Name this fantasy book... (FOUND! Now about child/teen fiction)

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by Hanni

Great children's book.

That book is good, yet by the end left me feeling unsettled.

[Resolute 14]

[Igotnothing]

What about The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander?

Anyone read those? I read them before the movie came out. They are pretty vague but I remember liking them and at the same time being a bit unsettled by them. I think mostly due to the fact they were a lot more harsh than any other book I read growing up.

For some reason they made movie out of the 3rd book and that was it.

[Ashartus]

Originally Posted by Igotnothing

What about The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander?

Anyone read those? I read them before the movie came out. They are pretty vague but I remember liking them and at the same time being a bit unsettled by them. I think mostly due to the fact they were a lot more harsh than any other book I read growing up.

For some reason they made movie out of the 3rd book and that was it.

I loved those books - they're a fairly big part of why I turned into an avid reader. One day I'll have to read them again and see if they hold up from an adult viewpoint.

Like Canada 02, I also loved the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators books, and also the "Great Brain" books. I guess I always had a thing for books where kids used their brains to solve problems. There was another similar series I read - I think more set up as collections of shorter stories about a boy solving mysteries and problems - but can't remember what it was called.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

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

I kept all of the Three Investigators books. Re-read books one and two a couple of years ago with intentions of re-reading the entire series, but it was too easy of a read. I too hope my kids will enjoy reading them.

[Knalus]

Originally Posted by Ashartus

I loved those books - they're a fairly big part of why I turned into an avid reader. One day I'll have to read them again and see if they hold up from an adult viewpoint.

Like Canada 02, I also loved the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators books, and also the "Great Brain" books. I guess I always had a thing for books where kids used their brains to solve problems. There was another similar series I read - I think more set up as collections of shorter stories about a boy solving mysteries and problems - but can't remember what it was called.

Encyclopedia Brown?

[Ashartus]

Originally Posted by Knalus

Encyclopedia Brown?

That's it! Figures someone on this forum would get it from almost no information.

[Calgary Highlander]

Like the OP, I'm trying to remember a fantasy series that I used to read as a kid, probably around late elementary early junior high.

There were giants and elves, dwarfs, 'ork type' creatures. There were 3 main characters, with the leader being a male. The author was almost certainly female. The one thing that set this series apart were the presence of stones (opal, topaz) and each story involved a different stone (pretty sure the main characters had to aquire all the stones, or something like that).

I definitley loved reading that series as a kid and now I can't even seem to remeber the title of the series.

Other than that I always enjoyed 'Choose Your Own Adventure,' 'Goosebumps' (lol) and 'A Series of Unfortunate Events.' Moved on from those to reading crime fiction novels out of the UK (Rankin's Rebus series being my favourite).

[Coys1882]

Originally Posted by Buff

I kept all of the Three Investigators books. Re-read books one and two a couple of years ago with intentions of re-reading the entire series, but it was too easy of a read. I too hope my kids will enjoy reading them.

Three words man: Jupiter ######in Jones

[Flamesguy_SJ]

Originally Posted by J epworth kendal

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.

I agree that most of the Redwall series is pretty formulaic. I've found, though, that almost anything to do with Martin and/or the settlement and building of Redwall Abbey is still a pretty good read. The original Redwall, Martin The Warrior, Legend of Luke, Mossflower, and to a lesser extent Mattimeo combine into a pretty neat little miniseries.

I really loved the Kenneth Oppel Silverwing series, though I haven't read Darkwing. And the same author that wrote The Giver also wrote probably my favorite book I ever read in school - Number The Stars, which was about a young girl and her family in Denmark who hide a Jewish family and smuggle them to Sweden during WWII.

[J epworth]

Originally Posted by Flamesguy_SJ

I agree that most of the Redwall series is pretty formulaic. I've found, though, that almost anything to do with Martin and/or the settlement and building of Redwall Abbey is still a pretty good read. The original Redwall, Martin The Warrior, Legend of Luke, Mossflower, and to a lesser extent Mattimeo combine into a pretty neat little miniseries.

I really loved the Kenneth Oppel Silverwing series, though I haven't read Darkwing. And the same author that wrote The Giver also wrote probably my favorite book I ever read in school - Number The Stars, which was about a young girl and her family in Denmark who hide a Jewish family and smuggle them to Sweden during WWII.

Omg I've always wanted to remember what the name of that book was, and you randomly just say it's your favourite book from school! I read Number the Stars back in must have been grade 4 or so and I still remember the book so well, but had no idea what the name of it was again. It's almost a memory where I had gotten to the point that I thought it was just a really good dream I had once.

Oh and my favourite Kenneth Oppel book was actually not from the Silverwing series, even though they were really good, it was The Devil's Cure, his only Adult fiction novel that I think he's written.

[darthma]

Originally Posted by pylon

My favorites were choose your own adventure books... I still have my copy of:

Ah yes, Choose your own adventure books. I just remember having all my fingers indexing different pages in case I didn't like where the story was headed.

[Bonded]

Okay, now I doubt anyone can get this but I am looking for the name of a book series or a name of one of the books. The books were about a brother and sister who meet a half fish girl and how the world went to #### or something and the brother goes underground and near the end of the two or three book series he surfaces and goes blind and then helps run a village?

The parents were ichthyologists and created an ichthyoid human species and the lead characters need to help protect the new species.

It was called the wasteland series or something?

hahah

[Traditional_Ale]

[Beerfest]

Can anyone ID a book for me?

Im pretty sure I read it during grade 4-6 and I think it was about a shark? It was novel. Something liked Shark fin, Shark ____? Im pretty sure a young boy was the main character?

[theJuice]

Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

Nice, I remember I loved Dragon lance back when I was in Junior High. Those 3 you listed were the best ones, but I was a fan, and I read tons of the others ones. Actually, I read alot of Forgotten Realms ones as well, started my brief obsession with the Drizzt novels back then. Heh, recently tried going back to those books a few years ago, unsurprisingly, they didnt hold up well

[WhiteTiger]

I was big into these books, as well as the (original) Hardy Boys, when I was younger.

[onetwo_threefour]

+1 to Prydain Chronicles and the Three Investigators series.

Also loved The Day of the Triffids, Farenheit 451, Animal Farm, 1984, Doc Savage series, Mission Impossible series, the Pippi Longstocking series of books, all of the Land of Oz books and pretty much any Asimov.

I liked some cheesy stuff too, like the Heroes in Hell books and Dick Tracy book adaptations.

Not necessarily all aimed at kids but Ioved the stories as a kid.