Book with biggest impact . . .

Last month when I had a live chat over at Readergirlz, the questions were flying fast and furious and I didn't get a chance to answer them all. One particularly stopped me:

Which book has made the biggest impact on you?

Hm. That is a BIG question. Considering the hundreds of books I have read, how do I choose one? Where to start? And then an unlikely choice came into my head--a book I hadn't thought about in years--of all things, a basal reader. The old whole language reading teacher in me recoi