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.
Science fiction book where most young people make “coming of age” trips to various planets. A young woman delays making her trip to different worlds but finally does when all of her friends have already left. Book wasn’t risque, but her parents bought her a “sex magnifier” as a graduation gift.
Young adult book published from 1950 to mid 70’s; there are sisters and I think one of the sisters is named Regina and quinine is used in the book as a treatment or prevention of something. It may have taken place on an island but that part I’m not sure about.
I am trying to find a book I started to read in middle school, but it is hard for me to remember all of the details because I didn’t finish reading it. It was a novel, I think from the 70s, with a strong environmentalist message, “save the trees” etc. It was about high school students (?), and had intermittent poems throughout the text, including one that went something like “acid rain, like a single tear drop, rolls down the flower”.
It appeared old and worn to me when I was in middle school in 1998, a small hardcover book with blue binding. I think the latest date of publication would be 1980, as it was about environmentalism and the messages were similar to the messages of the 1970s. Sorry I don’t have more details, but let me know if this jogs anyone’s memory.
Thank you!
The book I’m looking for is an English, children’s mystery novel set in an big rambling house, attached to a village bookshop. The main character is a boy whose family has moved there because an aged relative has recently died and left the house and the business to the boy’s father. Either the father, or the boy, is called Kit. The boy has at least one sibling. It was the first book that I’d ever read that mentioned Evensong (what? – my family is Australian and Methodist!). The house is quite close to the village green.
Anyway, the central mystery is that when the family arrives at the house/shop in the new village (I think they’ve come from London), all of the books that should be in stock in the shop – as well as all the books from the house’s library – are missing. Eventually, the boy (with other children, maybe?) discovers a hidden or secret room, with overgrown vegetation hiding the outside windows and a papered-over doorway in the front hall. Obviously, this hidden room contains all the missing books. It’s possible that A Clockwork Orange is mentioned amongst the recovered books.
I read it when I was about eleven (in the early eighties), and the copy I had was a small, second-hand, hardcover edition, with the edges of the pages stained red (I don’t remember the cover’s colour or whether it had a dust-jacket). My father was in the army, so every time we moved, mum would make me rationalize my book collection – this novel was one of the sacrifices! I would love to know a title and author, as it’s been bugging me, since I tried to describe it to a friend, over a week ago.
Set in California. There’s a character who has an imaginary parrot, and winds up overdosing on heroin. Plot involves surfing, bad parenting, drugs. First-person narrative.
I have been trying to find this book on and off for years.
Wish I could remember more of the plot, but oh well.
this is a young adult novel in which two children enter a world based on heraldry. An important unicorn is missing. There are two pages “Vaire” and “Ermine.” It would be published before 1975. Thanks!
Hi. I had a teen paperback book sometime in the 1970s about a teenage girl traveling by train. Unhappy with her destination, she switches suitcases with a girl she meets on the train and goes to NYC with the other girl’s suitcase, which contains art supplies, and works to become an artist. Thanks!
I was very happy to find your website. I am currently stumped by a book I read as a child (lets say, during the 70s). Generally speaking, the plot is that a group of kids/teenagers take over an island in between Canada and US and create a nation. The book opens (I think …) with the sister arguing with her brother who is in a band (I think …) and she has red hair (I think … ). I believe (I think …) the ending does not work out that well for the newly formed nation / the kids, and that there is some “father knows best” sentiment, ultimately. In any case the bit I am most confident about is the nation / island / US-Canada waters.
Thank you for any help!
This could easily be post-1990, but not post-2006. It’s a thin hardcover – maybe no more than 60 pages – presumably meant for school libraries. One striking anecdote I remember was about how racism doesn’t have to be taught through words. In it, a white Southern woman, probably born in the 1950s, told how her mother was an impeccable lady and also “quite a racist.” However, the mother never said an unkind word about any person based on that person’s skin color, because “she was too much of a lady for that.” Even so, every time the mother and her daughter went shopping and had to talk to a black cashier or sales employee, the mother used a tone of voice as if she were talking to a silly preschooler. So, wrote the daughter, (not verbatim) “she passed on her racist views to me without a single word being exchanged between us on the subject!”