I work at a high school library and am trying to find titles of two books I had read as a young person back in the 70s. Both were probably titles that I had ordered off of the book order form/flyer that the school handed out back in the day where the kids could order really cheap books, like maybe Scholastic or Troll or something similar.

1. This was a ghost story. Something about a young person (a girl, I think) walking down a lane (I think “Lane” might be in the title) and seeing an old cottage type house that sometimes had an old ghost lady (or couple) living there and I think the girl would visit her/them. I don’t think other people saw the ghosts and it appeared to be an abandoned cottage to other people. The girl might not have known that the old lady/couple were ghosts until later on.
2. This was a time travel story about young people and something to do with a big wheel. I don’t know if it was a wagon wheel of a water wheel but the wheel was important and “Wheel” may be in the title. It’s not “Wheel of Time” by Robert Jordan.

I’m looking for a book about a little girl who forms a friendship with a grumpy weatherman. Her class is due to go on a school trip, to the beach I think, but the teacher tells them they can’t go if it rains.The girl decides to go and see the weatherman to request nice weather.The weatherman is in his weather factory and can see that she is on her way to find him. He sends wind, rain, snow, and all sorts of bad weather so she can’t make it. For some reason, I think there is a picture of her in a snow storm on Inkerman Street. The street name might be mis-remembered though. When she finally gets there, the weatherman is cross because people only come to see him when they want something. The girl realizes he’s lonely and they make friends. He shows her round his weather factory and makes her cloud ice cream with rainbows. He gives them good weather and the trip goes ahead. It was probably published in the 70s or 80s. The illustrations in Anthony Browne’s books really remind me of the illustrations. I loved it so much but my mum was a teacher and took all our childhood books to her school when we out grew them, and no one can remember what this one was called.

I’m looking for an I SPY / Where’s Waldo style book that my mom had as a kid. She was born in 1966, but it may be from the1950s. Instead of Waldo, you searched for a spy. I remember the cover was white and searching the pictures for the blue spy, then a green spy, and lastly a red spy.

I’m trying to find a book my mom used to read to me. I was born in 1992 so I’m assuming it was published in the late 80s/early 90s. It was a children’s Halloween book with a sound panel. The book was large with a dark purple cover with a haunted house. I’m pretty sure there was a character named Frank who was a Frankenstein monster and the plot was a tour of the folks/monsters that lived in the house. It was for kids but I remember it being less cartoony than other books we had.

The girl is accepted to study under a master dancer. While at his house she meets the local doctor. The house is on top of the cliff. There are stairs leading up the cliff to the house. At the end of the book, the teacher makes her dance near the stairs and she cuts her leap short to keep from falling down the stairs. She looks up to see the doctor there and realizes that he has come to save her. The dancing master was trying to kill her. I think the word stairs or steps is in the title. I first read the book in the early 1970s.