I’m a reference librarian who is answering a patron’s request to find a book about a young boy who is caught stealing ten cents and that is all I know about it.

The books would have been out by the early 80’s, the patron read it in 1983.

Thanks for your help.

I’m looking for a book I read while in elementary school in Canada between 1972-1978.

It was a book about pilots (2?) who are trapped in the Florida keys (or Caribbean?) with a big storm (hurricane?) coming and who decide to escape flying a damaged airplane (DC3?) with limited elevator control. They have to fly using trim mostly. If it was in high school this would have been from 1978 – 1983.  Really hope to find this again for my son to read.

Illustrated book about a father and son mouse (might be a different animal, might be grandfather mouse) looking for a home in the woods. I think they try a bunch of different homes and find them occupied. As they visit each home, the residents give them something to take with them. In the end, they put those gifts in their home. In one scene, they visit a bird’s nest with a gold roof full of shiny things, and the birds give them gold beads. In another they visit dragonflies? playing tennis using nets strung between blades of grass, or possibly hammocks strung between blades of grass. They visit a lizard family and the mother is making sandwiches using fly/gnat jam on bread. The lizards have long fingers. They get marshmallows from one house, and in the final scene they roast them over their stove in their new home.

The little boy mouse has a bedroom up high that he reaches using a ladder. I must have read it in the early 2000s, and the book I read was a fairly large, maybe half inch thick book with soft covers. It seemed fairly new, not a vintage book. I know it isn’t Brambly Hedge. The illustrations were more whimsical than realistic, and the animals wore clothes. The illustrations vaguely remind me of those in Need A House, Call Ms. Mouse, but only slightly.

I have been trying to find this one for my Mom for years.

I am sorry to say I have no title or author or publishers to help out. You can see how tough that makes it.

Here is what I know and what she recalls.

She bought it as a paperback in the mid to late 80s

She thinks she remembers it was set in either the great depression or late 40s-ish, I am not sure about if that is exact because the character in the story is very poor and lives in the mid west or mid south west.

A woman lives on a run down section or property, maybe a farm.  It is surrounded by junk,  junk cars and trucks etc.  She is afraid of the dark and always has to leave a light on.  She lives there with her son and one day a strange man shows up and he helps clean up her land, gets an old vehicle or tractor running and hooks up the electric power for her. My Mom says she thinks she vaguely recalls the man may have been an escaped prisoner or on the run from the law or from something or some reason.

She read the book long ago and loved it, but the years do what the years do and she has long lost it in moving and life in general.  Being in her late 60s doesn’t help the memory much either I’m afraid.

If you could help It would be amazing

A book about a baby that runs away to the moon. The book cover was of a baby angel sitting on the moon (maybe with a red polka dot hobo sack) I don’t remember much about the book but it maybe came out in the early 90s. I would check it out in elementary so I would say that was 1997-2003. He had black hair and a halo and he was sad and packed a sack and ran away to the moon.