Looking for sci-fi about a teenage girl on a ship (colony) that avoids overpopulation by sending all its teens onto a hostile planet below to survive for a time period. If they live, they become adults and members of the colony.
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315U: Tales of World War II Aviation
Hi, looking for a book published in the 1950's. It is a collection of short stories relating to WWII aviation. It included stories set in North Africa, Italy, etc. Each short story included a pastel-ish illustration of a theme of the story. The planes included the P-38, British Mosquito, P-51, etc. The book was maybe an inch thick. Blue hard cover. Thanks so much!
315T: Psychedelic lollipop trees
I was born in 1975. There was a short children’s book that I have forgotten the name of. I seem to remember that it was more landscape format than portrait. The over-riding memory of the book was psychedelic landscapes and one in particular was made up of trees made of lollipops. Possibly other landscapes and scenes made up of different objects. That’s all I remember.
315S: Bandits take over the hand built house
315R: Frozen On His Face
I’m looking for a children’s book I had in the mid-1950’s about a little boy with a frown. If I remember correctly, it became frozen on his face
315Q: Siblings with a Magic Scepter
I read this fantasy book in late 80’s/early 90’s as a child. It featured a brother and sister. At least one had magic (maybe both). I believe brother had a magic scepter. Possibly had a large bird they rode to get to places. The cover may have shown the brother with the scepter riding the bird, but I may just be making that up. Good luck and thank you!
315P: Ranch Tales
Kids on ranch learn about The West. Large hardcover with text down the middle and line drawings down outside edges. Stories: a flash flood can catch you unaware; cooking buffalo tongue with vinegar/brown sugar sauce; climber thinks cactus puncture is rattlesnake bite and dies of fright.
315O: Baseball and milkshakes don’t mix
Looking for a 1950s/60s baseball book for juveniles about a boy who forms a baseball team. Someone on the team drinks too many milkshakes. NOT by Matt Christopher or Clair Bee.
315N: Teen fiction book, bullying, blackmail and revenge!
Hi, I am trying to find an older children/teen fiction book probably published in the 90’s. It is about a group of classmates being blackmailed by the caretaker’s son, who knows each of their secrets. They group together to seek revenge and get their secrets back. There is an Asian or Indian girl, who cheated on a test, a girl with a white streak in her hair from a scar, the bully refers to her as ‘bird crap’ and I think her name was Rosa? A boy called Liam, nicknamed ‘mouse’ and the son of a famous footballer player, who is new to the school. The caretaker’s son loves battenburg cake, which he calls ‘window cake’. They all get their secrets back from him in the end, and confront him, meet his mother, etc. I have hunted the internet, but can’t find any sign of it!
315M: Swathed in Scarves and Coats
Hi, I have the memory, but not the title, of a thin paperback? book that was in publication around 1960 or so. It was the story of three (I think old) women who lived together. Their furnace goes out and they have to go the basement to try and fix it. They are all swathed in scarves and coats and they have pointy red noses and they always go together when they have to go to the basement because it is scary. I don’t remember how it turns out. I have looked for it in every children’s bookshop that I know.
