Rediscovering the books that made me — one find at a time.https://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/en-ushttps://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/bsc-104-abbys-twin/https://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/bsc-104-abbys-twin/Abby and Anna are identical twins who couldn't be more different — and this one finally lets Anna have a crisis too.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/bsc-23-dawn-on-the-coast/https://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/bsc-23-dawn-on-the-coast/Dawn visits her dad in California and starts wondering if Stoneybrook is really where she belongs. The beginning of a long identity question the series kept returning to.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/bsc-26-claudia-sad-goodbye/https://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/bsc-26-claudia-sad-goodbye/Mimi dies. Ann M. Martin did not protect us from this and I remain grateful and wrecked.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/bsc-ff-claudia-disaster-date/https://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/bsc-ff-claudia-disaster-date/Claudia gets set up on a date that goes spectacularly wrong. A late-era BSC book that leans into comedy and lets Claudia be a little chaotic.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/bsc-ff-stacey-boyfriend-trap/https://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/bsc-ff-stacey-boyfriend-trap/Stacey's love life was always the BSC's most dramatic subplot. This one delivers on that promise in Friends Forever form.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/california-diaries-1-7/https://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/california-diaries-1-7/The BSC spin-off that grew up. Diary format, darker themes, California sunshine with real shadows underneath — Dawn, Sunny, Maggie, Amalia, and Ducky navigating high school.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/hork-bajir-chronicles/https://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/hork-bajir-chronicles/A companion book to Animorphs that tells the whole sad history of the Hork-Bajir — gentle tree-people enslaved by the Yeerks. K.A. Applegate somehow made me cry over aliens.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/just-juice/https://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/just-juice/Juice Faulstich is nine years old and hiding that she can't read. Karen Hesse wrote this with the same quiet devastation she brought to everything.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/say-cheese-and-die/https://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/say-cheese-and-die/A camera that photographs disasters before they happen. One of the Goosebumps books that actually had a good premise and used it.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/a-wrinkle-in-time/https://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/a-wrinkle-in-time/I didn't understand half of what L'Engle was describing and I read every word twice anyway. Some books you grow into; this one I'm still growing into.Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/from-the-mixed-up-files/https://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/from-the-mixed-up-files/Two children run away from home and live secretly inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I thought this was a completely reasonable plan.Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/charlottes-web/https://childhood-bookshelf.pages.dev/books/charlottes-web/The one that taught me friendship could transcend every boundary I knew about — including species, and time.Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT