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Quiet Girl dies a heroic death and then becomes Angel Warrior It is a YA fantasy i think The first chapter is about this girl who feel trapped in her life, her husband fiance she doesn't find attractive and she is hating life. She doesn't work and just does charity work and her husband is having an affair i think. She is on a bridge where there is a car crash and she heroically climbs into a car that is about to fall off the edge of the bride, to rescue a little girl. She successfully rescues the girl but as she tries to get out, the car tips out and she dies. When she gets to heaven, because of her heroic death she can choose if she wants to become a warrior angel or she can go to the after life. Against recommendations she chooses warrior. The book is about her learning to fight and overcoming her small mousy self. That is all I really remember, it was on my kindle, on my dads account so I have no way of finding it. Any help would be greatly appreciated ) EDIT 1 Thank you everyone for your suggestions, unfortunately the hunt is still on for this book. I will let you know if i can think of any more details ) EDIT 2 Book has been found, thank you for all your help! It is called "Winged" by L.M.Pruitt for anyone wishing to read

Sci fi fantasy set in a post apocalpyptic universe I'm trying to remember the title author of a book I read around 10 years ago. It began with the escape of a subject from some kind of experimental facility. The dude then infected everyone he came into contact with and turned them into dangerous entities. People had to seek refuge in special compounds with spotlights but powering the lights forced the protagonists to venture outside to find parts for generators. I got halfway into it when a sub plot went off in a weird direction about some old woman who lived on a remote mountain. I stopped reading it at that point but would love to give it another go as it was extremely well written with a fascinating plot. I think it had a one word title and the author was male but aside from that I'm drawing a blank. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Kaballah Oriented Thriller about End of Days? This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but about 10 years ago I read a book and I can't find the name or author. It's about a group of people who discover that there are places in the world that are like 'energy centers' and that if enough people believe that the world is going to end, it will. It's got a lot of Kabbalah oriented content and it was such a good book. It reminded me a lot of 'The Eight' by Katherine Neville. I would so appreciate re finding that book.

25 30 year Old Fantasy Book Series. Going mad trying to remember it Hi all, Need some help trying to remember a fantasy book or series that I read when I was a kid. Ive tried all sorts to remember it. Its probably 30 years old, maybe more. I don't have much to go on. Its a about a group of people creatures that get split up. I believe time travel or alternate universes realities are involved somehow. But the key ingredient is the Human Male lead character and a Female spiderling type creature in his party are romantically involved somehow and its brought up often, their feelings toward one another. I believe the Male lead character had a daughter who he gets separated from and is trying to find. That's all I have, its one of those I remember it but don't at the same time type deals. hopefully someone out there knows of it, The male lead characters name is Clive, it just hit me. Thanks everyone

The plot involves these kids in a cult who try to escape It's basically where these children (and adults) are in this desolate place where they are living with this one man in charge of everything from the food coming in to who leaves. There's this girl who thinks it's sus and tries to escape. Oh there's also this guy who managed to infiltrate and like was a secret spy agent but got killed by the cult leader. amp x200B All I remember is the word fire in the title and the girl manages to escape alongside like two other people. They were in the hospital because when they escaped a fire happened as it was a raid by like the police ish?? One of the boys kiled himseld and remained devote to this cult and this other girl was realising how dodgy it was and the narrative of the book was like her talking to the detectives and her life in the cult place. amp x200B This is a very badly written plot but it's all I can remember, I read it like three years ago and just remembered it.

YA fiction, yellow cover, a worldwide game I believe I read this in the early to mid 2010s. I remember it was a thick book, and the cover was yellow with just the title in gold or black letters. It featured people around the world competing, I think trying to find something? Each chapter followed a different competitor I remember there was a Japanese or Haitian character who was in an earthquake when their chapter opened. Also, not sure if everything happened at the same time. I may be confusing it with another book, but I think each of the competitors lived in a different time period, yet were in the same competition for the same prize. I also remember reading some of the introductory pages and finding out that the competition is actually real there is something out there for people to find and if they win, they get a prize. It would've ended in 2020, I think.

Looking for a YA Dystopian book. Details on it seem fuzzy. SOLVED! SOLVED! SOLVED! I posted about this in r tipofmytongue and was recommended to cross post it here. In light of recent world events, I was reminded of a dystopian book I read some time around 2009 2010 ish. I only finished half of it and can't quite remember why I put it down. It had a good story to it. I just found it really weird that the state of things in the US made me remember this book. The book follows a freedom fighter named Biggs, and he's helping a girl look for her dad. There is a revolution going on and the government starts getting more aggressive to end it. It all started as a peaceful protest, but then escalates after some get violent and attack a radio station to hurt the media. The bad guys are called 15. It was a paperback. The cover was like a photo of train tracks and the back cover had the characters drawn in almost like an anime style. The word "Summer" was definitely in the title. But googling what little other details and terms I can recall turn up nothing familiar. I'm under the impression this was an indie book. Any help is appreciated. I feel like I should find this book again and finish it, because I'm seriously regretting not having done so back then.

Children's horror anthology 90s? Girl scarred by friendship necklace, boy in love with werewolf Emily I read this as a child in the mid 2000s but it was quite old by that time, most likely from the 1990s. My memories of the book are pretty vague, these are the only stories I recall A boy is in love with a girl called Emily who turns out to be a werewolf, she was involved in some kind of war with another group (vampires? Enemy werewolves?) IIRC the story ended with him asking to be turned into a werewolf so he could help her out A story based around surfing (that's the only detail I can remember unfortunately) A girl befriends an unpopular new student but soon regrets it because she is so clingy and suffocating. The protagonist eventually breaks off the friendship. After a while, the other girl moves but gives the protagonist a friendship necklace as a present. The necklace suddenly starts choking the protagonist and she tries to cut it off with a razor, resulting in scars that spell out the other girl's name

Ya book where guy pulls Excalibur out of book Been trying to find a book about a guy who can pull items out of books. Like Excalibur out of the legend of aurthur books or the sword from the hobbit. And he has a friend thats like a tree druid type thing

A children's book about a boy and his tricycle pretending it is various cars. This was a children's book that I had as a kid in the very early 80s, possibly late 70s. It is also quite likely that it was a hand me down from one of my cousins, which would place it in the mid 70s. I grew up in the UK, but the book had an American 'feel' to it, so it could be British, American or possibly Canadian. My mom thinks the boy was called Toby, but this is by no means certain. She also thinks the book had a name like Toby's Tricycle or Toby's Trike, but she readily admits this might be a false memory, and I can't find anything by this name on Google. The story is about a kid who has a tricycle, possibly red in color. The kid is pestering his mother, who is working in the kitchen. She is complaining that he is getting in her way while she's trying to work. He is riding his tricycle around the kitchen, pretending that it is various cars. Each page is a double spread showing a car with the kid driving it, and a short passage of text with him explaining to his mother what car it is and what he's doing, something like 'Now it's a taxi, and I am picking you up from the train station'. When you turn the page, there is another double spread of a different car and accompanying imaginary scenario. That's all I remember any ideas?

Kids book about Asian girl escaping persecution with family So I m trying to find a book I read in like elementary school I believe. This book would ve been from the late 90s early 2000s and its vaguely about a young Asian girl escaping from persecution with her sister and mother. The book mainly covers her journey and I remember clearly there s chapter where they ve reach a safe haven and she had her first bite of hot rice in a long time and it just made me cry so much and each so much rice. Please help! I work at a small bookstore trying to build a collection of Asian books!

Goosebumps book in which chapters are not present chronologically This Goosebumps book has chapters randomly and when you read it at the end of every chapter you get a question or have to make a choice and depending on the choice you are told to go to a page number for the next chapter. Essentially the story will change depending on your choices. This was the first book that I ever read when I was 9 10 years old. Recently while talking to a friend I was trying to recall the title but couldn't. All I can remember is that the title has a word with the letter 'M' probably magic or mirror I think. It would be great if someone could help me find this book.

Looking for a collection of funny short stories I read this book in the early 2000's. It was a collection of short stories that had no particular meaning. The story I'm trying to recall was about an employee at a crayon factory growing increasingly stressed about his troubled home life. His boss became worried and intervened when he noticed color names like "divorce yellow" and "contemplating murder blue". I wish I had more details than that, but like I said it was just one short story in a collection of many.

Book about a man in Africa who catches snakes... I m trying to remember the name of a book I read back in the 90s (I think) about a man who goes to Africa and learns to catch snakes I think he gets really good at it. I believe he s a white man and there s some mystery about him, and something about reading bones. It may be a true story. I remember something about elephants getting drunk on Marula fruit, and other interesting stories about survival in the African wilderness (or am I mixing things up?). I remember really loving this book but I can t place more than that, I hope someone can help me! And thanks in advance to whatever genius can find this book based on this extremely flaky description... Solved Solved Solved!! by ialmostguaranteeit

Children s book about red headed twin girls from England So this book was also made into a movie, and I remember wanting to read the book a long time ago but never getting around to buying it, and now I can t remember the title. I don t remember what the twins are named. They re probably ten years old and were raised by a single dad after their mother died. I think the dad had a girlfriend in the movie. One sparse detail I remember from the movie was one of the twins cuts her hair short. I think the author s name was Jaqueline Wilson?

Book Series about a girl who has a crush on her older brothers best friend so asks her uni college friend to come up and pretend to be her boyfriend to make the brothers best friend jealous. At first people don't believe they are together but it starts to convince the brothers best friend and he gets jealous because he secretly likes her but won't make a move because she is like his little sister. Anyway the end up getting together at the end i remeber a line about always protecting her when they used to play when they were little being a knight in shining armour or something along those lines. The rest of the book series is about getting her best friend on a TV dating show to stop him moping round the flat and doing nothing and I seem to recall something about a wedding? Maybe her brothers there is a running joke about him being clumsy throughout.

YA teen book about a group of friends that lucid dream(?) or astral project I can't remember the books name but I remember a blue cover on the book I think? The main protagonist was male and probably in late middle school or highschool, I believe he had a sister that would also lucid dream and he taught their friend group. I'm not sure if it was called lucid dreaming in the book or astral projecting but the world would still continue as they were out of body.

YA Fiction novel set in exclusive boarding school with dark magic undertones Update The Book series is called Darke Academy by Gabriella Poole! The main character was a teenage girl not as well off as the other wealthy characters that went to this academy. The school changed locations every year and I think this book was set in Paris. There was a romance subplot but the main plot was that there was something wrong with the students teachers of the school. Think the twist was the students had these spirits demons weird power implanted in them and the main character had to decide if she wanted this to happen to her. I think I read this about 2009 2010 purchased at a book store. I think it may have became a series? Thanks for the help!

Illustrated Children s book about a fish lady s sea search adventure I'm looking for a Spanish language (may have been translated, I live in the US) illustrated children's book I read in the 2000s The art was very detailed and dark and green toned. The main character was a female fish and she may have been searching for her husband, although my memory is hazy. The story, obviously, takes place under the sea. There was one scene where the fish lady, along with her fishy friends, is about to cut into some sea plant, but at the last moment, the sea plant is discovered to be part of the fin of a humongous eel who is angered at first but is ultimately good. The page spread was a beautiful illustration of Ms. Fish about to cut the fin with a blade. That's all I remember, thank you to any of you who have taken the time to read this.

Childrens book from the 90s thay featured a travelling circus of killer clowns I don't think this is Killer Klowns from Space. It was a childrens or young adult book about a boy that discovers a circus that has come to town is killing children. Specifically I think it was the clowns. I vaguely remember a bit where the boy is nearly run down by a circus van.

Kids book about a girl who finds her neighbour's (who loves exercising) son locked in her attic There's a girl who wears all black and I'm pretty sure the cover has the girl on a trashcan lid and holographic writing. I think she makes things that are weird. She lives on a road in a rented house with her mom who speaks words in the wrong order (like Yoda). The rest of the houses on the road are rented by her 'family' like an aunt who considers herself married to her motorbike (which then dies and is given a funeral). A new neighbour moves in and she's blonde, loves exercising and basically gets all of the family members really into exercising until the girl breaks into the woman's house and finds the woman's malnourished son locked in the attic. I think they get the woman kicked from the house but I can't remember. Another thing I remember is that the girls dad was apparently in the army and died. I'd love some support in finding this book as I read it as a child and want to re read it!

A book about travel that's mainly pictures with soft colors, may involve clams I remember the pictures were drawings and it wasn't a travel guide, it was about traveling. I remember there was a lot of blue, the cover may have been blue. All the pictures were simple and I vividly remember a page that was meant for if you were in a place where you didn't speak the language, you could point to a picture of how dark you'd like your coffee. This makes me think it was a sort of travel companion book. I have this very very strong association with this book and clams. I strongly believe there was a page about clam chowder. It's definitely an older book, at least 2006 or older. I was probably 6 or 7 so I wouldn't have looked at when it was published

Dragon book...Can't remember author or title! So I dont really recall alot but I remember A dragon and two people in my mind a boy and a girl are traveling together. Then I recall something about this dragon being able to travel to different planets. So space dragons? There's an evil dragon that has a large castle on a destitute planet but I dont recall his roll in the book other than possibly abducting the girl. Also some weird memory of them encountering a planet where the people that live there can fly and have rainbow colored or iridescent wings? I would have read this in highschool so some time before 2008. I was obsessed with Irene Radford and Margaret Weis so I looked there first but I haven't seen any of their books sound like this in the description. The more I think about it the more I wonder if its a dragon shapeshifter book but all the ones I see are romance novels and the book I'm thinking of isn't that!! I'd appreciate any help you all can give!

YA book, siblings find coin that grants wishes What I remember from this book The first wish that is accidentally made using a magic coin is that there would be a fire. Immediately after the kid says it a firetruck drives by and they find out that a neighbor's treehouse is on fire. I'm pretty sure they used the coin to travel to medieval times That's all I got

Fantasy kids book with a frog on the cover that is sitting on a pile of gold I really cannot remember anything other than the cover of the book. I remember a dragon being a character in the series and I know it is a series, at that. I also vaguely remember a YouTube animated series based on the books, perhaps? Story set in a rural setting, and the main characters go on a quest for something. I remember there s a scene involving a bridge troll, in one way or another.

Book of short horror stories, can only remember one I know was from it, others that might be but I'm not sure. Main story was about two girls who found an old note they think will lead them to treasure but instead leads to a spooky crawl space. I remember reading a book of horror stories in elementary school I can't remember, I read so many. This story in particular was about two girls who found a either a piece of note paper or notebook from decades before that they misread as describing the location of "the booty" which they thought meant treasure, but when they got to the address and went into the crawlspace, they got trapped inside and realized what it actually said was "body" and the corpse in what turned out to be a body drop came over and grabbed them. Other stories that might have been in this book, but might be from another one I want to find include the classic one about a truck following a lady driving home and flashing his brights, a story about some people who pick up a hitchhiker just before a "prison ahead don't pick up hitchhikers sign" but then it turns out the drivers are serial killers, one where a lady on a subway thinks a man two guys brought on and left is staring at her but he was actually dead, and maybe one where some kid was murdering everyone else in the chess club to be the best by proxy? Help with any of these would be appreciated but mainly the first one, the others I thought might be related.

'everyday they would arrive and look at their surroundings' Children s book with creatures which had statues? It had the line everyday they would arrive and look at their surroundings , and I think they stole the sun????????

Young adult book about a teenage girl In this book a massive bomb had gone off, changing the qualities of metals. The main character and her friends would jump off a cliff into thick air to slow their fall. And there was a medicine made of moss.

Comedy. Coming of age. Young woman, early twenties beautiful, heavier set, low in self esteem working as a waitress mascot at a restaurant in Florida Keys? Employers have her dress in a bulky crocodile or dragon costume making her even more of a klutz than usual (already naturally awkward, with poor eyesight) causing her to knock things over eventually leading to her accidentally burning down her place of employment. She attempts to find her power, started renting a charming little flat overlooking a tiny courtyard..A little mishap in her quest for self empowerment, she gets a tattoo on her chest thinking the Chinese symbol she chose means..strength? dragon? beauty? (I don't remember) but really it meant something like extra hot sauce. There is an investigative journalist reporter in the area for a story on a casino chain trying to buy off all the small businesses in this quaint town to open up their latest branch. Reporter's camera man's goes by pin cushion, his girlfriend's name is chipmunk..it was a funny book I had started years ago! Would love to finish. Very light read. For the life of me can't remember title, author, or main character's name.

Sad Mature Novel w Orange Cover from old TikTok book recommendation video This is the first time I used reddit so I hope I m doing okay. Anyways into the book It had an orange cover and I think the title had a word with S , C , or K . I m not entirely sure on that detail though. But I do remember that the story was very sad and I think graphic violent. It is not a biography or anything like that it is a novel. I ve never read the book. It was a book recommendation from a TikTok video (the account and video I cannot remember find) that was probably posted in 2019 or early mid 2020. I do not remember if the account was about books but I m pretty sure it was just someone recommending their favorites. The person was white and I think female or feminine looking and in the video they said something like you guys need to read more so here are my favorites if someone recognizes it. There s a second book I am trying to find that I believe is from the same video but I will make a separate post to follow guidelines.

Sci fi thriller novel in which the protagonist teams up with a former villain to prevent a terrorist attack on major city and save the human race from destruction In the book the protagonist (Of whom I recollect nothing) visits an evil criminal in his jail cell. From the way it was set up this prisoner could easily have been the antagonist in a prior book. The prisoner is a very muscular man who is intimated to be something of a genius and a psychopath. IIRC he killed people with his bare hands and may have been a serial killer. There was also a section of the book in which this character talked about how he had collected newspapers to use the aged ink as a poison. Ultimately this character agrees to work with the protagonist to stop another super strong villain from carrying out some kind of terroristic plot. IIRC, the climax takes place in New York City, where the prisoner fights the villain on a skyscraper of some kind (I feel like it was either the Empire State Building or the Chrysler Building), and involving some clambering around the side of the building. The villain falls to his death. The next paragraph is uncertain. I'm fairly certain it is the same book, but unlike the prior paragraphs I'm not absolutely certain. I believe the protagonist encounters the big bad (The one orchestrating everything, not the character who fell to his death) in his hospital room. He had long ago survived some kind of explosion and had survived only through willpower alone. The big bad had agreed to work with a villainous evil society who caused his ailment in a plot to trigger a global catastrophe. As revenge for his disfigurement and disability, the big bad had arranged for the secret society to gather in fake safe spots that would have guaranteed their deaths in the cataclysm. As for the outward appearance of the book itself, I'm certain it was blue. It definitely was in the paperback format. I imagine it probably had around 400 500 pages, standard thriller length, could have had as few as 300. I read this book somewhere between 2005 and 2015 (likely pre 2010), though I believe the book probably came out somewhere between the 1980s to 1990s. I don't remember where I got it but it was definitely used. I was possibly a little young to be reading it at the time but as I recall it was only slightly more violent than your average Clive Cussler book. I definitely read the book in English.

Fantasy book, female author? Hello! There's a book I've been wanting to read for the longest time again but unfortunately I can't remember the names of the characters or the title of the book and would absolutely appreciate any help! I tried searching and asking in bookstores but can't seem to find anything about it. It was a book about multiple different POV? The main character was an assassin who was saved from execution by a queens. She asked him kill a queens kid but he had an enchantment on him that charmed anyone near him and made it really hard to get him killed. There was another POV character who I think was demi God and magician's? who was traveling with a dog who, as a spoiler, became the main character at the very end of the book when main guy dies. Last thing I remember is the character in the book had a lot of flashbacks to when he was in a nun monastery and thought about it when he died. This book always stuck to me for years and I only wish I could've continued to read that series. I believe the writer was female but I may be wrong! It was 100 fantasy and I read it sometime between 2000 2009!

Family all with different powers I know this is a super popular book (series?) but for the life of me I can't find it anywhere. This girl is in a family who all have powers. I think a grandmother could put sounds in jars? and an aunt had the power where no one can disobey her orders, and two of the kids could levitate things. I think the book starts off at church, where the protagonist is wearing a yellow dress. Then they find out that the girl's dad is in the hospital, and she runs away from her house to see him across the country (along with her siblings?), and in the process her entire family thinks they're missing. At the end (possibly), the girl uses her power to uh, wake her dad up from his coma? I think that the girl's dad promised her that they would build the world's biggest porch swing. The title of the book is one word, I think, has a stormy and colourful cover. Like I said, I'm pretty sure it's a very popular book for kids, hope someone can help me out. Thanks!

Lesbian YA Fantasy with Doctor I m trying to find this book. It s got wlw characters in it and it s fantasy. The book starts out with this preteen or teenage girl in a castle or some noble dwelling and she s spying on a strange person who enters the castle. She then finds out that this person is a woman a beautiful one. She develops a crush on this mysterious woman. In the same chapter we find out that this mysterious woman is a dentist or a doctor. Either way, the woman is carrying a bag with medical supplies. The girl spies on the woman and sees her talking to a noble figure of some sort. I remember reading a snippet of this book as I was browsing the internet for fantasy books with wlw characters

A book about a girl who gets kidnapped on a school trip and then ends up living with her abductor for years. I think his name was Ray ?? The abductor makes her take pills to not grow hair or get her period. And then eventually he wants a new girl so he makes her start looking for someone else so she goes to a playground and meets a little girl and tries to steal her by seducing her brother but she decided to help in the end and ends up dying I think?? Please if anyone knows the name omg it s killing me!! I read it YEARS ago in middle school...

FICTION BOOK ABOUT 2 KIDS WHO WHERE ABLE TO TRAVE INTO BOOKS AND TALK TO THE CHARTERS. I dont rember a lot about it and I'm pretty sure there was a sequel but here's what I remember Theres this boy who works at a library maybe and he finds a girl disappear into a copy of Charlie and the chocolate factory and come out with candy and somehow they become friends or something and he goes into his favorite book to change the ending but accidentally reveals to them (the people in the book) that they are in a book and they don't like that and get out of the book to kill the author or but him in a book. And that's all I remember although in what I'm pretty sure was the sequel he gets trapped in a book but doesn't realize it and his fictional self frames him for blowing up a library and maybe killing his mother. I hope this helps, thanks

I'm looking for a book about a girl who doesn't speak but has the power to change reality with her words She's a part of some secret group that has that power, but because of a traumatic experience, she doesn't speak anymore. The genre is more action young adult fiction. I would love to know the name of this book. Thanks!

dystopian ya middle grade fiction in aftermath of china america world war I read this book a while ago (maybe about 6 7 years ago but not entirely sure) from my middle school's library at the time. I can't remember the plot (or if there even was a plot) but the book opened with a teenage boy and his father grandfather uncle (I don't remember) travelling across post apocalyptic United States. The reason for the apocalypse was explained as there being a world(?) war which escalated because of a conflict between China and America with American backpackers tourists in China (I did also think this was incredibly stupid when I was reading it but I think that's why it's the only part that stuck with me). As in, the conflict started because tensions in the world were high(???) and the American backpackers were 'in the wrong place at the wrong time'(??) I don't remember much else but I do remember some snippets including The protagonist and his father(?) come across a can of pears. They're amazed by the pears. It's like, a really really significant thing to find a can of pears. I don't remember why. I think the protagonist eats them and like, cries because they're so good, but honestly I can't remember the specifics, I just remember the pears. The protagonist and his father(?) end up at some refugee camp(?) village for survivors and there is a Chinese girl who is the adopted daughter of the village leader(?). There's this one part where people are being very anti Chinese and the aforementioned Chinese girl (I want to call her Jennifer or Jenny or something but I can't actually remember) yells something along the lines of "I'm not Jennifer Smith, I'm Jennifer Chang!" and then storms off. The protagonist later ends up asking Jennifer's adopted brother(?) if that's her actual name and he says that she made it up herself I can't remember anything of the actual plot. All I remember is being extremely doubtful about the casual anti Chinese sentiment as a 13 year old Chinese kid which is probably also why this book has stuck with me for so long. I'm almost convinced I hallucinated the entire experience but I also remember getting in trouble for swearing when I was complaining about it in the school hallway. Help. Please.

(Fictional) Book about a young girl going to school during the civil rights movement? Was looking at some of my assigned school reading and remembered this book but couldn t think of the name. I remember a few scraps of the story, such as the walk the girl took to school being very long (and they described it in detail), the main character noticing how terrible the quality of the school books was, and another child being falsely accused of robbing another family towards the end of the book. I was in 5th grade when I read this, if that helps.

A Young Adult Book About A Vampire School It would have come out before 2010. I remember the main character was a girl who was new to a high school. She starts to think it's impossible for her to fit in, as many people around her are cooler than she is and don't invite her to things. She makes friends with another boy, who reveals to her that those others are actually vampires. I also remember that there was a specific word for non vampires that was like "goyim" (but obviously not that... maybe golloi?) There was a complicated heirarchy regarding different vampires. The book was focused mainly on high school drama as opposed to forbidden love, world ending plots, etc. I honestly think that I may have dreamed this novel and mashed up several YA books.

Talking Dogs Science Fiction Heinlein For years, I thought that Methuselah's Children by Robert A. Heinlein had a set of superintelligent talking dogs as characters. Now I finally got around to re reading MC and they're not there. Who let the dogs out? (sorry! Couldn't resist) I thought that I remembered that the dogs were bred up by Lazarus Long as an offshoot of the Howard Foundation age prolongation experiments. Does anyone know what the heck I'm mis remembering with these evolved dogs?

Sci Fi book that involves visiting several planets and getting roped into escapades Hey all, The snippets that I remember from this Sci Fi book is that its is about a male protagonist who at the beginning of the book is involved in some academic trip on a spaceship. Due to some circumstance, he goes down to a planet with his teacher(?) and they get involved in a number of events that tie them down to the planet. These include a gladiatorial fight against a large polar bear like monster ( spoiler he ends up defeating it by smashing its head with a nearby viewing camera) he is told the camera costs exactly as much as the prize money so he is left without cash again. There is another instance in which he finds himself in a shark tank with plastic paddles and he has to survive. At one point they somehow make it to a planet (called Hell I believe) that has been designated as a rentable sight for proxy wars. They end up enlisting in one of the mercenary groups and participating in a battle. There is also a part in which they encounter a large world made of concentric spheres where they find a level that has a hospitable atmosphere. In going to that level they find it lush and green and encounter a monkey like organism that is very well adapted to the environment. Those are the things that I can recall. I have been wracking my brain and would be blown away if you all could help triangulate this. Thank you so much.

RL STINE or similar. Boy says a girl smells "lemony" Book is written from the boys' point of view, read in 1995 but was possibly an older book, around 200 pages. The book was written for a teenage audience.

Girl who keeps escaping dying I can't remember if this was a book I read a long time ago or a weird dream I had but if it's a book anyone recognizes then I want to find it again. The main girl is supposed to be killed in some way, but avoids it and spends time on the run and being hunted. At one point she ends up in a psych ward hospital and the guy hunting her shows up so she escapes dressed as a nurse with another girl and they run off into the woods being chased. I can't really remember much more than that scene.

Female joins a school and trains to become an assassin Takes place in the past, not modern day. So swords and daggers. General plot young female (I think her name was like Aleria) lead joins a guild and trains to become an assassin. She joins classes and I remember they did runs in the fog and like people died or got hurt during those training exercises. eventually she does a test and passes it and gets selected to train under one of the best assassin in the guild. (Also during that test she saves a boy who was about to fail and there was a whole complication of whether the boy deserved to become an assassin or not) Eventually her master dissappears and she goes and saves him. I remember the bad guys were some royal family faction. I read this book 6 years ago on kindle unlimited but I think they changed it so it was no longer part of that bundle. I'm pretty sure the book title was simple and it was called "assassins". I know that the cover of the book was red and it didn't have any characters on it. Just a logo. Another important thing was the main protagonist in this first book trained with 2 other people at the school. One was a guy and the other was a girl. I know that the girl had her own spinoff book and she was apart of a royal family and at one point she ends up shaving her head. If you have any questions feel free to ask and I'll try to answer them.

Young lady in waiting in 1700 or 1800s I read this book in the early to mid 70s, so I don't remember much. When I checked it out from the library I remember it being on the first row of books, which were alphabetical by author (I THINK), so I'm thinking the author's last name has to start with an A or B. If they were alphabetical by title, that's a whole other ballgame. All I can remember was the main character was pretty young (pre teen or teen) and became a lady in waiting at some royal court, but not necessarily something real. It was fictional, but I'm not sure HOW fictional. Set in maybe the 1700s or 1800s. Seems like there were several ladies in waiting she was with, maybe going through some kind of training, and at some point they would be selected to serve...someone? The only scene I can remember is her first ball, she's wearing a gown, and standing at the top of a grand staircase looking down at everyone dancing, feeling overwhelmed but excited and enthralled with the entire scene. Trying to find this book has driven me crazy for about 45 years!

Girl who injured herself is stuck at home and attempts to meet a man online, when meeting him he wears a red carnation, I think I read this when I was about 13 or 14, around 2007 2009. I remember around the beginning of the book the girl said she painted her nails gold and it was wild. She sometimes used the word wild as slang for cool . The girl was a teenager. She s staying at relative s house after some sort of accident (I think a car wreck, but not sure?) and she starts chatting with a man online. Eventually she asks the man to meet up and they decide to meet up at a store and he tells her he will be wearing something red (I think it is a carnation, or maybe it was a jacket?) The encounter doesn t go well and I think she ultimately decides not to go through with introducing herself to him. If I remember correctly I think he somehow followed her home and attempted to rob or break into the house. I remember that the encounter did go badly. It was a young adult book and I can t really remember what genre it was.

6 7 book series. Young adult. Teen, male MC. Apocalyptic. Moves to new city (Australia?) and superpowers start developing in the citizens. Book series, 6 7 books, all brightly colored. The MC is male and teenish, moved to a new town. He makes friends with another guy and a girl. Superpowers start developing in people all over the city. The MC learns that the leader of the city (or whatever he is) wants to start the world over he's going to kill everyone in the world except the ones that live in the city. MC's mom gets pregnant and the baby is born in a verryyy short time span. There's some time travel involved, and it turns out the only way to stop the end of the world is to feed his brother some (radioactive? poison???) stuff. There might be the word phoenix involved. I remember the town is in a pretty barren place, maybe out in the desert. It might take place in Australia. The town is pretty new too.

Book about a girl who wakes up from cryostasis on a colony ship before everyone else Basically a couple hundred people are sent to another earth on a ship called Godsend in cryostasis while another group stays alive as caretakers and scientists, etc, and someone starts dragging cryo chambers out of stasis, only one of them lives. Her name is Amy, and Amy and Elder (future leader of the ship) have to figure out and stop the person killing the frozen citizens, and they learn several secrets about the ship in the process. I've already read most of the book, but I lost it and can't remember the name.

Medieval set fantasy book, protagonist was banished for using magic while apprehending magic users I read this book maybe two years ago, and remember it vaguely. A girl (protagonist) in the opening plot was going on a mission to kill apprehend some magic users as magic use is illegal, however, the protagonist has magic abilities. She is found out and banished, and somehow saved by some kind of wizard who takes her to a castle that he and some other banished people lived in. That s pretty mush all I can remember. It was a Young adult kind of book and had a romantic sub plot, too. I got it from a public library originally.

70s book about a paranormal night visitor My dad read a book in 1978 (he believes the book was from the 70s because it wasn t an old book ) about a visitor who comes if you read the book. The main thing he remembers is that the book starts by telling the reader that because you ve started reading this book, now the visitor will visit you too. What makes me desperate to find it is that he swears that night he awoke because he felt someone sitting at the foot of his bed and he lived alone! He was too scared to look and eventually he felt it get up and leave. He threw it out the next day and thinks the title was The Visitor but that hasn t yielded any results that fit, at least for me. I wonder if he s perhaps wrong about the word visitor and it s a synonym, but he says he s sure. Paperback, he says he doesn t think it was fiction but some sort of book about paranormal happenings, but it was so long ago, it could ve been sci fi. I wish I had more to go on! If you think you know this book, please help me out! He s been telling me that story about that night with the creepy visitor my whole life and I want to read it!

90s YA novel about kids who were the results of an Eugenics Experiment I recall reading a book at the library, back in the 90s. If I am not conflating two different books, the cover had a cook kid leaning on the hood of a cool car, like a firefird or a camaro. The paperback cover had a cool metallic effect on the paint on the car. As I recall, it took place in modern day America, around a high school. The main viewpoint character was a young teen age boy. I also recall a female viewpoint character. They meet a scientist and his two teenage wards. A brother and a sister. He was not their parent. Instead, he escaped with them from some Brazilian scientific institution. They were the product of a Boys From Brazil like experiment with the perfect soldier. The project tried cloning, gave it up, and tried Eugenics, instead. The project was successful. The kids have no moral qualms against killing, but the scientist did, so he fled with them before they project could proceed. It would have involved them actually communicating the act of murder for the first time in their lives. He asks the main character to explain that killing is wrong, and get them accustomed to life in modern day America, what with school, movies, videogame arcades, etc. He does so. I Anyone else recall this book? Thanks, in advance.

Looking for a particular steamy fantasy romance novel (probably) published in the 90s I am looking for a particular book that I read in the late 90s or early 00s and cannot remember the title of. I can t remember much of the plot or setting, either. There is one scene I remember vividly a woman murders a man during a sexual encounter by poisoning the underside of her nails and then leaving deep scratches on her back. There may have been people with wings? The setting may have had ancient Roman vibes? I think the cover was light purple, light blue, and tan? It was quite long, and larger than your average mass market paperback. Help!

Children's novel from before 2011 where two kids think their parents have rabies? I can't remember much of this book it was read to my class in primary school in 2011 for a rough publication estimate. I remember that the protagonist was a girl named Jo, and she had a lot of siblings whose names all started with J. Her and her brother end up deducing that their parents have rabies but in the end it turns out that their mother is actually pregnant again. One scene I remember in particular is them crawling inside their bin looking for "evidence" or something and it's full of dirty nappies. I think it was set in Australia (I'm Australian) but I'm not certain.

Looking for a book about a boy learning magic with a dragon egg Hi. I'm trying to find a book that the details are very, incredibly fuzzy on. All I can seem to remember is that a boy was sent to train under a wizard sorcerer, or an older man of some sort of power. I know there was magic in this setting. He might have been orphaned? He either finds or is given a dragon egg, the dragon remaining very small and palm sized. The cover has a dark purple, blue, or black background with a boy holding said dragon egg in his hands, looking amazed. If I remember correctly, it has orange in it too. I think there was also something about a book of spells. Maybe he was actually holding said book on the cover. The setting was fantasy, nothing modern. It was also a book for children teens! If anyone can help it would be much appreciated!

A book story about trading time I'm trying to find a story I read when I was a lot younger about a boy that finds a magic clock. It will give him more time, in exchange for time that he isn't using e.g. he can have a couple of hours on a summer afternoon, and in exchange it will take the dreary afternoon when he was daydreaming in class. This eventually comes back to bite him, somehow. I've tried to Google it but all I get is information about actual clocks, which isn't very helpful. I don't remember if it was a book or a short story (although I'm inclined to think short story) and I don't remember how it ends. I'm pretty sure I read it in school, so probably early to mid nineties, and the idea has stuck with me because I remember finding the story profoundly disturbing. If anyone has any ideas what it might be I would be grateful!

A book with a Rube Goldberg tea making machine Hi guys, a friend of mine was inspired to get into his current major in college by an oddly specific diagram in a book he can't remember, and I was hoping to find him a copy as a graduation gift. It was a book in his elementary school library, so in the early 2000's, likely published before. The major detail he remembers so clearly was a diagram in the back of the book, depicting a tea making Rube Goldberg machine, captioned "Dual Stratified, Internal Steam Combusted Triode Manipulated barrel obsculating tea maker" or something similar sounding and overly complicated. Any help would be great, thanks!

YA book, early 2000s, cover has red spiky haired boy. He is forced to go to "school" in the country The cover I believe has a red spiky haired boy. He does the spikes himself for the first few chapters until he runs out of product since he's in the middle of nowhere. I believe he is a troubled youth who was maybe kicked out of other schools, so he is forced to go to school out in the country. This "school" is incredibly relaxed. There are youths there. One is a brunette tomboy who catches butterflies amp other bugs amp makes projects of her own accord, since there isn't much teaching going on. There's also a fit dancer (maybe ballet) that the main male character is attracted to initially, but I think later he starts to like the brunette tomboy. Thanks to anyone who can help. (

Book with a protagonist who meets characters at a theme park Likely a YA novel. The main character was a preteen teen girl and she was at some sort of theme park like Disneyland but it definitely wasn t Disney... several of the park s fictional characters (think Mickey Mouse) come to life and interact with her, possibly to teach her some sort of life lessons. I remember a part about her climbing an almost neverending staircase. Sorry this is vague, hope someone recognizes it! Editing to add I think it was part of a book series that didn t have a general fantasy theme. Think Babysitters Club or something like that

A young adult book about a boy who moves into a house with equally weird people. His name might be Sam, or maybe his love interest? Anyways, details include his parents falling into a coma, one of the people in the house is called a "couch potato", another dude who is trying to replace his curses just by saying "cuss!". The boy's parents (one of them, atleast) is a former actress, which I remembered from the first passage. (Mousy?) If you help me find the name of this book, it will seriously bring joy to my dull life.

Old Sci Fi book where the protagonist, his friend, and some older character look through a special telescope and can see extra planets. And at some point they build or use some spacecraft to travel there. I read this in elementary school and I cannot for the life of me remember what it's called or who wrote it, or even the main plot. All I remember is that in the beginning they looked through the older character's telescope and saw planets they hadn't seen or heard of before, and at one point they board a craft of some kind to visit one of them. I remember something about an "oxygen pin" being used to allow them to breathe. (I have no clue what that phrase describes or whether it's even sensible. I just remember coming across it in the book and being so intrigued that it's stuck with me ever since.) I don't remember how it ends, unfortunately. Any help is appreciated!

Latin American story retelling of Sodom and Gomorrah Title is pretty self explanatory! I m looking for two Latin American short stories one is about a group (I think of monks) finding a pillar of salt that s Lot s wife. The other is an as it happens retelling of Sodom and Gomorrah. I remember the second involved lions fleeing from fires. Thanks for your help! Read them in college amp wishing I kept my syllabus.

SciFi Adventure A group of teens find a spaceship that takes them to Mars, where they are trained by a US General (more details in post) five teens find steal otherwise aquire a spaceship that flies around a bit before landing and setting up a shield on earth. the us military tries to break through the shield with tanks and eventually a nuke, which doesn't work. the military calls the ship "caeser" or "codename caeser" or maybe "czar". the ship then flies to Mars where the five teens are trained to use the weapons on the ship how to fly it by a general that wound up on the ship with them somehow. I remember they were near olympus mons for some plot point. they also get taught how to play instruments? at some point one of the teens gets injured and his heart is replaced with a machine that constantly pumps his blood instead of beating. Their trainer calls them zygotes and they make a joke about them being promoted. The last thing I remember is the guns they used had brightness that denoted how much ammo was left in the clip. I read the book around 2012 2015 in my high schools library, iirc it was a decent length series of about 3 or 4 books long. I've been searching for weeks for this series, any help would be deeply appreciated!

Novel about a kid who gets involved in some multiverse science magic horseshoe theory scenario I read this in middle school around 2010. The main character (a boy, I think) finds out he is involved in some multi universe conflict society. He is from a universe that s like the real world, but it turns out there are infinite universes and some lean more toward science while others lean more toward magic. It was described as a horseshoe situation where the most scientific and most magical universes are actually similar because they can accomplish the same things with their science magic. He goes to some central location and meets others one person from each universe, but it turns out they are all him from their respective worlds. But some are different, e.g. girls, part cyborg, idk. And that s all I remember! I can t remember the conflict or anything that actually happens, so... good luck

Sci fi book about time travel in which the protagonist ends up creating a bunch of copies of himself in an attempt to fix his mistakes. Spoilers in desc I think the book opens with the protagonist witnessing his own eventual suicide then he goes on to discover the method of time travel and make all the copies and the book ends with him realizing that he has to kill himself. The only other detail I remember is that he uses some kind machine that was designed to give pleasure in some way, but when used for to long or overloaded was deadly, to kill himself.

YA Trilogy Fantasy Girl, Boarding School, Tree, Adventures Hi Y'all, Thanks in advance for reading this. I'm struggling to find the name of this trilogy and I'm sorry I have so few details. Here's what I remember YAish trilogy, I read it when I was just on the cusp of YA, likely aged 10 13, so around '05 '08. Could be YA or middle grade. Likely around 250 pages book It's light fantasy, not sword and sorcery but definitely had some magic in it The main character was a girl who was trapped at this boarding school orphanage that was run by some order (nuns, perhaps)? She was there (relatively) against her will A large feature of the trilogy involved her escaping and going on adventures outside the school orphanage thing. She did always return though. I cannot remember if she escaped with the help of a tree or a magic power She did have some power, and part of her power involved visions There was a large tree that was central to the grounds of the boarding school. This tree was important but I cannot remember for what All of the book titles were pretty simple (The something something) The covers were like paintings, similar to a romantic or pre Raphaelite brotherhood vibe It was NOT The Secret Garden, Magic Treehouse, The Enchanted Wood, Enola Holmes, His Dark Materials, The Unwanteds, Land of Stories, The Tower and the Hive, The Lark and the Wren, Wren to the Rescue, the Enola Holmes, the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Inkheart I know this isn't a lot to go on and I'm sorry it's like a nightmare of a post. Any ideas y'all have are more than appreciated. I've been googling just the weirdest combinations of these things all night lol. Thanks for your help!

teen book with a female protagonist, slice of life Hi, this book has been stuck in my head for months and i have no idea what it s called. the only thing I remember is that in it, a girl goes to her crushes house, plays with his hamster, and then she accidentally steps on it and crushes it to death. she then runs away and hides in a bush. it s killing me. it was in english and had to have been a few years ago, 2015 2018 that i read it. pls help

Book read from 2010 2013 that featured a teenage girl getting in legal trouble for having a relationship with a ghost like boy I know the title may seem weird but thats mostly what I remember. I know the girl was the main character and the boy was some sort of supernatural being akin to a ghost. he may have been some sort of shadow creature, my memory is fuzzy when it comes to his species but I do know he couldn't physically touch the girl. the book also featured a legal system that criminalized contact with the supernatural beings. IIRC the ghost boy started visiting the girl in her room and the two developed a relationship that turned ( one sidely ) physical. the girl and boy end up getting caught and prosecuted. I know I checked this book out of my local library so it shouldn't be too obscure but I can't find anything by searching this plot on google. any help would be really appreciated!! Edit book is Shade by Jeri Smith Ready

Need help remembering this book about a girl who can heal with her hands in a dystopian world It's a book about a girl in a dystopian world who has the ability to heal things and people by touching them, but each time she does, she gets weak. At one point in the book she has to heal a person and ends up passing out for weeks. I read it sometime in middle school but can't remember what the book was

Man revisits hometown to investigate weird things happening in the woods I think the cover was branches (similar to in the woods) Not The boy from the woods Harlan coban The woods Harlan coban In the woods tana French In a dark dark wood Ruth ware

Young adult or children s dimension hopping fantasy, read 2009 2012, most notable detail was a throwaway line where a hamster or guineapig gets into alternate prairie dimension and becomes zenith of ecosystem I wish I could remember much more but I m pretty sure a brother and sister were the two main characters. They probably lived with or visited their grandparents. At one point the grandparents house gets transported to a prairie dimension while a guinea pig is loose in the crawl space. It gets loose and has babies and is the only major animal in this world. I know the grandpa also told them not to flush the toilets so they could preserve the water in the tanks. I wanna say the grandson forgot and ended up flushing the toilets at some point. They definitely run from somebody through a more upsetting dimension at one point though it s possible I m mixing a memory from The Magicians Nephew I was 9 12ish at the time and the book felt somewhat contemporary though it might have been a few years old and I definitely don t recall mentions of computers or anything that would have been particularly technological. I ve been trying to figure this book out for years now! I wish I could remember more concrete details but everything about the book is pretty fuzzy and when I try to concentrate I can t be sure I m not taking details from other books I read at the time. I would be so appreciative if anybody had a remote idea as to what I was talking about!

Looking for a book about a young rich boy sailing around the world with his servant I read this in fourth grade, and it is NOT My Old Man and the Sea . Here s what I remember They sail around what they call the cape of good hope (or something like that Africa s southern most tip). I thought this was the name of the book but apparently not They eat abalone at some point? The boy s servant is really tall and maybe has a top hat? He fights off bandits trying to attack their covered wagon. The boy just wants the servant to be his friend and they argue about it? Help!!

Early mid 2000s YA teen book about girl who writes diary advice column something and discovers popular girl is being groomed. She asks her estranged older sister for help using their old codeword "retsis" (sister backwards) which means it's serious and they need help. This isn't a book I read but one my wife did. She would have read it in the early to mid 2000s. It was a book my wife's sister had picked, and she tended to like reading books like The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants and The Clique at that point. It's about a girl who writes something like an advice column newsletter diary through this, despite being not popular friends with her, the main character learns that a more popular girl is being groomed by an adult man and she says she wants to go and meet up with him. The main character doesn't know what to do but finally goes to her older sister, who she used to be close with but has grown apart from. She asks her for help using the term "retsis" (sister backwards), which was a codeword sign from when they were close to one another that they needed serious help and the other sister would drop everything to help them. The main character's identity as the author of this column or whatever it was wasn't widely known public knowledge, so the popular girl didn't know it was the main character she was telling her secret to. It is not Meg Cabot's book Teen Idol, but it would be a similar author genre. Thank you for any suggestions!

Possibly witch in the title, about three siblings I remember reading it at least 15 years ago, but it could have been already pretty old at that point, as I was regularly given old books my uncles and aunts didn t want. It was modern fantasy fiction YA ish book but definitely written before the YA genre was an actual thing. Started with three siblings, pretty sure it was a youngest girl, middle boy, eldest girl. They loved to climb this tree in their yard but one day the youngest falls from it and breaks her arm in such a way that it s permanently weakened and grows withered afterward. A few days later the tree is struck by lightning. The youngest is Weird but loved by her siblings who are Good Kids TM. The youngest talks to the neighbors who are witch(es?) who watch over the kids because they re the Fated Trio or something of that nature. The youngest keeps trying to get her siblings to understand but they just think she s crazy. There s some weird events when she s trying to get them to believe her, like they go on.. vacation to a lake house I think? And the two older kids are miserable because of the heat and mosquitoes everywhere. One day the youngest walks out into the forest or something and when she comes back she says got rid of all the bugs, but then all the birds go away so she then just gets rid of the mosquitoes? But for some reason that doesn t affect the ecosystem and it s explained that the mosquitoes aren t actually necessary so it s okay. The youngest like finds forges these magical weapons from them but they re hidden as just ordinary items. The middle kid gets a comic book that tells the future. The eldest is given a crown made of melted twisted metal. I think there s also a scepter wand made from a branch from the lightning struck tree, and maybe a ring? I think the climax is the youngest wearing taking all the magical items and standing in a storm that is actually Darkness that will consume the world or something. She saves everyone but then passes out and her arm returns to normal and I think she loses her magic and memories? But the world is saved. Yay ? Please tell me I didn t just hallucinate this story when I was a kid.

"prime directive" or something like that. Was only online, about a sentient A.I. This was a book that I think I downloaded as a PDF around 2009 2011. It was about an A.I. that had replaced the universe with a simulation that everyone lived inside and they couldn't die. People would sign "pain contracts" to allow themselves to be tortured, and at the end they defeat the A.I. by requesting to be put in a state of perfect euphoria.

Sci fi book from late 80s early 90s Set in an Asian inspired fantasy culture, the story focused on a female protagonist who was forced into an arranged marriage with a hostile family. She manages to force her husband into ritual honor suicide and then gains political strength through creating political allies including an alien bug species.

Looking for a mystery novel published in the late 70s or early 80s that came with props. I'm looking for a book on behalf of my mom. Unfortunately, I think this one may be lost to time since everyone we know who actually read it passed. From what we remember, it was a large hardcover murder mystery for adults that came with props (similar to Ship of Thesus by JJ Abrams). One of the props may have been hair of some sort in an envelope. It was published in the 70s or early 80s. It is most likely from the US, but could also be from another English speaking country. I know this isn't a whole lot to go on, but I'm hoping it might be distinct enough that someone may remember it.

Fictional Sci fi novel meant for teens, Set in a superhero world where everyone has powers and the most popular superhero is killed by a future version of the main character I read the book in 2016 I was 15 16 and the book was good for the age and suited for adults that are into fiction as well. So what I remember is that the book is set in a world where everyone has superpowers and the main character seemingly has none but he s a trouble maker I believe, later on down the line we find out he was trying to be Murdered when he was just a baby but the person who tried to kill him was a future version of himself who was metal?? Idk, anyways the future metal man ends up killing the most famous superhero there and the kid is trying to find ways to stop becoming the metal future version of his self. The reason he becomes this metal version is there is something inside him growing and he can talk to it on occasion if I remember correctly, whether it be trying to force him to become evil or help him I don t remember. That s all I can remember from the book, I remember the cover been a greenish yellow idk if that helps but Thanks in advance.

Book of art with animal military figures, and a list of things to find in each scene, a la "Where's Waldo" I can't remember the name, but it was either a book or a series of books, and it had these beautiful scenes with anthropomorphic animals, there was a military or navy involved in some way because I remember it was the first time I saw the word "boatswain" or maybe it was just "bo'sun", and I remember one of the items to find in a scene was nightshade. We're probably talking 1986 or earlier. The list of things gave it a Where's Waldo flavor, but the art was much higher quality.

Graphic novel comic depicting a sort of Swiss Family Robinson story read first around 2014 in junior high. SOLVED! Looking for a title for my step daughter. She remembers reading it over and over throughout school and loving it. A family of four is shipwrecked on an island populated by tiny people wearing cloaks. They have red eyes and try to harm the family. Details include rocks with designs on them, strange unidentified plants, and the island "coming to life". She believes another book by the same author invovled a boy riding a skeletal horse. It was the artwork for the graphic novels that really stuck with her. Any clues on title or author would be great! Thanks!

Cheesy love novel dime novel, read around 1995 I read a german translation around 1995, the original was in english. Story takes place in the eighties or ninethies. A young beautiful woman marries an attraktive, rich man at least twice her age, I think he was around 50 years old, and I think, he was a widower. His name may be Patrick? This man has a son, who is just a bit older than the young wife. When the young wife and the son get each other to know, they fall in love and have a secret affair. The rest of my memory is fuzzy ... I think, the husband catches them red handed, and there is a tragic accident at the end, either the son or the young wife die.

Middle grade (?) book with a schizophrenic bipolar teenage main character who steals shoes at her job There was this book I loved in middle school but I totally forgot the name of it. All I remember is that the main character was a high school student and her favorite hobby was dying her hair because one day, a girl told her she had beige hair and when she realized that she thought it was ugly, started dying her hair and they became bff. At the beginning of the book she had aubergine colored hair but I'm pretty sure that then they end up being pink or green (something like that) and she's really embarrassed about it. She works in a shoe store that sells very ugly shoes that she hates. She also hates her job but sometimes she steals one or two pairs of shoes (even though she thinks they're ugly). That's basically all I remember, what I told is the very beginning of the book. Then she discovers she has schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (I know they're different but I forgot which one it was). I think she gets caught stealing too and that's how they make her diagnosis...? I'm also pretty sure the story takes place in England. Does anyone have any idea about what book it may be ?

A realistic fiction where the main character has an iron deficiency and helps a woman with arthritis. I believe the cover has a plane on it. I read this in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade. No idea what the title could be and I'm sorry I can't provide more details. I vaguely remember the main character driving around in a car in one of the final chapters. There's also a part where the main character helps the arthritic woman apply wax to her hands. Then again, I could be misremembering a lot of this. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Children's book about little green forest men that protect a sleeping child I believe this was a picture book and it was about a sleeping child who had their bed next to a window. At night little creatures from the forest outside the window would try to attack the child (if I'm remembering correctly) and there were these little green forest men on the window sill and maybe the bed as well that would fight off these creatures so no harm would come to the sleeping child. I almost want to say that the title was The Little Green Men or something like that but googling that just pulls up books about aliens

YA book about a girl who can see people who were killed SOLVED SOLVED SOLVED I remember the cover as black and I ve read this maybe three years ago. As I recall she looks for the serial killer I think? It s part of a YA series. Thanks.

Short scifi story, girl lives on planet where there is daylight only once every several years I'm pretty sure this was a short story, but might have been a novella. A grade school aged girl is somehow prevented from going outside on one of the very few days her alien planet has daylight.

YA World War 2 fiction novel that features multiple main characters, including a Russian? (or German) soldier that dies at the end. I read this book in middle school, so right around 2008 2009. It's a fictional World War 2 novel that features at least two main characters, one of which being a Russian or German soldier that gets trapped in debris, and eventually dies. He manages to write a letter before he dies but it wasn't until years later where his body is found with the letter by another character. I think one of the main themes they were trying to get across is that both sides are real people despite the dehumanization that occurs by both sides.

Book I think about a detective trying to find a missing girl? The book went as far as to include fake news stories and articles about the girl's disappearance? I think her name is Hannah but not sure, one line I remember is the MC thinking he's being followed by a girl, then seeing said girl on top of a bridge but when he turns around she's gone? That was the page opening before it officially started with the articles linking to her disappearance. Any help would be appreciated!

Book Set In Louisiana (At Least, I THINK That It Is), W. A Lake Or A Well Of Some Sort That Contains Immortality Granting Microbes? I believe that the main character of said book must return to an old family mansion in order to take up the mantle of protecting the well or lake s secret. There may also be a rival group that is attempting to kill the family and or gain access to the microbes.

I m looking for a YA Dystopian Sci Fi novel with a female protagonist. I recall reading this book in the last 3 5 years and I think it was somewhat newish, definitely published in the last 10 years max. It was in English and I personally always buy paperback books second hand, so I don t know if it was hardcover as well and I tend to gravitate towards books with white covers, so that s a very big possibility. It was probably around 300 500 pages. The main character was a (probably white) girl in her late teens and the setting was like a high tech future like city. If I remember correctly, she s the child of some kind of authority in the city. I believe the story had some kind of love triangle (a love in the city she was supposed to love and an outsider she fell in love with) and I think her father was also a prominent character. Unfortunately, I remember it having the very typical dystopian set up of pristine city but outside the walls is an absolute disaster. The book had some sort of element of sleeping or containment pods that either stored her memories or kept her dormant. The book starts out with her living her life in the city until there was an overtaking or break in by outsiders. She s unaware of life beyond the city until this point. I think she also had a keeper or another figure in her life who was there to keep her complicit. I realize this sounds like literally every dystopian novel, so if this doesn t click for anyone, I ll take any similar recommendations. Also, just for reference, it s not the Memory of After by Lenore Appelhans (similar ish plot) but it s the same kind of vibe. Also, apologies if anyone saw this post for the 2 seconds it was up before I deleted it, I was logged into the wrong account.

Short story collection 1 was called 'deep kimchi' perhaps... they were weird stories by a small publisher. One was about 2 men burying a dead body in the woods. think it was called "deep kimchi" or something like that. You didnt find out until the end that they were out there digging a hole for a body.

Girl is going to college in California and is looking for a roommate. Hello, I am looking for a romance novel where a young teen is moving to CA specifically San Francisco I believe and she works in a motel or painted a picture of a motel and meets a boy there.

Fiction about a girl who turns gold Back when I was I high school, probably around 2010 2012 or so I read a book and I can t for the life of me find it anywhere on the internet. It was about a girl in foster care who had no memory of her parents or childhood. She always had the strong impulse to do good deeds and eventually her skin starts to flake off to reveal gold underneath. She visits her doctor who explains that she s some sort of angel like being who is put on the earth to help people and that eventually everyone except the Seers will forget her and she will be reborn into a new form. Eventually all of her skin flakes into gold and her impulses lead her to jump off of a bridge to be reborn after everyone (except her doctor and bf who are both seers) forgets her. I can t remember the title or the author nor do I remember what the cover looked like. HELP lol

A creepy story about sentient toys I Can't for the life of me remember the name, but it's more of less a dark toy story. The young kids dad travels a lot and brings a mask(?) home forthe kid. This mask is evil and wants to either kill the toys or the kid. Pretty sure the main toy is a Jack in the box. A friend had shown me the book sometime between 2010 2012. Any help is appreciated.

Can t find a beloved children s book about Night! I need help! I want to get my future niece a book that I loved as a kid and can t find it anywhere... I swear it was called The Night Book. The book was about a little girl who was scared of nighttime. One night the moon woke her up and started showing her all the good and wonderful things about nighttime. They walked around her yard and saw things like night blooming flowers, glow worms, owls, etc. The cover was dark, possible black, and had the little girl looking out the window at the moon. Please help me find this book!!!

Supernatural powers and teenagers SOLVED Thanks to Hedgiwithapen for finding the book, and thanks to everyone else who answered that post! amp x200B I've read a book when I was probably between ten and thirteen years old (I am 20 now) and the book was quite modern, I don't remember the year but it was definitely published in the 2000s. It was sold to me as an action book for teenagers. Here is what I remember from the story (some things might be wrong) It deals with a teenage boy who had a car accident with either his dad or his grandfather (I am not sure) and after that accident he has inherited the powers of his dad grandfather but did not realize it at the moment. So now the boy is able to see future events, especially bad ones like accidents, deaths, etc. At some point he creates a group with other teenagers (some of them from his highschool) and he shares his secret. Together they will try to understand what he sees in his visions and change the outcome. I think that during the story the teenagers are chased by adults (maybe an organization) who want to stop them because they know about the boy's power and it is probably dangerous. Thanks in advance, and sorry for the potential mistakes because English is not my mother tongue.

Hardcover Children's Chapter Book About Witches? I used to rent the same few books I loved from the library over and over as a child. One has been driving me crazy for many years. From what I remember, it was a chaper book, about 3 (?) small witches. The illustrations were in black and white, and the witches remind me of Ziggy (newspaper comic strip). Short, plump, etc. I remember in one chapter, they were packing for a picnic. I remember a jar of lemonade being packed? I know it's not much to go off of, but you guys are amazing, and thought I'd give it a shot! It's not Three Little Witches by Sharon Gordon. I also don't think it's The Little Witches Storybook by Georgie Adams, but I can't really investigate that without seeing the specific chapters. I'm going to guess it's from the early to mid 1980's. Thank you so much in advance!

A sci fi fantasy book I read 30 years ago, set in a post apocalyptic city where technology is forbidden. The prince of a city surrounded by post apocalyptic wastes has a "vision of ghosts" at the priest's ritual, dwarves are real (though even the prince knows they're descendant from "normal" humans), and tech is forbidden (since it caused the apocalypse). The Prince discovers his vision of ghosts (ancestors?) has been faked using technology, and that, indeed, all such visions are faked using tech. I think he has a crisis of faith or understanding or something, and winds up leading the technologists who live in their own city across the wastes. I read it 30 or so years ago, and somehow lost it (along with a series about a family of children who wind up time travelling and protecting the world from the dark along with King Arthur, or something). I'd love to find it (them) again, as my son is about the right age to enjoy it himself. Thanks!

A short story in a book of short stories for kids about two children who find a secret world I must ve read this story when i was 8 10 (2007 2009) so i may not have the details correct. The story was about a brother and a sister who took the same path home on the way from the school they despised. On the path they discover some type of doorway that leads them to a place of meadows and children playing. They play with the children for a while before leaving this alternate world from the same doorway they came. I feel like I remember the book mentioning how the doorway was only very slightly open and once closed the door would not open again. The brother and sister spend time in the alternate world everyday until one day they go inside, look at each other, and close the doorway back to reality forever.

Book with a psychic woman who solve crimes? I could have the details wrong but I used to read a book series around 10ish years ago. It was a series of contemporary books set somewhere in the USA. The main character was a psychic woman (probably in her 20s 30s) and she used to help police departments solve crimes. At some point in the series, she was dating a guy who was a police officer i think. I'm not sure if this was YA or cozy mystery or neither. I'm so lost on other details that I don't know how else to look for the books. Help!!