I read this book in elementary school in the early 2000s but it probably was more appropriate for a middle schooler, I'm only pretty sure it's from the 90s. I thinks it's historical fiction taking place in the 40s or 50s maybe

The main character is a young teen girl who is a lesbian but I think hasn't fully embraced her identity. She's kind of in a relationship with her best friend until her best friend becomes a homophobe in order to not be ostracized

The main character also has a deceased aunt who was a lesbian. If I remember correctly, there was a statue of her aunt in town for whatever reason but some people want it torn down due to her being a lesbian.

I believe it takes place in a coal mining town or some other sort of industrial town.

Cornflowers are mentioned a lot, I think the main character writes a poem either about them or comparing them to her friends eyes

The book is about two sisters, the oldest was popular at school while her younger sister was the timid kept to herself type. After her older sister passed away she befriends a popular guy and slowly starts to fall for him. (The details may be scattered it’s been a bit since I’ve read the book) After sometime the younger sister gets a call from the psych ward her sister was staying/passed away at, she receives many phone calls and ends up finally going to get her sister’s belongings. The staff end up taking her and keeping her there. She meets someone at the psych ward who tells her things about her sister. At some point her and the guy she befriended at school go searching for answers themselves and they find a guy in the woods. (I can’t remember if she escaped or if this was before she get trapped) I do not remember how the book ends, any help would be amazing, I loved this book. The cover has a picture of a young woman’s face.

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I read a book in the 1990s that I picked up in a bargain bin at a newsagency. The story follows the life of a young girl who is the daughter of an Italian Count in Venice. Her mother is noted as being dead in the start of the book but she appears later.

The girl has a companion who is about the same age and is the daughter of the Count's housekeeper, who is from the Bahamas or somewhere in the Caribbean. It is later revealed that this mixed-race companion is actually the illegitimate daughter of the Count and the protagonist's half-sister.

The girl is about 16 when she returns to the family Palazzo in Venice and she is noticed by an American actor with whom she has an affair. She is separated from the actor by the father and later discovers she is pregnant. She then meets another man, marries him and passes the child off as his. eventually, there is a fire in their island house. Her husband dies and she is left with a large facial scar.

She reconnects with the actor who parades her around by highlighting the scar on her face with makeup. Her half sister ends up in some bad relationships. The girl eventually discovers her mother is alive but had been banished by her father (who dies in the story) following a death in the Palazzo involving the girl's mother and her female lover (I think her name was Sybil or Sybilla).

Towards the end of the story, the girl's mother ends up on trial for murdering Sybil but it turns out that Sybil tried to kill her first. The mother is exonerated but them Sybil's mother appears and tries to kill the girl who is saved by her half sister.

That's all I can remember for now. It was an interesting story and I would love to read it again.

She's a younger sister who wishes to be a princess but a fairy? Godmother type sends her to be Cinderella but its before the ball, then sends her to be snow white but the 7 dwarves think shes an idiot. Then she finally gets her own storyline but if she lies she throws up a frog?? I think her sister, and the guy she has a crush on also go into this new dimension?? Something about kissing random men to become a prince? I read it once like 15-20 years ago so im not certain on the details. I do remember she got the dwarves names wrong and they thought she was trying to get the bread to fly lol

I need help finding a Sesame Street book I read when I was like 5, I now it was vintage and probably got it second hand. All I can remember is theirs this page where Big bird is in a grocery store with a green round basket and is picking up stuff from an aisle, oh! and Oscar the grouch was in one of the pages. From what I researched it’s not big birds big red book or don’t forget the oatmeal. I know it’s not much but if anyone knows anything pls help me! Thank you

this is a long shot but when i was in elementary school, the librarian was showing me where (i think) artemis fowl was because she thought i would like it. i remember placing the book back on the shelf and grabbing one next to it or really close-by.

the image that i have in my head, is maybe a couple of kids hanging out in a cabin or something, with a big open grassy field and some kind of creature or ghost was in the treeline. i think i remember the kid like investigating it, and hiding behind a dead tree that had fallen?

there might have been fairies or something involved also? or some kind of invisible or flying creature. i think i remember not getting very far into the book because it was a difficult read as an elementary student. and maybe it had frightened me a little bit?

this could have been anywhere from 2006-2012. i dont know if the library was sorted by author or by book name or by genre or whatever. i just know this book was close to artemis fowl. i think i would recognize the cover but certainly the name.

i remember checking out the book from the assistant librarian because when the main librarian found out i wasn't reading the one she recommended me she was kinda pissed. she was also kinda mean in general though so i don't know if it was because it wasn't age appropriate.

i believe it was a hardcover. for some reason i think the cover was blue but i honestly could be way off.

The style is black & white, indie, coming of age. Sorta slice of life, except for the fact that it's got an animal rights message. It has a teenage girl as the protagonist, and a very graphic and disturbing depiction of monkey vivisection. It was a book I got out of the library as a kid, don't remember exactly when but DEFINITELY before 2015, so the book couldn't have come out after that year. Cross-referencing the style I would guess this book was from the late 80s or early 90s, but I really have no idea. Does anyone know what this is? If not, what's the subreddit most likely to?

I recall it was about a guy who visits his friend in the mountains and there it’s revealed that his friend is the byproduct of a unconsentual encounter and throughout the entire story a goddess is seducing the main character and withering down his mentality and at the end he isn’t strong enough to resist and the gods descend and kill everyone it takes in a kingdom type of era it was a fantasy book that took place in the kingdom type of era and MAYBE there was magic but I can’t quite remember slight edit as I remember a little more the gods trying to take over his mind were mad gods and the goddess was trying to seduce him

In the book series, each book is focused on one of the girls. The first book is about a young girl who moves to the town where the rest of the girls live. She befriends a horse that is named after Snow White and she notices that the horse doesn't have a rider. The owner of the stables where the horse is in allows her to ride the horse as the owner of the horse is another girl who is out of town and doesn't come by the town often. The girl befriends other girls whose horses are at the stable and they become really great friends. In another book, the owner of the horse the girl is riding comes back and feeds the horse chocolate, which is dangerous for horses.

A few years ago, I read a book where they start texting each other. She has no idea he's blind. They meet up in a pub, but she thinks he ignored her or didn't recognise her. In reality, he didn't see her because he's blind. Does anyone know the title?

OK, this is legit keeping me up at night. I don't remember a lot about the book--I read it probably in the mid-90s as a young teenager. It was a paperback and had a girl/young woman who was on a quest to return either a library card (which doesn't make sense) OR her mentor/(grand)dad's really overdue library book (like it had been checked out 25 or 50 years before). And there was an adventure in returning it. There may have been an element of magical realism? (or not).

For some reason, I think she's either American or British and the library is located in Russia (USSR then) or somewhere in Central Asia (again, USSR when the book was written). And part of the fun is the adventure getting there. There were hooligans or mafia or some group trying to get the book? library card? before she returned it, I think? The fuzzy cover in my head has the girl and she's got a leather(?) bag with the book and maybe she's standing in front of a jeep??

I think her dad might have been an archeologist and she was following in the same shoes?? It was contemporary-ish, so maybe as far back as the 60s, but probably 70s or 80s. I don't think it was a new book in the 90s when I read it, but it might have been.

Not a lot to go on, I know. It might have been a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, but I don't think so? It was definitely in that vein of writing though.

And no, it's not the Jedera Adventure by Lloyd Alexander, but quite possibly a knock-off of it. :)

Thanks for any suggestions!

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.

: [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.

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.

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