Category: Name That Book Request

Teen novel (80s/90s?) about bulimia. The main character wants to lose weight. She ends up restricting and going down the binge/purge route. I remember her eating pizza but removing all the cheese.

I am looking for the name of a book I read years ago 2004 or later so it was probably published near that year and I can not remember the name of it. The story line was fictional, spiritual in ways of the turning, fantasy in the ways of particular people having special type power from inside and the guidance the little girl had of the voice/drawing her but was along the lines of a world war/end of times, I remember the girl was walking/strolling along/through corn fields and seeing them open up and rockets shooting out and seeing incoming missiles running and I remember someone was saved by jumping into or falling into a storm drain and being partially covered with water and it boiling off her and burning her but surviving (Might also be the voice/person the little girl is guided to by the story end, the people that survived went through dramatic changes and if I am not mistaken everyone turned. Turning them it was said showing their inner self as it really is, on the outside. Like if you were a good person inside very little happened perhaps bones were mended and scares lifted away deformity’s perfected and if you were evil and did horrid things your body was turned basically inside out showing all the ugliness of your inner self.. which didn’t kill them but made them realize what they were on the inside. I remember parts in the story, like near the end it getting so very cold ground being covered in snow and the little girl that was being guided made it to a house/farm/place and finding some garden seeds, she went out into the cold blowing snow (I think there was snow) winds with those seeds and seen where another little girl had frozen in place in a garden where she to had been trying to plant the seeds also.. this little girl over comes the fear, the cold and warms the ground with her fingers before planting each seed.. when she and are amazed/blessed that they find the seeds are growing because of the goodness she had inside of her. In subsequent to her travels there were other groups/couples and kids being ushered into the Cheyenne Mountain (Military underground base for the President and others the name they used actually exists).  In the beginning the Presidents plane was knocked out of the sky by a school bus while he was watching out the window witnessing the destruction by all the missiles/explosions hitting below. he did survive but don’t remember what happened to him. One of the younger people I took as being a kid made a bad mistake in making a choice (I think it was something about when he was entering Cheyenne Mountain with others or while they were inside but he ends up outside and aligning with some other evils and when he turns its in agony and pain and becomes hideous to look at driving him into doing even worse things and maybe insane. The good didn’t experience the pain/agony the same as the bad ones did but not exactly sure how that went its been nagging me awhile now. I am pretty sure I gave the book away years ago and don’t remember to whom and am 256 miles away from home and will be for some time so I can’t look for it to be certain.. Hopefully it jogs yours or someones elses mind. I have posted on my facebook page in hopes a friend might recognize it also. Thank you for your time. I found it to be a good story and would like to read it again anyway. If it rings a bell please let me know.

I’m trying to find a book about a biological mom who finds her daughter she gave up for adoption. The daughter is now with a well off family, the mother dies in a fire and the dad takes his 2 adopted daughters and the bio mom but I’m not sure why she goes I think as a nanny or something. Her daughter struggles with sleep I think. They go away to a country house and the bio mom has a hurt leg. The dad is having an affair with the oldest adopted daughter. 

It’s a beautifully illustrated kids book about an Italian man who wants to be an artist (I think his name is Mr. Lemonjello or Lemoncello) but he has a family to support so he makes a living painting signs instead. When he dies at the end God rewards him by putting him to work painting sunsets. (It makes me tear up because I think of my artist mom painting sunsets now too.)

Published in the late 90s or early 2000s, it’s a children’s picture book about a secret jungle temple in which the reader has to uncover a secret language symbol by symbol to choose different doors to get through the temple. If you chose the wrong passage ways, you’d meet different gruesome but mild ends. At the very end of the book is the complete symbol language alphabet. I was obsessed with this book in fifth grade (1999-2000) and tried to unsuccessfully get one of my best fiends to write notes at school using the symbol language. It’s extremely well-illustrated. I think the temple is a pyramid? There are a lot of monkeys, possibly lemurs. This was during the whole Mummy series release era and Nickelodeon’s Legend of the Hidden Temple rerun peak era, so I’m hoping this book was more popular than I think it was, even though I was the only one in my family and friends obsessed with it.

I read this mid-grades story as a kid in the 80s. It took place in medieval times and it had a female character named Pentecost, which is the only detail that stuck in my mind. I think the book was kind of old even then, maybe linen-bound.

girl befriends her blind neighbour and they start and she becomes envious of her when they were playing around making clay sculptures and the blind girls turned out better, she ended up smashing it. turns out blind girl hid a star brooch or something important in it, throws a fit and this is all i can remember clearly 😭 i also recall some mention of estella or estrella (blind girls name/nickname?) 

I remember reading this in middle school which would have been 2013ish, which means it was age appropriate enough to be found in a middle school library. It was a teen romance with comedy elements about a girl who is brought back to medieval times with her friends and is swept off her feet by a mysterious black knight who never reveals their face (I think it was a big shock on who their identity was, but I don’t remember). Her friends feel betrayed because I think the knight is supposed to be evil or something? I also specifically remember a portion about cow manure being used to create an explosion or energy. Any help would be appreciated!

I don’t remember the title or author but the book was about a teenager lycanthrope(the definition according to the book is a werewolf that has no humans in his ancestry) that had to travel to the underworld to rescue his friends and was abducted by the king(his friends were bait) and made to fight champions to death in some barbaric sport.

Looking for a YA book that I read around 1996 that had a sci fi setting. The humans had to wear sealed glass helmets which made them sweat, and the sweat would pool in the helmet. They sucked on salt sticks to replace the salt lost in sweat. I also remember the cover of the edition: it had a drawn color image of the female main character and in the illustration she had a really prominent filtrum!