3.80 avg rating — 3,868,942 ratings

"I think every one should read this when they are a teenager. It made me look at people in a whole different way."

4.08 avg rating — 870,341 ratings

4.14 avg rating — 1,584,493 ratings

"I read and re-read this book when I was in 6th grade. Important to me because it made me realize a girl of any age could write something so believable."

4.38 avg rating — 247,064 ratings

"This is my "mom" book. It's a book that I loved reading to my daughter and always makes me cry when I read it."

4.29 avg rating — 108,447 ratings

"I think we all start our love of reading with fairytales, whether they are told to us orally or we read them ourselves. There is lots to learn from them."

3.85 avg rating — 236,896 ratings

"Read this when I was in 9th grade and it's important to me because I wanted to be the next V.C. Andrews. Maybe not now, but back then, that's who I wanted to be."

3.96 avg rating — 15,665 ratings

"Shall I say this was my "Book Thief" experience? I HAD to have this book. Conscience got the best of me in the end, but at that moment (5th grade) I wanted this book really bad."

4.11 avg rating — 142,410 ratings

"The first book where I knew with all my heart how much I really loved to read. I have to thank my fourth grade teacher, Mr. Goethe for introducing me to this book and to all books thereafter."

4.14 avg rating — 81,734 ratings

"The first book on survival that showed me how the will to live is much stronger than our physical components sometimes are."

3.74 avg rating — 291,322 ratings

"6th grade. Say no to drugs!"

3.95 avg rating — 255,009 ratings

"I love Judy Blume. She made me a lover of books and I always wanted to grow up and be a writer just like her. She is a rite of passage for me and forever will be associated with growing up."

4.45 avg rating — 164,570 ratings

"The first adult book I read in 7th grade and loved, even when I thought I would not be able to get through it. I have my 7th/8th grade teacher, Ms. Sanchez, to thank for introducing me to so many books that were not necessarily kid's books."

3.88 avg rating — 348,995 ratings

"This book is just special to me. Another one of those books that forever cemented my love of reeading as I was growing up."