In 2009 I came across #5 in garage and started reading it. At the time we had 5,6,9,11,12,13,14,16,17,20-23,27,28, 41, and TAC (my brother was 8 when they first came out) Then maybe a year later my dad's friend from work had a son that used to read them when he was a kid and he gave them to us, so now we had 1,2,3,4,10,29-35, 40, 43,44,46,48,49,and 50.The next batch we got from a book fair: 7,8,15,18,19,24,26,36, MM2 and MM4. That was it for a couple of years, I would just reread my favourites from time to time, and I borrowed MM1 and 3 from my school library.
Fast forward 3 years later, 2014, I reread the whole series(the ones that I had) and became obsessed. I looked for that website about yeerks on google and somehow found the RAF ebooks place.
In my collection I was missing 25,37,38,39,42,45,,47,51-54, TEC, THBC, MM1,MM3, V and the alternamorphs.
So I read 25 an 37 in ebook format and then my dad told me he would buy them off eBay. By the end of the year the only ones I didn't have were TEC, V and Alternamorphs 2. So I went back to the ebooks but they were taken down
. The local library didn't have them so I still don't know what happened to Marco's mum.
Side note: #45 is the only UK edition I have so it looks really weird on the shelf (I got that one from eBay). Also I didn't memorize which books I got when, we have a piece of paper with the numbers 1-54 on it and every time we got a book we crossed out the number. The crosses are in different coloured pens so I worked out which books we had first.
Other books left over from my brothers childhood are Goosebumps (which I have the whole Horrorland series) and 3 books from Spooksville by Christopher Pike- which are really good. Maybe I'll get the rest of them.
