113A: American woman seeking actor father in England—Christian book?

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 I think this book is from a Christian publisher, and the main characters do share struggles in Christian belief.

The lead female character is an American, in her mid-20s I think. She has come to England to find her father

The lead female character is an American, in her mid-20s I think. She has come to England to find her father. Her mother was a travelling American actress, who had an affair with an English actor, and is now dead. She has some infomation but (IIRC) not a name.

She winds up in this town on the night of a local Christmas play, and winds up meeting several of the performers/stagehands. One is the son of a famous actor, his wife, etc. The actor had died a year or two earlier, but was highly respected throughout the country, and known internationally. She winds up staying with this family during a snowstorm, and discovers ties to her own past. The main character also meets a friend of this family and a relationship begins to develop. There is a second book where the relationship with both the family and the friend of the family develops, and the actor’s wife has to come to terms with her anger of his new child showing up.

I’m interested in finding both books.

112J: Bees thwart Bad Man

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An older woman and her three daughters live on a rural, isolated  farm. Maybe Italy? One day a bad man dressed in black arrives and hides in the basement. I think he is stealing their honey. One by one the daughters go down and try to get rid of him, but he captures them all. Finally, the older woman sends the bees down to sting him and he runs away. 1982-1990 approximately

112H: a boy and girl held captive in a dark forest/cave

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In our small-town library, sometime between 1956 and 1959, I becamse fascinated by a large-format story book with darkly forbidding (Gothic!!) illustrations (maybe engravings, or duo-tone illustrations). I believe the story was about a girl and boy (sister and brother?) who were either lost or held captive by ___?? in a forest or a cave or some outlandish place. They were obliged (I think) to do manual labor of some kind — carrying something (ore?) or digging for something. I recall that it was a book my grandmother would not let me take out of the library on her card! I was only a beginning (but precocious) reader at the time (age 7, approximately), so cannot recall the title or the names of the characters, etc. But the words “forbidden” “hidden” “forest” “treasure” “lost” all seem likely terms to be associated with this book. I would LOVE to find it, read it, and solve this mystery before I die!!!

112F: Children’s Outdoor How-To Book

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Children’s Outdoor How-To Book

I remember a book about a boy (possibly with his brother) and a group of friends who built all sorts of outdoor things to defend their farm & woods against a rival group of neighborhood kids.  The book alternated between the story and very detailed instructions & plans how to build the items.  

The few items I remember they built were a tree platform, a sailboat & slingshots (I think). 

The ending culminated with an apple-throwing battle and boy and his friends being victorious from all the items they had built.  

Book was paperback with black and white illustrations.  It was a rather large book and I the copy I had (lost to time) was in the mid-to-late 70’s

112C: Time Traveling Door

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The protagonist is a girl who finds a key. The key unlocks some sort of door that allows her to time travel. She uses this door to meet important historical figures, one of which being Henry the 8th.

I know it isn’t much to go by, but I have a possible lead on a book titled “Henry the Eighth’s Hat”.

112B: Girl Befriends Boy Who Is Ultimately Murdered

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I must have read this book when I was in 3rd-5th grade, so it would have to be published prior to 1980. Parts of the plot I can recall is a young girl goes away from home, I think she goes to the south or was from the south, and she was probably 10-12 years old, meets a boy that is a little older than she is, and she befriends him, but he ultimately gets killed by some mean boys who drag him to his death with a car I believe. I think it takes place over the summer, because I don’t recall any school parts.