Books from 2001 | Re-reading 6th Grade Favourites

[@alliramsay1328]

Robbie being proud of his wrapping is the most wholesome thing ever.

[@amillirockin]

“this was inside out the whole time and you didn’t tell me?” i’m sorry kayla😭

[@jillypepper_]

amily t lol I felt guilty when she called us out 🥺

[@WonderfulAlice1]

Me: Liam, don’t drop that snowboard Liam: drops the snowboard

[@TheJabberCrew]

Every mom understands that situation all too well 😂

[@ashleypaige]

In 6th grade, my teacher had a "reading nook" in the back corner of our classroom. It had a beanbag chair, a bowl chair and a little indoor hammock, plus several little bookshelves. During free time, we could go read in the nook. She also periodically gifted books to students for good behaviour. I received "Ghost Stories of Pets and Animals by Darren Zenko." I still have it. We also had a class iguana named Eugene. He had a rotating schedule of kids to clean his enclosure and take him for walks around the school halls on a little iguana leash and I loved him a whole heckin lot. Btw, I adore the intro to the Falalala videos

[@kasskim9644]

kayla with blonde hair ? i cant even see that omg

[@BooksandLala]

46:27 bb ☺️

[@nathanielluscombe5277]

It personally doesn't bother me when older books are 'problematic' because it's an accurate representation of the time it was written and to ignore that or deem it bad or not fit to read might make things turn around again. It's good to be aware of how far we've come so that we don't go backwards.

[@1215926]

Nathaniel Luscombe 100%

[@taylorgayhart9497]

I agree but I also think that means that those books should no longer be read by children without a further discussion on why they’re bad. Literature is such an important part about learning history, because it’s how you learn about the people themselves, and how they lived and what they believed. It’s important to keep those works around to further the discussion, and to continue to learn from the past, but if they’re read without guidance it could lead young minds in the wrong direction.

[@emmamilliken8634]

Robbie yelling at you that you’re pretty is honestly so cute and I really wish I had someone who did that to me

[@crystalsbookishlife]

Liam's showing his cardboard nintendo things was so precious ❤

[@mennaz646]

an HOUR a Christmas present

[@BulldogsAndBooks]

In regards to the memory of popcorn reading Harry Potter: that is how everyone pronounced Hermione name in 2001. JK Rowling herself had to add a pronunciation guide in the 4th book because no one knew how to say it.

[@LoniD26]

Holds up the book Replica while there’s another book in the background named Replica also

[@librarysays3056]

I hold my pens the “wrong” way too! And they alllllways tried to correct me. Whatever. Still doing it wrong at 28 years old 🤷‍♀️ Love this vlog!!

[@komaedacoffee4298]

I think when you hold it wrong you write neatly

[@taylorgayhart9497]

So random but I cut my finger this morning, and I’ve been trying to write the “right way” today because it hurts, but I just caaaaaan’t lol

[@roxanebarbey1394]

We hold a pen the same way!! I feel seen and understood :D

[@Nesquiklook]

UGH Save the Last Dance is one of those movies that has SHAPED me as a human. Definitely one of my favorites as well. That and Coyote Ugly lol

[@theartstudios4090]

"What were you up to in 2001?" - Kayla "Being born" - Me

[@stephanielemieux5319]

My first thought : 2001?! What are you doing online?! When I realise you're turning 19 this year : 😶

[@lineswonderland]

Samee, 2001 child here

[@cannibal-picnic2655]

Same here

[@taylorgayhart9497]

@@stephanielemieux5319 I did the same thing lol

[@wickerlibrary]

you looked so much like liam when you were younger oh my goodness that resemblance is insane! i haven't even watched the entire video yet but i already know i'll love it

[@wickerlibrary]

lala: "my hair is naturally blonde." me: * pauses the video and has to take in that information as slowly as possible * WAAAA?

[@hanaryo8896]

Oh my GOOOSH I hold my pens the same way and my teachers and parents always hated it lol. I, however, ALSO always had the neatest handwriting in my class, so clearly it's not that bad haha

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

IT is GIANT and all the other books are tiny 😂 love that

[@ACupOfBooks]

I’ve been rereading animorphs all this year when I’ve been either in a reading slump or when I’m too tired to take on a new read. I’ve got through 14 this year and they are so much fun! Silly and repetitive but so much fun 🙂

[@thatblvckhippie1911]

I'm a simple girl. I see my name on the thumbnail, I click 😂😂 Been watching you for years and it never clicked that we had the same name 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@catchats]

your memory honestly shocks me I can't even remember what I liked or wore or did last year

[@metamorphoses8928]

So you were prononcing Hermione the French way without realizing it? Evidently your classmates didn't know what being classy meant ;)

[@froncifresh]

I think that's how any non-english spealing person ever pronounces it lol

[@pyrilamine]

I pronounced it the same way until I saw the first movie!! Lol. It's not a common name!

[@koritsi2142]

@@froncifresh in the German version, they even changed Hermione to Hermine, because that's an actual German name xD

[@gabbyreads]

Oh my gosh I love this vlog so so so much. It must be so fun taking a trip down memory lane for these videos! I appreciate all the effort that goes into them, they are so fun to watch! Also hell yes Donnie Darko is the shit! I can’t believe you read It at such a young age that’s so awesome! 😅

[@taylorgayhart9497]

Idk why but I find it shocking you’re blonde!!! You found the perfect color for you, seriously it’s beautiful and SO natural looking! I knew you dyed it but Idk why I thought your natural color was close to this! Lol

[@ReadByJess]

Okay I genuinely believed you didn't have a birth certificate and now I feel silly

[@Ladililn]

So did I! 😂 to be fair, my mom's birth certificate has been lost, so I knew it could happen...

[@sandiweyl]

Animorphs was my thing 4th-6th grade. They were always my library choices, I owned a collection of them. I still do, and plan on passing them on/reading them with my kids!

[@sarahdizon4751]

Yes!! I loved Replica! I have very strong memories of getting them from the Library and I know I read them out of order, I have no clue which ones I read and didn't read. I did read the first one, I recognize the cover. I am so so happy that someone else read these and loved them around the same age as me!! ETA: I looked up the series and there are 24 books!

[@Koloshow]

Great thumbnail by the way, I have a sneaky suspicion you're super proud of it lol.

[@yvetteb.4549]

I had that same velvet dress in burgundy with a white lace shirt underneath and a jean vest 😂😂😂 I loved it so much 😅

[@rebeccaseahorn1514]

Replica was my favorite series growing up! I still have the entire series.

[@forever.farrell]

I loved Animorphs growing up! One of the books (I'm not sure which one) stuck with me so much that I still think about a line and a mental image that it created in my mind to this day. 😂 It was about a bug of some sort and how someone would plant the insect in your ear to form a cesspool to alter brainwaves? Whenever I see a bug close to my head now, I plug my ears. 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

[@huda9445]

What I love the most about this video is that you don’t have the scary cover of IT , so I can watch comfortably and without flinching so thank you 🙏.

[@ashstar7495]

I was having a panic attack last week. I started watching one of your vlogs because I've always found then so calming and relaxing. I know that's not why you do them it's your channel and you do things for your own reasons which I 100% respect but I just wanted to thank you so much. I've been watching your channel for years now and when I make a new youtube account cause I lost my password or for whatever reason you're always one of the first channels I subscribe to. I don't always read the same genres that you do but your booktube channel is my favorite. Thank you.

[@joshuatreadway9936]

omg i was just watching all your old blogs because i needed something longer to watch, what a great time to upload this! lol

[@Aftin148]

I actually re-read like the first 6 animorph books this year and loved them. lol Tobias is by far my favorite character

[@jessm2913]

I LOVE this series so much! 6th grade I discovered my love of reading and it was because I discovered the baby sitters club books. Wasn't until 7th or 8th grade that I read my first King book.

[@laurafisher868]

I’ve been really enjoying your re-reading videos because I used to live in the same region when I was about the same age(s), so I was reading some of the same things while visiting some of the same places! For example, I injured my wrist while exiting that ice skating pond in grade 4 and had to figure out how to read one-handed for a period of time. It’s been fun for me to show my husband some of the places I remember from my childhood through your videos, so thank you for sharing!

[@FromJessToYou]

In 2001 ... I was in 10th Grade. I had to have one of those finger correcters too -- but when I was in 5th Grade. That dolphin is AWESOME!

[@youwillneverknow7165]

Oh my god Replica gave me such vivid flashbacks I've literally never heard anyone else talk about it but I was obsessed with that series for a good long while even though I probably read it a good decade after you did

[@phoenixrises626]

That's so interesting to hear your perspective on 9/11. I was also in 6th grade, live in America and it was a whole thing. We were able to leave school early and my friend's mom took me to my mom's work. Shortly after, we had a fake bomb threat (a kid's clock in a locker, but everyone was on high alert). It'd also so weird to think that kids at a certain age will read this in their history books and I was actually a part of it. So surreal!

[@ClaireRousseau]

I'm with Robbie on Christmas wrapping, lol! When I was little, me and my grandad would always wrap gifts together and he would do lots of flourishes with the paper - like a little accordion fold on the front with the gift tag tucked into it - so I always think of him when I wrap a perfect present.

[@natsbookshelf]

Watching some old videos. Kayla, you are an entire mood!

[@natsbookshelf]

Lol you wrap presents exactly like I do. AS LONG AS YOU CANT SEE THE PRESENT 🤣

[@kelley.s]

I hold a pen the same way as you!! Overly excited but I've never seen anyone else hold a pen like that

[@amberinoface]

your wrapping style is my wrapping style and i respect that

[@elsbethhh]

I hold my pen like that too and always had the neatest handwriting!!

[@beckyduff]

My husband wrapped gifts one year and he did an amazing job! I try to be that nice and neat with my wrapping then I get impatient and I am like you, if you can't see the present, you did your job. My bookshelf will also be full of unicorns like your moms haha. I have that stay magical unicorn but as a notebook, not a journal.

[@RobertaMargo]

Found your channel a few days ago and been watching the videos ever since. Not gonna lie, you're probably my favorite youtube discovery this year.

[@courtneyc8054]

Would love to see an overly specific book recommendations video on Everest/mountain/hiking books that you've loved, a genre I have recently discovered I love after reading Dead Mountain and Into Thin Air! Love your videos :)

[@MaoMaoAi8]

Seeing Replica as the first book sent so many waves of nostalgia for me. I think I read this also in 6th grade, maybe a tad earlier like 5th? I remember being so sucked into it. It was definitely a staying up all night at the cost of sleep read. Thank you for sending me down memory lane~

[@MoodyMegReads]

6th grade me was reading R.L Stine and Stephen King too 😂🤦‍♀️

[@hardbackhoarder]

your wrapping hurt my soul tbh lmao i am a perfectionist when it comes to wrapping and robbie's were *chefs kiss*

[@FourPawsandaBook]

Yay for a Lala video while I organize my bookshelves!

[@TaraSwiger1]

Omg! I got black velvet pants in 8th grade that I wore right until I landed at college (2001). AND I’ve gotten my husband Heatonist sauces each year. He loves it. That Los Calientes is a favorite of EVERYONE! (The Classic is also great and not too spicy)

[@desertrose0601]

Yep. I got a bookish mug. It was a cute chibi Harry Potter mug. So adorable. Makes me want to reread the series.

[@laurabender1894]

This video is everything 🙌🏻 I’m your age and definitely remember the Animorphs. And thank you for sharing your Christmas week with your guys! So cozy and fun to watch while I’m stuck on a night shift at work ☺️

[@scrapgirl82]

OMG I just bought that mug for myself today AND I have that same black and white sweater you’re wearing (except mine’s right-side-out LOLOL)! I feel like one of the cool kids now!

[@13swimchick]

These are my favorite videos you do!!!! Please keep them up!

[@alliluh]

"peregrine falcon" pshhhh it was a red-tailed hawk! get ur animorphs lore right robby! but all honesty, love this video and this idea! seeing you read animorphs was a blast to the past!

[@bleedingblueporcelain9560]

The porcelain masks lol I collected them too😅 they really creeped my school friends out and I eventually stopped displaying them. My family called them mardi gra masks I don’t know if that’s right or not but I always thought they were cool 😎 Anyway, love these series you do. Makes me remember and very nostalgic. Weirdly I think we were the same kid 🙃 I wish we could have seen a 13 days of beer taste testing with Robby! That was a great idea! Happy new year 🎈🎈🎈✌🏻

[@ritajlwang]

Omg the braided "curly" hair! I did the exact same thing. The 90s kid struggle.

[@jakeraterman8308]

we hold pens the same way! I used to get in trouble but my handwriting turned out really neat anyways! Shows them

[@kimberd9]

Oh my god!!! I loved the island series! I read them in the sixth grade and finished sooooo quickly! I don’t know anyone else who’ve heard of these books/author so I got way too excited when I saw you talking about them 😂

[@leadinglady]

I can see so much of you in Liam after you showed the 6th grade photo! That’s crazyyyyy. I am not motherly at all, so I always have trouble “seeing the parents in the kid” but that photo definitely made me see it idk why.

[@gomiho91]

Oh my god! I forgot about those Gordon Korman books! I looooooved them! I also got a mug for Christmas of a peeping cat that says "I'm silently correcting your grammar." Very on brand.

[@TheAxineea2]

I usually feel sooo sad after Christmas, but thanks God that you invented the 12th days of Lala videos!!!!

[@Lizalieu]

I had that ceramic mask with the purple too! I thought it was the prettiest thing ever.

[@timeforemilysopinion]

I love your "rereading childhood faves" videos. This vlog is such a nostalgia trip! I also got super into mountain climbing and survival in sixth grade (with no desire to actually experience either of those things myself)-- Korman's Everest and Island trilogies, Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain, etc. I was in 4th grade during 9/11 and had almost the same experience you did: I got to school and everyone was talking about what they saw on the news, but I had no idea what was going on or what the "twin towers" were. Then I remember in class my teacher put the news on our class TV (which seems sort of wildly inappropriate to me now?) and she cried while we did the Pledge of Allegiance... It's funny that I know I had no idea of the significance of the event at that age, yet I still remember the day so clearly. The juxtaposition of your wrapping style to Robbie's! 🤣

[@AbiofPellinor]

I love this! I wish either me or my parents had kept more of a document of what I read as a kid. I have a vague idea but nothing concrete sadly. And these are so much fun to watch! Maybe one day I'll do the research for my own and make a video!

[@itjessme6746]

I love that in the preview of the next video you can tell which book it is that Kayla is talking about

[@pebna-jay]

Oh Gordon Korman! My middle school teacher read Everest out loud to us and I missed the last day because I was sick and was so mad! I decided a year later to just get the whole series but it wasn't available on amazon so I ended up getting the Island one instead and loved it. Got dive as well and never read past the first few chapters, but I do really remember the one character that could only see in black and white which helped him find treasures underwater somehow.

[@annajo6576]

Ok so you were always creative and lovely. Also omg a starfish would be the WORST animal to morph into hahaha

[@Ilove77bvb]

YES YES YES so excited to watch this one!! An hour long!!!

[@bethwamsley8903]

My husband is the exact same way as Robbie in terms of wrapping. I usually end up letting him wrap. He's so much better at them.

[@lifefullofwords]

I was definitely into the Replica books around the same age! I had forgotten all about them. What a trip.

[@astellus]

I put just as much effort into Christmas as you do. I enjoy it to an extent, but really couldn't be arsed. Also, I feel that first time having to buy adult clothes as a kid deep in my soul. I was crushed when I knew I needed to size up.

[@shaylynmakenzi3355]

I’ve never watched a video as soon as it came out... this is so exciting! I literally stopped watching the video I was watching to watch this right away 😂😂

[@mushroomc0re]

When I was in 3rd to 6th grade (2009-2012) the middle grade I read was much the same as replica without many expections but I've noticed the same change with middle grade with my little sister. There are so many more graphic novels now and so many more books that feel like they were written with the fact that middle schoolers are a lot smarter than people give them credit for

[@janamorais267]

I started to read IT and I'm loving it! Tbh I thought I would get bored because it's too many pages but I am actually enjoying it.

[@JustJillianLinnea]

I also collected those masks!! I found a few in a box recently and had a good laugh about what was considered cool to own back then😂

[@xeroxicides]

i read harry potter avidly as a child and it wasn't until the first movie came out that i found out that her name was not pronounced her-me-own

[@boypaws]

im so excited to hear your opinion of animorphs (i’m abt 20 mins into the video as i write this). im autistic & i started reading animorphs in 3rd grade (7 years old) & it was my special interest for 2 years and i’m still a little bit obsessed with the series. i just picked up the first volume of the graphic novel and im super excited to read it!!

[@vw7010]

I would try this! But in sixth grade I was reading stuff like divergent and the fallen series, and I’m honestly afraid to reread them. Especially the fallen series. Hot garbage incarnate.

[@peggysue7242]

I had been thinking of that series and was convinced I had made it up because NO ONE had read it or known what I was talking about. I read the Replica series and Animorphs around the same time. ❤️❤️❤️

[@FabulousFrostine]

I HOLD MY PENCILS LIKE THAT TOO! 😱 Also, I pronounced "idiot" wrong when I was reading The Whipping Boy out loud in class. And it occurs to me that no one could correct me 😂

[@PaigeyMg]

Loved this video so much!! ❤🙌🏼 I also got some books for Christmas and a gift card to a bookshop that I love :)

[@desertrose0601]

Yeah and literally EVERYONE was reading Harry Potter that year. Even me who was in college. So yeah, not just people your age. So many people were reading it that I remember it even making the national news about how much it was getting people back into reading. That series single-handedly revived the middle grade / YA genres. When the next books would come out, it was like an iPhone launch. People would literally line up overnight to buy them. I cannot overstate how freaking hyped these books were among everyone in the early 2000’s. It might not seem like it was much through your kid’s memories, but it was seriously one of the most hyped things I think I’ve ever seen in my lifetime.

[@keepyourheadup9183]

Omg -- I’m officially KZbin certified - I got the context of both those hot sauces. I need to read more.

[@aimeegruenwald814]

I was OBSESSED with those Replica books! I think I read maybe...4 of them? Sometime in 6th grade (like 1998ish).

[@TotallyRedonkulous]

your editing is giving me life

[@Elix90]

OOOOOOHHH!! I read both Replica and Animorphs! In swedish! In the translation the replica sereis was litterary called Cloned, so there was not a whole lot of mystery there. I mostly remember stuff from the first book, the fire and her mom saving her, but I know I have encountered multiple Amys, so I must have read a couple. And I loved the Animorphs series. Loved it! Especially the one where they all turn into dolphines. It kind of has it all, crazy-ass aliens, teenage angst, invasion of the body snatchers, fun times with animals, un-subtle romance, diversity and shapeshifting. It's eveything I love! Gad damn, now I want to reread it and I have NO CLUE where to find a mid-90s YA-sereis in Sweden in 2020 O.O

[@keepyourheadup9183]

What is the red-covered book called “Replica” on the shelf next to your Christmas tree? I noticed it as you were talking about The “Replica” novel you read. I chuckled at the coincidence.

[@jillypepper_]

Jenny Stange I was looking at this the whole time too! Pretty sure it’s by Lauren Oliver. I remember Kayla talking about it at some point!

[@louisacoote2337]

I’m currently re-reading Little Women before the film comes out. I’d forgotten loads of events from the book, like Jo and Marmee having a talk about having a temper and how to manage it. It’s made me cry more than I thought it would!

[@ashleyblois]

Oh my gosh. My mom loved those masks and she had so many on the wall in our hallway. I remember multiple friends telling me they were creepy haha.

[@romantiqpretzel]

I hold pens the same way! And I didn't realize it was weird till I was in high school and finally noticed how others held pens lmao

[@brittanyr0613]

I vaguely remember seeing the covers for Replica but I didn’t read them. I think I’d bought one of the Everest books from the scholastic fair but never read it and honestly nothing has changed. 😂 I think I became obsessed with the black stallion series and the babysitters club books in 6th grade.

[@electricharps]

Oh my gosh, I can totally relate to the 'holding the pen wrong, but having the neatest writing' thing. People tried to correct me all throughout childhood and still seem shocked whenever they notice, but yeah who cares!

[@Iniysa47]

My favorite Gordon Korman books are the Boots and Bruno series. It's about two boys in a Canadian boarding school who cant help pranking everyone and getting into as much mischief as possible. Then there is the girls boarding school just across the street... :)

[@StarsAboveJess]

I totally forgot about those Everest books! I was obsessed with everything by that author, Dive was my favorite one as a kid. I’m going to try to track them down also!

[@paperback_cat]

haha I had to have one of those stupid pencil grips too and they wouldn't let me move onto pen for ages! I read the first few Harry Potter books to my younger siblings, and I pronounced it her-me-oh-nee the whole time. Replica makes me think about Call Down the Hawk :) My partner uses double-sided tape when he wraps his presents so that they're perfect with no tape visible lol