Hardy Boys

As a child ?
- Story about a Red Setter dog and all the mischief he got into.
As a teen ?.... Probably something t.v. related. Maybe The tomorrow people by Roger Price ?
Teens with special powers fighting evil whether from Earth or elsewhere.

Trixie Belden

It was a little book of Jannathastakam in m mother tongue
a spiritual hymn
I've it and I was practicing daily since as early I can remember
in childhood mat be I was some three

Pretty sure it was a Hardy Boys novel but it also could have been The Mouse and the Motorcycle. 🤔

A ratty dog-eared old copy of

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia. (All volumes)

Junie b Jones

Jane Eyre

The Hobbit is the first proper book I remember

No that’s been so long ago

As an adult, I think maybe James Patterson’s The Lifeguard