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16 Book Series Every 2000s Middle Schooler Read Growing Up

Books were one of the very few escapes I had in life

Tricia Cole
Mar 14, 2017
Saginaw Valley State University
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16 Book Series Every 2000s Middle Schooler Read Growing Up
Josh Applegate
"Bookshops are... time machines, spaceships, story-makers, secret-keepers, dragon-tamers, dream-catchers, fact-finders, and safe places...this book is for those who know this to be true". ~ Jen Campbell

Growing up, I only had a few good friends and learned pretty quickly that the only way to avoid getting picked on at school, for the most part, was to keep my mouth shut. When I needed to escape the teasing and name-calling, books were my sanctuary. Books took me to a place where I could go on journeys with young girls and boys, astronauts, dragons, princesses, and more. These are the book series that took me to far-away lands and became my safe place.

1. "Charlie Bone" By Jenny Nimmo


2. "The Boxcar Children" By Gertrude Chandler Warner

3. "A Series of Unfortunate Events" By Lemony Snicket

4. "The Babysitter's Club" By Ann M. Martin

5. "Dear America" By Scholastic Inc.


6. "The Kingdom Keepers" By Ridley Pearson

7. "Magic Treehouse" By Mary Pope Osborne

8. "Pendragon" By D. J. MacHale

9. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Books

10. "Chronicles of Narnia" By C.S. Lewis

11. "Among the Hidden" By Margaret Peterson Haddix

12. "The Clique" By Lisi Harrison

13. "Percy Jackson" By Rick Riordan

14. "The Confessions Of Georgia Nicholson" By Louise Rennison

15. "Maximum Ride" By James Patterson

16. "Harry Potter"By J. K. Rowling

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