This book left a huge impression on Leslie when a dog has to choose between two owners.

This independent reading laboratory kit published by McGraw Hill in 1957 was used in several of Leslie's elementary classrooms to promote independent reading development and was the bane of Leslie's existence in reading classes.

Virginia Lee Burton's book, set in the fictitious town of Popperville, was read to Leslie many times during her early elementary school years.

This story, penned by E. B. White, captured Leslie's interest in third grade.

The excitement of sneaking past Nazi soldiers kept Leslie's interest in this book by Marie McSwigan.

In an unprecedented all nighter, Leslie read this 1992 book by Robert James Waller about an Italian woman living on a farm in Iowa in the 1960s in its entirety.

Thornton W. Burgess created this location to be the home of such fictitious characters as Buster Bear, Little Joe Otter, and Blacky the Crow in the series Leslie recalls as her earliest memories of reading.