Category: Name That Book Request

I believe I read this book when I was in grade school, so I know this is an upper elementary, middle grade genre book. It was most likely published post 2010. From what I remember it’s about this girl and it has to die with fairytales. So you can go through these magical doors and enter fairy tales. I’m pretty sure these kids are charged with completing these fairy tales, like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty type stuff. There might’ve been a magical story book that like handed out quests. I remember there were multiple books, I think it was a trilogy. There was a scene in a later book that a girl gets her hand chopped off (not shown on page and it wasn’t described with graphic detail) and she’s covered up with a sheet. Her arm is then replaced with an arm made of gold. There’s a heavy emphasis on magical doorways.

I used to borrow this book from the library’s kids section. I have no idea what the title is but the author’s surname started with either a letter A or B. There were nice illustrations in the book, depicting brown bears. Story-wise, I vaguely remember a scene where the father bear passed away (maybe) and there was a huge progression in a snowy landscape. That is all I know. Let me know if this sounds familiar!

I’ve always wanted to find a book that I probably read in Jr. High, in 1983 or so. The plot is about a family who moves to a small town and follows a teen who is trying to fit in. There is a menacing boy / family who lives near by – I think the boy / teen has red hair. There is a terrible scene where he, and maybe his friends or brothers, drag someone to death behind a car /truck.

I read a book in early 2010s it was a YA novel that had something to do with greek mythology it was set on a Greek island I think and Nike was a big part of it (not Percy Jackson or Percy Jackson related at all). The main character was a female runner, teenager, and I think she had an enemies to lovers storyline with a boy who also ran. I want to say she moved to the island because of her parents or something and wasn’t a fan (at least initially?).

A teacher assigned it as class reading in sixth grade. It was about a boy who somehow got teleported to another planet full of animals and creatures similar to earth, but just a little different. He finds a tribe, (and a girl he likes?) and helps solve their problems, then one day, finds a can or bottle of Coca Cola buried, realizing he’s been in the future the whole time, and not on another planet. I don’t remember if he makes it back to his time or not.

Looking for a book probably written mid to late 80s. There was a (rich?) girl who was sent to therapy and part of her therapy was to go in a room and just destroy things. I feel like she stuffed a flute full of play doh maybe? And there was an island involved; she might have been kidnapped?

I’m looking for a book I read in the early 2000s, it may have been older though. The book features a girl who ends up on a ship with an interesting crew of strangers who get stuck in the doldrums and each has to face a twisted version of their greatest desire, the cook has an obsession with catching a huge fish and eventually gets pulled of the boat and lost because of it. When they eventually escape and come back decades have passed which she doesn’t believe at first until she sees the size of a plant that was tiny when she left. Any suggestions would be appreciated, this has been driving me nuts for years now!

I’m trying to find a YA book about the Salem Witch Trials. All I remember is, in the “present day” (which for the purposes of the book was probably around the 1990s), presumably on an important anniversary of the events of the Salem Witch Trials, children who were descendants of the accusers of the people put to death wake up with mysterious ailments that mirror the way in which the “witch” their respective ancestors accused was put to death (e.g. a descendant of Giles Corey has chest pains). Does anyone have any ideas?

I am looking for a YA novel set shortly after WW 2. The father is dead and I think from the Usa. The mother is English. She has a job as a caretaker of an old country house. The mother has a son and a daughter who use an old book to change the past. I read this in the early 70s.

Fantasy style book with airships. I got free on world book day in the mid-late 90s. May or may not have cloud in the title.