I have the Golden Compass series on my TBR list for this year( I only read the first book when I was a kid) so I started thinking about the books I remember loving when I was younger, adolescent to high school mostly with some elementary thrown in. They're not necessarily in order of likeability.

but really young:

Elementary Age:

1. Where the Wild Things Are
2. The Boxcar Children
3. The Babysitters Club
4. Little House on the Prairie

Adolescent:

1. Redwall
2. Anne of Green Gables( I never finished all of the books in the series, I still have to read some of the later books, but I read up to when she was in college and married Gilbert).
3. Dragonriders of Pern
4. The Phantom Tollbooth
5. Nancy Drew
6. Most Mercedes Lackey books because I started getting into reading fantasy mostly through Anne Mccaffrey, Mercedes Lackey and Redwall books.
7. Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman.

Higschool

1. Little Women
2. Mary Higgins Clark mystery books
3. I started reading romance novels in high school so putting stuff by Nora Roberts in here too, because I read a lot of Nora Roberts towards the end of high school.
4. Same for Outlander though I only read the first/2nd book in the series.

Adolescence/High School:

1. His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman
2. The Bartimaeus Sequence, Jonathan Stroud. The comedy was always good fun.
3. Skulduggery Pleasant series, Derek Landy. I loved the humor, and it could always make me laugh even when things looked grim.
4. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster. The universe was so frenetic and absurd, it felt like someone frantically writing down their dream upon waking before it slipped from their memory. Even now, something about these types of stories is very relatable; Spirited Away had very much a similar feeling, though the latter was much scarier.

Looked up the skulduggery series, and it sounds like a pretty cool series. It's not a series I'm familiar with, I graduated high school in 2003 so when the series started I was a college student so I wasn't the age range it was meant for, but the idea of a skeleton detective sounds pretty cool.