A teen boy/girl is taken from home by the government and put on a spaceship. There is only a snarky robot and a caged feral girl (maybe an alien?) onboard. They try to escape via bedsheet rope. The cover is them climbing down the rope. Publish range of 1950–2000. NOT “Have Spacesuit, Will Travel.”
This was a book for young children, maybe no text, all photos, not drawings. 1946-1955. Two Japanese children walking in the woods, by streams, gardens. The book was bigger than a Golden Book, maybe 10×10 inches.
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..
I do not know the author or publisher … I would have read this book in the late 70’s or early 80’s .. it may have been a Scholastic book. The book was about an insect (maybe a bug or spider) finding lost or discarded items like a button, thread, cup and using them to build a house please help!
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I’m looking for a YA sci fi book, maybe from the 70s or 80s, about a girl who lives in an orphanage/juvy work camp type place. She has the ability to move thru (time/space/another dimension?). There is a scary, mysterious maintenance man that works at the orphanage who turns out to be a boy shares her same ability, but tried it with his pet dog and somehow they merged beings. She befriends him and tries to help him and ultimately is able to un-merge them, and they have an romantic attraction. There is also an old lady that lives in a mansion near the orphanage who all the orphans go to meet. In the end it turns out the old lady is actually the girl’s grandmother who has been looking for her for years.
I am looking for a 7th grade level book, published before 1987. The story is about a boy who discovers he has a gift to read minds. He confides in his sister about this gift as they were laying in a field, and uses his gift to help his family escape a dangerous man stalking them at their house.
If you would like more detail about the scenes of this book, happy to go into more detail.
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.
Trying to find a book that was hardcover, given to me in the late 1960’s, when I was about 8 years of age, about a little girl called Mary who looked after her baby brother, Luke, for the day. Beautifully illustrated.
Sorry, can’t remember the title or the author’s name.
The cover was hard back, the picture was a night scene of a doe and fawn watching a cabin in the forest. I think the story was about how the family in the cabin helped the deer survive the winter…
“There’s one book I’ve been searching for the title of for YEARS. I can only remember the illustrations in my head. It’s set in a garden–two girls leave their mom and go into the woods. They have long hair, no shoes, dresses. I feel like the book was a religious undertone of god and angels. The girls found another house in the woods–an old man gave them food and shelter. He had a German Shepherd. I feel like, if memory serves me right, the man was hinted to being God in plain human form. When the girls went back to their mom, she was very old–and they were still young. The book was more full page layout illustrations than wordy. Does anyone have any idea what I’m speaking of?? Id be EVER so grateful to have this mystery solved. Librarians and Google Searches have been left scratching their heads.”
I wanna guess the book was created in the late 80s or 90s–leaning towards 90s, but I really don’t know. Hope you can help!! 🙂