Author: mondomolly

How about a book about a dancer slave girl in maybe biblical times. She was well loved and recieved many gifts-loke about beautiful and unusual scarf. But she was kidnapped and hidden in a box with cut air holes. As the box was being carried onto a ship,, she heard her master’s voice and stuffed some of the scarf through an airhole. He saw the bit of scarf and saved her. I was remembering “Slave Dancer” or maybe “Dancing Girl” or “Dancing Slave”, maybe?

Looking for a Y/A book written in the 70/80″s about a girl who finally convinces her parents to let her go to an all-girls boarding school.  I could have sworn it was written by Judy Blume but apparently not. Same type of style, though. She goes off to boarding school ( she mentions in the very beginning that her grandmother helped convince her parents to let her go). The book opens with the 1st person narrator describing her new uniforms and all her stuff being ready for the trip to the boarding school.  The opening sentence is something very like, “Well, I’m finally doing it. Going to Boarding school”

She rooms with 3 other girls, I believe, one of whom is very well off.  One sentence I particularly remember refers to her first tour around the school, led by a student.  “She looked like she cut her hair with a razor and a ruler”.  The tour proceeds up some stairs and the narrator says, ” ‘So that’s what threadbare means,’ I thought”.

I  believe the book must have been written in the late 70’s or early 80’s because that’s when I read it.  Suggestion from Lost Classics reader Julie W.: They’ll Never Make a Movie Starring Me by Alice Bach.

Second suggestion from Lost Classics reader Isis: The Girls of Canby Hall-Roommates by Emily Chase.

Third Suggestion from Lost Classics Reader Rebecca: The Daring Game by Kit Pearson

Looking for a book I read in the late 80s possibly 1989 that I got at the book fair. A teen girl had an older brother who loved his car, named EMMY. I think maybe her Mom was divorced and they lived in an apartment. She was always hanging at the pool, wearing shades because she liked people watching. Her Mom was maybe divorced and they lived in an apartment.

 Hello! I am looking for a YA/teen romance book that I read in the late eighties, and possibly very early nineties, so 1987 to 1991, at a push 92. I don’t remember the title, or the characters names, or the author. So annoying, sorry!
So, a girl (child of a single parent?) wants to do a job she’s worried her parent won’t like? Journalist, or scientist? God knows why it was a problem but it was the eighties I guess. She meets a Greek? boy who works for his families deli. I remember this because living in the south of England, I had never heard of a deli 

 He has a passion for sci fi comics but also wants a career that will upset his family as they assume he will work in the deli his whole life.
I remember she wears a raspberry hat or jumper, or something and I thought it was a bit of a fancy colour, not red, but not pink either. Raspberry. Who knew?
Thanks in advance! Suggestions: To See My Mother Dance or Alive and Starting Over by Sheila Solomon Klass

 I would love help finding a book that I can’t remember much about, and I am beginning to wonder if I combined two books in my head. But I read it in the late 80s or early 90s (though it could have been published before that). It was set in the 60s, though, and I feel like it was some kind of time travel. I want to say there were twins or sisters, and I thought it was something like the Banana Split Affair but they don’t time travel. I feel like there were two guys – one who was anti-war, and the other wasn’t, and the two girls ended up on both sides of a Vietnam protest? I think it was a romance, but there was a time limit because they had to find something. This is probably not even a real book and just a combination of memories of other books, but I read it a number of times. Of course, I can’t remember it for the life of me!

I’m so glad that I found this site and I hope someone out there can help me figure this out. It might have been written in the 70’s and was about this girl who moved into a town. She befriended the boy next door whom she’d developed a crush on. I only got about halfway through the book before I lost track of it but the distinct portion of the story that I remember is that she also befriended an elderly lady who she took a pottery class with and the lady told the girl that she work her heart on her sleeve. That’s all I remember. I hope you all can help, thanks!

I have an odd situation here, because I thought I knew this one, but I recently bought a copy and reread it, and I was wrong.
This was a book that was read to us during library time in elementary school. That would indicate that it was published before 1989, but probably quite a lot earlier.
I’m pretty sure (but given the other mistake I made, I could be off on other things as well) it was from the broad genre of “story about a gifted young person, told from the POV of their more normal friend”. What I remember strongly is a scene where they go to a wholesaler, possibly a wholesale auction? I assume the gifted young person was looking to buy something for their exciting kids’ adventure story project. But the POV character learns what an aglet is, and noticing that her (or his) shoelaces are worn, tries to buy some. Only, being a normal sort of kid and thus not understanding how wholesalers work, ends up buying a whole barrel of them. (Or maybe that part is me confusing it with something else, and someone else buys the barrel of aglets, and just gives the POV character a handful?)

For years, I thought this was something that happened in Jean Merrill’s “The Toothpaste Millionaire”. That has a similar scene involving buying way more toothpaste tubes than intended, but nothing about aglets. I reckon this must’ve happened since I can’t imagine any other explanation for me knowing what an aglet is.

They end up dating and that’s how the book ends. If anyone knows, you’ll have my forever gratitude! Update from requestor: “I know that a character at the auction gives the girl a handful of bike chain links before she buys the toothpaste tubes, so maybe that’s being conflated with the aglet story?” 

I can’t tell you how glad I am to have found this page. The book I really want to find may have been written in the 50s/60s, I read it in the late 70s.

I think the main character’s name is Nancy. She has two friends, one of whom is the “pretty” one, popular, loved by all the boys. A new guy moves to town and Nancy starts crushing on him very hard. The popular friend goes after him (I vividly remember a scene at a party where they were dancing “rock and roll” style and the friend took her shoes off and was really getting into it with the new guy. Nancy the wallflower watches and is sad and jealous.

Nancy gets a job at some point. She makes friends with the new guy, who gets her interested in photography. She takes a picture of some flowers, that she calls “worms-eye view of asters” and the guy secretly enters into a photography contest, which she wins.

 Looking two different books one was about a couple of young kids that visited an old relative and he sent them back in time in their imagination and I remember they bought clothes online like we do now only this was like in the 70s so nobody did that and the grandmother ordered two small of shoes I remember that in school where they went was different they did it all at home and they read this old book at the neighbors and how they didn’t think these kids knew how much fun they got to have having school together it was really interesting but definitely a child’s book or young adult in the second one was a girl named Gabrielle her dad went to Iran or rack to get Arabian horses and he bought some and they came in and then the guy sent his daughter the princess of the 2 girls meet a couple boys and fall in love the princess guy turns out to be her fiance in secret. theres a girl called peaches in it as they go around to horse shows all summer and they are in murdo sd which has the time line down main street. hope someone can help with title/author!   Suggestion: short story “The Fun They Had” by Isaac Asimov