Could be the book you loved the most, the series you daydreamed about, book that inspired you, fascinated you, your comfort read…anything.
And why.
I LOVED the Anne McCaffrey Pern books. I would walk around daydreaming about new adventures set in the books’ world. The Dragonsong books really connected my love of music with my love of fantasy (and animals).
Perloo the Bold by Avi. I can’t explain why, but it stuck with me. I was 9 or 10.
A few years later, during a different phase of adolescence, Ready, Okay! by Adam Cadre. It was the first novel I picked out solo and purchased with my own money, while on vacation with my family. It didn’t introduce me to familial or societal dysfunction, but it was poignant and stuck with me. I was 12 or 13. I recall similar emotions towards, but lack the desire to reread, Tangerine by Edward Bloor.