I loved the Earthsea Trilogy as a real young adult (20’s); I won’t re-read it because I’m afraid I won’t enjoy it as much in my bitter and cynical old age.
Long and tedious story; I originally joined before the board went pay-to-post, but let my membership lapse. I came back (to find some information on “orange”), found out the board was free again, and created a new account, and arranged with the Mods to clean up the potential sock issue (which wasn’t really an issue, because the usernames were so similar).
But I used to post here when some people would always type the posts in a text edit application first, in case the board crashed. These were very well-reasoned and polished posts.
First six Trixie books were by Julie Campbell; others were by various people using the pen name Kathryn Kenny (shades of Stratemeyer!). Never read any Famous Five or Seccret Seven books, but I love the “[Location] of Adventure” series (especially Castle and Valley) and the Malory Towers series. And I really, really wish Stirling would write a sequel to Conquistador…
Re-read it. There are more layers in it, and you can appreciate them now. You might want to skip Tehanu, though.
If a YA book is worth reading as a kid, then it’s worth re-reading as an adult, because there are almost always more layers that you missed. It’s like the old cartoons that had all sorts of sly references that you didn’t get as a kid.