I’m looking for a older child/young adult book. It is set in earlier times, though I can’t recall for certain if it was as far back as Victorian. A young girl goes to live with an older, severe relative. She has a hard life but is befriended by a small grey kitten and a mysterious girl who is a ghost. The ghost gives the girl clues to the cause of her unrest The girl refers to the kitten as “gray one” or “little gray one”.
I have been searching for this book for so long with no luck. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the title.
I got it when I was in elementary school in the 1970’s. It was probably published early to mid 70’s. I got it through one of the school’s reading program catalogs, so it may be a Scholastic book or another company like that. My best friend and several other students also purchased it. It was a Halloween book. It was about school students who have a young, pretty new teacher come to their school. Her name was Miss – something. Maybe Miss Grey. (I don’t trust my memory that far though.) The students think there is something odd about her. She wears a big, wide-brimmed hat. Of course, she’s suspected of being a witch.
The book was a thin paperback. The illustrations were pencil drawings in black and white. That’s about all I’ve got on it. It was such an unusual story and I’ve never seen the book again. Wish I knew where my copy got off to. Probably gave it away when I felt I was too old for children’s stories… geez…
When I search online, the later 80’s series about “Miss Nelson” pops up, but that is not it.
Thank you for your time!
This is a book written in the 60’s about a group of boys who have a rocket club which meets on the farm of an old army general.
They design various rockets, and at one point there is an accident because two of the boys decide to include dangerous design changes. I think they eventually get a trip to see a launch in Florida. This is NOT Hickman’s “Rocket Boys” or “October Sky”. It is also not “Countdown to Zero”.
I used to get books in the mail — “Me and the Terrible Two,” “Alvin’s Secret Code” — and one of them was a book about a boy who watched the moon landing all summer while some family drama was also going on. The book had a low-key melancholy tone. I read it in 1974 or 75, when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. I wish I could remember more about it, but I’m stumped!
Juvenile fiction from late 1960s or early 1970s with color illustrations of a teen boy and his father/uncle and their adventures scuba diving. I worked in the school library when I was 13-14 and was fascinated by this book, which piqued my interest in oceanography. I’ve searched on and off for many years. It’s not Sea Hunt and it’s not a Hardy Boys book. Any help locating a copy of this book would be much appreciated.
The book that I’m looking for was written sometime between the 1940’s and 1960’s (or so). It was about a young woman who moved to live with her glamorous aunt in London. Her aunt gave her a Pekingese puppy that she named “Peke Ah Boo”. There was some kind of mystery having to do with the house next door and possibly a young man who turned out to be a spy? It may have been a YA book – the copy that I had was hardcover in robin’s blue but there may have been a dust jacket at some point since I don’t remember any identifying marks on the cover.
Any help would be appreciated greatly, it’s driving me crazy!
Looking for children’s book from 1950s. Kids move to Florida into rooming house. There is a mysterious friend named Don who lives in their shed. Little sister plays under a “biscuit” (hibiscus) bush. A hurricane reveals all when Don’s father is revealed.
This was a children’s novel about a advanced human society living separate to an abandoned post-disaster world.
The inhabitants now live in a peaceful and educated way, having somehow atoned for the previous mistakes. Everyone wears a bodysuit that changes colour dependant on the mood of the wearer. One scene describes a young girl’s family living room where the children ‘paint’ an image on a kind of computer screen that is displayed as an artwork.
In another, the children visit the old city, a chaotic abandoned world. My memories are sketchy but I think they find something there and the protagonist – I think it was the young girl – must walk through a super modern hall, a busy public area, with her bodysuit flashing colours wildly. The bodysuits glowed gently when the wearers were calm, and most were calm, so it was obvious to all when one was upset or aggressive.
Really quite incredibly prophetic as it must have been written before 1985. I borrowed it from a library in Australia in the early 1980’s.
Three? children are gifted (by a scientist /older man?) magical thinking caps, which increase their capacity to imagine. They use these hats to create/connect to and explore a magical world. I remember the antagonist wanting these hats so that they can free themselves and enter the other world. The children are careful to only go to the land together for safety. The antagonist has an agent that can move in between the worlds, a Slinky/Shadow/Sneaky Cat. This cat convinces the girl to come back alone with him to it’s yarn house. The other two? children go on a rescue mission with the scientist? who has his own hat, but because he is an adult is not able to use is as well as the children.
I read this book with my elementary school class around the time when we transitioned off of picture books to shorter novels, so I would expect this book to either be the latter, or one of those children’s novels with some pictures. It would have been published no later that 1998.
I appreciate any and all help! I will mail a check to you all tomorrow.
Here’s what I can tell you about the book: It was published in or before 1988; which was when I read it in paperback. It was intended for young adults or children. The story is about a girl who either moves in with a farmer/shepherd and his family or she goes to live with them for an extended period of time (possibly a summer). I think it may be her cousin and his family. While there she gets into a great deal of mischief. She climbs into the rafters inside the house and is afraid to get down. She tastes fresh milk for the first time while it’s still warm. She learns to ride a horse and won’t get off when they tell her she should and then she’s so sore that she can neither sit nor stand comfortably. There is some sort of celebration she’s to attend – she goes into her room to see lots of colorful skirts laid out for her. She wonders which one she should wear and is told to wear all of the skirts.
I genuinely appreciate any help you can give me. My mother and I read this book together and laughed until we cried over parts of this story. I’d love to find it again.