Hello! I am looking for a book that my father used to read to me when I was a kid (late 90s). As far as I can remember it was about a family of ducks(?) who were often threatened by a scary pike in the area. I remember it had pictures, and I could have sworn it was called ‘all through the night’ but haven’t been able to find that title. I’ve been searching for years without any success!
Filbert? A goat?
He ate the flowers on the mayor's wife's hat. He was put in jail for that?
Kids trained to 'push' virtual soldiers on a digital (AR/VR) tabletop. The soldiers turn out to be real people. There are two kids (boy and girl?) who are able to sneak out and talk to each other during their training. I think this was a YA novel as I read it in elementary school in the late 90's/early 00's
Seeking a fantasy series from the 80s/90s. In the series was an inept wizard who carried a satchel full of rune sticks leftover by a long lost race called the Rebus/Rhebus/Rhybus (I'm not 100% sure of the spelling). The wizard often failed because he had trouble decoding the rune sticks. Eventually his satchel caught fire and he lost them all. The enemies in the books were somehow made of ice and wary of sunlight - I think they were dark elves. When killed, they would degrade into a puddle of dirty water. In one of the books was a character who flew around inside a cavern while wearing an old-fashioned helmet with a hinged visor. He could blast fire from his eyes and regularly chuckled while firing at the trolls below. Any help finding this series would be much appreciated.
I got a book from a scholastic book fair back in the 1990s. It was about a girl who lived in a house with her baby brother (maybe sister). There was a creature in the woods who stole the baby and she had to rescue him/her. The cover was terrifying (at least to 11 year old me) and I even bought it twice because the cover came off of one.
This creature was maybe a witch or something that needed the youth of the baby to survive – it fed off of the baby or something like that. The book would probably have been written between 1985 and 1995, young adult thriller/horror/fantasy.
Any help is appreciated!!!
Looking for name/author of a kids book from early 70s about a boy who dresses up as a tiger, but the book is written like he IS a tiger. He lays "on a tree branch" (actually the back of the sofa, I think), scares his sister, etc. At the end, he finally takes off the costume and goes to sleep. I think the artwork was pen and ink and the cover was orange, but I can't be positive after all this time.
I read a collection of short stories in the late 80’s (maybe very early 90’s.) The stories from the collection that impacted me involved teenage girls coming of age. One story involved two teenage girls shoplifting at a Woolworth’s (this helps date the collection maybe.) There was a story of a teenager babysitting some little girls whose mother was in the hospital after a terrible car accident. The mother passes away during the time the young woman was babysitting. She must act as an adult to break the news (or not) to the girls. This story had mermaids within the title. Another story involved a young woman at a wedding in a faux chalet-like event space. She goes off by herself (in a bridesmaid dress?) to have a moment alone reflecting on her new near-adulthood when some creep exposes himself to her. I’m unsure if the collection was classified as YA, but the stories definitely resonated with me as teenager at the time.
I read a book in the late nineties or early two thousands about a woman who makes an unexpected trip to California with her daughter to visit her estranged sister (I think she may have found out her husband was having an affair, but can’t quite remember).
The teenage daughter had suffered from anorexia in the past, the sister was a failed actress. The daughter does a screen test for a movie about Joan of Arc while they’re in Hollywood. The three of them stay in someone’s fancy house in a wooded area (the Redwoods maybe) and the mother has an affair with the caretaker, whose life motto is Carpe Diem and who lives in an old fire tower.
At the beginning of the book the main character describes trapping rats in/near her house and releasing them in the creek behind the house, and then swimming in the creek with the rats. She also describes getting ready for a party (a work function for her husband?) and not having time to wash her hair after the swim in the creek, so she just slicked her hair back, went without makeup (she describes her coppery freckles), bright red lipstick, and a flower behind her ear.
From 70s or 80s. Group of normal seeming people can influence others to violence. Once a year they get together with scrapbooks and show how much war and death they have caused. The worst one “wins.” Protagonist is one of them but tired of hurting and killing. She refuses to use her powers. They gang up on her and the new contest is who can eliminate her. Her trusted butler tries to kill her under their influence. Sorry, I know this one is kind of a downer.