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to understand pedophiles’ sick little games and know my enemy because I was already suspicious and wary due to having been raised on a diet of Lifetime movies by my paranoiac women’s studies professor mother.
Also: * Siddhartha by Herman Hesse * every Stephen King book I could get my hands on * random bad murder mysteries by James Patterson/Phillip Margolin (his books made me want to be a lawye)/Jonathan Kellerman (his books made me want to be a psychologist…) or whatever * The Mediator series — weird YA romance series written by Meg Cabot author of The Princess Diaries about a psychic girl who falls in love with a Spanish 19th century ghost and investigates murders? * Blue is for Nightmares — generic series about yet another teenage psychic who is also a witch and she uses her powers to investigate murders at her boarding school * The Seance by Joan Lowery Nixon — girl goes missing at a seance lol * House of Night — wow this YA vampire series sure is bad * The Sitter — bizarre and twisted young adult book by RL Stine * The Face on the Milk Carton — YA thriller series about a girl who sees her own face on a missing children’s graphic on a milk carton and begins to believe she may have been kidnapped by her parents * Princess Ai — manga series by Courtney Love lmao * NOT TWILIGHT (jk I totally read and loved Twilight)
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i encountered the face on the milk carton way too young and it scared me so bad 😭
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marxinista LOLLL it’s too sinister and cuts too deeply into adolescent fears
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I also liked speculative fiction/more grounded sci fi and fantasy: -heir apparent by vivian vande velde, a vr middle school novel -12 impossible things before breakfast by jane yolen, a series of creepy/fantastical short stories -the true meaning of smekday by adam rex, a fun romp of an alien invasion novel from the perspective of a teenage girl
My number one rec is the book when you reach me by rebecca stead!! just a beautiful coming of age novel about friendship and love and also (unexpectedly) time travel. i haven’t reread most of the others in ages but I revisit this one every few years.
(Also possibly a controversial opinion, but if you never read twilight it might be worth it for the cultural experience lol)
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as i got older, my "reading level" as the school called it was always higher than other kids', which is good i guess, but it meant they limited what i could get from the school library to what they deemed appropriate for my level. i liked harry potter and lord of the rings, but i also wanted to read stuff like goosebumps and choose your own adventure books. luckily my teachers allowed me to read those things from their classroom libraries.
there was a book i read as a kid that i've honestly never met another person who's ever heard of it, but i loved it when i read it and i loved it again when i tracked it down and re-read it a few years ago. it's called how to disappear completely and never be found by sara nickerson. a 12 year old girl whose mother is severely depressed sets off to a mysterious house on a nearby island to try to figure out how her mom owns it, why she's selling it, and what it has to do with her deceased father. i realized when i re-read it as an adult that it formed a lot of my attitude toward stuff and why i like collecting things and have so much trouble throwing things away. a really good book that i think more people should know about!
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