This was a book my doctor had in his office when I was a kid in the 70s. It was a small paperback about a house that was haunted by children who used to live there–I think there may have been a murder committed that started the haunting, and a little girl who was either living in the house or had visited it who was experiencing the ghostly phenomenon.
This was probably from the 60s or 70s. I read it as a child in the 80s. Someone was thinking & pulled up a strand of grass to chew on. There were coins in the roots of the grass. She may have been thinking about pancakes/flapjacks or used the money to buy ingredients?
Looking for the titile and author of a young adult fiction book, paperback, published late 1970s or early 1980s, approx. 200 pages. The book’s title could be similar to “Keeping It All Together.” The story likely was set in the 1970s to early 1980s, England/United Kingdom or another country using pounds instead of dollars. I read it around 1983-85.
After a 17 year old girl’s parents die in a auto accident, she toils to keep her orphaned younger siblings together, counting the days until her 18th birthday when she can become their legal guardian. The story chronicles her struggles to survive with scarce funds and keep her siblings, their school work, home and run-down car from falling apart – all while avoiding the government social services inspector, who threatens to split the siblings up into separate foster homes.
The orphans secretly take care of themselves, while keeping up the appearance that an adult relative is helping them. Some of the children’s names might be Maggie or Jenny and one of the brothers may have gotten into trouble. The run-down car they use might be an old van, and the teen girl may have a befriended a young man who assists with auto repairs.
It’s possible the book’s cover art has a soft pastels/watercolor illustration of the family with a light yellow van parked outside their house on a residential street in England or Ireland.
I’m wondering if you might be able to help me track down a book that my SIL vaguely remembers from her childhood. The main character is surrounded by people who have magical gifts, but he (she?) apparently has no gifts. Then he/she gets his/her braces removed, and it turns out that the silver was inhibiting the magic, and he/she actually does have magical powers.
She read it in the mid-80s, and the fact that there were braces in it leads me to believe that it wasn’t written too much earlier than the 70s or 80s.
A poor family (Appalachian?) gets their first hand-crank sewing machine. The father doesn’t like it, but in the end he uses it. It was probably published before 1970.
I have been looking for this young adult’s book for some time without success. I can’t remember any words of the title, it was aimed at 10-12 year olds. I read it in around 1990-1995, but it may have been published in the 1970s or 1980s. I’m pretty sure it was a British author, but it may have been American/Canadian. It was a slim paperback and I seem to remember that it came in a boxed set with a 3 or four other books, not necessarily by the same writer, but similar fantasy/magic genre. The story followed a young boy or girl who was staying with a relative somewhere, perhaps on holiday, who one day crawled under a hedge in the neighbourhood and into the garden/grounds of a wealthy and mysterious family, who turn out to be magical (possibly wizards). S/he meets and befriends the young girl who lives there who shows her various magical things but they keep their friendship secret as the other wizards/magical relatives would be angry if they found out she had come in to the garden. The family lives in a large and beautiful house and there is a magical lake in the garden which the two children sail across to an island in the center. They are later placed in danger when someone finds out the child is in the magic garden. I remember this being a wonderful story and would so love to find it! It is not Tom’s Midnight Garden or Timothy and the Witch.
This was read to me 1968-70ish. Bigger than A4 sized beautifully illustrated hardcover book, with one “chapter” and picture per two pages. British published as I was in New Zealand. The stories of Helen of Troy, Paris, Achilles, and Ulysses were there.
Looking for the title of a wordless book about kids who lived in a city and collected things people threw away and transformed their little garage into a fun place to play.
Possibly written in the 60s or 70s?
Sorry, no clue about the author’s name.
A children’s picture book likely 1950-1970’s about a bunny who finds a magic egg. When he looks through the egg it allows him to see different parts of the world. Possibly Easter related.
I read this book probably in the mid 1970s, may be from the 1960s or a little earlier. I checked it out from the library in what was then the Children’s section, probably considered young adult today. I have no idea of title or author. The girl’s name may be Gail, not sure, about 15 or 16 years old. She is camping? with her family: mother, father and I think one younger sibling. She becomes separated someway and I believe she may be trying to get to a Ranger’s station or something. Some weird guy is following/stalking her. I don’t remember if he is just after her, a young girl, or if she saw something he did & is trying to stop her from getting help. That’s about it, not a lot to go on, but I remember the book and would like to read again if I can find it! I was probably 12 or 13 when I read it and it was very suspenseful to me at the time, different from Nancy Drew & Trixie Belden books I read.