Author: mondomolly

Trying to remember the title of a children’s book set in Scottish Highlands (west coast). Time shift from C20th to an early time, probably post-Pictish – I think there was a reference to Pictish law as being from the old times; that law (mentioned early in the book) related to the right of anyone to fish & hunt for food they needed. Brochs featured as dwelling places. The time shifting started intermittently, and then the protagonists were permanently in the past. I’m fairly sure that after the resolution there was a return to their original C20th setting. 2 protagonists, 1 boy, 1 girl. Target readership probably pre or early teen. I’d have read it in the mid-late 1960s. My copy was hardback, I’m sure. The author… can’t recall; likely female. My memory suggested a surname like Reece or Treece/Trease but I’ve searched synopses of their books & not recognised it.

Looking for a book I read early 1990’s… As I recall, it was a paperback novel, in the Christian fiction genre. The setting seemed to be a suburb at the edge of a town in the American Midwest(?). Seems like a son or daughter of this Christian family encountered and befriended a creature in the wild, and didn’t know for sure how to categorize or react to this creature. It was some sort of Bigfoot or Sasquatch specimen.  Others in the town wanted to kill it/he/she(?) out of fear or superstition. As I sort of remember, it seemed the dad interviewed some theologians and came up with a good case to evangelize and baptize the creature.

This was a book that I was reading as a child, in 1967 in England.  Just one thing to go on (I don’t recall anything else about the book!).  The (main?) child character had a cat called Shadow.  I know this, because I got a cat later that year on my 8th birthday, and called him Shadow. As I say, only one short clue to go on.  Sorry. It would be good to know the name and author of this book.

I would like your help in finding a book I read a while back. Things I remember about the novel:

1) The book was set in a previously all boys high school that now accepts girls.
2) The girl lead’s mother had severe depression and could not get out of bed.
3) I think the girl also had a younger sibling.
4) Later, the girl run away from home but was later found ( by the male lead I think).
5) The male lead was described as having unique eyebrows; they were bushy and I think they were almost connected (I’m not sure).
6) The male lead was a class/student representative.
7) It was a YA novel.

I’ve been searching for a book I read aged about 8 in 1990 it’s a bit younger that YA. There is a young boy called Joe. Joe helps his family who own an italian restaurant. He has an aunt Maria.  He meets an old lady who lives inside an old broken traditional carousel. The old lady dies and the family end up making the carousel part of the restaurant. Absolutely no idea what it’s called or who wrote it but how want to share with my own 7 year old

The book is a series i believe and it involves a whistle of some kind, there’s also sand involved? I feel like there might be sand and whistle in the title even. It’s magical I believe, happening either in the desert or in a made up place – I vaguely remember a scene of MC getting to a town/village square and having to climb somewhere to blow the whistle? That could be very wrong and I misremembered it.  It involves fighting and such, probably YA considering it was in our school’s library. It’s definitely a series and the books have different titles, this is just the one i remember mostly. 

I’ve been trying to find this one for so long I’m starting to think I made it up. I read it in school and have even reached out to friends who were in my class to try to figure it out, but no one remembers it. Here’s what I remember… The cover: In my memory the paperback cover had a light yellow background with black or grey silhouette-type images of a fence, a person, maybe a dog, and some kind of tree (dogwood? Willow? I thought the type of tree was part of the title, like “under the something tree,“ but years of Googles and library searches makes me think probably no).  The story: The protagonist was a boy. He and his mom (who was a murderer? or mentally ill?) lived at a farm-like-institution. I think his mom wasn’t always there, or she was put in solitary or something.  He helped out the lady in charge with the other residents (possibly all adult women) of the farmstitution. One of the residents closest to his age he killed accidentally or almost killed while playing and splashing because she didn’t have a nose or ears, just slits. Either way she got super sick afterward with pneumonia or something and he felt guilty and was sad he had no one to play with. 

I read a short story about the end of the world, I’m sure it started with “nobody really remembered the exact date it started raining. Everyone knew that whenever that day was, it hadn’t stopped”. It then goes on to describe one guys’ attempt to drive his family to the top of a mountain while the world continues to flood.

i’ve been trying to find this book since i remembered it like 5 years ago. i remember them being in highschool. typical girl with grey eyes, mouse brown hair thinks she’s too plain and boring. she somehow gets with the bad boy and they have a whirlwind probably toxic relationship. i remember it being a series where he dies at some point (i think saving her)?? not sure. i remember reading at the back under the author bio that it was loosely based on her life and something like the guy dying saving her had happened to her. i think the second book had a cover that had both of them together maybe, i know for certain it was autumnal, very orange like set in a park during autumn.