Author: mondomolly

I’m looking for a fiction book about girl falling in love in a logging town. I took it out from the library back when I was in middle school around 2009. The cover has an image of a forest fire on it I believe. It followed the coming of age of a female character who lived in a logging town. She ends up falling in love and moving in with a guy. At some point there’s a huge forest fire and they have to evacuate..maybe the male love interest has to be part of the fire fighting crew? Not completely sure. There’s a scene where she picks berries to make pies, there’s a scene where they walk through town together. It seemed old when I picked it up on 2009 and it was set maybe in the 80-90s? I can’t find it anywhere. I think it’s definitely out of print now and my library got rid of it from their catalogue lol. I think the main character had blonde hair. Ahh I’m trying to remember other details, I feel like there was something about her family or community not approving of her love interest.

This was a horror book with stories from multiple authors First story was about this girl who goes to a party , they have an accident while coming back, she gets buried Another story is about someone getting electrocuted by a radio in the bath Some story about a bog  Another story about someone dragging a man with her car when he gets a piece of clothing stuck in it and the man haunts her

I’m looking for a book I read in elementary school in the early 2000s (03-05). I was most likely in 2nd or 3rd grade but had a high reading  comprehension or whatever they call it to read YA fiction at that age.  The book was a thriller/horror book with black and yellow caution tape designs I believe, that discussed a school shooting and kids surviving it. I feel crazy talking and describing this because all my friends always point towards the One Tree Hill school shooting episode and think I’m conflating the two…I swear in my mind I’m not but this is my last chance to stop feeling delusional. It was a great book from what I remember and one of the first eye openers I had with our sad realities.  

 I am a school librarian in the U.K. who read everything I could find when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s. I have never been able to   track these down.

1. A novel I read around age 10 which I borrowed from a family up the road in 1980ish. All I can remember is the main character was female and for some reason she goes to live on her own in a small cottage in or on the edge of a forest, possibly a meadow, there is a dad at some point.

2. I am sure this one is from slightly earlier and is set in a busy American city, possibly New York. It might have been a picture book and my memory is that the main character lives with many other children (siblings) in some kind of an apartment in which they have many floor to ceiling bunk-beds, possibly several beds high which are kind of built into the walls.

There are 3 books I’m trying to find. The 3rd one is the one I am most lost on. All of these would been read between 2000-2010.

1. Preteen-teenage girl falls in water on a whale watching boat ride. She becomes a whale. When the opportunity to become a human again arises, she doesn’t really want to.

2. Teenage maybe college age girl studies abroad. Not sure where probably Europe. She almost gets SA’d by the man ripping off the button of her jeans, and I think later she tosses that button in a fountain? Cover of the book looked like an envelope.

3. A girl and her family go on a beach vacation (maybe a whole summer, not sure) and there is also another family staying on the beach nearby. I think the other family has multiple boys. The girl likes one of the boys and I think they kiss at some point. There was some kind of significance pertaining to a pebble? Maybe a shell? Something like that.

I have been searching for this book for almost a decade now and have had no luck, and I stumbled upon your blog and thought I might email you to give it a shot.  It wasn’t very long, more of a novella I imagine, and it was about a cat. The main character was a girl or teenager who kept seeing this cat and either she would black out or she would watch the cat destroy and I think even attack people around her, and when she came to awareness the cat was gone and all of the damage was blamed on her. In one instance of this there was a dress that was destroyed. The cat was some representation of the devil or something and there was a scene I think near the end where the girl chased the cat into an alley. The cover was mostly red or at least prominently featured it, and I think the title maybe had the word cat in it or some direct reference to the animal, though I could be wrong. 

I would like to ask regarding two books I’ve read as a young teenager around 5-7 years ago. One is a fantasy novel. I hope i remember the details correctly But it’s A series in fact where a young pig farmer boy was sucked up in an adventure of a lifetime even though he doesn’t seem to care too much. And for some reason people think that the prophecy is about him when it’s not and he’s always desperate to find someone else the prophecy could be about. It’s a good take on a reluctant hero being reluctant throughout the entire series 🤣 and a scene I remember vividly is where he beats the main antagonist of the series using pigs. Or something haha I hope this isn’t too obscure or nonsensical! The other is more of a coming-of-age story about this teenager who doesn’t have much going for him besides bowling. Where the story mainly revolves around his growing up being demotivated in school and has familial issues but eventually wins a bowling trophy. 

theres a book ive spent ten years trying to find but i cant. i got this book when i was 11 and i took it to school the very next day because i was excited to read it and forgot it somewhere (because i never took novels or literature books from home to school normally) and i havent been able to find it since then. i never got to read it properly, i read the first chapter but i dont remember it. what i do remember is the title and cover: it was called champagne (or had champagne in the name) and the cover was a dim yellow with an animated girl with a round face, hair pulled back in a bun, she was wearing a fancy yellow dress as if in a hollwood party, her shoulders, arm and half her chest were bare, and she was probably holding a champagne flute.

they might both be the same book/series or set in the same universe, im not too sure, which is why i’m saying book/s anyway! these are both YA 1. they make magic candles by the sea (?) maybe? it’s a kid learning from someone older. they’re not human but are humanoid and are the main species on this planet. they don’t have technology. i remember them moulding the candles and making some to order and maybe making deliveries 🤔 they channeled magical energy into them 2. also humanoid and main species. it follows one kid i think but maybe more,, they’re in this town that’s surrounded by a hedge i think that they can’t get through bc it’s dangerous outside except there’s a gate thing that might have a monster in it or someone guarding it anyway. i think they’re assigned jobs? it was def a coming of age and escaping one! there were elders i think? at some point they definitely interacted w creatures that were dangerous last one that i don’t think is related 3. also YA,, oh my god i can’t remember anything except that it had a map 😭 i don’t think i’ll ever remember this one and it rly hurts my heart bc i want to know!!

I have had this book pop into my head many times in the last few years and could never find it! I was born in 1997, I think I read it in the mid- to late-2000s but don’t know when I would have been published. Believe it was in the genres of realistic fiction / youth or young adult / potentially historical fiction bc it was placed before a lot of medical advancement? I think it was also a series! A couple books? Plot…. What I think I remember…. Thief / lower class man fell through ceiling glass section of roof when fleeing from being chased. A doctor (?) ended up fixing all his injuries and paid him to be an example during his lectures of the techniques he used. Eventually after healing and making money, he becomes more middle/upper class. I think he continues to do crime but people don’t expect him bc he looks like he wouldn’t be a thief. I think that is the gist of the first book but there is a sequel or two beyond that. Cover: vaguely remember black and red, nothing else.