kids fiction book from the 1950s about a girl who has a chemistry lab and teaches her friends about atoms, electrons, etc and the periodic table by building up from hydrogen and going through element by element, chapter by chapter in the book. i reread this book many times when i was about 12.
I’m looking for a book that was probably from the mid to late-1970s. It was about a high school girl, and I believe she was schizophrenic. There was a pond involved, and at one point she had her face down in the pond and was only saved when her older brother’s friend saw her and intervened. It was probably a Scholastic Books offering.
Children’s anthology published at least 50 years ago, definitely containing Thurber’s “Many Moons,” a story about Leiningen and the ants, a story about Pompeii, and many many more. I’d like to see what else is in it; those are the three I remember.
I recall a blacksmith character, a black lady in traditional african clothes, a cat on a windowsill watching the sleigh, a distinctive lipstick kiss mark left by a reindeer. Fantastic illustrations and lots of humour.
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This is actually a short story, from a collection of fantasy/SF stories probably published in the early-mid 1980s, possibly a little later.
It’s about a woman who rescues a fairy from her cat. The fairy casts a spell that, at the next full moon, turns her into a mountain lion. She escapes from her house, leaving blood on the shredded sheets, into the country, where she learns to hunt for food and encounters a male mountain lion (and a zookeeper) at a zoo. Meanwhile, stories of her disappearance center around an animal attack. After another cycle of the moon, she turns back into a woman.
I believe I read this book in the sixth grade (which would have been late 1970s). I got it from the school library. I would guess it was written prior to the late 1970s because we never had any new books at the school library. In the book, the boy meets a man who teaches him about different kinds of codes and how to break them. It included info about how people used to wrap paper around a cylinder and then write messages on the spiraled paper (so the reader would need a cylinder of the same radius to read the message correctly). It also had a tic-tac-toe type code (Different squares of the tic tac toe shape would represent different letters so an A would look like a backwards L and a B would look like a U). It also talked about E, T, A, and O being the most common letters (in English) so when you are trying to decode a message, the more commonly used symbols probably stand for one of those letters.
A kid/teenager’s book about three kids that are on a spaceship school bus that is taking them home (the last three kids furthest away from school) who mess with the autopilot and end up loosing control of the spaceship. It ends up at another planet altogether where there are people dressed in fur.
It might have been published in the 80s. It had images for each chapter.
I read the book in elementary school, it was in the beginning of the fiction section, so i assume the name of the author came mid to early in the alphabet. It was about a kid whose bike is possessed by a horse or that they think it is? the cover has a large black horse rearing up on what i think was a leafy bg or a canopy of trees… i believe the bicycle was also on the cover?
It is an old west book and all i can remember is in the end, the wagons are circled and the main character hides beneath a wagon or something and when an indian crawls under to kill him, he sees who the main character is and basically wont kill him because the kid somehow impressed the native americans sometime in the book by killing a buffalo i believe? i am inclined to think it is a buffalo bill book – but i cannot seem to find the book itself. it was read to my class in fifth grade and we read it again in sixth, if that helps at all.
I am looking for a favorite children’s book. Here is all I remember about it:
1) I think it was a Reader’s Digest anthology, but since I have not been able to find it, perhaps it was another common name from the time that sponsored the collection.
2) I believe the cover was blue–but I could be completely wrong about that.
3) I am quite sure that it was at least 9×12, possibly 10×14. It was large enough that I recall the depth of the book (spine width) being only an inch and looking thin in comparison with the rest of the book.
4) I read it between the ages of 6-12 (1960-1966).
5) The stories had enough words that they were either directed toward young adult readers (high school) or junior high.
6) My most compelling memories are of two stories in the anthology:
The first was about a family crossing the desert in the American southwest. Their car broke down and they had to survive by collecting condensation on parts of their car, which they dismantled. They also created signage so that a plane could see them.
The other story was about a pony or colt with a broken leg. The family suspended the colt in a hammock while its leg healed. The vet had told them it would never work, but it did.