Robert Bulla, Eve Bunting, Beverly Butler, Betsy Byars, Isobelle Carmody, Brian Caswell, Ruth Chew, Joseph E. Chipperfield, Mary Blount Christian, Margaret Goff Clark, Beverly Cleary, Vera Cleaver, Andrew Clements, Dorothy Clewes, Eth Clifford, Eleanor Clymer, Barbara Cohen, Molly Cone, Ellen Conford, Caroline B. Cooney, Scott Corbett, Barbara Corcoran, Stephen Cosgrove, Gary Crew, Roald Dahl, Colin Dann, Margaret Davidson, Monica Dickens, Anne Digby, Paige Dixon, Paige Dixon, Jean Slaughter Doty, Lois Duncan, Roger Duvoisin, P. D. Eastman, Horace J. Elias, Mel Ellis, Mabel Esther Allan, Jeannette Eyerly, Walter Farley, Anne Farrell, Jean Craighead George, Charlotte Gibson, Barbara Girion, Bob Graham, Susanna Gretz, Lynn Hall, Gail Hamilton, Marguerite Henry, James Herriot, Thomas C. Hinkle, Sheila Hocken, Isabelle Holland, H. M. Hoover, Laura Lee Hope, Monica Hughes, Margaret S. Johnson, William Johnston, Carolyn Keene, Peg Kehret, Deborah Kent, Alexander Key, Jim Kjelgaard, Norma Klein, Robin Klein, E. L. Konigsburg, Gordon Korman, Carolyn Lane, Patricia Lauber, Louise Lawrence, Patricia Leitch, Jean Little, Hugh Lofting, Lois Lowry, Ann Matthews Martin, Miska Miles, Hilary H. Milton, Rutherford George Montgomery, Michael Morpurgo, E. Nesbit, Mary E. Patchett, Gary Paulsen, Bill Peet, Al Perkins, John Peterson, John Lawrence Peterson, Stella Pevsner, K. M. Peyton, Joan Phipson, Piet Prins, Willo Davis Roberts, Glen Rounds, Marilyn Sachs, Malcolm Saville, Sam Savitt, Harriet May Savitz, Charles M. Schulz, Brian Selznick, Dr. Seuss, Mark Shirrefs, Mary Francis Shura, William Sleator, Dodie Smith, Donald J. Sobol, Joyce Stranger, Theodore Taylor, Colin Thiele, Virginia Vail, Vivian Vande Velde, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Jay Williams, Henry Winkler, Bernard Wiseman, Carol Beach York

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