I am looking for a middle reader or young adult book published late 1980s to early 90s. It involved (I believe) a boy who had these sugar cube type things (or possibly seeds) that when he ate them gave him magic or granted a wish that he spoke.
Mystery of the Hidden Brooch was a book I read in elementary school in early to mid 70’s. It was a mystery about a missing brooch. There was an old house with a brick wall or chimney upstairs, possibly covered by wallpaper. One of the bricks was a drawer, where I believe the brooch was found. The mystery was solved by a young girl, possibly other children also. I could be confusing a couple of books.
A hardback children’s book, published in the 1970s, about weather forecasting. The cover is light purple and on the inside of front and back cover are weather symbols. It is for kids around age 9. It was in our school library when I was in 4th grade in 1977.
I’m looking for a book that I read as a young boy but whose name now eludes me. I have no recollection of the title but can provide some detail regarding the story and the cover art (at least the version I had).
The story is about a young boy who moves with his family (father and mother) from a city to a country farm/ranch, despite his initial misgivings. One of the first thing he experiences is a hunt for a mountain lion which has been killing livestock in the area. He sees a mother mountain lion killed and then two cubs thrown to a pack of dogs. Later, he finds a female, runt cub in the mountain lions’ cave (she was too weak to come out and, therefore, escaped notice). He takes her home and secretly raises her. I am fairly certain that he calls her “Beauty” but I am not 100% certain. The book continues with the boy raising the cub to young adulthood, including teaching her how to hunt. Near the end of the book, the father is injured and the mother is somehow incapacitated so the boy (and his secret mountain lion companion) have to walk several miles to town to get a doctor/medicine. Finally, the boy needs to release the mountain lion back into the wild. The book ends with their separation.
I believe the book was published by Scholastic Reader and would have been published sometime in the 1970’s (I think). The cover has artwork that shows the young boy crouching up on a rock to feed or pet the mountain lion who is standing on the top of the rock.
I had a book when I was younger (pre-2000, book may be older, possibly published in the early 80s) that had a hard cover and housed a collection of children’s poems. All were by different authors and all were illustrated.
I remember reading two books by the same author one summer when I was about 10 to 12 (I was born in 68.) I think there was a brother and a sister who may have been staying at an old house with a grandfather or uncle and they find some sort of magic item. There may have been a magic genie involved. Not sure. I do distinctly remember one scene from one of the books and the brother, I believe, is caught in a large bubble and travels either to another place (the desert maybe) or travels to another time. The other book by same author was similar but not sure if it contained the same characters. Seems like covers were similar but with slight variations. May have had a house on the front.
Children’s Outdoor How-To Book
I remember a book about a boy (possibly with his brother) and a group of friends who built all sorts of outdoor things to defend their farm & woods against a rival group of neighborhood kids. The book alternated between the story and very detailed instructions & plans how to build the items.
The few items I remember they built were a tree platform, a sailboat & slingshots (I think).
The ending culminated with an apple-throwing battle and boy and his friends being victorious from all the items they had built.
Book was paperback with black and white illustrations. It was a rather large book and I the copy I had (lost to time) was in the mid-to-late 70’s
During the pioneer days maybe? Only has a few “biscuits” with her. A couple chapters were read aloud in 1970 6th grade Catholic school.I never got to check the book out. Title might have girls name in it.
I must have read this book when I was in 3rd-5th grade, so it would have to be published prior to 1980. Parts of the plot I can recall is a young girl goes away from home, I think she goes to the south or was from the south, and she was probably 10-12 years old, meets a boy that is a little older than she is, and she befriends him, but he ultimately gets killed by some mean boys who drag him to his death with a car I believe. I think it takes place over the summer, because I don’t recall any school parts.
I read a paperback book from my junior high school library in 1989. It’s about a girl and her father meets a pretty woman who has a son or daughter too (can’t remember who moved into the area or how they meet). The youngsters become friends. The father falls in love with the woman, but the girl gets suspicious of her – she notices that the woman is a bit strange. She discovers photos of her looking exactly the same in past decades. She finds out the woman is a witch and does not age, the witch’s son or daughter doesn’t either. The witch had been dating, marrying, and killing the husbands after a few years because they see that the woman and kid stay young. The girl tries to prove to her father that he is in danger and tries to stop him from marrying her. I think the book is set in either the south or in New England, I remember fog and time playing a role in the story.