Seeking series from 70's or 80's about extended families who live on nearby farms in the Midwest. I think each book focused on a different girl and the series may have spanned multiple generations. Books may have had names of produce or plants in title (like Apple Farm or something). May have had a slightly religious orientation.
The book I’m searching for is out of print, last time I checked. I believe the author is/was a woman who only wrote one book.
The book was set in New York City and was about a young woman moving to the city. She met someone on her plane and they told her of an apartment that was available in a beautiful building. The residents of that building had a supper club where they ate dinner together occasionally. They started out eating exotic animals and gradually graduated to eating people. Can you tell me the name of the book and the author?
This is a 1970's or 1960's middle reader. Possibly 1980. A girl named Margot lives in a city with her mother, who has not left their apartment since the father left her. She gets along pretty well by having her groceries delivered and such. Margot gets tired of this and decides to spend the night at a library or something to force her mother to leave the apartment to find her. Not sure if her scheme works or not. A neighbor ends up dealing with the police after Margot is found; I remember her spelling Margot's name for them and telling them "The T is silent" and sounding very proud of this knowledge, like it's a family secret. There is also a boy whom Margot befriends.
I read this book around 1983 from my school’s Jr. High Library. The main character is an android who believes he is the last one built. His maker has died and, while quite brilliant, was a very superstitious man.
The book I cannot recall is a chapter book that my 4th grade teacher read with our class.
The story begins with a small family in a cabin in the woods. Each night, they hear a knock at the door, and whoever answers the door disappears. The reader soon discovers that the a pair of magic boots have been walking themselves up to the door, forcing themselves onto the feet of who answers, and walking them off into the forest. Each family member disappears until only 1 boy, the protagonist, is left. He manages to trap the boots in a pot, pours (honey or molasses?) onto the boots, and puts 2 rats into the enclosure with the boots. The rats eat the boots and become "bewitched," and the boy stands on the rats and rides them into the forest to find his family. He is led to a troll or giant, but I cannot remember how the story concludes.
Please help!
I’d judge this to be from the 1990’s. It’s a very fun and funny history of trailers (some mention of manufactured houses and tiny homes, but Trailers). Partial-color photograph on front shows an elderly woman planting flowers in her repurposed commode, no a flowerpot, in front of her trailer. The epilogue is, for a reason I’ve forgotten, the story of someone who watched a wolf take a piece of wool between his teeth and back slowly into a lack and submerge himself; the observer figuring the wolf knew his fleas would move to the ball of fuzz (I think lanolin was mentioned).
It is quite a read. The public library has no memory of it, even in records. Online there is nothing at all resembling it. Please help!
Hello, the book I'm looking for is old, most likely from the 50's or 60's. There is an old woman (skinny) who lives in a cottage or house that is messy. She starts out cleaning one thing and then obsessively has to clean the rest of her house, and there was a picture of the kitchen with a blue checkered tablecloth.
Back in the mid to late 70s I recall a wonderful picture book that I read at primary school. I cannot remember any title or author details, but I do remember that the book was perhaps set in a forest? The illustrations were black and white until the last page I think, where they became full colour. I think they were line drawings. I imagine the book was published in the early 70s, maybe late 60s. I remember something about a rainbow as part of the story, i think this is why it was full colour on the last page. I also think a child was moving through the book. Thanks for your help