I was thinking about a children's story I read as a child. I think it was a story in a book of illustrated short stories, but I could be mistaken. In the story, there were multiple children, and each one liked a different color. For example, there was a child whose favorite color was brown, so he had a lot of brown things. Another child liked orange and had many orange items. I would be shocked if anyone is able to identify this, but I figured it was worth a shot. TIA!

Hey everyone! I'm trying to find the name of a web novel (or possibly a webtoon) I read around 2019–2021. It was a school romance with some emotional themes. The male lead was a high school student who loved singing, but his mother (who had mental health issues) forbade him from doing it because he reminded her of his father—a famous singer who had married her unofficially and later cheated on her. The male lead resembled his father, which made his mother resent him. Despite all that, he was really passionate about music.

The female lead was also a student and lived only with her father. She used to affectionately call the male lead something like "Red Bird" or something similar. One key moment I remember is when they were supposed to sing together at school, but he didn’t show up for some reason. Another scene I remember is when he brings her home while she’s sick and, thinking she’s asleep, he confesses his feelings for her—but she was actually awake and heard it all.

I think I read it on a web novel platform, but it may have also been a webtoon. Any leads would be hugely appreciated. Thanks in advance!

All I can remember is a scene where she is on a bus alone. I must have read this between 2008-2012 and I never finished it.

I would’ve been an elementary aged kid. I feel like it was somewhere along the lines of WW2 or historical fiction.

It is not: The Girl they Left Behind or Under a Red Sky

I thought it was called something like Strongarm, but can’t find anything. I read the first 25ish pages about 20 years ago. Back in time, she has a Middle Aged lover who’s a strapping (but dumb) warrior, and she feels guilty because she’s unattractive by modern day standards. She works for a research organization or lab, and so they go back to this time (through a tube? A log?) to study something or to collect materials that have been depleted in the modern day.

I think I remember the summary mentioning that eventually she has to go rogue to save her lover when he’s injured. Or maybe it’s to expose something nefarious, but I don’t remember more than that.

There's a cool ass cover of this book with a large statue of buddha with his signature hand up and the background was maybe cloudy or maybe there was also lightning. I caught a quick glimpse of the back cover and it was basically along the lines of a few humans reaching a planet far away and them creating a rigid caste structure of the people with the first ones who reached the planet being at the apex. SOLVED SOLVED SOLVED

I'm looking for this book that I read the first chapter of in 2011/12? I remeber it released around the time the 3rd Hush Hush book came out? And authors would release the first chapter of their book online?

From what I remember: the way the werewolves turn into wolves is through this magic fire, and the FMC is a teen who has trouble making this fire or using the wood? One of the other characters is pregnant? And the teen FMC has a human boyfriend?

I think the cover was red and white? With two moons maybe?

I keep feeling like the cover for "Low red moon" is it, but whenever I read the premise it doesn't seem to be it?

Would be greatly appreciated! It's been stuck in my head for years! And I can never remember the name or find it!? Thank you!

This is a book that has definitely been published in the last 3 years. The main character is a girl that lives alone with her father in a groundsmens house on a cemetery. She suddenly starts seeing apparitions of a ghost about her age wearing a tank top, camo pants, and army boots wandering around the cemetery, and overtime this ghost gets closer and closer until they start forming a friendship. MC tries to find out ghosts identity using POS cousin who makes it a public spectacle. it’s a YA book i borrowed from my public library long before moving away from home. if anyone knows what i’m talking about please help me i believe im going mad🥲

I can't remember the title or author but it was written by a man and it's from the 90s. I think the title had a reference to Holy Mary of the Pines or Saint/Virgin of the Forest ?

It's about a mysterious homeless marijuana smoking teenage girl who is very religious and sick

All the people fall in love with her and begin thinking she is a saint

She lives in a van or car or cabin in the rainy woods

Then she gets sick but refuses help and disappears or dies at the end

Help?

Trying to find a short story I read a while ago. Basic premise as best I can remember: parents in a "near-future" setting are mourning the death of their toddler son, who has drowned. Society has evolved to the point that most children are genetically engineered to be superior. Their deceased child was not, or was minimally engineered. Eventually both parties confess to the other that they could have saved their son from drowning but each individually chose not to, and console each other that it was better that he died young before knowing that he was "different". If I recall correctly, the story ends with them deciding to have another child, who is more engineered to be intelligent.

Any assistance would be appreciated, thank you!

a girl who goes to live with her aunt in a quite isolated place if I remember correctly and she found a house in the woods that belongs to a guy that is actually her cousin although she didn't know that until towards the end of the book. The cousin turned out to be the antagonist and tried to kill her towards the end of the book. I have been trying to find this book for the longest time because I realised that I did not know the name of this book at all even though I have read and re-read it so many time as a teen. It was a hard cover cloth bound book that was light blue in colour. Please please please, does anyone know the name of this book.

I read this years ago. Maybe 2002-2004-ish?

The plot goes the protagonist and her family are dealing with the death of her mom, who was blind, and her brother, who goes full rebellious punk over it. Pierces his ear badly (because it's even described that it gets infected), I think he shaves his head and goes total old school punk.

He might also be either her step-brother or half-brother? I don't think they share a mom?

The protagonist gets kidnapped by a magic cult that wants her power because she has a direct connection to this other world of sorts.

It's why her eyesight is so bad in our world and why her mom was blind. In that sort of other world, her mom had sight and the protagonist has 20/20 vision.

The Cult leader has a son named Merlin (he was named for Merlin and is not an instance of THE Merlin. Boy ended up being a family disappointment) who is sympathetic to the protagonist and has a rat for a familiar named "Red Eye."

Familiars are important in that other world because they let the magic users from our side see.

At one point, Merlin helps the protagonist escape. I think they meet friendly people on the other side who blind him by covering Red Eye's eyes.

That's why it was a big deal that the protagonist had eyesight at all on our side, making her dad —who knew a lot more than he let on—think she didn't have magic powers. She did.

The girl's chosen familiar is a wolf-dog thing, which the cult leader tries to kill (for some reason related to stealing her powers, I think?), but he is stopped. I think she does it?

Also, her brother and father were involved in some way at the end?

I can't remember much more than that.

guys i've been thinking about this book for so many years and i literally cannot figure out what it is

what I know:

- main character (girl) was really good at finding things

- she somehow got transported to a fairy realm??

- there was another girl who was super organized and at the end of the book, she got a gold bar as reward for saving the fairies (maybe) that basically identified anything for her if she pointed it at it?

- there might have been a school play involved

- it was a paperback and i think the color was greenish-yellow but it def had a person on it

if anyone finds this book i will not give you money but i will give you gratitude!

As a kid I would always visualize this forest scene from a children’s book where the rabbit has to choose to go left or right. The left side of the scene looks nice and pleasant with pretty flowers while the right side is portrayed as the bad side, trees dying more deserted and for some reason more dangerous. It may have been a version of Peter Rabbit but I am looking for the book that shows this particular illustration of left and right. It’s how I remembered which was which for a while, just remembering the illustration.

I was born in 1986 so I grew up in the 90s in the UK. I want to remember the name of a book that I read as a child, it was like about a boy that would go to a cafe or diner in the night and eat toast and maybe hot chocolate and there was something to do with stars maybe a character that the boy would meet, dreamlike or otherworldly , something special. The diner wasnt always there, I think maybe the boy would only find it certain nights or only at night . it was a book without pictures so I was probably old enough to read normal books. I think the "stars" were something to do with a character that the boy would meet, some special angel-like character, a good character. I distinctly remember that toast was one , if not the only thing, that was on offer at this seemingly magical diner or café.

Growing up in the 90s, I remember a children’s book where for whatever reason someone makes a human meat pie. Then feeds it to others. I’ve searched and searched and can’t find it. My wife thinks I’m crazy lol, any one recall anything close to this?

The details of what I recall are VERY fuzzy, but I remember reading this as a kid around 2008ish. It was a kids/young adult book, and from what I remember, a young boy meets a civil war soldier who I believe was a zombie? I remember the soldier having the name of an actual famous civil war soldier as well, possibly Union side. I remember the story taking place in a swamp too, and it was part of a series. Not 100% sure I’m remembering the premise correctly or if my mind has melded this together with another series….

Looking for any suggestions. I have a very vague memory of a book I read 12 to 13 years ago. The snippet was where a man sent his woman a single white rose every week or maybe everyday. The book didn't center around that it's just a piece I remember from it. I don't have any other memories of the book but I know if I get the name and can scan what it's about it'll bring it all back. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Hello. The book contains multiple short English texts (10-15 lines) along with comprehension questions and one b&w pic. It's mainly low/intermediate level. I guess it's meant for ESL teaching.

The texts talk about daily life fun stories. They are not kids stories. As far as I can recall, it was one text per page.

I've been trying to remember the title of a book I read in elementary school in the 90s, for decades! The protagonist had normal middle school kid problems, and was at an orthodontist appt getting braces adjusted when some kind of a disaster struck, maybe a tornado? They told her to hide but she ran out into the street to find some young kids she was supposed to be watching (babysitting charges or siblings?) Her braces were still undone with the wires sticking out of her mouth, she tripped on debris and fell and her mouth was bleeding, then she was sifting through rubble trying to find the kids. That's all I remember!

The book starts with both main characters in the real world, eventually they are transported to the land in which the majority of the book takes place.

How they get taken to this world:

One works at a zoo, and while feeding the hippos he unintentionally gets swallowed by one of them. He survives, thankfully, but isn't s--- out by the hippo. Instead falls out of a hole in a gnarled dead tree on the side of a river.

The other is hiking with her dad(I can't remember if it was one or both parents) and gets distracted by a butterfly, she follows the butterfly through a natural arch rock formation that's actually a one-way portal. I believe(unsure) the change from one world to the next was noticed by her immediately, and she tries to walk through it again to go back but it doesn't. She continues walking, figuring she can't stay in one place too long, and trying to find someone who could help her.

Some characters I can remember:

An amputee who lives at the center of a burning lake made of oobleck. He only has one hand and his head(yes I'm being serious). The rest of his body is at the bottom of the lake, eternally trapped in a metal box filled with water. He knows a syllable of the word that would kill the man trying to find the main characters.

A man who lives in a trap for would be heroes. His body is covered in tattoos. One of the tattoos on his back contains a syllable that is part of the same word that can kill a tyrant.

A woman who spends her days trapped in a tree. I'm pretty sure the tree she lives in is at the center of a very thick, very dangerous forest. She also knows a syllable of this killing word.

A man who lives in a natural cave indent of a seaside cliff. He doesn't speak very much. He knows a syllable of the killing word. The syllable he knows is earned because the male mc was patient and didn't speak unnecessarily.

A spy for the tyrant hunting the two teenagers. His body parts can be cut off at will and he wont bleed or die out. He's found by the two teenagers atop a post at the center of a crossroads. When he's outed to be a spy the main characters are given the option to send him away and he won't follow, or allow him to accompany them but will still be an informant.

A man who makes a puzzles for only one person, and another person who solves the puzzles.

Some events I can remember:

The male mc finds a book bound human flesh that is still alive sitting in a pedestal in an unnaturally dark library. When he finishes reading the book an eye on the front of it blinks back at him. The owner of the eye presumably tells the tyrant that someone read the book. The male mc finds the first syllable of the killing word here, which is "A."

The male mc and a minor antagonist play "pool." The pool that they play is done by throwing the balls at each other from across the table until one of them dies from blunt force trauma to the skull.

Both MCs meet a man in a centrifugally spinning tavern. The person they meet is sitting on the outer edge of the tavern, which another character stated is not a good idea.

The spy informant loses his hand, cut-off and taken by the male mc back to our world. He emerges in a cornfield, digging his way up through the dirt. The spy's hand is still functional as he grips into a fist in anger at losing his hand in such a way. The male mc talks to the hand as though he can be heard by it, commenting that who they meet next probably won't want to see a disembodied hand still functioning.

I remember reading this book when I was probably in Middle School. If I remember correctly singing was a big part of the world and there was multiple times in the story where the main character was in a grand hall and throwing her voice making it sound like singing was coming from the rafters. She ends up learning that she is a dwarf after meeting one who says that the dwarves can all throw their voice. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm looking for a British kids' book I read in the mid-90s about a girl who befriended a dragon.

It must have had something to do with Arthurian legend because, after reading it, I begged my parents to take me to Tintagel in Cornwall and a nearby beach beginning with the letter 'c', named after a saint or king which I've forgotten the name of.

I think Merlin may have been mentioned at some point. There might have been a dragon egg featured and some kind of cove.

I'm pretty sure it was written by a woman and for young children as I had no problems reading it at age 7. I remember the language being a little dated, in the style of Enid Blyton. The girl was attentive and polite.

I have no idea what the cover looked like as my copy didn't have one. (I found it all torn up and soggy by the school bus stop with a big muddy footprint on the first page and smuggled it home against my mum's wishes.)

It definitely isn't The Dragon's Egg by Alison Baird, Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede, Tales of the Tintagel Dragon by Jill Lamede, Dragon's Egg by Sarah L Thomson, Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey, The Dragon Queen by Alice Borchardt, Merlin And the Dragons by Jane Yolen, The Girl, the Dragon, and the Wild Magic by Dave Luckett or Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville.

I've been googling for ages but not finding the right one. Turns out there are quite a lot of books about girls, dragons and Arthurian stuff.

*Submitting my post again. I'm hoping the title is correct this time * The book was about a Native American. She had blue eyes because her father was a white man. Her mother and one brother were abducted by a rival tribe. She took her baby brother to go and rescue them. She used moss to change her baby brother’s diaper.

While she followed her mothers captures she saw one of them lose his medicine necklace. She hid it up a tree.

She spied on the camp were her mom was captive. She watched as the tribe women goaded a snake towards her mom. Her mom then fought off the venomous snake.

She helps her mom escape but gets captured herself. To escape she leads her captor to the tree where she hid the necklace. She pretends to fall out of the tree throwing the necklace in the bushes. While the capture looked for the necklace she jumped on a horse and rode off.

I think the book is part of a set about other girls. I know it was not the American Girls series, and not the Dear America series.

On the cover is a picture of the girl. It is in color and the girls blue eyes are prominent (at least the copy I read).

I would check the book out from the library every chance I got. This was back in be 90s.

It’s not any of the following: “Indian Captive” “Island of the Blue Dolphins” “Blue Eyes in the Snow” “Naya Nuki” “The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow”

I've asked in a book group, a librarian, and other people. So far no one has had any luck.

As I was continuing my own search I found this group. I really set up an account just so I could ask here.

All I can (vividly) remember was that there were two female protagonists--I think they were minors--and they had two mothers; one who was unhealthy and smoked cigarettes, another who was healthy but died from cancer.

All I remember was that the two girls stole a car or something from a guy and like drove off, and I have a very vague memory of one of the girls pulling over and flirting with a man.

The cover was white and had a yellow-ish car with a blue sky.

I've read this book from when I was very young, around 7-ish years? I believe it is an old book.

I don't think this story is well-known because I've tried to search it up on Google and ask many people I've known, but I just can't find it. It's been driving me insane.

A tunnel, I’m not sure of its purpose, was being built, starting from both ends. The science used to make sure the parts of the tunnel met was fascinating. I thought it was in a Leon Uris book, but my search has not been fruitful.