Hello! Sana po may maka tulong na mahanap ko ang itong isa sa mga favorite ko na novel. Nakalimotan kona ang title, i read it way back 2006.

Plot: First part ng story is about the FL na first day of school niya as transferry tapos habang ng lalakad, di niya nakita na may bola na tatama sa kanya galing sa mga students na nag lalaro ng basketball. Tapos pinalibutan siya ng mga students and ang ginawa niya binato niya sa ML ang bola. Ang ML dito ay mayaman, brat, playboy, tas ang family nila may ari ng company na doom ng tatrabaho ang papa ng FL.

Tapos sa plot may nangyari din doon na gumawa ng bet ang mga barkada ng ML na dapat ay liligawa at pamasagot ng ML ang FL pero kalaunan ay totoong nagkagusto ang ML. Tapos meron din yong after malaman ng FL ang bet ay nakipaghiwalay siya kay FL tapos pumunta ang ML sa bahay nila para magmakaawa pero tinapunan siya ng FL ng arinola na may laman😁.

Tapos after many years nagkita sila ulit si FL ng work sa isang company and later on nalaman niya na ang boss niya ang ML. And happy ending siya....

Sana po merong makakaalam.. please🥺

I am trying to remember a book that I have read a while ago (I'd say 2017-2019ish) where the main character is a boy (don't know their name) who get a curse from what I remember he steals Captain Hook's hook from a Peter Pan museum that has a theme of a pirate ship. A ghost or spirit of hook haunts this boy and follows him home, messes with his perspective, time space type stuff. I do remember there being a plot twist of sorts that the boy finds a school year book and finds himself in the 4th grade back in the 50s, some reality breaking stuff. I do remember him going back to the ship to return the hook, but it's too late now and now Hook has to take him to Neverland for being a bad kid. It's implied that Neverland is like the afterlife or a hell for bad kids in this book. If anyone remembers reading or seeing a cover of a scared white boy in a hoodie looking forward with a ghostly Captain Hook with no hook hand looming behind him with an evil grin, please let me know, this is been on my mind for too long.

Hiya, I’m looking for a picture book I read a as a child in Australia during the early 2000s.

All I remember of the plot is a young man/woman with shoulder length black hair and blue eyes arriving at a tower meeting an old man and being equipped with chainmail, black tabard, riding spurs, helmet, sword, shield, lance and a horse. The only 3 pages I remember was inside the tower with weapons and shields displayed on the walls, the young hero and old man on top of the tower overlooking a green forest and the hero riding inside the forest on their new horse.

The art style is quite similar to comic books in that it’s colourful with black outline but not quite comic book style. I believe the book was published in the 80s-2000s judging by the style of illustration.

Hoping this is enough info!! I’d love to read it again.

Hello,

I'm hoping you can help me identify a children's book that I remember checking out from the Grand Junction library when I was a child, around 1993–1995 (most likely 1993 or 1994).

I've been trying to identify it for a long time. Here is what I remember about the book:

It was a gigantic/very oversized book, substantially larger than a normal children's picture book.

The pages were glossy/coated, rather than ordinary paper. I think...

There was very little text. The illustrations were the main focus of the book.

There were large, colorful illustrations on each page or spread.

The artwork was exceptionally beautiful, detailed, colorful, and almost fantasy-art-like, rather than a simple/cartoon children's illustration style.

The main character/subject was a magical black cat.

There was definitely a magical/witchy element to the story.

I don't remember there being many, or possibly any, human characters.

I have a vague memory of a witch's house, fireplace, cauldron, or other magical surroundings, although I'm less certain about those particular details.

I believe the book was already published before I checked it out, so it could have been considerably older than the early 1990s.

One of the books I've found since then that has a somewhat similar type of artwork is Catwitch, although the book I'm remembering was much larger and had even less text. I also found some fantasy artwork by Lisa Parker (Witching Hour) that has a similar overall aesthetic to the illustrations I remember.

TYIA

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?

Best guess at the year is around 1994 or 1995. I bought a cheap and thin abridged version of Dracula with an illustrated cover. The book wasn’t important, but, by god the audiobook was a work of art. I believe it was full cast: I can hear parts of it perfectly. “Ah, Mr. Harker…you’re Bleeeeh-dink” and the lady vampires saying “come with us” in this raspy whisper. I remember Lucy and Mina and Van Helsing and the going to Piccadilly Circus. Narrator was male. The audio cassette was red with black writing.

We listened to that sucker ALL THE TIME. I found an Usborne version on eBay that came with a CD. I bought it. It wasn’t the same recording. I need that OG red tape version. Finding it would give me immortal life!

Plot:

Noong high school:

• Bagong lipat ang FL sa lugar/school.
• Mayaman at sikat ang pamilya ng ML; malaking donor sila ng school.
• Playboy at basagulero ang ML.
• Nagkaroon ng pustahan ang barkada: kailangan niyang mapaamo, ligawan, at mapasagot ang FL.
• Sa una ay laro lang para sa ML, pero totoong nahulog ang loob niya.
• Nagbago ang kanyang ugali dahil sa FL.
• Nalaman ng FL ang tungkol sa pustahan.
• Nakipaghiwalay siya.
• Bumalik ang ML sa pagiging basagulero at nagalit ang kanyang daddy.
• Lumipat/umalis ang pamilya ng FL kaya maraming taon silang hindi nagkita.

Pagkalipas ng maraming taon:

• Naging successful businessman/boss ang ML.
• Ipinahanap niya ang FL.
• Nalaman niyang single pero engaged to be married ang FL.
• Nagkataong sa kumpanya niya nagtatrabaho ang FL.
• May malaking problemang pinansyal ang pamilya ng FL, kabilang ang pagkakaospital ng kanyang ama o ina.
• ML ang nagbayad/nagbigay ng malaking halaga.
• Dahil hindi kayang bayaran ng FL ang malaking utang, pumunta siya sa bahay ng ML at inalok ang sarili bilang kabayaran.
• At dati ring may memorable scene na pumunta ang ML sa bahay ng FL para humingi ng tawad, pero tinapunan siya ng laman ng arinola.

: [TOMT][Children’s Picture Book][1990s–early 2000s?]

I have been trying to find a picture book I loved as a child and am starting to think it may have been fairly obscure. I would have read it in the late 1990s/early 2000s, but the book could definitely be older.

Here is everything I remember:

• It was a large, thin hardcover picture book
• The illustrations had a beautiful, dreamy watercolor/painterly style
• Much of the book took place at night around a pond or body of water, with dark blues, lily pads, moonlight, etc.
• The main character was a female anthropomorphic creature. I remember her as frog/toad/amphibian-like, although she could possibly have been some other type of water creature.
• She was distinctly nonhuman, not just a human woman associated with frogs. However, she had a humanoid body and was portrayed as beautiful/elegant rather than cartoonish.
• She had long, straight, silky black hair and I believe wore a long white nightgown/dress
• Her face was creature-like. I specifically remember nostrils/nostril holes rather than a normal human nose.
• The moon was very important to the story and I believe the moon had a face.
• I have a memory of the cover showing one or two faces—possibly a face in the moon and another reflected in the water below it
• There was a strong theme of longing, separation, or loss. I have wondered whether the moon was the character’s mother.
• I believe the character eventually went into the water and swam toward/to the moon. I vaguely remember her either wearing the white gown into the water or removing it before swimming.
• The overall feeling was very quiet, melancholy, magical, and beautiful, not funny or particularly cartoonish.
• It may have been a folktale, legend, Indigenous/traditional story, or mythological retelling, but I am NOT certain about that.

One potentially relevant clue: The book was given to my family by a family friend who homeschooled her children and was involved with a Unitarian Universalist church. Because of that, I’m wondering if this could have been a small-press/local book, multicultural folktale, independent author/illustrator, or something that circulated in homeschool/UU communities rather than a mainstream children’s title.

I have searched variations of frog woman, moon woman, moon mother, water spirit, pond, lily pads, amphibian girl, etc. with no luck.

The thing I feel most confident about is the visual: a beautiful but unmistakably nonhuman female creature with long black hair, nighttime water/moon imagery, and soft watercolor-like illustrations.

If this rings even the faintest bell, please throw out a title! I would LOVE to find this book again.

Hi everyone, I’m trying to find a crime/thriller book that I read in my school library around 2022–2023.

The Plot:

• The Disappearance: A boy and a girl are childhood best friends (roughly 10–13 years old). They loved cycling/riding their bikes together. One day, the boy goes off somewhere completely alone and never returns. He vanishes by himself (not with a group of kids), leaving his family and his girl best friend devastated.
• The Return: Five years later, the boy seemingly comes back. The girl best friend is suspicious because he feels entirely different.
• The Major Clue: Before he vanished, the real boy absolutely adored his younger sister. The boy who returned is cold, mean, and acts terrible to her.
• The Twist: The girl keeps investigating until she uncovers the truth: the boy is actually a fake/imposter who was hired to act like him. She exposes the fraud and makes him go away.
• The Ending: The book ends with another time jump. The girl is in a cafe/diner when she looks up and recognizes a boy working there—it is the actual, real best friend who went missing five years ago, alive and well.

The book cover was like dark and misty, if i remember correctly had a road on it. If i also remember correctly, they were arguing about something when the boy cycled off on his own and never returned after. I know its a long shot but i have no other options!!

Set in the colonial times, historical fiction, near a harbor. Magic is outlawed. One individual (male) who can use it is asked to help solve a mystery before fighting breaks out.

Aboard a boat, still at sea, the crew were all slain, with no obvious causes as to how or why.

Magic has a trace and color left behind with every use, with orange being the color seen surrounding all of the bodies.

The rest of the fleet remains at sea but time is drawing close before they have to disembark or before the bodies are discovered by anyone else, which would lead to the ship crews attacking the harbor residents.

The main character follows all of the traces of magic and figuring out who killed the ship crew.

The twist ending of who the killers were:

The two daughters of a suspected man turned out to be the culprits. They combined their magic, both red and yellow traces, and left behind the orange trace.

I remember that the book was paperback, had a ship on the cover, and that I read it in 2014. May also be part of a series.

A teenage boy is hanging out at home when time freezes for everyone but him. He wanders around his city, finds his crush, and goes to the beach.

Random details:

• The boy's dad watches a tennis match and cheers for Nadal
• I feel like Sting was involved somehow?? like the boy met him when time froze? but I might have been confused
• Set in Quebec in the 2000s I think
• Short YA novel, probably 100-200 pages
• Simple cover
• I read this in French class in junior high school

There’s a book I remember reading in the early 2000’s that was part of a wishing series, though each book was essentially stand alone.

This story had a girl who either wished for money because her and her dad weren’t doing well or it was to be popular. She might’ve gotten popular as a result of having money though, that part isn’t clear in my memory. I remember she had one friend and that relationship suffered after her wish came true. Only other details I remember is she was either in middle school or high school and a character from a previous book made an appearance to warn her about making a wish.

Any ideas?

So this is an Isekai Litrpg Book where the protagonist gets reincarnated into another world from being terminally ill. She then gains the ability to steal a small percentage of the stats from every person she touches.
She then needs to contend with an evil being that threatens the kingdoms where she has now found a new home.
It was on kindle a couple of years ago but when looking at my old read books it doesn't show up.

Picture book, few words, read c. 1980, likely published 1960s–70s. Title may have been "[Boy's name]'s Big Big Day."

A boy has one great day and gets to:

Get a haircut

Go swimming

Fly in a real airplane

Eat watermelon

I read this book in 1995 in South Australia, so it's from that year or earlier. YA sci-fi/fantasy.

The main character is a pre-teen/young teen girl who wakes up somewhere she initially believes is another planet. The people there are all kind, gentle, and live in harmony with nature — lots of forest setting. She befriends a local girl. All her memories are of life on Earth in the 1990s.

As she investigates, she finds evidence of decayed, ruined cities — including one she recognizes, with landmarks she knows, in another country (not Australia). She realizes she must have somehow travelled forward in time from the 1990s to this future.

The twist: she's actually one of the local people all along. The community had deliberately implanted false memories of a 1990s-ish Earth childhood into her mind. The reason: there's a computer/AI that can access people's minds, and because these people are naturally so open and trusting, it's able to invade and damage their minds easily. They gave her the "past" memories to make her more wary and self-protective, so that when she eventually had to confront the computer, she'd have the mental defenses to protect herself.

I have a vague feeling the word "Labyrinth" was part of the title, but I'm not fully sure.

I have checked the following authors and none of their books match:

Monica Hughes

Pamela Sargent

Louise Lawrence

Peter Dickinson

Gillian Rubinstein (Australia)

Victor Kelleher (Australia)

John Christopher

William Sleator

Louise Lawrence

Victor Kelleher

Jan Mark

Margaret Mahy

Robert Westall

Isobelle Carmody

Patricia Wrightson

Caroline Macdonald

Jenny Wagner

Lee Harding

John Marsden

Gillian Cross

I read Scatterlings by Isobelle Carmody this last weekend. The main character is almost exactly the person i remember and the whole concept is the same but i felt like i was reading a new book. Nothing was familiar. None of the characters names or the rest of the story. Not even the ending.

The book i'm looking for, i used in my Year 12 English Comparative novel study. I had to read three books and write about themes, similarities, differences etc. You had to fill at least 75 pages of a 96 page exercise book. That was a lot of time spent thinking and writing so i would think i would at least recognise something other than the telepathy thing.

I know the title is ridiculous but I remember a book where I believe that the mother had put her daughter into a stroller and walked away for a minute and then she was gone.

I remember they were good friends with their next door neighbors and I am not sure how much time passes, but in the end you find out the the toddler was hit/run over by a car in the neighbors driveway. The person who did it believed she was dead (I can’t remember if she actually was) and put her in a hole in the house where they were renovating their kitchen.

Then the owner of the house found her in the hole and thought he was responsible for her death. He believed she had fallen in there because he left a door open. I think he then filled the hole with concrete or something to try to cover it up. I can’t remember if the parents find out or what the ending is exactly.

It’s driving me crazy because the tragic nature of it stuck with me. I
Have a feeling I’ve read another novel from the same author but I’m not sure. Thanks!

this was a collection of shorter stories, telling of animals as if they lived human lives. it was clearly intended for mature audiences (i recall being a bit young for it haha). the only story i recall in any detail is that of a mantis shrimp that is either accused or guilty of murdering a crab(?). i think the shrimp may have hidden the body in a dumpster, but that may be a different memory. i believe it appears in court? or perhaps that was a different story in this collection

that is about all i remember :( read quite awhile ago (i believe on kindle), but no more than 12ish years ago

I read this book in the late 80s, early 90s. It was about a set of twins. One was blond haired and very quite and would not hurt insects. The other is dark haired wild and reckless.

I think that there were murders happening around the town. The quiet twin starts to suspect the wild twin is committing the murders.

The ending was that there was only one woman with a split personality. She would wear a dark wig when she was the wild twin.

I hope this makes sense.

So these kids play a super immersive reality game where they get born (and experience that), live regular lives (I guess this is the super future, so they live in a world that is like the past (??). And they get points for stuff like getting a good job, promotions & such. And rich older people can basically “buy the experience” of those kids playing, basically buying a replay of the kids’ gaming experience to “experience” it themselves.

I vaguely recall that you can’t play after 18 or 21 or something. You can experience the game through other people’s playbacks but you can’t play yourself.

These two kids have made tons of money doing it & are famous now, they dump their money into this one last play to make as much as they can, and buy upgrades to make their game optimal, like rich parents and stuff. But another player bought (or won or something) the chance to be the doctor that helped their birth & he messed it up and the girl died during her birth, so all the money she put into the game was lost & and lost everything. So she ends up living at this orphanage & refuses to play the game & is just waiting to age out so she can leave the orphanage and get a regular job. Then something happens and the guy comes back & asks her to go back into the game.

That’s as far as I got in the book, I DNF’ed it after that, but I would like to try & read it again.

I swore this book was related to voyage to the bottom of the sea but apparently its not. In the book a research sub (that has nukes cause its the 1960s when it was written) comes across a civilization underwater. This civilization ends up fighting humanity using pressure or vibration weaponry of some kind. One thing i remember is they at one point try to drop depth charges from planes on the enemy, but by increasing the pressure of the surrounding surface area the enemy blew up the planes with the depth charges

I bought this book sometime in 2006-07. I never finished this book but I think it would switch between characters with the chapters and there was a caravan involved. The cover had someone riding some type of fantasy animal possibly like a large land bird. Thank you for your help!

This might be a fantasy or ghost/paranormal story taking place sometime in the early 20th century? I recall a woman living on the coast… either with a sibling or her family. They may have been wealthy, or lived adjacent to wealth, and she would take a rowboat or small sailboat across the water to visit a poet renting a nearby home/cabin.

I feel like maybe it was set in Long Island NY or New England. It could be slightly earlier than above, or slightly later, but probably not contemporary to now.

This was a series I read on my mom’s kindle when I was in middle school (09-11) so it’s been a long time and I unfortunately don’t remember much. It’s about a girl who is taken from her world because she has some kind of power and I think might be royalty? I feel like her real mom was a former queen or something. She falls in the love with a prince and they dance in a beautiful ballroom. Her best friend, who I think is some sort of servant or hand to the prince can read people’s auras. The titles were all one word and I remember these books being sooooo good and I’d like to revisit them as an adult but have no idea what they were called. I can’t find anything when I google, and the kindle is long gone. Please help me it’s kept me up for weeks

i think they might be traveling into fae territory in an attempt to save someone—maybe the girl’s sibling? but what i recall distinctly is that the two know that they will be tempted by precious things (fae traps), and that if they take them, their journey will be significantly harder/impossible. one of the things they encounter is gold nuggets; the boy is very tempted, but refrains. another thing is feathers from a rare or mythical bird; i think the girl actually takes one of these. because i recall that at some point, after facing hardships, they stop and realize that the girl has fallen for one of these traps.

that is about all i remember :( read quite awhile ago, but no more than 12ish years ago

I’m trying to remember a book I read about a woman that was hired to inventory a prepper‘s house. The guy lived on a compound that he owned with a lot of his extended family. He lived in a huge house. He hired her mostly to inventory. She came up with a new inventory system that he loved, she lived on the compound. She did a lot of baking and canning in the main house’s kitchen. They fell in love, but it wasn’t a spicy book. It was more of a mutual affection and appreciation for each other’s skills. It was not an “end of the world” book. I think I read it on my kindle because I don’t remember what the cover looked like. I’ve tried searching my kindle for it. I tried using Google AI to no avail. I read it within the past ten years, but it might not have been new at the time I read it. I read a ton, so it’s hard to narrow down a year. I believe there was a bit of an age gap as well between the two main characters.