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Looking for 3 books - all FOUND! [Jun. 16th, 2008|07:13 pm]

colin_chaotic
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1. It's set in the early 20th century, I think, and the main character is a teen girl who is interested in things like archaeology and paleontology. There's a discovery of dinosaur bones nearby, and she wants to go, but her dad's like, uber-religious. The main detail I remember from this book is that they're somewhere, and her dad starts in on the usual "It's Eve's fault humans were kicked out of the Garden of Eden", and fed up, she responds, "At least Eve took responsibility for her own actions instead of blaming others, like Adam!" Found it myself! "Ghost Horses", by Pamela Smith Hill

2. A ghost story, the main characters being two preteen boys. One in modern day, and one back in the early 1900s. They wind up switching places, I think. Mostly, I remember that the boy from the past loves this one marble game, and that when current!boy goes back in time, there's a part when they're riding in a brand new, top of the line car, and everyone's freaking out about how fast it's going - which is, like, 20mph. Found! "Time for Andrew", by Mary Downing Hahn

3. Another ghost story, this time with the ghost being Civil War era. I think he might've been a cadet at VMI, but I'm not sure. Anyway, in modern times, a boy and his sister go to stay with an elderly relative (I think) in Virginia. Boy discovers ghost, etc. There might've been a treasure involved, but the main detail I remember is that the non-ghost boy is named Benjamin. He's called Benji at the beginning, but decides that's too "little kid", and starts to go by Ben. Found! "Ghost Cadet", by Elaine Marie Alphin
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[May. 13th, 2008|01:27 pm]

weselan
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I was wondering if you would be able to help me find a book. I read it while I was living in London in 2006, and I don't think it would have been published earlier than the mid to late 90's.

The story is set in England during WW2. A young woman from the country joins the WAAF, and works with Barrage Balloons. A young American man is in the Air force (I think he joins the RAF as the US hasn't joined the war yet, a-la Ben Affleck in 'Pearl Harbour').

She gets injured in a Balloon accident, becomes crippled, and returns to her parents home. I think she has a brother who is in the RAF, and he becomes friends with the American. They get some time off, and go to the country, where the American meets the girl. She has been very depressed (as she is stuck upstairs, bed-bound, the physiotherapist is a bitch). At first he thinks she is much younger, and just feels sorry for her, and she doesn't like him much.

He visits again a few times whenever he has time off, and becomes friends with the girl. He organises for her bed to be moved downstairs so she is not so isolated, and gets a wheelchair for her as well. She starts having feelings for him, but he sees her more as a friend (and I have a feeling that he wants a 'rich' girlfriend). She is slowly learning to walk again. They share a kiss at some point, but there is some misunderstanding - they are still friendly, but now he is unsure of what he wants. He returns to the war. She ends up becoming a teacher at the local school. He returns after the war finishes, they resolve differences, and end up together.

I read a lot of books set in Liverpool/England during WW2 while I was over in London, mainly by Katie Flynn (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/katie-flynn/). I thought this was one of them, but having read the blurbs of her books, none of them fit this description. I can remember some other bits, but I can't say for sure that they are from this book or the others I read(like brother getting killed on a mission, American nearly getting killed in a mission).

Thanks in advance!
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Lost: Childrens' Cookbook, YA Horsey Book, Short stories [Mar. 6th, 2008|02:55 pm]

boosette
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I'm looking for a couple of books from my childhood.

The first I had when I was 3-5ish, so 1989-1991. It was a children's cookbook with a peach cover and may or may not have had doodleish illustrations. The last recipe/project in the book was for "sprouting beans" - they were sprouted in a jar, possibly with paper towel?

One of the characters/illustrations may have been based on this painting, but in the same style as the illustrations in the rest of the book? This illustration was, I believe, attached to a recipe for salad but I'm not 100%.

There was a list of Safety Rules for the Kitchen close to the beginning,

Status: lost

The other book I read in fifth grade, 1996 or 1997. I checked it out from the Boerne, tx public library and it had that Old Book Smell even then, so it was probably 10-15 years older. The dustjacket definitely had a picture of a bay(or chestnut) and white paint horse and may have had a picture of a young Native American girl. It might have been YA - protag was 14? - but I think the book was (mis?) shelved outside the childrens/YA section.

I remember the protagonist (girl on the cover?), named Kit Fox taming an untamable horse and participating in an annual (?) buffalo hunt, where she did very well for herself. Kit Fox's sister was much more beautiful than her?

There was also an annoying warrior-type character named Raven Tail Feathers who tried courting Kit Fox, but she spurned him because he was obnoxious and made her uncomfortable? Kit Fox eventually entered a romantic relationship with the best friend character (who helped her get access to the horse she tamed?).

I might be mushing this book with Maroo of the Winter Caves, but I also vaguely recall at least one death of someone close to Kit Fox (the best friend character?)
I also think (but I'm not sure) that the book may have centered around a Plains tribe?

Status: FOUND - Dawn Rider by Janis Hudson

The short story I remember markedly less about - A boy (12ish?) finds a gun in an empty lot and goes out to shoot at the railroad tracks, accidently killing a woman on the train.

It was in my ninth grade literature book. (Southern California, 2000/2001 school year, before they switched to the new books.)

Status: lost

The other short story was actually an excerpt from a book, published in American Girl sometime between 1996 and 1999, called "The I Hate Lottie Club". Does anyone know what the title of the book is?

I remember Lottie's brother smoked (pot? cigarettes?) and had stolen a Mercer St sign which he hung on his wall.

Status: lost
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Found! - Looking for Regency Romance? [Jan. 13th, 2008|11:37 pm]

jheen
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Found: The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer

Okay, this book has been driving me crazy for over a year so I hope somebody here has some idea of what it is. Back in the spring of 1999, I went on a roadtrip with some college friends that I've long since fell out of touch with. One of the girls brought along an audio book that we listened to on and off for almost two days straight.

It was set in England in probably the Regency time period - it involved lords and ladies and possible duels. The main characters were a set of fraternal twins - boy and girl. They'd just arrived in London (I want to say they'd been over in mainland Europe for the past few years growing up, but it might have been some other sort of place. Not America, I'm pretty sure) and for reason, the girl had to pretend to be her brother - I think it involved how they got their inheritance? This, of course, left the brother to have to pretend to be his sister.

The entire thing was written almost in a style of a Shakespearean romance - full of misunderstandings and such and rather witty and well written. I can't remember who the boy falls for, but I'm pretty sure the girl ends up falling in love with the lord who takes her under his wing to show the new lord around London and help him out.

As it was an audio book, I can't imagine it being of the normal mass-market Regency novels, and I don't have enough details to even begin to know where to search using Google/Amazon/whatever. It obviously was printed prior to 1999, probably by several years as I vaguely recall the one girl saying she'd taken the novel on several trips already. I'm really hoping somebody recognizes this book as it was a great companion on that trip and I've been wanting to read it for years.

Thank you in advance for any help on this!
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Romance Novel Fest [Jan. 9th, 2008|12:11 am]

sdblaine
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Been reading romance novels for awhile now (since the late 90's probably) but early on, without my knowing, my mom would go through and donate things if I hadn't read them in awhile. Grrrrr!

So here I am looking for the second ever romance novel I ever read!

The cover was mostly yellow with a girl in a colonial era dress. It was one of those painted ones, that are kind of silly and usual not anatomically correct.

And the plot... Well, from what I can remember the female heroine was dressed as a boy for some reason and was eventually forced to many this guy she doesn't really like. A forced engagement maybe...?

Later on she's abducted and somehow ends up in the middle east as a slave to another man she falls in love with... only to find out that he is in fact the same guy. Whoo.

There were two memorable love scenes that I can remember, one involving the two main character running around the guys room (before the abduction) with some bath water where the guy is really really ticked over something the girl has done and then later when they are in the middle east and have made up, near or besides a fountain lake or stream.

Sorry this is more then a bit vague but I read this a loooong time ago and only recently though about it/ wanted to look it up and buy another copy to re-read.

:)
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help!! [Sep. 11th, 2007|02:55 pm]

antigonelives
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Need help with three books:

1) It was a young adult novel, or possibly a novel for children. It was a chapter book. I can't remember all the details, but there was a modern boy who moved down to one of the southern U.S. states with his grandma for a summer. While he's there, he meets the ghost of a boy who was a drummer or something for the Confederate army during the Civil War. Ghost-boy had a golden chain watch that had been his grandfather's, which he loved. There was a flashback or retelling of the battle the ghost died in; he was shot and only wanted to protect the watch, which he hid in a rock wall. I think the plot involved the ghost having the other kid find the watch again...

FOUND: "GHOST CADET."

2) This one is very, very vague. When I read, I visualise everything, and the images I got from this book have never left me. It was certainly not a picture book. I suppose I remember the images and feelings I associated with it more because there was a gravestone in the local graveyard for four children who drowned in the 1960's. It always creeped me out to look at it, and the way I imagined those poor kids dying was exactly how I saw the scenario in the book.

Anyway, the book: there were fraternal twins, a boy and a girl, who were at a lake-camping-area-thing for some reason. I think there were two separate scouting camps at the lake for boys and girls, or maybe they were with family... though I do remember something about a white house burning down and someone rushing back in to save another girl's locket and dying. I could be confusing stories.

I know the twins drowned, though, with their dog, and no one found their bodies until a long time later. They were ghosts, and I think maybe they saved someone in a burning house with a locket? I know they had contact with someone on a scouting trip; they liked to mess with the lighting switches.

This one's going to bother me if I don't find it again. The images haven't gone away, and I doubt they ever will.

FOUND: GHOST TWINS SERIES.

3) I probably read this one when I was eleven, so it was around 2001, give or take a year. It involved two boys who were interested in cave expeditions and took some classes or knew someone who knew of a cave in the area they could explore. The boys went into a nearby cave to explore and ended up getting lost. One of the boys (I recall the name Sam, but that might just be because two very close friends + cave = Mines of Moria?) fell in the river, and they ran out of light somewhere, and I think the "Sam" boy said that if you're in the dark for three days with your eyes open, you become blind. That alone terrified me. I don't know how they got out, but they did.

There might have been something about a bottomless hole in the cave, but I may be confusing stories. I tend to mix up what I've read.

POTENTIALLY FOUND: "CAVE OF DANGER."

About the time I read these books (America, circa 1997-2000), my teachers had us keep lists of everything we read. I still have them at home, but can't check (I'm at a university five hours away), and I was a slacker at writing down what I read, anyway.

Thanks in advance!
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polar-bear scif-fi strangeness, Jewish girls in WW2 [Jul. 9th, 2007|11:24 am]

sand_woman
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1) I've been trying to recall this one as a while...I read it as a child in the 90s but I'm certain it was one from the adult section of the library, at the time a white paperback possibly with purple writing. I haven't a clue of the author or title but I've had a
feeling for a while that the section of shelves was around the H/I/J/K area.

It was sci-fi/futuristic type setting. The one character I remember clearly had some kind of relationship with the female main character. She was covered in white fur and possibly was some kind of polar bear, or maybe it was a result of some sort of futuristic radiation/mutation - I remember she thought that she was ugly. They loved each other and then were parted tragically - I think perhaps the "bear" character died. I remember something about living in caves, or mines or something.

It's a really long shot considering I remember so little, but you never know.

2) This one has a lot of books with similarities, but I've never found the exact one. Another library book, but for children. Set in WW2 - I think in Holland - definitely not Germany. Two/three girls, sisters I think, were hidden in a house by female characters (possibly also sisters) to avoid the Nazis. I'm pretty sure it ends well. I remember lots of extracts of the language that I didn't understand.
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[Nov. 6th, 2006|11:15 pm]

temporality
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Two lost books have been tormenting me for a while:

1) This was a small paperback nonfiction book filled with all these strange facts about the Middle Ages. My uncle gave it to me when I was six (in the mid 90's, America), but I'm not entirely sure if it was older than that. I believe it was meant for older children and preteens, as there were descriptions of the bubonic plague and gross cures for diseases (dead frogs around the neck, anyone?) and I'd really like to find this book, as it inspired my passion for medieval history. My uncle does not remember the book; I've asked.
Found! The Measly Middle Ages by Terry Deary.

2) The next book I picked up at a grammar school booksale around 1996-1997 or so; the book, I remember, was fairly recent then. The book was about a group of four sisters, all princesses, whose parents are the king and queen of some magical land. The sisters are all different: one is a redhead who lived in a forest, and the others live on a lake, an ice castle, and some other place representing the fire element. The girls might have had modern names and possibly each one has a special power; I think the forest redhead was called Emily. I don't know why, but an evil lady/witch and her evil cohort imprison the girls and the girls have to go across a foggy lake, and if they go the wrong way, some evil man will get them. The evil lady had them in a cargo area of a ship and she shouted, "Seize them!" because the girls might've escaped via icegirl's power or something with ropes. Their parents eventually reclaimed them and they all returned to their kingdoms. The book was paperback and thin, with the four girls in a circle, hands joined, in a stony castle tower. It might have been a series, but I've never been sure. I just really want to find this book!
Found! The Jewel Princess series by Jahnna N. Malcom

Thank you all so much! Sad to say, but this really makes my life, lol.
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[Nov. 1st, 2006|07:12 am]

ickypicky_pooka
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Hi, I have a few mystery books for you!

1)I read this in late elementary or middle school, mid 90's. The main character was a young girl, 10-12 maybe, who had long red hair. It was set in pioneer times, I think, and the girl was around the Indians a good bit. She was a tomboy and maybe had several brothers. I keep thinking that the title of the book was her name and my mind keeps coming up with something along the lines of Cassie, but I could be waaaayyy off.
BOOK FOUND: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

2) I remember checking this one out of the school library in 4th or 5th grade. I think it was a mystery and involved a dollhouse that was an exact replica of the home it was in. There were a couple children who were trying to solve the mystery, I think. I recall that a book in the library of the house(and dollhouse) kept falling off the shelf that was a clue and there was a secret cubby space behind a brick in the fireplace.
BOOK FOUND: The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright

3)I read this one in middle school. It's about 3 girls that were best friends; I think one was named Rachel. They were 13-ish and were starting to discover boys and such. One of the girls started becoming part of the popular crowd and rejecting the others. I remember that she was a gifted flute player and had an older sister that had bad acne. At Halloween when they were still friends they dressed as witches and recited MacBeth-Bubble, bubble toil and trouble, etc. I think I may actually have this book packed up in my mom's attic or possibly the sequel to it if it had one.
BOOK FOUND: Just As Long As We're Together by Judy Blume

Thanks in advance!
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[Oct. 31st, 2006|02:47 pm]

rebelintosanity
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Hallo everynyun. This is the kind of community I've been looking for. This is also the sixth attempt at getting in the queue for this post. I really hope it works this time.

Unlike most of what has been going up, this is not a children's book. Usually when I'm looking for a book I try Google, but I'm a bit scared to Google this. This book exists, because I spent an entire afternoon in 2004 reading it. It's driving me crazy. I'd at least like to know what it was called.

It's an eighties/early nineties book in the style of Possession or The French Lieutenant's Woman or something like that. English setting. It starts in a vaguely modern time with this author who's burnt out going on vacation. He ends up in a relationship with one of the locals (who's already married, IIRC), and most of that part was boring so I don't remember much. Somehow there's a reason for the other part.
The other part, interspersed throughout, is of an 1840s (again, IIRC) setting, involving an young Anglican priest new-come-to-the-village and an upper-middle-class young woman. There was esoterica-related stuff, and the only reason I remember reading the book is that there's a bizarre auto-castration scene near the end with references to Origen and all.

Help?

ETA 6/11/06:
FOUND. It's definitely The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke. Not like I'm ever going to read it again, but at least I know how to tag it in my head.
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two books [Oct. 30th, 2006|09:58 pm]

tiddly
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This is a book I had to read in middle school, 7th or (more likely) 8th grade (I'm 22 now). It's set in early America (if America was a country yet, I don't remember), and it's about a young white girl, who somehow got into the hands of Indians. I don't remember what happened to her family, or her name, but the Indians (don't remember which tribe) kept her, and raised her as one of their own.
A few scenes I remember:
After she learned some of their language: one of the Indians made a spoon for her (or helped her make one), and she was proud of it and showed it off at dinner that night. But she didn't get dinner that night, because she didn't work to earn it.
She learned what the name the Indians gave her meant, something about corn, corn fields, because of her blond hair.
One of the adults taught her to watch the corn fields. You scare the crows away, but never hurt them (there was a reason for this which has escaped my memory). So, shake a blanket at them; never throw stones at them.
Found! Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski. Thank you!

The other book is a young adult/youth/kids fiction. I don't remember when I read it, at least 5 years ago, maybe 10. It's about a little girl who gains telepathy. She ends up going on a game show, using the telepathy (cuz the people running the show told her to) to 'hear' the answer from the talk show host. Without telepathy, she helps neighbors find a missing boy. I remember it had some bright colors on the cover, neon green and neon orange and bright yellow.

Does anyone know which books these are?
Thanks!
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Driving me mad [Oct. 30th, 2006|10:41 pm]
oschoolgrad
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Okay, I have a totally random one and I will be just blown over if someone knows what this is. When I was in fifth grade I took a book out of the school library that was probably actually written for adults. It took place in the 18th century in Pittsburgh (yea, Pittsburgh!) It was about this couple, and I think it was told from the point of view of the husband, and it was just about their marriage and life together in Pittsburgh before it was really settled. They moved to the Pittsburgh area after getting married in Philadelphia. I remember there were Native Americans in the story (maybe Guyasuta?) and that the girl was from a prominent family and her father wasn't crazy about the guy but he gave in and let them get married. I think it would probably be classified as romantic historical fiction, which isn't usually my genre, but it was such a nice story. I remember she had some babies and he did some guy frontier stuff but it was really just about their lives together. If anyone has any leads, I'd appreciate it so much. It was long and I believe it was written by a woman and I'm pretty sure it wasn't recently published (as in maybe written as far back as the thirties or forties.) I'm sure it's out of print by now but it's been driving me crazy for like ten years.
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er... [Oct. 31st, 2006|01:31 am]

annamariekulik
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I have a question about two books (can I do that?). Anyways, one is based on Greek mythology. It's about a red-haired girl who is taken from her home to be a playmate of some king or lord, but there's some attack and everyone is gone or killed except her because she hid. She is later found by Menelaus (I think) who thought her red hair was endearing, being red-headed himself. And he brings her back with him, but soon after, his wife Helen runs off with Paris and then the whole Trojan war happened. Hope that makes sense to someone besides me.

The other book was about a girl who worked/lived in some palace. Her mother was nobility and her father...wasn't, so she was taken care of but overall, disregarded. But then when she became older, she was sent to another kingdom or something, after a man shows up with a certain flower from the desert, in a hot air balloon.

Both these books are children's books (...) and I borrowed and read them a few years ago (4, maybe 5?), but I hope someone can help!
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[Oct. 30th, 2006|09:20 am]

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I'm looking for a "historical fiction" book that my dad read to me when I was young. I'm thinking it's at least a young adult book and possibly just for adults. I could be wrong.

It took place in Europe (possibly Roman Empire) and all I remember is that the main character fell in love with a girl named Regan. (Reegan? Ragenne?)

I also think there were battles and/or fighting in it.

Maybe the main character was a (Roman) soldier?

At one point a tribeman comes up to the main character and says "Regan wants you" and holds out a lock of her hair.

Sorry I don't remember more!!!
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[Oct. 27th, 2006|06:46 pm]

andymeg
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I'm not bad at tracking down books through google, but this one has me stumped, because I don't have anythign concrete enough to type in. It's a children's book about a modern girl that travels back in time in some sort of maze or garden (appended to an English stately house?) and ends up meeting and ultimately switching places with the girl who lives there in some historical period, who is her double. For some reason I'm thinking Kew Gardens...the historical girl is a lady, or maybe even a princess(?)...she has a little dog...I remember a scene where everyone has to sit through a classical music concert, and modern girl is bored...

Help?
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lost book [Oct. 27th, 2006|12:28 pm]

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I read this book around fifth or sixth grade. It was about a group of kids who went back in time to the Revolutionary War, and I remember that they had to cross the Delaware. I guess people must have thought they were soldiers (?), but I don't remember them fighting - I just remember them meeting two "Hessians" and some Native Americans. I think they also got back in time by getting into a boat, and there was something about the name of the lake that meant "time travel". Could anyone help with this? I think it might have just been one of those generic history-themed kid's books. Oh, and I think all the characters were boys except for one girl.
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[Oct. 26th, 2006|04:34 pm]

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Hi guys. I'm trying to find a book I read about ten years ago; it's a young adult book, but at the time I read it, I thought it seemed a little mature for most people my age.

It goes like this: a girl, somewhere around 16-18 years old, wakes up to find that she's gone back in time. She's in the body/taken the place of a sister in a large Irish family during the height of the industrial revolution. I think everyone in the family works at some kind of factory. She develops some sort of crush on the oldest brother in the family, and she tells him who she really is. He believes her, and they fall in love, and I think they even have sex. Then she leaves the family, because they know that no one would ever accept them, and goes to the city to work in as a "factory girl". I think she may have ended up being a part of some labor strikes near the end. When she eventually ends up back in the future, she sees an old picture and maybe the family was actually part of her ancestry?

I'm pretty sure her name was Bridget, but they called her Bridey or Birdey, perhaps.

The cover had the girl as she was in the past, wearing a shawl, I believe. And she is standing on a road in front of a factory.

Any help would be appreciated - it's driving me crazy!
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[Oct. 26th, 2006|04:36 pm]

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three books, one for a friend, two for me:

#1 (friend): It was a children's picture puzzle book, of the type where you have to find an assortment of objects in each double-page illustration; a monster, primarily, and a weapon. The storyline involved a kingdom falling into decay, overrun with monsters. Each illustration represented a different location as you travelled through a castle; the statue-lined path to the castle, the throne-room, a magician's
workshop, dungeons below the castle, etc. Each page had its own monster; I remember the nipperkin, and the lurker. The final pages contained a nastily vivid monster who would eat you if you hadn't managed to find things during the quest through the book. It was published pre-1994 as I would have had it as a teenager.

#2 (me): a children's novel about grinling gibbons, the restoration woodcarver. it had particularly good descriptions of the great plague & fire of london in 1665 and 1666 respectively. i'm pretty sure gibbons' name wasn't in the title, and the author's name was towards the end of the alphabet (as per library shelving. i can still see that shelving, more than 20 years later.) published pre-1985, grey and white baroque design on cover (i think).

#3: i read this when i decided to systematically sample the adult's section at the age of about 10 or 11. i may in fact have read this IN the library as no self-respecting librarian in the early 80s would have let a child take this one out. author's name starting with 'a'. white hardback with photorealistic design, one of those cheesy english publishers like piatkus. set in england. about twins who decide to swap lives - one is a clean-living mother, the other a sluttish tv presenter, who gets pregnant at the beginning of the book but has slept with so many men she doesn't know who the father is. (this may be the reason for the swap? not kosher to have nameless pregnancy on tv.) much salacious detail, which i will not record here.
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You all are amazing. Just so you know. [Oct. 25th, 2006|11:37 am]

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That goes double for our mod(s?), who must have the patience of Job.

And now, with no further ado, the lost books!

YA novel or chapbook set in a mining town haunted by the ghosts of miners who were trapped underground when the mine collapsed and/or caught fire. )

Found: Ghosts Beneath Our Feet, by Betty Ren Wright.



I remember very, very little about this book. I'm not positive the girls were Dutch, because at one point, the younger sister asks the older who to say "dead tired" in Dutch. ("Doodmoe", in case you're curious.) That's the one thing which really stood out.

I seem to remember both girls having dark hair, and their hiding place being big and airy, with a wooden floor. Perhaps they had a big window or something to look out of?

YA book about a typical American teenager who finds out that she's a princess of...somewhere. )

Found: A Royal Pain, by Ellen Conford.

First-person account of life inside a Nazi concentration camp. )
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[Oct. 25th, 2006|09:54 am]

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Okay, there was this series of books that I read, I want to say it was in middle school or maybe even elementary school, but I think it may have been meant for high school kids. I'm 22 now, so I read it... early to mid nineties I think. It follows this family through at least a couple of generations living in America. There are a few details I remember, but other than that I'm completely stumped. There was a character named Cabot, one girl went and lived with Indians, but I can't remember if she went willingly or not, the girl who went to live with Indians was spoiled rotten before that, was the youngest sister in the family, and had an eye that was half brown and half blue, and there was a quilt theme in the book. Oohhh... and I think there was a girl who got stranded in the South and had to pretend to be someone else to stowaway on a steamboat or something like that... I remember her faking an accent for some reason... I don't know.
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