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My earliest memory as a young child was my first favorit book that my mom would read to me.I remember I used to get sad over the bird who's looking for his mother and then happy that he finds her in the end.

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Another one of my favorite books. I often checked out this books from my schools library. My frineds and I enjoyed it very much.

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I began collecting these books. I really enjoyed reading them just like any other kid but I also begged my mom to buy me the next book so I could continue my collection. I think I only made it up to the 7th book. I often reread them all the time.

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In 5th grade, I picked up my older sisters book that he had and found the cover quite interesting. Before reading this book, I have never encountered such a sad and devisating store or genre of books. This book made me cry so much and feel a lot of pain for the character. Til this day, one of my favoorite books I have ever read.

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The Circut was another favorite of mine that I remember picking up in english class. What's different about this book was the personal and cultural connection I had with the store and characters. I could definitly say that this book began my love for cultural / Hispanic genre of books and authors, as well as autobiography novels (including A Child Called It).

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The Harry Potter series was very much influenced onto me by my bookworm brother and sister. We actually had all the Harry Potter books and collected all the Harry Potter movies as well, I think we still have them. As a family, we were all fans. Altough I only made it past the first few books I loved the series and I am still a fan. Who knows, I might finish it later on in my life. :)

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From 6th to early middle school I stopped reading, nothing interested me at the time and we were required to read books for credit but I remember not even pay attention to the books. Instead I cam aross this website that had stories, wether they were murder, horror, tragic, romantic, I found myself enjoying them. These weren't publish nor writen by professsionals, these were young teen girls writing stories and I enjoyed it. Funny I know. I even stayed up in the middle of the night just to finish my chapter or the whole story.

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I very much disliked middel school and I never read ANYTHING. The only book that stayed with me was The Outsiders. This grew my love for the 50's and book/movie genres that took place in the 50s. It was an easy book to read but a classic.

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Going into high school I had previously applied to a college prep program called PUENTE and I got accepted. This program became a huge part my life and academic life. The academic portion of the program pushes us to read more, we would read propably around 6 books a year and the books were from authors who were POC. This program opened my mind to more books and authors but also fed into my interest of autobiographies. I loved the cultural aspect of the program and the books we read.
*The rest of the timeline are about my favorite books I read in PUENTE*

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Although I don't remember much about the story, I looked further into Sndra Cisneros and enjoyed reading her other books.

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The book I enjoyed reading most my feshman year. I disliked the homework we would get while we read books in PUENTE but definitly a great one, another classic. I actually kept up with the reading and got invested in Lennie and Goerge and how different they were as people. I definitly was shocked and sadend by the ending. :(

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This was one of PUENTE's required readings and I loved it, my love for cultural based books grew. I soked up all the information and although we only read secontions it was great. I loved learning about the early Chican@ and Latino expierence and community.

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Getting into my sophomore year, we began our first semester (i think it was) reading this book. What my PUENTE teacher did for each of his sophomore puente classes he could makes us recreate The Lord of The Flies.
We pciked our own clans and we would spend the whole semester reading the book, taking group tests, doing weekly challenges, even had a rap battle all throughout the course of a semester. Defently a great time. We had challenges that duplicated each chapter and what the charcaters had to do. Ex. one of our challenges was to create our own tent made of pure magazines, blue tape, and skinny wodden sticks. We had to fit as many people from our clan into the tent and it had to sustain rain (it was actually rice).

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I read Aniaml Farm during my sophomore year in hish school and instantly became one of my all time favorite books. I loved the figuerative and literal language of the narritve. Something different for sure but it put into presective the ideas of communism.

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After my junior year of high school I lose interesting in reading again and since then have not had any other favoite books nor in college since Drink Cultura.
To this day I love learning and reading about the Chican@ culture and this book is a definite read and would recommment it very much.