Okay so I hope I'm not mixing up two separate books but here's what I remember I remember a little boy being sent to a boot camp I THINK it was some alien or disease thing and they mimicked people I think it was a little boy and his older sibling I can't recall the gender, they were in a hideout and soldiers came and took all the children (to some sort of boot camp thing, it turned out? There was a nice guy in there trying to keep the kids calm and the little boy was comforting a girl he sat by) My memory gets fuzzy but I think somewhere near the end the pov had changed and they had been sent out on some sort of 'mission' only to find out the tracking chips in their head explode and the general/soldiers had intended to get rid of them if they get off track because they knew too much?? I think there was aliens or some disease but it's been a while

Gahhh! It's bugging me I can't remember.

I remember reading this book in the early 2010s I was in middle school.

The cover was dark blue and purple with either a necklace or bracelet on the front.

Teen girl main character who falls in love with a ghost? Honestly the plot is a little fuzzy I just remember the cover lol

A few years ago, I read a story online about how some police officers pulled a car over and when they searched it they found a strange satanic cult type of book, it was dark brown/black written in an ancient language each letter gold and it had different animals on each page layered in golden leaf, I remember a lion, an owl, a beetle, etc. I cannot find the story anywhere anymore. It’s like it got scrubbed from the internet. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

After watching Monsters on Netflix recently I remembered a book I’ve read a long time ago and it’s stuck in my head but I can’t remember the title. It’s a dual perspective (one of the main character and one of the killer) novel about serial killer which in the end turns out to be main character’s twin brother. I think one of the brothers (main character) is somehow disabled so it’s like you can’t think he’s a killer and in the end of them dies (I think).

I’ve read it like 15 years ago so it can’t be any book published after 2010.

Magic based book series where the sisters are all from different mums and their grandmas have kept them hidden from the magical elite...the series follows them all falling in love (of course) with a longer storyline continuing in the background.

One of the sisters used to be an army medic and has a daughter who as she gets older (toddler) can go through different planes which makes raising her interesting. Her love interest is someone from her past.

One sister has fire magic and her love interest is working for a bad guy to protect his sister.

I can't remember the other sisters power but hers is the first set of books in the series.

read this a long time ago, i THINK its a trilogy, basically it involves a master who teaches the main character how to use magic, and a princess who becomes his friend, the main character is the only one who can see the colorful particles or smth everyone uses for magic and theres a villain who on his first appearance stops time and calls it a parlour trick, this scene is kinda memorable so i thought i'd mention it. if anyone knows what book it is that would be amazing

I have been trying to figure this out for a while- remember getting this book from the public library when I was probably 12-14 years old, but it definitely was from the adult fantasy/sci-fi section not YA. Fantasy story where there were fae called Sidhe and they were vaguely scary and unsettling. I have a vague recollection of the hardcover being a light blue color with some kind of arch design on the front.

I was deep in my reading “The Mists of Avalon” and other MZB and the like at this time if that helps with the vibes, and based on how old I think I was I think the book had to be published before 1992 or so…

I remember having a bit of a harder time getting into the book, then being unable to put it down…

I'm looking for a book about a human female MC that runs away from her dad that was going to sell her. She takes her little sister with her and she meets the alpha's sister that offers for them to stay with her. She takes them to a party at the pack house where the MC gets rejected by the alpha not knowing about werewolves because he believed that the younger sister was her daughter. The younger sister I believe is named Sophia and is no older than 8.

A woman works at a police station, and one of her jobs is cleaning or something? There’s this doll that detectives use to help kids express the abuse they went through, (they basically use the doll to reenact abuse) and the woman has to routinely clean it because of how it gets assaulted daily. She takes great care of the doll, but then it starts disappearing and reappearing. When questioned, the rest of the staff insists they haven’t done anything to the doll and they don’t know what’s going on. But everytime she cleans/fixes the doll, it disappears again and reappears ripped and stained with fluid. The obvious implication is that the doll is getting raped by the staff, who in turn act clueless. I think after this the woman takes the doll and runs away with it? And then violently retaliates against the staff? I don’t remember.

Also important!!! I know for sure this was only a quick anecdote/chapter, and had nothing to do w the actual book. It might’ve been a character telling someone else a story? idk but it was really short and anecdotal

At this point I don’t even know if this was a real book or some awful fucked up idea that came to me in a dream. But it’s so specific and i remember the details being so horribly graphic that there’s no way I just conjured this up in my mind. And it’s gonna piss me off now cuz the answer is on the tip of my tongue. I’ve read a lot of stuff by Palahnuik, and I haven’t read from any other satirists, (I haven’t read any books at all in a while) so i’m 99% sure this was from one of his books bc there’s no one else i could’ve read it from. help?

So the book I'm looking for feels like it never existed because I can not find anything even similar on the internet so far.

Basically, it had some kind of disaster involving some toxic material that cause people to mutate into two categories where some people had wings and could fly and other where stocky and were ground workers. It's told through this girl's perspective; she's a ground worker and her best friend is this guy who's a winged person and she's secretly crushing on. She's always dreamed of being a winged person herself and gets up the courage to break into some facility either because of this dream or something happened to her best friend or something else along those lines. That's about where things get hazy for me.

I 100% will know the book when I see it, it's a dark cover with a green reptilian eye on the cover. No idea the title, but the second book had the word "City" in it. It wasn't a long title but also not jist a single word, and I'm pretty sure the author had a masculine name but I could be wrong on that.

I read this book a few times in middle school, haven't been able to find it since, and I'm honestly just wanting to know if it even exists at this point. It wasn't a very popular series, and I don't think it was dated past 2000 but if it was it was late 90s.

A few other stories included a leather jacket that basically was a vampire or turned the teens into vampires. Monsters in the sand on a beach vacation. A nightmare the character has over and over getting more violent each time, had some kind of monster and leaves like razor blades. Book cover story has a kid waking up as a giant lizard.

all I really remember is a villain guy with nails in his mask, his mask was white, and no it wasn't like a mask that went all around his head, it was like dreams mask, and I'm pretty sure the characters were animals I think, also I think he had no face when he took the mask off, possibly, but yea that's all I really have, if someone maybe knows what I am talking about that would be nice

Book about a girl who lost her mother and sister due to a fire in the city while they went to sale something. The teen doesn’t speak and instead surrounds herself with raven. I believe she was some type of healer. She meets a boy teen and I believe she falls for Him and ends up speaking to him. There was a sequel but I don’t remember if.

So in kindergarten I was completely obsessed with this book my teacher had and I have no clue who wrote it or the title but I remoer the cover being a light pink with an animal with fairy wings (pretty sure it’s a cat) on the cover and it was a hardcover and pretty thick but easy to read so it was for kids, I remember the first few pages were of the animal waking up with a tree and getting ready and had a bit of messy fur! It lived in like a colony of the same animals with fairy wings, im pretty sure it had to do with spring though and something about honey dew or something like that! Sorry it’s vague. (I tried searching it but it all came up with cat wings by some lady and that’s not it) any help appreciated!!<3

So I don’t know what book this was from but I think it was a book that had various short stories like these. So here’s the plot

There is a group of kids, and I believe there were some glasses that they are told they can’t use by their parents that were in the basement.

The kids go into the basement anyway, and one of them puts on the glasses and they describe what they are seeing to the other kids. If I remember correctly they do this several times because they don’t want to be caught by their parents, and every time they do it the moment they are looking at through the glasses progresses.

The kid with the glasses described to the others that they see a group of kids sitting in the basement wearing old fashioned clothes (this is why they think they’re looking at the past) playing some type of board game but they can never get to see the end of the moment, it just randomly cuts off at some point.

One day the kids somehow find the old fashioned clothes that the kids they were seeing through the glasses were wearing, and they themselves decide to wear them. I think they also find the board game and they decide to play it on the floor. Then suddenly if I remember correctly a furnace in the basement explodes and they all die.

The plot twist was that the kids weren’t looking into the past with the glasses, they were actually looking at themselves in the future. And the reason they could never see the ending of the moment was because they died.

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This children’s book was set in the 1970s, I think in a British city, possibly Birmingham or London (there are urban canals).

There is a group of children who come together and find an old, half-sunken narrow boat which they make into a clubhouse. The oldest child is taller and male. There are some criminals involved and I think the boat sinks in a dramatic scene.

I had an idea it was by Helen Cresswell, but it does not seem so.

I’d be very grateful for any help!

I remember a book that I read and greatly enjoyed when I was about 10 or so (~2011). It was a fictional story set somewhere in the US. In it, the protagonist, an edgy kid moves to a new school and decides to try out for the high school football team for his senior (maybe junior?) year, and ends up becoming a star overnight—I believe his position was running back. He turns into a town celebrity even, with people asking for autographs. The antagonists are the main character’s bad-influence, former friends from his old school, they think he is lame because he started playing football, but seem to be jealous of all the attention he is getting.

If I had to guess I would say this book is probably from the late 80s from what I remember of the art on the cover. Take this with a grain of salt because I could very easily be mistaken for a different book. I read of lot of those Mike Lupica, Tim Green etc. cheesy kids sports novels in elementary and middle school, this is the kind of style I am remembering from this book.

This children’s books series was a favourite of mine when I was around 10 yo. It is set around a largeish family (around 4 kids) and the main character is, I think, a girl of around 10, who gets into various scrapes.

The setting is quite rural, the kids have to walk through fields to school. Possible post-second World War. It is not a rich family.

Two notable incidents

The main character has a birthday, which means breakfast in bed with hot chocolate, being able to choose what to have for dinner and having one or two friends for tea after school.

The children go off to do some shopping for their mother and they recite the shopping list as they go, including singing out loud “and a pound of BOLOGNA SAUSAGE” (I still don’t know what Bologna sausage is!)

Many thanks

The main character Derek gets bullied as a child and comes back for Revenge on all of his bullies one by one. I can't seem to find it anywhere and I need to finish that book! I started it in the 7th grade and I just now identified the book! Any help would be appreciated!

Great read I remembered recently and would like to read again. I only remember a bunch of specific details. Appreciate any help!

The main character is a genius ahead of his time.

He creates an invention that allows the storage of digital consciousness, which he uses on a dying relative (which is not well-received by someone close to him). This is not an important plot point.

At some point, aliens invade. I don’t really remember why.

The aliens MIGHT be called something like “The Grid”. They’re very technologically advanced but interact easily with humans.

Some relevant dialogue (paraphrased from memory):

(The aliens speaking, On the goals of the aliens) “You know what is actually important in the universe? Energy.”

(The aliens speaking, On the main character, who found a solution against the aliens in a seemingly impossible situation) “Brilliant. You are truly a genius beyond your time.”

(Dialogue between MC and aliens) MC: “Aren’t you scared we could deconstruct this technology and use it against you?” Aliens: “The plausibility of that occurring would be comparable to a squirrel understanding and rebuilding an internal combustion engine.”

Note: It was definitely a squirrel and internal combustion engine. I just remember.

It is revealed towards the end of the book that this alien race (The Grid?) is actually humanity. Somehow.

This will be pretty vague because this is a book my husband is looking for. Probably from the 80s early 90s? The boy is always getting into things and making his parents crazy, liked candy, and picked his nose (lol). Name may have been Ferguson? Or Fargo? That’s all I have to go on.

hi! i’ve been trying to find this anatomy book i used to read when i was younger. i recall it being called the body book, but googling that reveals thousands of results. it was aimed at older children. i believe the cover had a human body but only the muscles and there was a clear part where you could see some organs, and when the front cover was flipped it revealed a diagram of all the human organs. it had a ton of different sections and the thing that was special about this book is there it featured many different artists. there was a comic about how joints work, one about how penicillin was discovered (i think, it might’ve been a different vaccine), and pretty much everything else you could want to know about the human body. there was a pregnancy section, i’m sure there was a segment about puberty as well. the last time i remember reading it was probably 6 years ago and the book was well loved at that point so i’d guess it’s 10+ years old, though i’m sure that’s not super helpful as it could’ve been published any number of years ago. anyways thank you i really appreciate any help you all may have! i also think the cover was mostly red but i’m not sure, and it was a big book, like probably close to a foot long if you laid it on the ground.

Fiction, I believe.

We read this book when I was in 7th or 8th grade, and I was essentially the only person in class who really liked it. I've been wanting to read it again for years, but for the life of me can't rememeber the name.

If I read it in 8th grade, then it was released before 2001. My guess is it's older, even, than that. I think the book was aimed at a slightly older audience than the age we were when we read it.

The story takes place in the early 20th century. 1910s, or 20s I think. Small town. I want to say in the Midwest or Texas.

The story focuses on a kid, I think teenager, who I'm like 90% positive is a boy. Either he does something wrong, or maybe he just does it of his own volition, but whatever the case, he eventually starts hanging out with this old guy who everyone kind of avoids. He's a pseudo hermit, and I think a hoarder. I think the boy is helping him clean his house.

In the meantime, there are things happening in the community. I want to say the story ends with a big fair. And maybe a pie contest?

One thing I know is the book has a sequel. My teacher lent it to me, since I liked the first book so much, but either it was written by a different author, or it just wasn't as good. I remember her warning me about that. The biggest thing that stuck out to me is that the boy, who is now am adult, is returning home, and he has a motorcycle. I was surprised because I hadn't realized motorcycles existed that early into automotive history.

What genre is it? Historical fiction

Looking for a book about a family whose kids played sailboat with a table. One day when out with the family, one boys falls off the dock and holds on to the dock like a plank. When they get home the mom plays Moonlight Sonata. And whenever the kids play sailboat, the little boy has to hold on like a plank. It may have been a Russian sounding boys name in the title

hi guys, about 8 years ago i read this book three times, and it made me cry each time it was my favorite book. I lost the book and have been searching for years since then but sadly cannot find the book. It has kind of like a french title, the story goes... a young girls ( the main character)dad killed a preacher so they ended up fleeing town and somehow their family got split. The parents were no longer around, her little brother joins like a poor boy’s orphanage, and she gets taken in by this wealthy family. She is treated kind of poorly and then falls in-love with a rich boy... the boy never actually dated her but at the end they got caught in the middle of like a war i think? (sorry for such bad details its been years) and the boy was about to get shot when she then jumped in front of the bullet for him. PLEASE HELP!!

I'm looking for a book I read back in 1st grade. I can't remember the name or what it was about, but from what I remember, the main character was a girl who spent a lot of time in her room, I believe. The book had multiple chapters but was elementary-grade level, and the contexts were not as child-friendly. I believe she was getting haunted or something, and toward the end of the book, I think she somehow hurts herself or gets attacked. I remember at the end of the book there was a person (I think was a ghost) looking at her from her closet. (This is so vague, but it's been so long, and I read this book in 2012).

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I probably read this in the early 2000s. It didn't look old. The illustrations were in colour.

The characters are human, so it's not e.g. a Froggy book.

The kids are in elementary school. The girl keeps asking her friend for advice about how to tell this boy how she feels. The friend in question always responds, "Why don't you give him [X]? He will just love that."

I think she always puts the thing inside his desk before class and labels it "from your secret admirer".

I don't remember all the things she gives him, but one of them is peanut brittle. I think there's a pattern of something always going wrong with the things she gives him, but I don't remember what. The first time I posted this, someone brought up the possibility that the peanut brittle makes him lose or break a tooth, and that sounds right to me.

In the end she decides to give him a love note. When he finds it in his desk, he's embarrassed and tries to hide it by swallowing it, but he almost chokes on it. Afterwards, the teacher — probably not really understanding what happened and thinking he was just causing a ruckus — tells him to go to the office. The girl interjects "But it was my fault!", so the teacher tells them to both go to the office.

On their way to the office, the girl explains that she's the one who gave him all those things, and why. I think she apologizes as well. And then I think the boy asks her why she didn't just tell him in the first place. I don't remember how the conversation ends, but I think the book ends on a happy note.

Alright guys, I know this is a long shot but I’m desperate.

When I was a kid, I loved this book about a man and his black poodle. I remember that it had a REALLY unique art style and was mostly pictures with some simple words. At some point I think he meets a woman who owns a white poodle. There is food imagery and a tv in one drawing I think?

I know that’s almost nothing to go off of but I’ve looked everywhere on the internet and I can’t find it! Surely my kid brain didn’t make this book up.

I vividly remember around 2016 my elementary school teacher read a chapter book to us. I can’t remember the name but i remember parts of the book:

• the main character was a boy
• he was in a sort of game show, challenge competition thing where he had to complete puzzles
• the competition might have been aired and there was a prize at the end
• i don’t think that the genre was dystopia but my memory of this book is hazy but it was definitely fiction
• the last chapter/scene was him winning wtv it was and going home and hanging out with his best friend

So back in middle school I read a book about a boy who could see ghosts and he lived with his aunt I believe. His best friend stopped best friends with him because he told her he could see ghosts and spread rumors about him. He is also gay and starts seeing this one guy whose brother is dead and he talks to the brother a lot. Finally he tells him and they break up because he was mad he didn’t tell him about seeing his brother. I can’t remember the author or the book name but I remembered reading this and re-reading it.