This is a book that I read when I was a preteen, so early 90’s. I am starting to think I made it up! I remember there was a girl who lived in a cabin and is an orphan (I think) and she finds these seeds that glow so she plants them. Then they grow into a garden that shines at night and works to call her family to her because it turns out she is not from earth and her family was looking for her.
Category Archives: MG (grades 2-6)
342U: Poaching on an English Estate (Solved!)
I am looking for a children’s novel set on an English estate, that involves poaching. Not a Roald Dahl book, and it's from the viewpoint of a child or children living on the estate (likely visiting older relative).
342S: Second Grade Book
I am trying to find a book that my teacher read to me in the second grade. I can remember the cover – lavender with a photo in the center and two snakes on either side. Snakes were a sort of trope in the book. It was either a coming of age or autobiography of a girl who lived in the SouthWestern US. Unfortunately, that is all I remember.
342N: The Magic Pencil (Solved!)
I'm looking for a chapter book that I read when I was ~9 in the early 80s. It's about two kids (boy and girl) who find a magic pencil that changes things to whatever they write. I think they get it from a handyman that uses it to change the length of his ladder, the type of cookies in a box etc. They change their size to 4" and have adventures. I remember a chase with a cat and them visiting a cave of some sort.
342J: Jock the Motocross Rider
The book I'm trying to find is from approximately 1978 and I thought it was a Hardy Boys book. It was hard bound.
Inside the first page or two was an illustration of a motocross rider (dirt bike) with the front number plate having a "2" on it and the riders name is "Jock".
That's all I've got.
342H: A Moon Boy’s Android Brother
341Z: UFO Light Causes Boy to Grow Third Arm
341Y: Spooky Bushes Mistaken for Monster
Seeking a 70s children's paperback book with kids involved in a mystery, with a clue or a solution that somehow involves bushes/trees that have appearance of a monster in the dark. It is not about monsters, however. Could be scholastic. . .
341X: Boy Attends Cinderella’s Ball In A Dream
341T: Jokey the Dog
I'm looking for an elementary textbook from 80s or 90s that had a story about Jokey the Dog, another about a cat that goes to a spa, and small things falling from high places.