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September 2003
Name one book that did not look interesting to you when you first saw it, that became one you really liked.
Growing Wings by Laurel Winter
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Truth be told, when I was eight (I'm now twelve) and my mom gave me Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, it looked pretty boring. I mean, the cover had him catching this ball with --- is that wings? Pleeeeze. But hey, I tried and have now read each book in the series seven times ... you fill in the blank!
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Two books that I really liked but looked boring (and hardly anyone I know whose my age liked them) are Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
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Don't Let Me Die! is the title of a book that didn't look very interesting. But it was a great book!
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I once saw a book called Ruby Holler. I had gotten it from the Scholastic book list from school, and I thought I should give it a try. I didn't read it for a few weeks after I got it! But when I read the first chapter, I loved the book. By the third chapter I was already hooked on it. The reason is probably because I like to read books about children who are in hard times, because I like to see how they can handle them and stay put. It really teaches you that you judge everything, not just a book, by the inside of it, not the outside.
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The Outsiders
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A Series of Unfortunate Events
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OK, to me the book Petey didn't look that interesting at first, but once I started to read it I just couldn't put it down! It was so heartwarming!! I loved that book and I'll always treasure it!
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"The Seventh Tower" series did not look interesting to me at first, but I liked it. I recommend this book to anybody who likes Harry Potter.
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The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen
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One book that didn't look interesting was the book called Cages by Peg Kehret. I really enjoyed it.
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At first, I didn't think the Lemony Snicket books would be too great, because I thought they were just about bad things happening to orphans. But as I began to read them, I realized that there was much more to the books than that. Lemony Snicket is now one of my favorite authors ever!
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Where The Red Fern Grows didn't look good to me because I'm not into hunting. When we had to read it for school, I thought "Oh, great just another dumb hunting story." It turned out to be a really sad but happy book, and I think anyone would like it --- even if you hate hunting!
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Oliver Twist.
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Nancy Drew and the Crooked Banister didn't look too good when I got it from my library at school. But after I read the first three chapters, it was very interesting. It turned out to be a great book.
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The Obernewtyn Chronicles and The Song of the Lioness Quartet.
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Holes by Louis Sachar
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Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine. I mean, I did not want a book like a crowd, you know, but I hear a lot of people read the book and I read the whole thing at my Grandmother's (which is a very good place to read). It is set in an orphanage with a party. Very interesting but not the best cover!!!
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The first two books in "A Series of Unfortunate Events"
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The Fire Cat by Esther Averill
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Holes. I watched the movie and then I read the book. I loved it! Boy, do I wish I had it.
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I didn't like the look of Judy Blume's Forever and Just As Long As We're Together, but I really enjoyed them!!!
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I thought that the book Going Home was going to be a bad book, but it was good.
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Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs by Betsy Hearne
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I didn't like the looks of the book Stowaway at first, but I read it and I really liked it. Stowaway is by Karen Hesse.
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At first, when I got Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for a gift and read the first chapter, I completely hated it. But after my mom read it to me (I was in grade 1) I completely fell in love with the book and read it again and again.
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One book that didn't look very interesting to me was Silent to the Bone, but I read it anyway. Now I have read it again and again. It's one of my favorite books!
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Harry Potter didn't look interesting when I first saw it, actually! I thought it looked stupid. (This, of course, is before everyone had loved it ... it was 1999 ... no one had heard of it then) But thankfully I was bored during the summer and my mom had bought the first one for birthday presents, so I picked it up and read it. Now Harry Potter is my favorite book of all time!!!
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One book that did not look interesting when I first saw it was The Indian in the Cupboard. But when I read it, it was amazing.
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The one called Charlotte's Web.
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Holes. The name made it sound boring, but my best friend demanded that I read it. She said that it was a good book, so I read it and it turned out it was good and sad at the same time.
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Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed
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I think Sticks by Joan Bauer didn't look too interesting on the cover, but I knew that I shouldn't judge a book by its cover. But I mean, who would want to read a book with a pig and a nine ball on the front of the cover? I couldn't believe that it ended up to be one of my favorites!!!!!
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I thought that The School Story wasn't going to be good, but when I read it I loved it! Now I am taking out every book written by Andrew Clements. I hope Andrew Clements never stops making books.
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Harry Potter. For some reason I hated those books. Then I saw everyone else reading them and I thought, "Wow, I would really enjoy these books." And I saw the movie, so that got me interested in the books as well. Surprising as it seems, I have read all the books so far!
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I didn't like Sea Star.
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
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One book that did not look interesting was Bad Girls. I got fooled by the title and the cover.
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I did not think that Takeoffs and Landings by Margaret Peterson Haddix would be a good book. Now that I have read it, I found it to be one of my favorite books.
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The Bad Beginning, Book 1 in "A Series of Unfortunate Events."
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I thought Harry Potter was just a geek book, but when I saw my friends reading it, I said to myself "Maybe I will try it out. I ended up reading all of them each in 4 days!
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The Tree That Sat Down
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George Washington's Socks
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Little Women
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Judy Moody
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The Secret of Nimh. I thought the book was dumb, but it turned out sad in some parts and adventurous at other times. It was actually kind of cool.
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Glubbslyme by Jacqueline Wilson
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Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
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Ghost Cadet by Elaine Marie Alphin
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An encyclopedia set
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When I first saw Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, I thought it would be soooo boring. The summary was even boring. I mean, it involved animals and that was good, but I didn't think it would be even a little bit interesting. I gave the book a shot anyway, and I loved it soooo much that I read it again.
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Holes, because the cover looks ugly, but it is a good book.
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I didn't want to read Alanna: The First Adventure or the rest of "The Song of the Lioness Quartet" series by Tamora Pierce, but my friend insisted and I finished the series in five days!
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I love An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, but it sounded so boring that I never would have read it if I hadn't been really bored one day at home with no other books to read.
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The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. It wasn't peaking my interest by the cover. But when I opened to the first page, I couldn't put it down. It is used in my classroom annually.
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Coraline by Neil Gaiman
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Best Enemies by Kathleen Leverich
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Matt's Million by Andrew Norriss
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Milo's Hat Trick by Jon Agee.
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The book that didn't look interesting to me when I first saw it was Edge by Diane Tullson. The book is about a troubled high school girl, Marlie, who has to try to stop her new friends from making a horrible mistake.
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Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood. This looked like a fantasy book, but turned out to be much more. It's a search for identity and friendship, a thoughtful look at growing up and finding parents. I really think teens should read it.
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The Family Under the Bridge. I thought it would be boring.
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No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
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A Series of Unfortunate Events #5, The Austere Academy.
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When I first saw A Year Down Yonder, I thought that it was going to be a boring book. Since I love to read, I thought I knew a boring book when I saw one. BOY was I WRONG!! I really liked this book. It was one of my favorites!
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A Series of Unfortunate Events #1, The Bad Beginning, didn't look interesting, but once I started reading it I loved it! I have read all 10.
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Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer
Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer
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The Harry Potter and American Girls series.
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The Witches by Roald Dahl
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
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This Isn't About the Money by Sally Warner
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A Series of Unfortunate Events
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When I first saw The Dwelling Place, I didn't like it. But when I read it, it came to be the best book I've ever read of. It was written by Catherine Cookson and talks about a 15-year-old girl left with nine other siblings when her parents died because of a contagious disease in Europe.
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I thought Shrek! was the stupidest book in the world, but now it's the boom!!!!
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The Kingdoms & the Elves of the Reaches by Robert Stanek. I didn't think I would like it at first, but now I really like the books. It is the best!!!
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry really was a great book once I read it. That's why they say, "Don't judge a book by its cover."
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Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech sat on my shelf for over a year before I picked it up in desperation. It's now one of my absolute favorites.
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Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park.
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Harry Potter, because I looked at the cover and said, "Oh, this looks like a kiddie book," but then I read it and I said that this is the best book I have ever read and know I am crazy about Harry Potter!!! I am going to be Hermione for Halloween!!!!! I am on the fourth book!!!
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When I first saw the book Esperanza Rising, I thought, "Oh Boy!" This doesn't look too good. Now it's one of my FAVORITE books!!!
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The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs and The Haunting.
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The Lord of the Rings
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The Elevator Family by Douglas Evans
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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Animal Ark books. I thought it might be a little kiddish at first. But as soon as I read a book, I started to really like it. Then I ordered the books and got to like them a lot!!! I think kids should read these books and have a lot of amazing and exciting stories to read!!!
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The first time I saw Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, I thought it sounded like a boring book, but it's now my favorite book I've read so far. I've watched both of the films and I'm reading the second book.
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