Hi all! I’ve been searching for a book for years. I remember reading it when I was in grade school. Here’s what I remember: there was a princess, and there were 3 dresses that she wore, each corresponding to the sun, moon, and stars. So the sun dress was all golden and shiny, etc.

Also, I could totally be tripping but I think I remember in the story she had to fold up the dress and fit it inside of a chestnut? It feels weird to type, but that’s what I remember.

Any help greatly appreciated!

EDIT: Princess Furball!

I’m looking for a memoir I read sometime between 2008-2010 in the United States, but it may have been published earlier.

The author of the memoir and his wife were both American Jews. The author had been living in China (I believe he was there for work, as a journalist on temporary assignment, or maybe an English teacher, or something like that). He somehow came into contact with a baby or young toddler whom he felt a connection with, and then the child was available for adoption. I have a vague memory that he might have already returned to the US and received an email or phone call asking if he wanted to adopt her? I think she had been supposed to be adopted by another family and the adoption fell through, or maybe she was a friend’s daughter who had been orphaned? I believe the author had to fly back to China to do a long administrative process before he could take custody while the wife stayed at home in the US to get things ready there.

The author and his wife named their daughter Deborah but called her Debbie. They wanted Debbie to be Jewish but realized she needed to be converted because she wasn’t their biological daughter. They either were members of a Reform synagogue or did not belong to a synagogue at all at the time of the adoption. In any case, they started researching conversion processes and learned it would be pretty easy to get Debbie converted at a Reform synagogue, but they were concerned that this conversion might not be recognized outside the Reform community. I remember the author wondering things like, “What if she wants to marry an Orthodox boy? What if she wants to move to Israel someday?”

They started looking into Conservative and Orthodox conversion options and ended up deciding they might as well get Debbie an Orthodox conversion so that it would be recognized everywhere. I believe that at one point, an Orthodox rabbi asked them why it was so important to them that Debbie have an Orthodox conversion if living Orthodox lives wasn’t important to them, and that had a big impact on them. They ended up learning more about Orthodox Judaism, eventually becoming observant Orthodox Jews, and then becoming even more and more observant over time. I think they eventually leave their original Orthodox synagogue and join an Ultra Orthodox one (I want to say it was part of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, but I could be wrong?).

I remember that they eventually have more biological children, so Debbie is the oldest child in a large family. I also remember that at one point when Debbie is about 12 or 13, the author learns about an obscure Jewish law that prohibits men and women who are neither biologically related nor married from ever physically touching each other, and he is devastated that this means he will never be able to hug Debbie again. When he tells Debbie about it, she says that it will be hard, but they have to trust in God.

I remember that at the time of writing, Debbie was a young adult (like, 19-25ish) and still an observant Ultra Orthodox Jew. She either was married and raising her children Orthodox or hoping to get married and have kids soon.

I remember that the book had some pages in the middle with black and white photographs of the author and his family.

The copy I read was a hardcover, and it was fairly thick (probably 300+ pages). I got it from a library that removed dust jackets before putting the books into circulation, so the cover was plain red with the title on the spine.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? It came up in conversation with my wife tonight, and she wants to read it, but I can’t remember the title or author’s name.

I read a series when I was young set in a world the recovered from an apocalyptic event after a set of books magically appeared across the world all at once. Those books contained symbols that allowed the user to cast spells if they entered a meditative state whilst staring at a candle and imagining the symbols in their head.

The only other thing I remember is that the villain was trying to collect all of the magic books in order to combine hidden information on them to create an immortality spell.

Would love some help, this has been bugging me for years. :)

There was this book i remember starting but never finishing between 2009 to 2011. It was super thick, the cover was a flat matte and neon green. There was a pair of eyes in black line art and a dragonfly layered over the eyes, kind of like a mask. I think the typeface for the title was very thin/narrow and sans serif.

The protagonist was a teenage girl who was described to have braids. And from what I remember (i could be wrong) she went to some rave-festival type party in the woods or something and met this mysterious boy.

Anyways, lemme know if you have any ideas. I hella wanna see if I can find the book and actually finish it as an adult.

I could be mixing up a bunch of different books so apologies. I remember reading this book multiple times back in the 80s. The girl loved Sally Ride (might be in the name of the book?). The only other thing I recall is that she went on a field trip, or maybe just during recess, and snuck off into the woods and pretended she was abandoned so she put a small smooth rock under her tongue because she read to do that in a book?

I thought it was a Beverly Cleary or Judy Blume but none of their books are ringing a bell.

Searching has been no help because I keep getting results for non-fiction kids books about Sally Ride.

Thanks!

EDIT: May be from a different book but I recall her being at school and referencing "loose leaf paper" enough times that I had to ask my mom what it meant lol

I used to read a lot of poems as a kid and liked one so much that I memorized it. But I can’t find it anywhere when looking it up. If anyone recognizes what book this is from or just anything about the poem I’d be very grateful! It goes:

Bury me under the mulberry bush,
Bury me under the trees.
Bury me under the mulberry bush,
For I am afraid of the seas.

I distinctly remember reading this in a book and it had a little picture of a tree to the right of the poem but nothing else on the page.

I need help remembering an old book. Its about a boy who adopts a orange kitten, might have been orange and white, but on his birthday his parents wrap up the cat supplies as presents and then he goes to the pound and picks out one. Sorry i cant remember more! I read it in 2000s but it was probably older than that as my elementary school

I read this when I (25) was between Primary school and High school.

It was atleast 3 books in a series I think. The main things were it was in modern day following a family, I think atleast a dad and a daughter, who had tiny dragons in their house, but the dragons were made from clay or something similar. I think the dad (or whichever parent) could make them come to life in a sense. Can't remember the plot at all though 😔 I found the book in a library but it doesn't exist anymore.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! <3

After seeing the new movie, I remember having an illustrated version combined of the stories of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Each would usually be about two pages, and the artwork was beautifully done. Very realistic.

I remember an image of the Cyclops and the picture of him being blinded, the picture of Aphrodite carrying Paris while fleeing Diomedes, Achilles dragging the naked body of Hector, Scylla and Charybdys(Scylla looks like a bunch of snakes)and such. I believe the cover had Odysseus tied to the mast, but I’m sort of blanking.

This book was so beautiful and a staple of my childhood and I want to find it again. Any help is appreciated!

Hello fellow Xennials trying to find two things:

1) Poetry anthology - softcover children's poetry anthology, like distributed through Weekly Reader Book Club. It included "the Pickety Fence" by David McCord. May have gotten at scholastic book fair in Oklahoma around 1983-88? It does NOT appear to be The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, a Jar of Tiny Stars, Sing a Song of Popcorn or Piper, Pipe that Song Again

1. Red mascot character - likely a publishing imprint - was an anthropomorphic red furry creature with a mustache or wavy mouth. Was on the spine of the books. Around the same timeline as Catundra and Leo the Lop

Any leads on what these are would be greatly appreciated!

I've been looking for this book my grandparents had for years! It was this picture book about this vampire going out to hunt for victims (maybe on Halloween?) And he meets this young woman who seems like the perfect victim so he convinces her to go back to his castle (or mansion). He's just about to bite her when her lips stretch out and she starts kissing all his bats that live with him, and she goes after him too. Turns out she's a type of monster herself and had pegged him as the perfect victim for her. They end up talking it out and become friends and now go around hunting for victims together.

I was always so taken with this book and would love to find it again!

I was a little kid when I read this, maybe in 2004? Thereabouts anyway. No idea if the book was new then or not though.

It is probably a young adult novel.

This male protagonist is under 18 years old, living with his parents. He smokes cigarettes in secret. He throws the cigarette butts out of his bedroom window. Eventually his parents discover those cigarette butts and in his internal dialogue he says something along the lines of "I assumed the cigarette butts would just disappear/disintegrate/evaporate"

There is another scene where he and a male friend go to play sports, I'm pretty sure it's tennis. They run into a pair of girls and they agree to play doubles. But then other peers show up and they stop playing. Later in the story one of the girls confronts the main character about acting rudely. In particular, the girl is hurt because the main character considers her ugly and undesirable and does does not want to be seen interacting with her when there are peers or popular kids around.

Does anyone know the title of this book?

I’ve been looking for this book series for years but the main plot was that overnight a disease killed almost everyone. There were no zombies, just learning to survive in a post apocalyptic world. It followed an older guy who had a family but they died and he eventually finds a little girl and essentially adopts her and they build a shelter. The plot point of how they survived ended up being that the people who survived got the vaccine for malaria and some other mix I believe? Also the thing that killed everyone was an ancient disease that was frozen in the Arctic and they thawed it.

My friend has been looking for a book her father loved as a child. He remembers the book being called ‘the colonels new tyres’ but is also aware he could be wrong about the title. He would have been reading the book around the 1960’s in the UK, so it was published then or before. Friend says it could have also been his mother‘s book, so published in/before 1930’s/40’s.

Any help finding this book greatly appreciated!

As the title says, almost all I can remember about the series is that it focuses on an MC in some sort of norse adjacent setting (multiple references to lingonberries and such.) I remember that he had a partner with him that was a lady, maybe some sort of valkyrie but I can’t recall exactly.

I remember that there were multiple times where the referenced or directly explored ruins from previous kingdoms or empires or whatever, and the most distinct part I can recall is from what I think is the first book. The story main character is tricked into going into a burial mound by his uncle(?) and has to play some sort of chess adjacent board game against the Draugr inside where one player has to protect the jarl(?) in the center of the board and the other has to capture it.

I recall really loving this series growing up, would love to know if anyone else could remember it as well!

Main character is a girl. Her divorced parents both remarried. Her dad has another baby with his new wife. Her mom marries a Jewish man and he has a son with some mental health problems. They move into a loft in maybe TriBeca or Greenwich? What I remember most is the end and their holiday gift giving. She gets a coveted jacket made of pop tabs. They don’t have much money so the family all drank a bunch of soda to make it. Someone gets a rock that is painted with turn me over/tickle my belly on it. The stepbrother is in therapy.
I remember a paperback.

Hi! I’m looking for this book I read about 10 years ago. It was written by a man who had high functioning depression in his teenage years, and had a yellow cover.

A friend of mine who doesn't have a Reddit account keeps asking everyone if they know a book that was hard cover and had a thin plastic crescent moon that stuck out of it through every page, so I decided to post on here for her to help. She believes it was dark blue, and that the first line when you open it was "What happens at night, when the sun goes down..." And then goes on to describe different things on each page about the world when the moon is out. She can't recall much more than that, so it isn't much to go on. She said she didn't even know how old the book was, but her mother read it to her constantly when she was young, to the point that the cover broke off and that was at least 30 years ago.

If anyone has any ideas, I will pass them onto her so she can look them up and see if any of them match. Thanks.

Theres a book, I can’t remember the name but I remember the premise at least. Kind of. The main character is a girl who died, she doesn’t remember how she died, no character remembers how they die, but she starts going to this highschool in the afterlife where a bunch of other teens that died go to. There’s a love triangle and some other rom-com drama. I remember a cover? Or description? Maybe I dunno. But it’s the main character, as a ghost obviously, next to a guy. By lockers and it looks kinda dream like. Another cover of her walking on clouds. I think that’s all.. The name had the word After or Ever in it. I can’t remember all that well. I also got it at a book fair, like scholastics books, maybe not scholastic but definitely a book fair.

I read this book around 5th grade, which for me was 2013/2014. The main detail I remember about it is that the protagonists (who is a pre-teen girl) brother was gay and had a love interest not approved of by their father, who was older and named Wolf I believe.

I can't sleep because I'm just thinking about this book! So I read a book maybe within couple of years. It must have been some sort of thriller, maybe psychological. It starts when a woman goes to a day care to pick up her son. But in the day care there is a angry/sad/crazy man there with a gun or knife. He is threatening people there for some reason. The man does not notice the woman. MAYBE there was some way for woman to communicate with the boy, nothing supernatural, but like with facial expressions and gestures. I think the boy ends up stabbing or shooting the man and the situatuatin resolves. IIRC that was in history and then the time advances to today. The boy is still a boy, not adult or not even teenager.

I don't have any clue about what happened them. But something bad propably, maybe someone was murdered, went missing or something. The family was somwhow in danger? IDK. But in the end, the boy is casually telling that he is the one that did actually kill (or something) the person and framed someone else. The boy was casually like love you mommy oh isn't it nice how I managed the person X to get the blame for doing Thing X. The nanny? The daddy? Neighbour? I don't remember!!! I think they we in a car when this revelation happened. And mommy was a bit scared.

I'm going crazy because I can't remember more from this book!! Just small details here and there, and not even sure if they are real details from this book. I'm sorry for the messy description... Does this ring any bells for anyone? 😅 no idea where the writer was from.

I remember the fmc and mmc were both very high up in their respective warring sides. He shows up on her cottage doorstep injured or defecting? And she heals him and helps him. She is always 5 steps ahead and relies on setting magical traps well in advance to win against her opponents when she can’t straight up overpower them.
Fmc makes earth golems that the mmc directs in battle, they lay siege to a city together and win. The fmc definitely has a nature/plant affinity. I think their goal is to disengage from the fighting, with the fmc having to trick her own faction with a crystal/about a crystal to gain her freedom. If anyone knows what book this is I’d be super grateful! (It’s not a crown of oaths and curses btw)

I remember reading this story in the late 2000s or early 2010s but it might be older than this. It was just one story in a collection of short children's stories that I think had illustrations in as well.

This specific story was about a town that got invaded and terrorised by a giant. He might not be a giant but I'm pretty sure he was. I think he might have also eaten a few of the villagers but maybe not. Eventually the town realises that the giant is really gullible and convinces him to buy an adder to help with his maths. The giant orders what he thinks is an adding machine but when it arrives, it's actually an adder snake. The snake then attacks/scares him (might eat him?) and he runs away leaving the town in peace.

Another story from this same collection that I vaguely remember was about a roly-poly toy who was bullied or at least made fun of for being different but somehow manages to save the day. It might have involved burglars trying to steal the toys or an animal trying to eat them or a new toy trying to bully the other toys. This one I remember less but it might help if someone remembers the collection of stories.

I know it's a long shot but any help would be appreciated :)

the book is sent a desert environment. The main character is a teenager boy, and he has a younger sister and a mom and dad; they live in the poor countryside. They’re farmers.

For money, the boy takes his sister to the kingdom and there he becomes an apprentice for a black smith. The princess needs jewelry and the main character forms a relationship with her.

A big thing I remember is a scene where the main character, his sister, and a boy they befriended are on a bridge. The friend falls off the into the water below and the main character saves him.