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110B, solved: Otis and the Donut Shop

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Hi, I’m looking for a series of children’s books or it might’ve been a series of stories one the one book that I read in the 1970′s and the protagonist was a little boy named Otis who always got into trouble. There was also a donut shop or some kind of elaborate donut maker in most of the books.(or stories) He has all kinds of adventures but usually finds his way out of them in some unusual way. There’s one story where a woman’s diamond ring gets fried into a donut and adventure ensues as they try to find it. I can’t remember the author. Also, they were paperbacks. Thanks very much.

110A: Exit Through Wall

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Young adult book about a teenage girl who lives maybe in London/England in a townhouse. She removes the bricks between her house and the adjoining one next door. I don’t recall why. But she does end up using that exit. There is a fire in her house and she helps her parents escape through that wall.

109F: Cross Section of a Hotel (solved)

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This is a tricky one, I had it as a kid. It was a cross-section of a hotel, across each double page. Each page was like 30 seconds after the one before. The detail was brilliant, I would spend hours picking a storyline in the pictures and following it through to it’s conclusion. I recall a flood, a rat infestation, an underground car park, a lady having a bath, loads and loads of things happened in that book. It was a hardback, with maybe 20 or so pages. It was quite large, maybe A4 or slightly bigger as I recall. Sorry I do not know more details about the book, I was young (somewhere around 10 year old, making it 1987) and my parents don”t even remember it. Hope you can help, my kids want to see this book too 🙂

109D: Art aka King Arthur

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This is the 1st in a series (a trilogy) read in school around 1992-1993 (7th grade). The plot is a boy and a girl in the 20th century finding a teen, Art, and discovering that he is actually King Arthur. Art gets hurt toward the end of the book and they have to go Avalon to save him from the bad guy.

109C: Mysteries About Haunted/Spooky Cases

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Thanks in advance for any guidance you can offer here. For years I have been trying to remember the name of the chapter books I borrowed from my local library in the mid to late 80’s.  I remember loving them tremendously, but now only give you the vaguest details. Which are…

A boy who for some reason I want to call Harry or Peter or William and an older man who I want to call Professor go around solving haunted/spooky cases. My mind wants to call it Harry And the Haunted Knight, but no amount of googling brings that up.  The main thing I remember, and I know this is reaching, is that they in every book there would be these glorious descriptions of the two of them slurping down these most delicious sounding gooey desserts. It was one of the authors main identifying characteristics, those wonderful descriptions of the two of them eating the most amazing desserts.

I realize that this is probably a long shot, but I did want to try you and see if it called anything to mind. I would love to read them to my boy when he’s old enough.

Your site is truly wonderful.

109B: Bell Cord Key to Time Travel

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The girl keeps time traveling every time she pulls a servant bell cord.  She changes places with an ancestor who looks like her, I believe it’s a cousin, who used to live in a mansion.  Our girl goes in the past and the ancestor comes in the present.  They communicate by leaving each other notes to find, I think in the desk.  There is something that is happening in the past which is urgent.  I think the ancestor is being beaten, and the modern girl is trying to save her from dying.  Anyway, she goes back and forth from the present to the past and from the past to the present.  (I think she comes back to the president when she goes to sleep at night, I forget exactly how that worked).  Then, on the last time the modern girl needs to time travel, the bell cord breaks, and somehow she still gets back into the present by tweaking the nose of the statue of Caesar that is on the piano in the mansion.

109A: Leonardo DaVinci Time Traveler

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I read a book when I was maybe in sixth grade where the group of friends live in the future or something and there are these flying metal spheres chasing them on the cover, I think. The school bully goes back in time with them or something and he ends up getting stuck there and when they return they deduce that he went on to become Leonardo DaVinci because of his knowledge of the future. I cannot think of this book.

108E: Young Adult Mystery Takes Place in Scotland

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I believe I read this book in the late 1980’s or early 1990’s.  I also believe it was part of a series with the two main characters.  This may have been the first or second book in the series.  I do not think subsequent books took place in Scotland.  The two main characters were a guy and girl (possibly a couple, I do not think they were related) in their late teens or early 20’s.  There may have been a romantic aspect of them getting together.  I remember the guy being self-assured and flirty and the girl being more sensible.  In the particular book I’m remembering, they travel to Scotland and stay in a castle near a loch to solve a mystery.