Feature Follow Friday: Undiscovered Talent

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Question of the Week

Tell us about a book you loved but no one else seems to have heard of. It can be new, or old, or any genre. Let's spread the love.

~Becky's Barmy Book Blog

The first three books that comes to my mind are as follows (in no particular order):

The Silver Brumby series by Elyne Mitchell

I had almost forgotten about this series. I read this way back in primary school, possible in the first couple of years of my move to Australia. My English was sketchy at best but I could string together enough words to make a sentence (and stumble my way through a book). This was possibly the third series I picked up - first being Harry Potter (because that was what we were reading in class) and the second being The Babysitter's Club (because I was handed down a large secondhand collection of this series). I fell in love with horses then and there. Even now, years down the track, I still think this is a fairly magical book - deep enough to enchant adults but simple enough to be read to children as a bedside story.

Jacko Moran: Sniper by Ken Catran

This was the first war novel I read. And after all these years, I still think back to this one every now and then. It's out-of-print now, so I can't reread it even if I wanted to. All I remember is what really caught me is the epilogue, with a line that goes something like "war didn't kill me but peace did." I wish more people knew about this book. 

Holes by Louis Sachar

I had several repeated "first" experiences with this book. The first time, I believe it was my grade six class read. Back then, I just couldn't get into being read to in class. I had no idea  what my teacher was reading to me (now, in retrospect, I realized it was all the alternating between the past and present that confused me). A couple of years later, whilst in high school, I picked up this book again, thinking I was reading it for the first time. It wasn't until halfway through the book when I got a sense of deja vu and realized I had read it before. Then, final year of high school, our class trip to the cinema was to watch a movie called Holes and stupid me, I didn't connect the dots until about one-third of the way through when they started digging. :D

So yes, these are the three books I wish more people knew about. Which book did you pick this week?