The book is from the late 70s-early 80s. A woman gets divorced, then retreats to Cape Cod in the winter. She lives in a house on the beach, learns to be alone and independent. I think she has a dog. Eventually goes back to society. Nonfiction (I think).
This book was read in middle school. It featured four stories with the same gang of young boys. One story was of them faking a Loch Ness Monster using radio-controlled boat in their lake. Another was their search for a crashed airplane using radio direction finding. A third was their competing in a hot-air balloon race. The fourth I do not remember. This was probably published in the 80’s or late 70’s.
This book is titled “Sandy” or “Sandie” I believe. It’s a story (real-life) written by a doctor about the death from his wife, Sandy (born as Alexandra) from cancer. I think she must have died in about 1967 or 1968. She had a 3 year old son called Alexander. I read the book sometime between 1978-1982 when I was younger. I’ve always wondered if I could find a copy of it and all my research has come up with nothing. It’s possible I have some of the details wrong. I got the book out of the Rochester, NY Public Library at the time. It was in hard-cover. I am sure that it was published by a “reputable” publisher. I have searched for “cancer narratives” to no avail.
I read a juvenile novel in the 1980s (from my school library). It may have been from the 1960s or 1970s about a very lonely girl who moved to a new house in the country, and while exploring, she found a secret playhouse that had dolls and teddy bears in it, and I think they came to life. Kind of like The Lonely Doll meets The Curious Clubhouse, but definitely not either of those! It had illustrations, maybe an orange cover, and I feel like Secret may have been in the title, and the author’s last name began with G or H?
Please help me find a childhood book probably written in the late 50s 60s or early 70s. Similar to The Secret Garden, it was a weird tale of a boy named, I believe, Micah who gets lost in the woods and he’s gone for such a long time he has to learn to survive eventually he finds an old moss covered skeleton that he befriends similar to that movie “Castaway ” where Tom Hanks befriends a basketball. Anyways, the boy is all alone. I think he builds some sort a little hut and learned to survive on his own. I think, he’s about 12 or so and eventually someone finds him like a little girl or something and he tries to introduce her to the skeleton and she freaks out and runs away so the boy’s left alone again in the forest with his skeleton friend and I don’t remember the dénouement but it’s kind of sad. Eerie yet beautifully written and haunting tale. It wasn’t very long but I think I was about 10 when I read it and it transfixed me.
Looking for a book that I read in grade school circa 1973. My memory is hazy, but I remember the following:
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International bankers corner all the markets and plot to take over the world. I read it in the 70s or 80s and I think it might have been a Robert Ludlum book.
I read this book in South Africa as a setwork book in the 70s . I’m sure it was in Afrikaans about a young girl growing up in a very orthodox home, never saw a picture of herself until late teens. She falls pregnant to either a young traveling salesman or her father, I cant remember the fine details but she somehow gets away, with the young man I think.
A large size paperback, 1970s comprehensive instruction manual for growing a kitchen garden and orchard by the small-space, French-intensive method. It had realistic line drawing illustrations (looking as if the source of the drawings was photographs. ) Also appeared to be UK English in origin as illustrations showed brick walls around the garden as if it were on an estate. Instructions for annual and perennial vegetables, as well as fruit shrubs and trees were included. Specialty techniques such as espalier were shown.
A girl stains a carpet and moves all the furniture into a big pile in the middle of the room to hide the stain. I vaguely remember her name being Harriet but I could be wrong about that. A 70s book for young kids, illustrated.