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I wonder if you could help me find a book. It’s one I read as a teenager, but it could have been older than that (I’m 40). It’s a book about a girl and it’s set somewhere like the Himalayas maybe? I know she ends up in India at some point, I’m pretty sure it mentioned the Ganges. She basically goes on some journey. She has a guide, not sure if it’s a familiar or a spirit guide, but it’s a snow leopard that she can talk to. She does battle with a figure of Kali, and Kali bites her hand off. I remember the description of Kali’s foul, rotten breath. Then she sort of manifests a spirit hand. I remember that she treats someone for a fever, and imagines pulling the fever out through the top of the person’s head and rolling it like a ball of yarn. She doesn’t know what to do with it, if she throws it away it might find another person. So she crushes it in her spirit hand. It’s a lot of specific information but I’ve never been able to find it.
My wife, born in 1963, remembers it from nursery school but we can’t find the book of any other references.
I’d buy the book on the spot if I knew it contained this phrase. It is sort of a grail quest at this point.
I am looking for this book.
Frau the hare a children’s book from the 40′ in the story Frau is running from a fox. She is desperate to get back to her burrow and her babies.
Would love to access a copy . Thank you.
Middle grade standalone chapter book that I read at some point in the 90’s, in my teacher’s classroom library. This was a parochial Catholic school and I was surprised and delighted to find something so occult. The book was blue with something white on the cover and it was a shorter title. In the book, a teenaged girl in a large isolated house in the country is contacted (via ESP? Dreams?) by a supernatural entity that is slowly revealed to be evil. It might have some connection with ice, and is male. There is some specific danger to the protagonist’s baby sister. At first the protagonist’s parents and the nanny do not believe her but at some point the nanny seems to come around. The once scene I remember is the nanny standing in a full bathtub while the tap overflows into the hallway, while holding the baby, because the supernatural entity was physically manifesting inside the house and the nanny thought the water would protect them. Its possible the evil entity lives at the bottom of the garden? I think the author was female?
Finally, my school had a lot of books published by Scholastic.
I’ve been trying to remember this book for 30 years, I hope you know it!
I am looking for a mystery that I last read in 1958. It was hardcover, grayish in color and MOST OF ALL it had a small embossed GOLD DOVE on the upper half of front cover. The story ended in a cemetary with the identity and capture of the killer. The story by author Wilson Tucker “The Dove” comes very close to fitting this description but the 1st edition cover is not in any way the same. I thought the my description might be another book altogether but so far it seems it might just be another later edition. The original publishers were the RHINEHARDT pub co. USA and the CASSELL and co. of London UK. Lastly and again I am absolutely-beyond a shadow of doubt-positive about that small gold dove on a gray hardcover. I have been looking for some 44 years for this particular hardcover but no luck.
My sister and I each read this as a hardback (Oxford??) library book. I read it in the 1970s when I was in early secondary school, and it felt pretty recent and ‘realistic’ at the time. It was definitely set in the UK.
SPOILERS. The girl overhears her mother speaking. The girl has recently misbehaved in some way and she hears her mother criticise her and say that she’s just like her ‘real mother’. She’s discovering that she’s adopted, and her adoptive mother knows her biological mother.
Eventually the girl discovers that her mother’s younger sister is her biological mother.
The girl is upset by the discovery but is helped by her grandmother, as their relationship hasn’t changed.
The aunt/birth mother had babysat the adopted girl and her sister when they were babies. The adoptive mother reminisces about how, when the aunt/birth mother babysat, the adopted girl missed the adoptive mother much more than the other child had.
I need help remembering the name of a book.
-I think it was set in Appalachia
-Opens with women in family/neighborhood bleaching a young girl’s hair
-Main character friends with neighbor girl
-father figure dying of cancer and secluded to front room of house
-Main character sexually assaulted by relative in an outbuilding/woodshed, but doesn’t remember it until years later
-Main character wins a beauty pageant and is awarded luggage
-Main character leaves home for many years only to return in adulthood to stay and teach
Thanks!
UK setting
Written 80’s or early 90’s
Plot: dead wife observes husband and best friends affair; views estranged daughter
Author: female
Humorous book
I have been hunting for the name of a book that I read in my childhood for literally years. Every so often I would come back to my search and try again. Finally, I don’t know what changed this time, but I happened upon your anthology finder page under collectible children’s books. It was Young Years. It was a book given to my mom in 1977 when she was only 8, and then she gave to me. I read it all through my childhood, but ultimately lost it in so many moves. I’m so sad I won’t be able to get back the one that had a note written to my mother inside it, but now I will at least be able to find another copy on ebay or something. Thank you so much for helping, even if you didn’t realize you were.
Signed, a very happy 30 year old in NY trying to find her inner child again.
Book was from the 1960’s which I purchased at my school’s book fair. About a black and yellow caterpillar who meets other characters along his way. Book cover is green. All characters have large eyes. The caterpillar feels he is ugly but turns into a beautiful butterfly at end of story.
