Category: Name That Book Request

I read this book in middle school and for the life of can’t remember the title or author. The main protagonist is a young woman I believe and her mum dies and her dad remarried to a mother who has 2 kids, the oldest is a young man near the main protagonist age and the second kid is a teenage girl. They live in a nice Victorian near a river or creek, that’s a little bit out of town. The stepmoms son came up with a plan to drug the parents with a spiked wine he has hidden so they can go out to the town and go party. The next part is a bit fuzzy but eventually the Son confesses to the main protagonist that he likes her and wants to run away with her and that his family is immortal. The protagonist rejects him, he somehow convinced her to get on a boat and he throws her off of it knowing she isn’t the best swimmer and hopes she just drowns, she somehow doesn’t and makes it back to land. The protagonist finds a shed with the proof that the son was telling the truth about them being immortal and the step mom tells her how they became immortal and then burns the proof. At the end of the book the Stepmother and son tries to run away so they can start a new life leaving the teenage girl behind but they end up in a car crash and dies. So the protagonist is left with this poor girl who lost her family and will forever be stuck as a teenager, but the protagonist steps up and takes care of her and left a note for future generations to know to be kind and patient to the teenager and to take good care of her.

I have a book I’m looking for! I think it had a picture of half of a tiger face on the cover. It was a story about some girl who found out she had a twin when she was little, who died. But I think she found out that she was the one who they thought died. Like they had mixed up who was who? But I might be wrong on that part. 

I’m hoping someone can help with the name of a book I read in the late 80s or early 90s. I think it was pretty contemporary. It was about a young American girl (teen or preteen?) who found out she was the descendent of royalty and went to a small European country to claim her title/live as royalty. The only other thing I remember about it is she had a spunky best friend, and I think at one point one of them said that they didn’t know anything about history except what they learned from “Gone With the Wind”(!) (this was in the context of being told she would have to learn the history of the country where she was a princess. This was NOT The Princess Diaries as it was published at least 10-15 years before that book.

I’m hoping you can help me find this book I’ve been searching for for years. I believe it was a ya and I read it around 2017ish. The H is some kind of paranormal either a vampire or immortal of some kind. He consumes blood from a blood bag and falls into a death like sleep when the sun is out. Because he falls into a death like sleep he now sleeps in a room with a bank vault door. He is a detective or private investigator and has his own business that I think he runs out of his home? He has a sassy secretary. I can remember much about the h but that she breaks down his defenses and maybe sleeps in his vault room with him. 

Young adult fiction (really small cover if I remember) about a girl going to a summer camp to work – probably about middle school age – and she falls in love with a guy there. She had to bike to the camp. The only specific I remember is she never wore a bathing suit in front of a guy before? Or maybe she only had her ugly one piece for the summer camp.

This book was one I read in middle school, but I can’t for the life of me remember the title or find anything on it. It was about a girl, she went to France? I think she was running from something… and I believe the title of the book may have been her name. I think I recall a scene where she’s running and hiding from someone and the male lead kisses her to help because they’re in Paris and it’s so common to see couples embracing. I don’t remember the time period but it could have been historical fiction of some kind. If you can somehow find it I think I’ll actually cry. I just remember liking the book so much but can’t remember much beyond what I’ve mentioned and the fact that when my best friend first saw the cover they asked if it actually said “soap” or “soup” or something like that because the title was in a very stylized font.

i’m hoping to find a novel i read when i was in 5th grade (2009-2010). it’s about a dark-haired boy who  goes to a boarding school. he has a blond nemesis (whose dad is like, rich af and has funded the school. the book is not harry potter. as far as i can remember, they don’t have magic, but i might be wrong). i’ve forgotten the plot, but the book i read was hard bound and illustrated. the art style resemble that of chris riddell’s.

YA book about a girl who moves and on the first day of school she is mistaken for the new principal. She proceeds to be principal for a week before the real one actually starts and she gets caught. —

Maybe you can help? Both my girlfriend and I can remember a book from when we were children where the cover shows a drawing of a girl flying on the back of a bird and she is looking back at the villagers who are far below. One of them is shaking a fist. Another has a pitchfork or broom! We think…

I remember the book being set in Northern Ireland. The main character learns he’s apart of a world of magic of some sort. The magic is involved through speaking certain phrases. When the sorcerer use the magic, their bodies turns into iron. In the first book he turns 13 when he learns about this. He and some other people fight a guy who,s motif is being a clockmaker I think. I remember the main character saving the princess of the demons or something and by the second book they start becoming friends but the princess is manipulating him or something. She gives him the power to speak every magic invocation with the benefit of being so accurate in pronunciation in the words he barely turns into iron. I remember reading this as a younger kid but I moved away from the library so I can’t check what it was. Thanks so much.