A boy, Jeffie or Jiffie, goes to or has a party. He dresses u as a rooster or a bird. There is a picture of him in the book in the costume. It was picked up as a used children’s book in the 70’s
A funny children’s book I read in early/mid ’80s where the three monsters were in a castle (Dracula’s??) with an elderly lady, seems like it was somebody’s Grandma. Part of the story was the Grandma trying to cure the werewolf. He would recite the seas on the moon so not to change.
I read this book in the eighties but am not sure of the publication date. A girl must save her baby brother who has been taken by some kind of moon-witch and turned into a silver fish. If she doesn’t save him before the next full moon, he can never be changed back. She has to make a potion which includes an icicle from the moon witches’ cave (and maybe some tears?). I think she gets help from some animals, possibly a fox.
….And I found it in my high school library. It was newly released I think, so it must be six years old or so? Give or take a year or two on either side
It was this incredibly, indescribably creepy story about a young (pre-pubescent) girl living in a nightmare-version of government sponsored housing, a huge tower with individual apartments. If I’m remembering right, nobody was allowed to leave. The entire story took place indoors, and all of the characters, except a new resident and maybe the protagonist were horrifying, terrible people. The protagonists was the only kid mentioned, she didn’t have any parents or guardians, and survived by trading items/favors/information with the other residence.
There was a murder, and she was looking into it, I believe. There was a sub-plot about cannibalism in there somewhere, and the big climax of the book was this man (who the protagonist knew and did business with) carving a possibly Japanese-inspired design into her chest with knives and saltwater. Prior to that, he’d seemed like one of the nicer/saner characters.
At the very end, there’s a scene with the protagonist showing the new resident (she was a social worker if I remember right) how the business of trading worked in the tower and the new resident gave the protagonist jelly beans.
I think the protagonist’s name was Jem. But don’t quote me on that.
It was the most disturbing thing I’d ever read at that point in my life, and I’ve never been able to find it again.
This was probably a scholastic book c.1978 or so. I recall it was orange, hardcover. Full of stories about science and maybe history. One story was about a cowboy who got shot in the belly and the doctor who cared for him dipped food into the open wound to observe digestion. Other stories like this
Thin paperback book about a boy and his friend (a girl) who meet a woman in their community who is very mysterious. When her hair floats, magic is happening. Her name may have started with an M. She helps the boy who we find at the end had some family tragedy that he was blocking out. The woman helps him fly. She shows up when he needs her but sometimes he can’t find her.
Cover may have had a picture of the woman with her floating hair. It was probably published in the 60’s or 70’s and it might have been British.
children’s chapter book, 1946-1955. Young Japanese girl receives choc. bar from Am. soldier. Gives to father and grandfather to eat, keeps only the wrapping to smell. Mother almost dies traveling to find rice to feed her family. The occupation from the Japanse child’s perspective..
Two brothers, a sister. Picnic basket. Transported to another land. Oldest brother uses fork to fight, next brother uses spoon to paddle boat, sister transformed into cat, uses knife against spiders. Each fulfills quest, awakens sleeping army. Prior to 1980 best guess.
From early 1970’s when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. A futuristic classroom where each child had a computer terminal. Another child was attending class remotely who wore a helmet that was pointy on one end and all you could see were his eyes. Remember the book read on TV show too.
A stranger comes to a small town and he has a large hump on his back. The villagers are curious and ask him about it. He tells them the hump is a view of all the sins he has committed throughout his life. Some of the villagers don’t believe him and ask to see their own humps. He grants their request and they end up with humps of various sizes. They then want the humps removed but the stranger can’t do that and advises them to go on a journey to ……. somewhere I can’t remember which I think is the title of the book. The main characters are two children who have to go on this journey with other hump-backed villagers who gradually drop out along the way.
I vaguely remember reading this book in the 1970’s. It might have had a tree design on the front cover.