I read this book over and over, and I cannot remember the title, and my google-fu is failing. I seem to remember the title being something along the lines of "This is (name), She's (age)". I THINK that was the title, but I definitely remember the main character narrating that this is how her parents would introduce her, since she has no talents. Her older brother plays the piano, her older sister bowls, and is an actress, I think, and her little brother... counts a lot? And memorizes commercials? I think the main character is just starting high school when all of the sudden these psychic predictions start coming to her. I know that she gets involved in the drama club, and she makes a friend at school whose home life is all calm and organized and neat compared to hers. I remember her commenting on the fact that at home, even though they are dining among total clutter, her mom always insists on setting the table with a full service. Her dad is a scientist of some sort, and her mom is an author. She sets up a psychic service in her house, but gets busted by the cops almost immediately.

Ringing a bell with anyone?

ETA: Found-- "And This Is Laura" by Ellen Conford

#1. Two children, girl and boy, get sent to Ireland (I think) because their parents are going somewhere and the girl's horse vanishes. She goes on some crazy quest to find him, gypsies or something like that were involved. Pretty sure he's cream or Palamino.

#2. This one's even vaguer. The copy I read was soft cover, black with a blueish-grey horse and misty trees, I think it was a puffin book. It was about a ghost horse that did something, I think it hurt people but made friends with a young boy/girl? It is not Stanley's Ghost Horse (1999), I get the impression it was older and i think I first read it in '97 or '98, definetely no later than '99 and the book was taped up and battered when I got it. Horse's name was something weathery, Storm or Thunder maybe?

These are all children's/YA.

1. I read this series in the mid-90s, but I think it was from the 80s or early 90s. There was a group of friends - Linda Jean, Krissy, Aimee and possibly another friend whose name I don’t remember. They were somewhere between 10 and 13 years old. Krissy had a sister named Kitty who was a child model or something, and she thought her parents preferred Kitty to her. I also think one of them had a male friend who couldn't read, but I may be mixing that up with another book.

2. There were three kids - Frog, Sarah, and some other kid - and the mystery took place in a cemetery, and I think they ended up sneaking into a mausoleum for some reason. The only thing I remember clearly is that it was Halloween, and the main character put on an apron and went as a chef, but he was made fun of because of his lame attempt at a costume.

3. This is another book I read in the early to mid-90s, but I think it was way older than that, maybe from the 60s or 70s. The main character’s name is Alice Martha (Turner, possibly?) and she hates it. She was named after her two maiden aunts, Alice and Martha, who call her by her full name. I think the book is about her spending the summer with someone and she meets a guy. At the end of the book he suggests she go by Ali.

4. Two girls, a popular girl and a not-so-popular girl, switch bodies somehow. The popular girl (while inhabiting the body of the not-so-popular girl) is appalled at having to eat cornflakes for breakfast because she thinks only poor people do that. There might have been some issues with a guy. I think the cover was pink, or at least partially pink.

Thank you in advance!

This was a book I once thought was called "Horse on the Hill," except I just bought a book with that title from an Amazon.com seller and it wasn't the same at all.

It can't have been newer than the early seventies, since I remember it in the grade school library. It was set in Scotland in the town of Nairn. The hero was a young boy trying to catch a wild horse, a black filly that lived on a hill, and eventually he also met a girl named Morag. I don't remember much else but I am looking for any fiction set in this region.

I remember the tone as being realistic and at times quite bleak, but compelling.

Thanks in advance.

I found an interesting looking book fairly recently (well, within the last couple of months) but for the life of me I can't remember it. What I do remember is that it's YA and the main character is named Beatrice. The plot revolves around theatre and the stories of Shakespeare are used frequently. Ring any bells?

Alright, this book was one of my favorites in the late 80's/early 90's when I was a kid. It was written almost in the form of a dictionary, but I don't think it was one. It had all sorts of monsters/goblins/scary things in it with cool pictures and descriptions about the monster etc. I have really no other details...any help would be appreciated!

Asking for a co-worker:
The book is written/illustrated in a style similar to The Polar Express and Jumanji, but not by the same authors.
There are large, colorful pictures on each page with few words at the bottom (i.e. the primary focus of the page is on the illustrations).
Basic plot: boy is told not to go in the forest, he goes in anyway, scary creatures (she vividly remembers a fire-breathing creature). All creatures are of the imaginary variety with whimsical names.

Any ideas? Thanks!

I read this book in the late nineties, I have no idea how much older it was, almost certain it was written in the 80's or later. The protagonist is a girl whose parents died young (maybe an accident) and she's been raised by her strict and religious aunt. Anyway, the summer she's 16, she gets a job in a bakery.

A few incidents I remember; she starts using eye makeup and buys a bathing suit, much to her aunts consternation. She has a name like Mary Beth or Mary Kate and shortens it to MB or MK that summer. I'm pretty sure she meets at least one boy. I enjoyed it and wouldn't mind reading it again.

You're all going to think I'm a sick person, but I am not making this up.

I tried finding it in the disturbing books community, but I couldn't. It's a book about people who have sex with cows. I thought the title was just Moo, or maybe Cow, but I can't find it. Maybe an author name would help? Pretty sure it was fiction (I hope so). That's all I remember...sex with cows, and some kind of one-word, cow-related title.

EDIT: It's Cows by Matthew Stokoe. Thank you!

This book has been driving me crazy. I've been trying to think of it for the last week, because the impending snowstorm in the Northeast US reminded me of it. Okay, here's what I remember:

There's a kid who is not athletic, but his brother is. The non-athletic kid goes skiing, by himself. It's like cross country skiing or something. He's only on the skis to go hunting, shooting birds or something.

He shoots three birds and collects them in his backpack. He then sees a bigger animal, like a fox or a deer or something, and shoots again but the echo from the shot causes the snow on a nearby mountain to bury him. He gets stuck in the snow, but he remembers to swim through the snow so he gets himself buried standing upright.

The kid is stuck in the snow, buried over his head, but he can't get out because of his skis, which are attached to his feet (and he can't reach down to undo them), and are buried under the snow all around him.

He has the ski poles so he's able to poke a hole in the snow so he can get air and see the sun so he can keep track of days.

He eats the birds he shot for food and the snow for water.

Kid ends up getting out (I think his brother rescues him) and only lost like 3 toes and part of his heel to frostbite and in the process gains the respect of his athletic brother, who he previously had issues with, because the brother doesn't think he'd be smart enough to survive the way the other one did.

EDIT: Found! I think. Avalanche by Arthur Roth
EDIT2: Yeah, this is the book.
http://www.amazon.com/Avalanche-Arthur-Roth/dp/0590422677

I read this when I was 9 or 10. Reread it in my late teens. Been looking for it for a decade, seriously. It heavily formed my love of post-apocalyptic fiction. I think it was by a female author (maybe with an 'L' last name, but not L'engle I'm fairly sure. Fairly.).

A boy and girl lived in an underground city (seemed to be rather vast, probably tube shaped, vertical). All their lives they were told that life couldn't exist in the outside, and that that's how things had been since some apocalyptic event. Eventually they sneak their way out. The land is devastated but livable. They come across a survivor, male I think while crossing a plain or old riverbed.

I would love to find it, or anything that might lead me to it.

Probably found: This Time of Darkness by HM Hoover. Thanks everyone!

Asking for someone else...

Does anyone know who the author & the title of the following novel is? I read it back in the 80's & have been DESPERATELY searching for it for YEARS:

Rich, high school senior (popular, basketball player, etc., etc...) falls in love w/town drunks beautiful, blond daughter (dirt poor, virgin, waitress at local diner, etc., etc...).

Guy's influential father puts a stop to young, budding romance by having his son's friends lie & say that they had all been intimate w/guy's girlfriend. Guy gets drunk & confronts girlfriend. He basically tells her she's a slut & breaks-off the romance. Girl is devastated & immediately runs away to Hollywood to purse her dream of becoming a successful "Movie Star"!!!

Meanwhile, guy goes off to college, becomes a doctor (I'm almost positive?!!), gets married, & ends up having two little girls. He married a deacon's daughter to keep from getting his heart broken, again, but ends up divorcing wife over her infidelity.

Girl goes on to become a huge box-office success. Wins an award for her awe inspiring performance as a drug addicted prostitute. She ends up marrying another famous actor, they have a child that dies in infancy, & then they end up divorcing, as well (Her husband is a HUGE jerk!).

Years later, guy goes back to hometown & gets together w/old high school friends. They end-up confessing that they lied about being intimate w/girl. Guy immediately begins to locate girl. When they finally meet again, he tries to explain what happened & apologize, but girl is so angry she refuses to have anything to do with him. Guy realizes he still loves his old high school girlfriend, thus begins his quest to win back her heart! Aaahhhh!

Secondary plot: Successful woman producer (Or maybe a screen writer?) ends up falling for her very mysterious, ex-con, half-breed, limo driver.

xposted to whatwasthatone

I'm trying to remember the title of a book, the main character was a girl who lived on some Pacific Island or tropical location and was secretly part of some family that lived underwater. It's not like she was a mermaid, more like they could hold their breath a really long time, I think. The girl might have been only a half-breed and it caused some tension with her family, and her mom might have been the queen of the water people? I think one of the problems was the water people were planning to cut off all contact with the surface world? This might have been sci-fi or fantasy, but it was definitely a chapter book, and not published after the mid 1990s.

ETA: Oop, managed to find it on my own :\, pretty sure that My Sister Sif by Ruth Park is the book.

Okay, so this is a little bit of a different question. I know the book is either Chasing Redbird or Walk Two Moons - and I'm 99% sure it's from Walk Two Moons.

Here is what I remember: The mother left the family/father because she felt like her husband was too good/perfect? I recall something about fresh picked fruit (blackberries?) on the table for breakfast, and other things the father would do that made her feel bad for whatever reason. And the day she left the family she left fruit on the table for them?

Is this Walk Two Moons? Can anyone clarify the memory a little?

Thanks!

I'm trying to find a series of 4 or 5 books (cant remember).  It was about a group of teenagers or college students that ends up in a fantasy universe.  They all look different once they are transported there.  I think I remember on guy that is in a wheel chair and he is able to walk and is a magic user.  Some girls or girl gets transported also.  Please help.  These are some books I would love to read again.

This is for a friend of mine. We saw Jolly Tall from the Old Bear series in a bookshop and it reminded her of this story. These animals built or gave a giraffe a house, but it was plastic and he didn't understand why the taps didn't turn on and he didn't really like the house in the end. She's a couple of years youger than me, so would have read it mid to late 90s at a guess, in the UK. Sorry if that was vague, but it would be awesome if I could track it down for her!

In the midst of our howling winter storm last night, I heard a train go by, and the whole thing reminded me of a short story. I'm hoping you guys can help me find it again!

A train is going through the middle of nowhere (probably English moorland, but not sure). The engineer is freaked out, because he's positive he saw people on the tracks, and hit them. Train company investigates and finds nothing-no bodies, no evidence of bodies, nothing. Everybody just sort of shrugs and chalks it up to a late night/tired driver kind of thing.

The next scene is a squire dressing his knight for battle-the local townspeople have asked him to slay the monster that's killed so many of them. They ride out to a desolate place and wait. Night falls, and they can hear it coming-"a monstrous creature with a glaring eye and fearsome bellow," or something similar. They set themselves on the tracks, prepared to kill it.

The next scene is the engineer screaming at someone from the company along for the ride about the same weirdly dressed nuts on the track that he's about to run over, again. It's never clear whether they're real people in a time fold or something, or ghosts.

Does this ring any bells for anyone?

I'm going on a whim and a friend randomly browsing livejournal. I'm looking for a older-type series of teen novels centered around a group of girls - like the Baby-Sitting club except they didn't baby-sit. <br> <br> I happen to remember the first book is about a girl who lives with her older sister and mom, and is in the flag club. However, she's a sporty girl, so she quits the flag club and goes out for ice hockey. <br><br> Something else I remember is that one of the girls has no dad, a artist for her mom, and lives in a renovated barn. In the later books, she even goes horseback riding herself. <br><br> If you guys can help, I will love you forever!

I remember reading a children's book in primary school. It may have been Australian, as that is where I live, and it was written in English. It was probably made late 90s, more probably early 2000s. It was a large-ish hardcover book with a dark cover, and focused on a bear at the circus. The pictures were dark, in both colour and theme, because the bear had been trapped and then forced into circus work. He hated performing every night but was forced to, otherwise the owners of the circus would throw sticks at him. It was a serious book, not childlike, though it was a children's book.

The illustrations were dark and unclear, lots of shapes and sades of black and blue, with faces being rough blurs and such.

On the very end page, the bear climbs a big pole to escape the jeers of the circus crowd and reaches his arms out to the stars. It is implied that he jumps and dies, but the feeling is one of melancholic happiness because he is finally free.

Does anyone know what this book might be called?

Okay, so i read this book a few years ago, and I just thought about it recently and I REALLY want it again. It's Teen fiction I believe and this is what it's about.

The main character is a girl with the letter 'M' for her middle name. That is it. The mother is not around, but at the end of the book you find out that her mother is actually in a drug center. The girl has a doll that she "talks" to. One thing that stands out to me from what I remember is that the doll has a red bead bracelet and the girl goes to a train track and starts poking her own wrist with a needle to create a red bracelet too. The girl then falls in love with a boy named Jan (or Yan). Later in she sews a dress out of her mother's old clothes.
Thats All I remember. I hope it helps!! Please help me! =D