Most Memorable Books

1. Five Little Monkeys Sitting In A Tree by Eileen Christelow - I read this book so many times when I was younger from the time I could read until I was about 7. I remember naming the monkeys different names of my cousins and laughing as each one fell off the bed before my monkey did.

2. Poppy by Avi - The next 3 books are a part of Avi's Poppy series. I think I was about 9 or 10 when I read these books. I loved them because they were about the adventures of little mice and a porcupine, and the characters seemed so humanlike. It was a cool series to read especially at a younger age.
3. Poppy and Rye by Avi
4. Ragweed by Avi
5. Poppy and Ereth by Avi

6. Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer - I read these right after the first Twilight movie came out. I had heard of the books but never became interested until I saw the movie and thought "why not read the books", and I became captivated. I wish I had read them before I saw the movie so I could create the characters in my own mind.

7. The End of the Beginning by Avi - This was a small book I read when I was about 10 years old. I remember seeing it in the book store and I had seen that Avi wrote it. Since he is one of my favorite authors, I bought the book and read it. It was about a snail that goes on an adventure, with his ant friend, across their tree branch. It was a fast read and a cute story. The simplicity of it made it memorable to me.

8. The Phantom Stallion series by Terri Farley - This series had over 20 books and I read them all. Farley's horse series is by far my favorite. I enjoyed reading this series because it was about a ranch girl and her long lost horse that became wild, but each book had a "main" horse that it focused on. I absolutely love horses and whenever I read these books I felt completely engaged in the lives of the characters.

9. In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez - I read this book junior year and did my final English presentation on it. I really enjoyed the book because the storyline was so powerful, especially since it was a true story. Also, Alvarez had a unique way of writing in which every other chapter was from the perspective of each of the 4 sisters involved in the main plot.

10. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - All the juniors read this book for Driscoll's class. This book is most memorable because Driscoll referenced it throughout the entire year, no matter what we were reading. It's also hard to forget Holden Caulfield because he was such a depressed and "spontaneous" teen.