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  My parents would read me interactive or touch books. I especially remember ones about Barney.
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  Mom or dad would pull the level and the arrow would land on a specific animal and make the animals sound
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  I remember begging my mom to read this book over and over again. Once my little brother was born I loved to read it to him.
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  My sister and I would read the zoobooks, and try to learn anything we could about animals
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  In 3rd grade, Hank the Cow Dog played an important role in my AR points! I probably read almost off of that series.
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  On the day before my families garage sell, I was looking through an old box from the attic and found about 4 Nancy Drew books. I started reading them and couldnt stop!
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  I LOVED this book. I read it at least twice and myy mother ended up buying it for me
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  Speak forever changed the way I picked books. I absolutely loved it, and the way I connected to the main character. I felt as though I gained something after reading it.
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  Around seventh grade, I started reading crime novels, such as Mary Higgens Clark. I saw we had some of her novels around the house, and my mother told me I would enjoy them.
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  In seventh grade, the peer who sat behind me in English class was reading "Baby Alicia is Dying" by Lurlene McDaniel. I asked her how she liked it and she said I had to read it. For the next year, all I read was Lurlene Mcdaniel books. I would cry in my room while reading the "Death and Dying" books, as my mom called them.
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  9th grade marked the time I remember reading classic literature such as Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.
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  World Literature was a great class. We read things like Dante's Inferno and compared parts of the Koran and the Bible. We also read the Epic of Gilgamesh
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  Over the past year I have read a lot of books. My mother seems to always have a book under her nose, and I think I have followed suit. I have recently enjoyed, the Dragon Tattoo Series, The Hunger Games and other dystopic novels