This was a book out in the early 1950’s. It might have been a golden book, but I could not find it in their listing. The first line was “This is the house of Mrs. Mouse and these are her children three.” It was book for young children; it had illustrations. I don’t remember anything else, but that first line has stayed in mind all these years.
A 1980s/early 90s? picture book about demanding little girl who wants her parents to cut her toast in the shape of a hat.
Blue greenish background, with ground at the bottom, plants growing up. A figure/person just right of the center, facing right. Title at the top, red lettering(maybe with some vine like font)
Two lead characters, both boys, roughly the same age go from their world to a fantasy realm through some sort of door where they have the option of becoming a warrior type, magician/wizard type, and third on I can’t remember. One boy chooses a Warrior class the other is Wizard/Magician, can’t remember the specific name. The end goal is to get to a crystal city of sorts. There they fight a shadow version of themselves. Warrior boy is Asian(has Asian sounding name just can’t remember it), lives in the slums. Other kid is white, rough home life, if I’m remembering correctly. I remember at the beginning, one if the first person the Warrior boy(Asian name) comes across is an old man who lives in 12 different huts. Each hut being a different emotion. When he goes to another hut, he is the most extreme version of that emotion. I think it only talked about happiness, anger, and sadness.
This will probably be too little to go on, but I’ve been racking my brain for a year trying to remember a book I read when I was in middle school. It was YA and from the late 60s or 70s. It may have been a bit more of a pulp paperback than YA, but it was definitely geared towards young readers. It had an urban setting and there was a racial understanding component to the plot. I think the protagonist was white and he ended up befriending an African-American classmate. Almost anything else I try to remember about the plot (was there gang tensions? were they accused of a crime and had to hide out?) then convince me I’m remembering a different YA novel I read around the same time. The one thing I do seem to remember is totally pointless and trivial, but the main character sees the girl he likes in a corner store and causes her to lose her balance by knocking her in the back of the knees. I know it’s not much to go on, but I’m open to suggestions and guesses. Thanks!
Not a kids book I don’t think-
A fantasy/SF paperback maybe from the 80s? About a woman who gets dumped off on a semi primitive planet by her hosts. I’m remembering something like it was a traveling party ship? And she gets dumped in some small seaside town? She makes her way to the big city and attempts to earn money to support herself/get off planet by telling fortunes in the town market but is brought up short and taken up by the powerful magician of the town who sees that she has no magic and is faking the fortune telling. Very bad in a place where magic is real.
He is a sarcastic and very self satisfied type.
His brother challenges him for primacy in the family -a magicians duel – that is short circuited by her non magical interference. The brother loses. The jerk/ magician acts like himself some more.
So….
Our heroine (in some sort of snit with the magician) somehow gets on a ship leaving the planet only to find herself stuck with the magician who leaves on the same ship ( in a very self satisfied and sarcastic way, of course) to talk her back.
I taught a science fiction class in the 1970s. The story is in a collection printed by Scholastic books. A guy is allergic to gum that everyone chews to get high on.
The short story is in a collection put out by Scholastic books. The writer gets stuck in traffic for three days and goes back-and-forth to his apartment. The book was published in the 1970s.
I think the title was “Ghosts” or at least had that word in the title. I read it in the late 70s from my junior high school library.
The story was about a brother & sister who managed to travel back in time to know the children who lived in the same house. (I think they turned out to be related.) Their Uncle was involved, and he explained time travel as some sort of wheel within a wheel (I never grasped the concept). The selfish immature girl who lived in the house couldn’t see them, but could hear them when they spoke. When she proudly modeled a new dress and asked her mother for an opinion, she only heard the voice of one of the children say “I think she looks like a stuffed sausage!” When they accidentally broke a vase, I believe it altered their time, and disappeared.
It was made into a movie at some point, because I found it on TV once, but I believe it had a different name.
I wish I knew more, but it is all I can remember. I’d love to read it again and share it with my children.
Thanks so much for trying to help!
These were several books by the same author, but not a series. My 7th grade school librarian introduced me to the author. This would have been around 1985-86. The books all dealt with old, haunted houses in New England. One had a creepy basement with a dirt floor, and bodies buried under it. Another had a person look out a third story window to see a face looking back, and knew it was a ghost. These books felt very grown up to me at the time, but were definitely Young Adult. They were eerie and moody, but not Stephen King scary. It was a woman author, and the covers usually had an old house in silhouette. I’d love to revisit this author, as I read all of the books in our school library over and over. Some faint memory says the authors name might have been Barbara something……
Series or collection of books about boys who would sail on boats from 1700s or 1800s. The boys were lower level people on boats. Remember one part told about learning to use stars to navigate by. Several books think by same author. Targeted junior high or high school readers. Read them in 1970’s. Loved them. Would love to read again.
Thanks.