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Watchers, was it Koontz's first? Great read for that age. Classic good vs evil, and good was a golden retreiver.
I think I was 7 when enthralled by A Wrinkle in Time. By 11, more classics (Dickens, Betty Smith Joy in the Morning, A Tree Groes in Brooklyn, Austen, Bronte).