Amanda: Nancy Drew – She was smart and independent which was unusual for her time. Me and my friend Gretchen would race to the library on Saturday mornings to get the next one.
Sue: I have to say Thornton W Burgess books – “Old Mother West Wind”, etc. And then, all the Gene Stratton-Porter I found on my grandmother’s shelves – “Girl of the Limberlost”, “Freckles”, and of my favorite books in the whole world, “Keeper of the Bees”.
KJ: I was always enchanted by the characters and worlds created by Roald Dahl (Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc), but I also loved spending hours with reference books as a kid – atlases of the world and the World Books Encyclopedia. They were like treasure troves of information and opened me up to other places and cultures.
jabberwocky books 
It was historical fiction that hooked me: at the public library The Swamp Fox of the Revolution by Steward H. Holbrook, Battle lanterns by Merritt Parmalee Allen; and at my cousin’s house Promises in the Attic, by Elisabeth Hamilton Friermood *(a Junior Guild ? selection) the story of a girl who wants to be a writer, setting the Dayton, OH flood of 19(17?)
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