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The joy of receiving a Scholastic book order.
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The more intense, exhilarating feeling of Scholastic Book Fair week at school.
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The Rainbow Fish reeling you in with its shiny cover.
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Reading Goosebumps when you were looking for something just a little spooky.
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Reading Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark when you wanted to be full-blown petrified.
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If you watched Full House, you definitely read the Full House spinoff books.
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Wishing your school was as interesting as the stuff you read in Wayside School books.
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom was one of your introductions to the alphabet.
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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales was the first unique, creative kids' book you read.
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Amelia’s Notebook made you want to keep your own legitimate diary.
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Feeling all of the emotions when Stellaluna was unexpectedly reunited with her mother.
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Hoping to encounter a mouse at some point.
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Watching Matilda in theaters after you’d read the book.
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Or reading the Little Golden Books versions of movies after you'd watched them in theaters.
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Reading and listening to Golden Sound books of your favorite shows and movies.
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Learning valuable lessons from the Berenstain Bears family.
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Having incredibly high field trip goals as a kid because of the Magic School Bus books.
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Passionately despising dog abuser Judd Travers from Shiloh.
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Wanting to be a detective whenever you read The Boxcar Children.
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Getting really into Ann M. Martin’s The Baby-Sitters Club or Matt Christopher’s sports books and binge-reading your way through each series.
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Reading your way to food with the Pizza Hut Book It! program.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul books.
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Shopping at Borders back when they were a premier source for books.
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And finally, first discovering the pure magic that is the Harry Potter books.
