Danny Dunn was great. Also, The Magical Flight to the Mushroom Planet and its first sequel. Read those to tatters. And the "Alvin" books (Alvin's Secret Code, T

Danny Dunn was great. Also, The Magical Flight to the Mushroom Planet and its first sequel. Read those to tatters. And the "Alvin" books (Alvin's Secret Code, The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald). Then I discovered Robert Heinlein's juveniles... Our little town's library had a checked-out-book limit of six, I think. One time I just couldn't decide, and went to the counter with a stack of ten books, prepared to make a case. Instead, the librarian just smiled and stamped them all. I think I made her day.