Off Subject Episode 2: Top Six Picks of Favorite Childhood Books

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Josie's Top Six Kid Favorites:

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Charles M. Schulz) and lots of Muppet books (Jim Henson)

1. Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary

2. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

3. Class of 88 by Linda A Cooney (Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior)

4. Macdonald Hall by Gordon Korman (Bruno & Boots)

5. Bunnicula by James and Deborah Howe

6. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Christy's Top Six Kid Favorites: From last week's episode The Story of Ferdinand (Munro Leaf); Just Only John (Jack Kent); How Fletcher Was Hatched (Wende Devlin); & Anne of Green Gables (LM Montgomery)

1. Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

2. Heart Quest Books (Pick A Path To Romance And Adventure): Ring of the Ruby Dragon (Jeannie Black); Talisman of Valdegarde (Madeleine Simon); Secret Sorceress (Linda Lowery); Isle of Illusion (Madeleine Simon); Moon Dragon Summer (Linda Lowery); & Lady of the Winds (Kate Novak)

3. Ghosts From the Coast: A Collection of Twelve Stories from Georgetown County, South Carolina by Julian Stevenson Bolick

4. Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Mentioned Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs)

5. Nancy Drew and River Heights by Carolyne Keene

6. Classic Lit:

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

• 1984 by George Orwell

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