What book did you read as a youth that affected you emotionally?

Question

I read "Beat the turtle drum" by Constance C. Greene, and I cried when Joss died.

Answer 1

I read Charlotte's Web and cried and cried - it is the most beautiful story about friendship and giving up everything for the people you love. Worth reading again as an adult.

Answer 2

There were a few for me. There was Bridge to Terabithia. I was also affected emotionally by this book called The Pinballs by Betsy Byars, about children in a foster home. And another book about animals in a forest called The Song of the Pentecost. With You and Without You by Ann M. Martin, about a girl whose father died. And Come A Stranger by Cynthia Voigt. I cried when I read all of these books at some point. There were just some touching moments.

Answer 3

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred Taylor

I read that book in Junior High. It was an emotionally charged book.

Answer 4

The Contender

Answer 5

A Light in the Forest. I cried at the end.

Ah, memories.

Answer 6

April Morning

Answer 7

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach...Read it for the first time when I was about 11 or 12, that awkward age. Very meaningful book that teaches that it's okay to not "follow the flock". Find yourself, march to your own drummer, seek to go higher and you can. Still read it occasionally to this day, thirty odd years later!!!

Answer 8

I read Marching Powder by Rusty Young. It effected me alot. I'll recommend it to you. Atleast skim over it. Its a gem of a book!

Answer 9

The Man of La Mancha. I read it when I was eight. It showed me that "literature" could be wonderfully amazing, instead of that baby stuff they usually fobbed off on us.

That was when I was really turned on to reading...and I haven't stopped in the following 46 years. Any book that's well written enough to get that movie going in my head is a real pleasure to read. (Yes, even the scary ones.)

Answer 10

I usually don't cry doing books, but in Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life, in Chapter Two, I cried so hard I could scarcely see.

Answer 11

Winnetoo, when I was 12. I also cried when he died...
At 17, I was deeply impressed after reading Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye". I identified myself with Holden so, that I simply wrote down in my diary: "me, me, me".