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Books that shaped me 🌸📚

Early childhood

Haunted Canada

Smile by Raina Telgemeier

Charlottes Web by B.White

City of ember by Jeanne DuPrau

witches by roald dahl

Middle school

a liars truth by internetpistol

Four years by lettersinpetals

Frankenstein‘s monster by starbeyy

sinners by anonymous

—> (During middle school, I traded books for fanfiction, diving deep into angst, romance, and drama, which surprisingly shaped both my personal growth and future reading preferences.)

High school

Better then the movies

The inheritance games

Haunting Adeline

The red palace

Good girls guid to murder

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