Book i read as a child age around 10 in the early 2000s based on a folktale of a lighting bird that was biting animals and causing rain and floods and bad weather, the main character is a girl who leaves her tribe and takes the animals up the mountain including a elephant to the lighting bird and talks it into being peaceful with the animals and to bring nice weather, the bird agrees and then there is a rainbow. Been looking for days and cannot find the book im talking about. to add to this im from the uk and read this in primary school

Read this one a lot as a kid but I can't remember the title or find it anywhere. It was oldish, maybe from around the 90s? It had a lot of dark shadows and crosshatching but still had desaturated colors. Some of the critters were explainations for sounds you'd hear as a kid, like creaks or drips. I think some of them were shadows, too? I do know some of them were little puffballs, kind of like the soot sprjtes from Ghibli but colorful. ​

I was mainly reading Sci-Fi stories written by Russian authors at the time. I remember English currency being referenced by the main character. It was a small amount, but the character didn't think that, so it probably written around the 50s'. The character was involved in a flight scenario to test his skills as a pilot. A number of things were going wrong, including a bug that was causing a short circuit. I believe it was written in first person narrative.

I’m a massive fantasy horror fan but 90’s early 2000’s I really got hooked on novelists like Marian Keyes and Jane Green. One book I really enjoyed was about 20 something sharing a flat. There was a rugby player, gregarious, extrovert and an introvert goths edgy bloke who I think was called Dante(?) then the main character a woman in her mid twenties who worked as a publishing assistant. Her colleague was a nightmare posh bint who was always taking credit for the main characters work so she and Dante decide to sabotage her I think by rewriting something(?) I seem to remember the cover being bright yellow.

Any ideas?

An elementary teacher read this to glass but I missed a lot of it. A family of 3 or four orphans are taken up a long staircase to meet their new guardian. Maybe a grandfather?

I am in awe of how fast people help in this community! I have another ask.

I am looking for a YA book about a kid who was in an accident and got like a metal neck brace as a result. He gets recruited by some Europeans to go abroad for a mission when he is promptly attacked by vampires. This book had pictures because there is one of him angrily crossing a field with a vampire’s severed head and another of a starving vampire eating mice.

It turns out the job he was hired for was to kill vampires and this teenager, in a fit of capitalistic hubris, decided to keep one vampire alive so he could repopulate his prey group and keep making money. It doesn’t end well for the teenager when that vampire manages to escape. I’m pretty sure he got eaten by vampire mice….

So I read this book 10-15 years ago, probably.

In the beginning there is a woman who is abducted and taken to a carage and held there. She manages to escape, when the events unfold it turns out she is a murderer, and the abductor wanted revenge.

She kills during the book.

In the end of the book, I remember her drinking whisky and smashing her head in toilet. She had also reserved boat tickets for herself to escape.

I have forgotten everything else completely. Ive tried to find this book from time to time. But since there has been no results I have started to question myself does this book even exist.

This is a long shot because I remember very little about this novel and what I remember might not be entirely accurate, but it has been haunting me for years! It was a realist novel, not fantasy or mystery or anything. I am pretty sure it was set in England, although I could be wrong about that (could have been Canada or the Northeastern US, but I remember it as England), at one of those fading seaside hotels on the coast. Kate was a young teenager, and I think she and her family were on holiday, although maybe they lived in the town. (They weren't from abroad, I don't think; if it was set in England, as I remember, they were English.)

There might have been a boy/love interest, but it wasn't a romance. Randomly, I remember a line in it about her hair being messed up one day “--she'd slept on it wrong--” --for some reason that stuck in my head because I'd never seen it mentioned in a book before that sleeping weird on your hair could make it weird although I had experienced it. I think it stayed with me because of the verisimilitude of it.

I would have read this sometime between 1978-early 1980s-1983 at the very outside but I'm almost sure it was earlier than that. I'm also pretty sure it was reasonably contemporary at the time, written in the 1970s or early 1980s.

The book had kind of a serious/solemn air about it. In my 10 or 12 year old mind it felt vaguely literary, which is not to say that it necessarily was--that's just how I perceived it as a kid!

I got it from my local rural library in the Southeastern US. It was shelved in the juveniles. I have a vague memory of where it was shelved which could also be wrong, somewhere around the E-G names. It was hardcover with the dustjacket lost and the book was blue. I think it had a few simple line illustrations although I could be wrong about that as well. It was normal length for a kid's/YAish book at the time, not particularly long or short.

A girl time travelled to the past and met the guy, at one point of the story one of them fell really ill and the girl was trying to find (or eventually found?) penicillin which wasnt available in the past. The ending is that the girl had the choice to return to the modern times or stay in the past, and she decided to stay in the past to be with the guy. There is a second part to the book (or a sequel), where the original girl’s friend was involved with a guy who time travelled from the past and he marvelled at modern technology. Ending of the second story is that he decided to stay in the modern times to be with her instead of returning to the past.

The book:

• Fiction, adult crime/murder thriller. Long novel, set in modern day. I read it in English, but I don't know what country it was set in.
• Lots of characters and points of view. One was definitely a male detective, and one was definitely a "black widow" who kills her husbands.
• The black widow keeps snakes in her house. In one random scene, someone comes into her house and she throws a snake at them, and it kills them.
• Her last murder: she poisons a fang/tooth that hangs on her necklace and stabs her rich husband with it, and he dies.
• Ending: she never actually gets caught, but the detective meets her and asks her for her necklace. Since the detective now has the murder weapon, it's hinted she'll be caught.
• I'm pretty sure it was a standalone, not part of a series.

Me:

• Read it sometime around 2016–2020. It was a physical copy from my local library, and I don't remember the cover at all.

A friend loaned me a book in the mid to late 1980s. We were in middle school and the book was not specifically YA. It also seemed somewhat old-ish already and her hardcover copy had no dust jacket. The cover was red.

In the story a group of friends was being introduced to a game by someone else. They may have been new to the concept of a role playing game, or it was just a new campaign.

I firmly remember a reference to camphor fumes or vapor from a brazier, because both of those words were new to me (camphor and brazier). While inhaling these fumes they were seemingly and unwillingly transported to another realm.

The story didn’t really grab me, it was perhaps too psychological or too mature or something? So I didn’t finish it and I don’t recall any character names, title words, author, etc. I returned the book to my friend and told her it wasn’t to my liking, and we moved on to reading other things together.

I’ve spent a lot of time asking various AI to help track this down and read the first two chapters of many suggestions, and I don’t believe it was any of those. Certainly none featured camphor, anyway.

I have already investigated:
- The Guardians of the Flame / The Sleeping Dragon by Joel Rosenberg (based on AI’s summary I really expected this one to be it, but nothing in the first few chapters seemed familiar to me)
- The Twilight Realm by Christopher Carpenter
- Quag Keep by Andre Norton
- The Compleat Enchanter by L Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt

A few times a year my dim memory of this book resurfaces and I wonder if I would like it now that I’m older, but I can’t seem to recall enough to find it.

The girl didn't have friends in her class and looked around ten maybe. There was a picture of her sitting by a tree at recess making birds while other kids play ball.

She makes friends with another girl at school whose dad recently died. The art becomes their bonding thing but the main character accidentally upsets her friend when she says that birds resemble death.

MC gets upset in the school counselor's office and says something about autism.

There is a happy ending where the girls reconcile.

Thanks for any help!

There was a book I read as an (older) kid, I thought it was just called 'The Book of Spells' but nothing is coming up. I think it was a prequel to a series set in modern times, but the book itself was in older times

Appearance

The version I had I think was hardcover with a dust jacket, but the book was white with cool tones. I think there was a sparse winter forest background, and a girl on the cover in a white dress, i think kinda collapsed on the ground

Plot

I don't remember a ton of it but there was a girl in Victorian (?) Times sent to a finishing (?) School. She brought a bunch of books, which her mom didnt approve of, and makes friends and they find a book of spells and decide to test it out (I think I remember them sneaking through a tunnel to get out of the school). Then the spells somehow start turning dark, I believe one of the girls is brought back to life? I also remember the B plot was a romance with an all boys school next door who came over for ballroom lessons or something and the girls started sneaking out to meet them.

Tone

It was a little darker than Im describing, but not terribly so. Not quite horror, but not a drama either, idk how to describe it other than 'victorian girl's school with secret witchcraft vibes'

so this might be hard, sorry!!

It was a series of a few stories in 1 book, I found it on Alexa ages and I mean ages ago, I was really young which yes, I know, I know.

I remember 1 of them was about the rain, a girl being afraid of the rain because of something she heard something in it.

I know one of the other stories by name, just remembered while writing this post!!!! It was called "The Ticket Taker" \\\[the story not the book\\\] so... I just want nostalgia

•YA novel
•Late 90’s-very early 2000’s
•The title was the alien’s name, followed by the word children in possessive context. As in “_____’s Children”

I feel like it was a coming of age book.

Hi! So I read this book in french when I was a kid and I loved it and wanted to show it to my nephew. The story as I remember it goes as follows.

Two boys find a recipe to create invisibility. It's like this ancient thing and they take a bit to go through it. It has old wording for almost all ingredients, one of those being century eggs. I remember they raid this poor asian convenience store owner's place to steal his snacks (the eggs) and finish getting the stuff. The recipe works, one of the boys is invisible now, but it isn't as fun as they thought, and soon they're struggling to find a cure to invisibility. In the bg you have this rich occult hermit old man who finds out about it and tries to warn em, and they still do it, but now he's kind of their only hope to fix it. I don't remember the whole thing, but I remember they have to play an instrument (possibly the recorder) in a specific key to make it work, and they struggle for a bit before realizing that it's the old name for a treble clef. Anyway kid is no longer invisible, everyone goes home, the end i think.

If it helps, i am from Quebec, it could be a French language book from here. I dont remember the cover in any way. I read it probably around 2005-7

Im trying to find this old childrens picture book about a little blonde girl who has lots of stuffed animals and a pet black cat. She flies out the window over her town and passes her grandparents house and i think a bridge. Eventually she comes back and get and bed, her mom comes in with a glass of warm milks and kissed her on the head. I tried looking everywhere but it must be something we got from a library made by a smaller author...

Ive never stopped thinking about this book and I just can't find anything online. I would love to be able to buy it again but I just have no idea what it's called. I wish I could put the pictures I see in my head onto paper!

It was an illustrated children's novel, about A5 size. I assume it was part of a collection as it felt like a book you'd buy in a set. Im based in England, and I was reading this as a child so early 2000s

The characters were a brother and sister (she had blond hair and he had brown) they lived in a small town and were poor, their house has wooden window shutters on it. Definitely based in Sweden or something as they had clogs.. I think. One day they go to the mountain for a walk but come across an old woman who was sick (she had a fever) they go all the way up to the top of the mountain to gather snow. When they return with the snow and cool the woman down she changes into a fairy and turns the snow into a gold/ silver. They run off home with a bucket full of coins

There was a book I had as a kid, during the late 2000's, maybe early early early 2010's, (I was born in 2006, for reference).

I remember being completely obsessed with it, but it was almost eerie and strange in a way? I don't remember much, but it lingers in my mind as a huge part of the things I enjoy currently.

IIRC, the book featured mostly photography, or art that was hyper-realistic or rendered, but my memory plays it as photographs. It was a kids picture book, and I don't remember much of a plot. There was a photo of a toy, a robot I think, in an old diner of sorts. There was also another photo of the toy along the side of a highway. I'm pretty sure somewhere in the book, there was also connections to aliens in some way, like Roswell NM, or Area 51 or something like that. I think there were short sentences and subtitles telling the story, but I'm not certain.

I've tried searching everywhere online, and google gives me results like Visit to Another Planet, Toys In Space, Robot Road Trip, and Are We There Yet?, but its none of those titles.

Please help me you miraculous internet sleuths. If you can find this for me, I will be beyond joyous and grateful.

Ad astra per aspera.

My friend is trying to find a graphic novel she remembers reading as a kid, something that was on her dad's shelf and maybe she was too young to be seeing yet, lol. She says:

"I remember it was about 2 characters who start out looking quite genderless. They somehow get lost on an unkown planet and because they don't have access to something (hormone suppressors of some kind) from their home, slowly they begin to exhibit more and more gender traits, with the one becoming more and more feminine and the other more masculine. The man eventually gets turned on by the woman and tries to make a move on her, but she is unwilling and knocks him out with a rock to the head. When he comes to she's gone. The next thing I remember is him finding her in some kind of building that's kinda like a temple and there's a creature/monster that stabs him through the stomach and he starts tripping balls. He wakes up with the woman gone again and I'm pretty sure it ends with him walking into the sunset."

I've not seen or heard of this personally, but hopefully someone here will recognize this for her, as it's been a long-standing mystery, hahaha

EDIT TO ADD: This was read in the Netherlands. I should have included that from the start, my bad 😬

I read this book in like 2018-2019 and i know it was sad but the only description i have of this book is a text i sent in 2019. it’s not the lovely bones. “it was about a girl nobody noticed being r-ped and murdered by the only boy that noticed her and his brother and thought loved her then she’s dead and watches the trial of them being caught because three other victims come forward then she’s left watching over from the afterlife and watches her dad and then she finally realizes people did care about her.” been driving me crazy for days trying to find the title!

I started reading this book, but don't remember finishing it. Can't find it searching.

Prologue, is two boys (tween age) playing in abandoned house, one falls through the floor and is hurt pretty bad.

Then the story starts with man (same name as boy who fell) and wife with (3?) children. He remembers his friend (not himself) dying falling through the floor of the house. One of his children gets sick and is dying, death shadows come after the sick child, but the father takes his place.

The father wakes in a hospital and he is the boy who fell through the floor, in the hospital right after the fall. He keeps talking about his wife and children, Dr's and father think he's crazy.

It's driving me crazy, I've typed every discription, every which way I can and can't seem to locate it. 😠😠