Author: mondomolly

I’m looking for a pre-teen book with a maroon cover. I believe it was a mystery. The main character (Deena or Dana) definitely lost her snow boots – I’m pretty sure it was written in the 80’s or 90’s

I know this is very vague, but it’s driving me bonkers! I’m looking for a book I read as a kid in the 90s. I don’t remember too much about it, but I know at the time it affected me quite a bit (probably because I related to her). I remember it was a hardback cover…grey in color. I want to say “me” was part of the title. It was a female protagonist who didn’t like herself very much and struggled with relationships. I’m thinking she was overweight or plain and didn’t like the way she looked. She lived in the city.Suggestions: Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! By ME Kerr, Me and Fat Glenda by Lila Perl

A portal fantasy (late 90s, but more likely 00s. Before 2010.), set in either the UK or USA, with a teenage (high school aged) male. His mother has been missing for years, there’s a portal in the forest (a fallen tree trunk) that only opens every decade(?), and he meets a student or substitute teacher (young and female) who is somehow aware of the portal/other world. They train together in sword-fighting/fencing, in preparation to enter the barbarian world on the other end of the portal to rescue the missing mother. They are immediately enslaved and separated, forced to do manual labour (clay pots feature?), and then there is a rescue by another group of warriors. There is a battle with wooden(?) airships (steampunk/Zeppelin/pirate ship-like?), and monolithic God(s). The main character is returned to his own spacetime but love interest (the young teacher) is trapped or left behind somehow (and we don’t recall what happens with the mother). THANK YOU for ANY suggestions – we are utterly stumped with this. Suggestion: The Beginning Place by Ursula K. LeGuin
Solved: “Flight of the Mariner” by Paul Ware

I’m looking for a book. Not sure when it took place but it’s old, 40’s or even earlier probably. The only thing I remember were girls walking to a dance and they had their dancing shoes in carrying bags. Thanks! Suggstions: one of the later Besty-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace,  Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery. 

 I read a book about 6 years ago that i’ve been looking for this whole time. It’s about this girl who stays in a beach house on the east coast, she gets taken back in time and meets this boy who she falls in love with. I wanna say early 1900s and his family knows something and is trying to sabotage her. I love this book but I haven’t been able to find it for a long time, it’s kinda deep and sad because she goes back in time and never sees him again.

I was wondering if you can help me find a book based on very scant info that I remember.  I am pretty sure this was an 80s book and a girl was upset and listening to a Joni Mitchell record while she cried.  I think her friend’s dad was a perv and she was upset by that.  I also think here friend was a very pretty brunette described in the book also, but can’t remember for sure.

I’ve hunted high and low with no luck, so hopefully one of your readers remembers this one! Suggestion: Troy Nesbit’s Wilderness Mysteries series 

 I’m looking for a young adult fiction book that was owned by my father (born in the mid-1950s), and read by me decades later about a boy and girl visiting or exploring somewhere in the Southwest United States.
They find something secret out in the hills (a mine, a cave, or some other secret) and try to learn more about the man trying to keep it secret. He is the antagonist and an adult whose love of canned Del Monte peaches is mentioned on more than one occasion along with describing a heap of empty peach can in the corner of the cave.
Another odd recollection is that the antagonist (the man) had a big Winchester rifle in one of the old (now obsolete) Winchester buffalo hunting calibers like 45-90, 50-90 or 50-110.

I am trying to remember the name of a book I read in the 80s. It was written for teenagers and was about a group of delinquent teenagers (Possibly all boys) I’m sure it was called something like the untouchables (buy not the untouchables). It had a light brown/yellow cover with dark brown writing (I think).sorry this is so vague.  Please can you help Suggestion: The Outsiders by SE Hinton 

 I’m looking for a book that I read in the mid-1970’s and, as memory serves, the description of the characters indicates the book was written in the early to mid-1970’s.

A teenage brother and sister are orphaned. The remaining grandparents divide the sister and brother. The brother goes to live with their grandfather (not sure if maternal or paternal but was not the spouse of the grandmother). The grandfather lives in a rural area and the boy loves living with him. They do lots of “outdoorsy” stuff. The girl goes to live with her grandmother (also not sure if maternal or paternal, but definitely was not the spouse of the grandfather) who likes a more cosmopolitan setting, seemed cranky and had to keep to a strict budget to live her cosmopolitan life. The grandmother took the granddaughter to stay at a hotel in, possibly, Switzerland each year – very formal setting. The grandmother complained that her granddaughter was costing her money. I believe the girl had a relationship with a boy at some point. The brother and sister stayed in touch, but barely. I don’t remember the ending.