Category: Name That Book Request

I read this book in 6th grade (2000-2001). It was about an archaeological dig – they were looking for the missing link. There were chapters about the daughter of the archaeologist, and also about a girl of the species they were studying. The missing link girl used nets to catch fish. 

For years I been trying to remember the name of a book which involves small creatures pushing each other down a hill in a tin can. I feel like I’ve imagined it but the memory seems so real! Can you help?

The book I’m trying to recall is about a girl whose name I don’t remember but it was kind of unique I think. She’s being raised by a single father and he develops some kind of brain condition that leaves him bedridden. Then a bunch of his friends come to take care of him. I remember they paint like a whole mural on his wall at one point and I also remember that one of them is a therapist. 

It was a YA novel. The family was all women, I think in Vermont or New Hampshire, the main character was a girl. I think one of the twists was that her mom wasn’t really her mom or something. The aunt painted their room all the time, one time it was tangerine walls with Avocado trim. They could all fly. This wasn’t common in the world it was just this family. Grandmother, mother, aunt, maybe a second aunt. The cover was a girl flying like a bird over a New England countryside. They flew once they were 16 or something, maybe just some nights and not every night?

I’ve been trying to figure out what this book is…it’s stuck with me for years. I read it in the late 80s/early 90s in my school library. I think it might have had moon in the title. It was about a girl who had a figurine of a horse that turned real at night (maybe in the moonlight?). She rode it at night. It was a pretty typical girl with a horse book but what was really shocking/scandalizing when I read it is she had a male friend named Goddard (the name stuck with me! Lol) and she and Goddard end up having sex in a tunnel or something? Which seemed SO out of left field for what was otherwise a pretty standard middle grade girl-with-magical-horse book.

I have a book that’s been haunting me for years now, and I’d love to figure out what it was called. I remember the cover had a girl in overalls, and was maybe black and white. It was about a young girl who lived with her brothers and cousins, she was the only girl besides her mother and grandmother. And she was very close to her brother, and they would trace each others names onto the other’s back as a comfort thing at times. They had a baby brother who she helped take care of, but he dies unfortunately and the grandmother more or less blames the girl. She runs off upset and takes a small boat somewhere I believe – but her brother tracks her down and convinces her she’s not at fault. It’s all I really remember – any help would be SO appreciated! 

It’s a novel I read as a teenager, so in the early to mid 2000s, but it was an old copy of a book, so I think it was published in the 80s or 90s. It was a very thick paperback, dark cover. I remember very little about it even though I read it several times. The main character is a man and he ends up on an island, stranded it seems. Very few other characters, one male professor-type and a woman with whom he has sex in the ocean (it was not a YA novel, lol). It’s none of the obvious man-stuck-on-tropical-island books, but the ubiquity of that trope and my terrible memory have made it difficult to find. If this strikes a note in anyone’s memory, I’d really like to revisit this book and find out why I read it so much! 

I read a book when I was around 10 that was a serialisation. I only read the first book and it ended with a dog being separated from its family while on holiday. I haven’t stopped thinking about whether the dog ever found its way back home ever since. The dog’s owner was a young boy, I can’t remember anything else unfortunately. 

Hello! I’ve been searching for a book I read as a teen, maybe in the late 60’s or early 70’s. It was a dark take on the My Side of the Mountain books and featured a girl or young woman who flees to a mountain to live alone. I think she gets pregnant and has a baby. Sound familiar?

I’m looking for a book that I read in the late ’80s or very early ’90s. I got it in the children’s section of our local library and it was a relatively thin paperback. I don’t remember too much about it except for a little boy finds a stray dog in a field. It turns out that the dog is somewhat telepathic and is actually an alien. I don’t remember the details but I believe the boy helps save the dog from some bad forces who are searching for it. But this is about all I have. If you or your followers have any idea what this book might be I can’t tell you how much I would appreciate it