Category: Name That Book Request

I read this book as a kid, around 2010. The cover ripped off so I don’t remember what it looked like at all, but it was about this stray dog (p sure it was a mutt) who either gets hit by a car or almost does, and gets taken in by this kid who I think has red hair? And this kid is trying to build a rocketship to leave him home. It’s from the POV of the dog and he teaches you Spanish throughout the book. They eventually build the rocketship and landed on an island, where the dog writes “HELP” in the sand and discovers he can write. It’s revealed at the end that he wrote the whole book. A little silly but I loved it as a kid and I miss it.

I’ve been looking for this book i read a couple years ago and i cannot remember the title for the life of me. one of the things i remember about it is that the main character’s mom would make up sayings for i love you. i think the exact quote was “i love you like peanut butter loves jelly” it was always something along those lines. the second thing i remember was that his mom had long hair and it would fly out the car window. unfortunately thats where my memory stops. if you could help me find it it would be greatly appreciated!!

I read these thin, kid encyclopedias in the early 2000s, but I think they were purchased in the 80s or 90s en masse from a catalog. These books were color-coded on the spines by subject (sciences, cultures/history, technology) and had that older picture book low-ink color scheme of pinks, teal, yellow and green. I remember there being a kind of cartoon mascot of sorts of a young boy in a yellow sweater with a bowl cut. These encyclopedias were pretty thorough overviews of anatomy (I remember distinctly reading a page about how the diaphragm fills the lungs that had a guide to an at-home experiment involving balloons and a cut 2-litre plastic bottle), biology/ecology, physics, and earth sciences. The pages were mostly white, kind of resembling a textbook, and they were hardcover. We had like 50 of them in the complete set.

What I remember about this book is that it was a short children’s book and a poor guy from Brazil was talking to Jesus. At one point they were talking about inflation. Also, I think the guy was adopted from someone but not too sure. 

The book was about a fairy who meets two(?) human girls and befriends them and they go on little adventures together. I believe it was a series with every book having a new color based fairy. A red fairy, a green fairy. It also had a Christmas fairy in one.

Japanese classroom, probably kindergarten, one little girl who’s at the center of it all, and other kids. All the chapters revolve around her life at school and the kids around her. I remember crying my eyes out when one of the other kids died? Don’t remember much more sadly. There was an illustration on the cover, and thats how I’d always picture the protagonist. The book was in English, couldve been a translation. Was heartwarming to say the least!

It’s a children’s book (I think a chapter book) about a girl who is going to a birthday party (she may not be very well off?). The present she brings the birthday girl is her favorite book (?) or some book wrapped in newspaper, I think it’s the comics page. These girls go to multiple places during the birthday party – they start at a make-over/dress-up place (like Club Libby Lu, but I don’t know if it was named that), and all the other girls get cool outfits like fairies or rockers and protag gets pirate. She definitely is disappointed by this costume as I’m pretty sure she can’t afford to go otherwise and this was her only chance to go. Then they go to a restaurant and I think something bad happens there too. At some point they open presents and protag’s book is the only inexpensive and “uncool” gift. Finally the birthday party ends at a hotel where they are supposed to have a sleepover, I think the girls talk about playing a prank or something, but the protag calls her parents to come home early I think??? I don’t remember any conclusion to it but I remember all the details very vividly. 

It’s a YA book that is about a young girl who lives in Boulder Colorado, her mother has a dependency on weed and she has a little sister that she takes care of. She frequently goes to bonfires and I’m pretty sure she has a love interest in the book too. Please let me know! Sorry if it’s not enough information, it was like 3 years ago. 

Don’t remember too much about the book, it involved a boy. Think he lived in a town/city, he was very poor and I remember something about a molasses factory or something in that town

Pls can you help me find a book where the main character is a red head who got kidnapped with her lover and taken aboard a ship with a cruel captain. She was taken to a far off land where she works as a maid or something,after a long while is rescued by her lover who managed to escape. I think he won her in a card game or dice game,kinda hard to remember.