10-02-2011, 09:41 PM
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Name this fantasy book... (FOUND! Now about child/teen fiction)
I'm trying to remember a book (or series of books, I want to think it was a trilogy) that I read when I was younger, still in jr. high or high school.
I think it had a similar theme to LotR in that in that it focused on the adventures of small people (I want to think elves, in this world elves were short, but I could be wrong), where they leave their village/land and go on to be part in a great war.
I seem to remember similarities with LotR with the fleeing of the hobbits being chased by the nine, but again I'm not sure.
I know it's not a lot to go on, but hopefully this might ring a bell with someone. It's been eating at my mind for a long time to try and find what it is.
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10-02-2011, 09:49 PM
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Probably Dennis McKiernan's Mithgar series. The main characters of a lot of his novels were warrows...his version of hobbits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_L._McKiernan
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10-02-2011, 10:04 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
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I was just coming back into the thread to say I'd found it, and you got there first, that's truly impressive given how little I could remember.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Tower
I'll have to reread them.
This thread is now about books you read as a child or teen that you'd like to read again.
There was one other book that I'd read that I'll have to dig out sometime, it was about a girl who got left alone on earth after a nuclear/biological war (can't remember exactly), and how she finds others and such. I remember it because it was written in kind of a weird shorthand, no vowels, so it was weird to read.
Ah found it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence_(novel)
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10-02-2011, 10:13 PM
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That's awesome, I read those as a kid too. I've been thinking of where to find some for my kid, he'll be able to read those in not too long.
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10-02-2011, 10:18 PM
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10-02-2011, 10:19 PM
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My favorite books I read as a kid (in Elementary) were:
Phantom Tollbooth.
Watership Down.
Rats of Nimh.
I also read every one of the blue hard covered Hardy Boys books and every Choose your own Adventure our library got in (I used to cheat on them so badly).
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10-02-2011, 10:28 PM
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Lol I used to read the CYOA books like a program, parsing each tree structure.
EDIT: I think Chrysalids was part of the curriculum for me.
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10-02-2011, 10:28 PM
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I remember really liking His Dark Materials when I was a kid. Read Subtle Knife first, which was a little confusing, but I still really enjoy the trilogy, even if it's written for kids/teens.
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10-02-2011, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by photon
That's awesome, I read those as a kid too. I've been thinking of where to find some for my kid, he'll be able to read those in not too long.
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10-02-2011, 10:41 PM
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One series I would like to read again just to see if I have ANY interest in it again is the Redwall series. I was obsessed with it as a kid but I don't think I could pick up one of those books again and read it all the way through. In the end I started realizing that all the books are basically the same plot.
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10-02-2011, 10:43 PM
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The Belgariad is a series of books in the same sort of vein that I enjoyed immensely many moons ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belgariad
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10-02-2011, 10:48 PM
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If I can figure out what box my Copy of Gorga the Space Monster is in, it's all yours.
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Lol thanks, that's ok though holding on to stuff like that is good.
I agree about the Belgariad and Mallorean series, kind of formulaic now IMO but when I was younger I enjoyed them.
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10-02-2011, 10:54 PM
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Animorphs!
I gave up half way through the series. But read the last one.
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10-02-2011, 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by photon
EDIT: I think Chrysalids was part of the curriculum for me.
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LOL, same for me. That was definitely the only reason I read it but was pleasantly surprised that a teacher/the school made us read a really cool book!
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10-02-2011, 11:08 PM
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Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators series. Loved these books in elementary school. Hope to find them to read to my kids one day
Ditto for the Chrysalids. English 10 required reading
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10-02-2011, 11:15 PM
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Phantom Tollbooth rules.
I also liked Piers Anthony's stuff, The Iron Man, Paul Jennings, and, in my tween years (there weren't tween years then) Christopher Pike's stuff.
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10-02-2011, 11:22 PM
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I remember borrowing this series from one of my school teachers and reading that wikipedia article brought back many memories. As photon says, a bit formulaic and in some ways reminds me of LOTR, but I really enjoyed it when I first read it as a kid.
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10-03-2011, 05:09 AM
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This goes back to grade 1 or 2... I saw it in the childrens section at the library and snagge it last week:
"Tikki Tikki Tembo-no Sa Rembo-chari Bari Ruchi-pip Peri Pembo"
I think I've read The Chrysalids over 30 times. My mom read it to me when I was little and when I reached grade 10 and heard I had to read it, I was so stoked that I was pretty much guaranteed an A! But then my teacher decided that we should read something else on the curriculum.
I picked up Madeleine L'Engle Wrinkle in Time the other day too.
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