Category Archives: MG (grades 2-6)
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.
341S: Kids’ Adventure-Wilderness book about two boys settling land while their father returns home
341R: Boy in future accidentally falls down garbage chute? (Solved!)
I am looking for a juvenile fiction book, written sometime in the 1980s. The premise is that people of privilege live indoors and never see the sun; the main character is a very haughty, arrogant teenager who lives indoors. A big deal is made about how pale and fat these people are. Somehow he accidentally ends up outside — I feel like he falls down a garbage chute — and ends up finding a village of families who live outside. After a while, he loses his arrogance and begins to enjoy his life outdoors. Eventually he makes his way back to his home, and I distinctly remember people shunning him because he has gotten muscles and a tan. I read it in the fifth or sixth grade, so it would have been aimed at children ages 10-12 or so.
The cover of the book shows the back of a pale bald boy, dressed in robes (they may be purple or blue?), running down a hallway. Thanks for the help!
341J: A Family’s Year of American Adventures
I am looking for a book my uncle read while in 4th or 5th grade in the 1950’s. His teacher had assigned it to the entire class to read as a project. Some key points he remembers are a family pulled their children out of school for the year to travel the United States to experience new places and adventures. They went to a desert, they starred in a Hollywood movie, he also remembers something about birds – sparrow specifically – being in the book. He thinks there was a car on the cover, possibly pulling a trailer behind it.
Please help if you can, I would love to give him this book as a Father’s Day gift and he recently celebrated his 75th birthday too.
341H: Children’s 60s-70s short photo novel
A young boy (lonely? Bad situation?) invents device on a board using electronics, slinky, fishbowl, and contacts space girl/alien whose image appears in fishbowl.
341E: Colorful Knights Defend White And Gold King
The book I’m looking for is a children’s fiction book that included knights or warriors who were identified by color: green, blue, purple, etc. For sure my son remembers there was a purple one that almost got thrown into a pit of lava. These knights or warriors were defending a kingdom with a king who might have been identified through white and gold clothing. And they were trying to defeat a “dark Lord“ which is probably just a villain in the story and not referred to necessarily by those words.
Any help would be appreciated!