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My favorite memory is from 7th grade when I read the book "The outsiders". It was just a really entertaining book filled with  so much action which made me want read more even though my teacher read it out loud for the class. She would leave off on cliffhangers which left some suspense and made me think what was going to happen next.

-yaritza

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I read this book in 5th grade and it was one of the first books and authors that I was really into. This book is about a Girl named Indigo and how her life changes along with her mom and younger sister Misty. Indigo's mom finds herself in an abusive relationship and after a long time she finally takes charge and finds a new home far away to live a better life for her kids but it isn't in the safest or stable neighborhood. Something later on happens that will change Indigo's life.

I feel like some people can relate to this book and to Indigo's life because I went through reviews on this book on people talking about how they went through something like this recently or when they were younger or have seen some of their family members go through this.

- yaritza

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I had a lot of memories when I was a kid. One of my favorite books when I was a kid was a book called Bad Guys. I have been reading this book since I was 9 years old. A feeling I have about this book is being happy. A feeling I have about this book is being happy because Whenever I pick the first two books they have In the library I always feel happy reading them In my free time. Roberto G

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My happiest memory was when I was in 7th grade and I finally got to start reading what I was really interested in. It felt very good because elementary felt like what you were reading was forced. I finally got to start reading what I liked and I remember the first book I read that I loved was refugee.

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When I am older I will continue to read books. I think if you pick a really good book or series and you start to get into it reading can be so much fun. I think reading is a very valuable skill to have while growing up because it will help you in life. For example Getting a job for most successful jobs you have to know how to read in order to make money for yourself. - Ryan Wienke

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When I was little, my family would huddle into a little crawl-space with pillows, blankets, and a carpet, and read 'The Book of Gross'. My dad would read it out loud to us in weird voices and we would rank how gross each thing was. There were so many nasty facts in that book, but I only remember being happy when we read it. Laughing and being with my family is one of my favorite memories, and I'm glad that I have it.

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I remember last year in 7th grade I read this book. It was a good book but this book talks about 3 different stories. Although it being good I would hate when I read this book and get to one of the other stories even though i'm already into the story I was just reading. It got me annoying but this is a good book for people who like reading different books at the same time because it's about escaping but just how each person did it. -Hope Mullins

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On 4th grade, every Wednesday we would go to the library and check out two books. Me and my best friend found a series that we both enjoy. Every time me and my friend go to the library together, we would get the books from the same series. I remember me and my friend getting excited whenever they announced a new book from the same series me and my friend like!

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My favorite memory from 7th grade was reading the Outsiders because the book was filled with action and it was a really entertaining book. I think this because when we got to read the book we would read this with groups, by yourself, and with the teacher so it was a mix of everything. -Giselle V

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Last year I didn't read that many books independently. But my favorite books that I read last year were the Historical Fiction novels by Alan Gratz the ones that I read were "Allies" and "Refugee". I especially enjoyed "Refugee" because I liked how it followed different characters perspectives and they put three different stories into one book which I really like. I had herad about the book Refugee in 6th grade, because my 6th grade teacher told us about it. And it had been on the list of the books I wanted to read for a year, so I was especially excited when I got to read it.

-Juan

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I remember in 3th grade I would go to the library and wonder would always be the first book I looked for when i stepped in the library because I really liked the movie so I enjoyed reading the book

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When I'm older I hope to still read a few pages a day and I hope I enjoy it. I really hope their are more wings of fire books and I will get to read them all and be satisfied with the ending.

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This was one of my favorite books ever. Although I did not know how to read in preschool, I loved the pictures and my mom would read it to me. This book always made my day so much happier and I remember just making up my own story with the pictures. I hope in the future I hope to see one of my kids bring this book home from their school library. So that I can remember the times I did!

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My happiest memory of reading isn't reading at all. Many times I listen to audio books with my dad because he's too busy -between work, five kids, and a wife- to actually sit down and read himself. There's no specific timeline to this, but so many times I've listened and experienced stories with him.

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My happiest memory was when I got to do a book group and I was in a group with my friends, in 7th grade. I got to read this book called Better Nate Than Ever, I remember reading this book and it was really cool because it felt like an adventure because the character Nate was chasing his dreams so he was on an adventure. But I liked this a lot because I got to work with friends and it was a good book. - Giselle V

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I have a book series that in 5th grade I would go to the school library and would check out 2 or 3 books at a a time and would finish them in 2-3 days, But I would have to wait because usually there would be someone that would have the next book in the series.

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7th grade it was  not that different from 6th grade  because we also had to be in a group and read and write about a book.And it was a boring project to do everyday we had to read in a group some people were behind or some people finish the book before others..In my opinion I think if I was a teacher I would let people read hat they like and write about it.

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Last year I visited the school library and picked out a random book, I was strolling through the sections trying to find a book that sounded interesting based on the back cover description and the pictures and stuff. I found this book called "Dead To You" by Lisa McMann, it's a book about a kidnapped kid who hitchhiked his way back home. Lisa is a very good writer because she made the words and suspense in the book sound amazing. The end was a huge turn and the book was really good, I felt like I was on the edge of my seat the whole time I read it!

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i rember when i was in class one day and dog came in and it was the best day of school cuz it was telling a story

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When I was in fourth grade I had recently just moved schools. I had teacher who was not the best teacher when it came to reading, she wanted the class to read specific type of books and not what kids were interested in. I was reading a genre that I did not like at all and I just didn't like reading anymore when I was in fourth grade. I had always liked reading before that, but when it came to fourth grade I hated it and just wanted it to be over with so I didn't have to read again.

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to be honest i didnt even read a book last year

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As a future reader I want to keep amazing books that I have, and haven't read alive in my mind and heart, and keep them close as I grow up. I want to share them with my (eventual) children, so that they can grow up with a knowledge of reading, other worlds, conflict, resolution and love. People often forget how much reading teaches you. How much you can grow by reading conflict and resolution. Realistic fiction, fantasy, si-fi, dystopia, non-fiction and historical fiction are all things that teach you something, and I want to make sure I'm not their only student.

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As a class we read this book called the Outsiders. I really enjoyed this book because it talked about the two different groups of people the Greasers and the socs but my favorite part was that we got to watch the movie. It was cool to watch the movie after reading the book because you could see the differences between the movie and the book and there were a lot of differences and that was cool to me. This was my happiest memory of all my years reading at school. - Ryan Wienke

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This book is my current book I'm reading. Iv'e already had so many laughs with this book. This is my favorite book so far, I never get bored of it. I love to annotate this book because whenever I do I feel confident in my answers. I hope in the future I can read the whole series, and remember this book as my favorite 8th grade book!

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Last year I mostly read manga's or graphic novels because I liked them, and I just got along with the books and how I read them. But my reading and writing teacher did not like that I read those types of books and tried to get me to read normal chapter books and I just really did not like them so sometimes I would fake read during reading time so I didn't need to read them. So I just waited for the next book of wings of fire to come out, so that's what I'm reading now. Over the summer I was given an entire series of manga's to read so I read all 13 books in the series in maybe 1-2 weeks and I really enjoyed that.

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I used to get these books with my mom at the library. I remember trying to find all the objects in the book. I liked these books because I didn't have to read anything so it wasn't much work I just had to find everything. I hate reading now because it is boring and I have better things to do.

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I have a memories that when my 3rd grade class use to go to the library on a specific day of the week and every one would go to the chapter book section but I would go to the picture book section and read picture books because I found that if I read books with images that I would understand more and pay more attention to the book instead of reading a regular chapter book that I would soon abandon.

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As I've already mentioned in a former post, the first series I ever loved was 'The Hunger Games' trilogy by Susanne Collins. When I was in seventh grade, an extra book to the series that she wrote called 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' came out. It gives insight into the villain of the stories past, and, although not my favorite, was an amazing addition to the series.

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One book I remember by heart is the series No David and Pete The Cat. In kindergarten they where my favorite books to read because they where so funny.- Hope Mullins

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As a reader in the future, I want to be sure I keep my love of reading alive. I want to help my kids enjoy reading and keep inspiring my students to see the worth in reading. It shouldn't feel like a chore, so I'll have to keep explaining HOW reading helps us as humans and WHY it matters.

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When I was back in 3rd grade, that was when I started to do book reports and presentations and I always had trouble with doing the presentations because I did not like to read. Even when other people read to me, I didn't listen. I would always lie about me reading so my 3rd grade teacher wouldn't get mad at me. I have always thought that reading was pointless and a waste of time because I thought that if I was reading I wouldn't have time to do fun stuff. Looking back at that now, I was totally wrong. Right now I'm still not so into reading but have still been trying to read at least a little. -Helen Gomez

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I liked reading this book in elementary, It was my favorite book. Every time that went to the library I would get this book but with different places. For example, there was a book of him at school, his house and outside of his house. I really liked this book since I could relate to David antics, he would do some things that are bad and every time someone catch him they would say 'No DAVID". My teacher would read this types of books in our classroom, and I really liked it since every time we read this books we would have a chance to draw what David was doing and help him to do the right things. That's the only memory I have from kindergarten.

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I Have a lot of memories when I was a little kid. One of my favorite books when I was a child Is a book called Diary of a wimpy kid. This was a book i have been reading since i was 11. A feeling i have about this book is being grateful. A feeling i have about this book is being grateful because when i read this book i feel happy that my parents bought me this book with their money.

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No, David is a book I Always ran to i first heard of it in kinder and later on found myself reading it over and over again me and my uncle always read it together upstairs - Ashley

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Very first CHAPTER BOOK, Book Fair purchase

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Very first CHAPTER BOOK, Book Fair purchase

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This book was my very first big kid book I purchased at the book fair. Every year in elementary school my mom would give me 20$ to spend on books. When I was younger I used to only buy picture books or very small books. Then in 4th grade I bought a chapter book and I loved it. I have at least read this book 3 times. I currently still have this book. In the future I hope to still have this book in good shape, and I hope when I am older I look back and say..."This was my first chapter book purchase!"

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I remember starting to get into the Percy Jackson series again even though I read the series already I decided to re read the series cause I couldn't think of anything else to do and then I remembered that there was a sequel series and I read and loved that book series too and then I found there was another sequal series and I read that one too and learned that the final book hadent reached stores and I had gotten the final book for Christmas that year.

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When I was in 5th grade, and through the duration of 6th grade, I read multiple series by Rick Riordan, who wrote the famous Percy Jackson series. I never actually read Percy's story, but extensions of it. The Hero's of Olympus being one of my favorites.

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I think throughout a lot of elementary school I only really liked reading comic books because they were like picture books for older people, they showed nice detail and action and I liked how I could see their face when they talked so I knew how to imagine exactly everything. Once I got to 4th or 5th grade I started to find chapter books and had books recommended to me by my sister or the librarian at my school. I have a faint memory of me in 4th grade when I would come home from school and my sister would read these books to me about silly things that happened to toys, the book came from a toy's perspective that lived in a little girls room so I always found all the chapters interesting. I think once I started to get into chapter books my imagination grew stronger and even though I still love comic books, I like the mystery being left so me so I can imagine how the characters look and how they act based off of how the author describes them!

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kindergarten was the most wonderful year, that I remember of. I remember during snack time we would all reunite as a class and read a book together while we ate. I remember one of the books we got to read was the 3 little pigs. I loved this book I even bought it for myself after we read it in kindergarten and till this day I still have this book. I have heard it in many different versions but the one i heard in kindergarten will forever be my favorite.

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I remember in kindergarten when a guy came in with two puppets that were animals, and with those two puppets he would read books to us and make it look like the puppets are reading to us instead of him. He is what made read aloud fun for me. -Joshua P

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I remember in 6th grade my teacher would usually do a chapter Friday thing and it was where she would read us one chapter from a book. On a Friday she read us a book and it was Refugee and the genre was historical fiction and as soon as she started reading it I was hooked on the book so when she was done I asked her if I can read the book and she said yes. After I read this book I started reading more historical fiction books because I really liked historical fiction a lot.

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This book is called amulet when I first got it I thought it wasn't a good book but then when I started to read it cause my teacher told me to I started to love it. I loved it so much that I dressed up as one of the character for Halloween his name was Leon he was a fox back then he was my hero he looked so cool and i wanted to be like him.

By Favour

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one of my first memories with English books were in third grade cause that is when i first came to america and soon as i learned how to read a book i was basically reading the whole library of my school i really fell in love with amulet books in third grade cause i really loved graphic novels back then and the first non graphic novel book was a book called wonder it was a very special book to me because that is the first big book i ever finished  -Bobo

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I remember when I was In elementary we had to be in groups of 4 or 5 and read a book and we also had to write about it. Also when I was in elementary  I remember we had to read a book that we like and  we had to share it with  the class. It was boring not being able to read the books we like. but it was fun to be able to talk to new people we didn't know.

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For 1st and 2nd grade I had the same teacher, so my experiences with reading were very similar. But one of the book series that we kept reading and were very engaged with were the "David books" They would follow a boy named David where he is not the best behaved child, and then he would do something that wouldn't be consider the best thing and then he would learn his lesson at the end of the book.

- Juan

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When I was in 3rd grade I read the series 'The Hunger Games', for the first time. Some people would say that the story is too adult for an 8 year old, but I think it's not because she wrote it without any bad language, mention of religion, or excessive violence. Before I read this I wasn't an avid reader, and only listened to books with my mom, but after I got into a big kick and excelled with reading books. This gave me very good vocabulary skills, and helps me to write and talk in a respectful, and professional, manor.

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I started to really like a book series called wings of fire and read all the books in 2 years some books would take me a few weeks some took 2 days but I really liked this one book series and started to like reading.

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I have memories of reading this one book called hatchet. This book was a really good memory that I had. I loved this book so much that I still know everything that happened. I could read this book a 1000 times before it gets boring. -
Ryan Wienke

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This was the year that I remember getting categorized into the RED reading group. This meant that because I got BAD test scores on state reading exams, I was put into the LOW readers group. I felt so stupid and because of this, I started to despise reading.

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Preschool-3rd grade (Mostly Read on Holiday)

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Preschool-3rd grade (Mostly Read on Holiday)

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I have so many memories with this book during the holidays. Me and my sister before my sister knew how to read on the holidays, like Christmas Eve and Thanksgiving, we used to read this. We would laugh about it and it was our favorite book. My mom would also read this to me and my sister all the time. I currently still have a hard copy of this book. I will never get rid of it! In the future I hope to read this book to my kids and start a tradition.

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I remember when I was in 3rd grade I had 2 terrible teachers who I hated. They forced me to read books I did not wan't to read and it made me grow up to hate reading because  of those 2 teachers -Hope Mullins

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I have memories, or what I consider 'false memories', of being read the book 'Where the Wild Things Are'.  I loved the book and read it so many times. What I mean by false memories is that I have memories of the stories, but not when I read them. I've only been told stories by my parents of what I did, but I don't remember them. But I remember one thing. After reading it, I was scared to be bad, because my parents would send me to bed without dinner.
-Sophia

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I LOVED reading the book series called THOROUGHBRED. This is when I started to fall in love with horses, and I remember really connecting with these books. They were short chapter books and I started to build my confidence as a reader.

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I have distinct memories of my mom reading to my sister and I right before bed. I couldn't read the words yet, but I enjoyed "story time" and looking at the pictures.