Category: Name That Book Request

I read a book in 5th grade where there was a society told they were living in a massive high-rise structure to escape the radiation of the world below. The perception was shattered when a boy from outside found his way in, revealing the structure is actually underground, and the radiation risk has diminished, although that information is kept from society. The plot follows the boy and a girl who make their way up the structure to the surface. The cover had the two children running toward the viewer in a tunnel. The year was 1995, and the cover art looked like it was straight out of the ’70s

I read this book in middle school so it should be published before 2011. It was in my school library if that helps. ****** TW***** The cover was of a young girl purple/blueish book and she has blonde hair and blue eyes. It’s a photo of a girl.The plot is that protagonist has an extremely abusive mother. She is 12 and runaways I believe to her grandmother home that’s states away on a bike ? I just remember that she had a giant liter of soda and survived off that. I believe it was 7up. I think she had a little sister too who she took with her. I think it maybe based in the southern United States (I might wrong)In the end she finally makes it her grandmothers home and her mother comes and physically beats her on the front yard ? But mother finally gets arrested. The protagonist lives a peaceful life afterwards. I believe the author wrote it based on her life. It maybe fiction though. It seemed like it was based in modern times. But I believe there were no cell phones in the book. It helped me overcome a lot of my own inner turmoil as preteen like the protagonist who had family issues as well. I would like to reread it now as an adult. Thank you

Two books, one was a collection of short stories for kids, one of the stories was about a girl who finds a magical pen on her way to school. The pen is the perfect weight, and when she uses it, her stories flow out of her and become real. I don’t recall the other stories. The other I recall very little about. It was a middle grade book, there was a tree with peaches and it was somewhat fantasy. The peaches was somehow significant I believe.

My memory’s more than a bit fuzzy since they were so long ago but I have two. I’ll try my best:

1. The first is a series from the 2000’s-2010’s though since I remember reading it at the public library it could also be from the 90’s or such. I just remember reading it at the time “spooky” kids lit was still popping off and A Series of Unfortunate Events was the big thing, that’s how I’m trying to place the time. It was about an Adams-esque family living in an old house and the children going on adventures and solving mysteries. I want to think it had supernatural elements like witches but I can’t be certain.

2. Even less remembered but still bugs me to this day. A young adult fantasy novel possibly published sometime after the 2000’s but before 2015 as I remember it being in my middle school library, I think it had a blue cover with I believe gold on it as well. But for some reason the spine I’m remembering doesn’t fit that description and is orange. It had a female main character and I think the plot involved slave trade and magic hair (?). I can’t recall what other sort of fantasy elements it contained as the one thing I do remember is I never got to finish it. It was in that sort of booming era of young adult fantasy series that Percy Jackson was part of, possibly on the tail end.

Okay so this book I read when I was like 12 and I’m SO POSITIVE it was called Psyche, about a young girl who goes to stay with her extended family on their farm, and ends up on a quest to save the farm from the rat king in the sewers and she has a sword and fights at the end. But I can’t find it anywhere and now I’m doubting that it was called psyche even though I was SO positive If anyone can help me I will love u forever

Looking for a book I started, but didn’t have time to finish in the early 90s. Part of a sci-fi/ fantasy module in school where we picked books from a decent size list. The Tripod series and “Girl With Silver Eyes” were included. This book was about a girl who goes looking for her mother. Towards the beginning I remember she escapes through the city’s sewer system. She was told her mother had died, but found out that wasn’t true. The title might have something to do with the word “moon”. It was a dystopian setting, I think.

Hi! I’m looking for a book I read in the 1st or 2nd grade during the mid-2000s. I don’t remember much about plot or character details, but I’m certain it’s a book series about 4 children who each possess a power controlling 1 out of the 4 elements. Each book in the series centers on an element, so I’m pretty sure there are 4 books. The only scene I distinctly remember from it is that these kids were flying with a bird? An eagle, I think it was? I also remember that the cover of the Earth book has the Earth child (a girl, I think) in the middle of the forest, in an art style I only know how to describe as oil pastel-y / sketchy. Please help! This has been torturing me and my best friend from elementary school for AGES and we’re too shy to reach out to our other elementary school classmates who we haven’t spoken to in ages.

I’ve been trying to find the book I read in primary school. I don’t remember any names, quotes, or illustrations, just that there were a few short stories in the book. One, the one that sticks out most is about a boy who lives with his grandmother in the woods. He plays the violin and it’s magic, or the woods are magic, because he and his grandma are immortal. One day the King passes through and asks the boy to join his minstrels I think. The boy agrees, but finds out later that the magic remains only as long as he stays in the forest, and once he leaves it will not return. Another story involves a mermaid I think, and maybe a stone tower? I’m not sure.

I remember reading this book around 2005, but I think it was old even when I read it. I remember it looking like an old book. YA. It was about a young girl (I think tweens?) Who went with her mom and either one or two brothers to visit some old relative. Her slightly older female cousin was also visiting. It was either the first timenthey were meeting or it had been a long time since they had seen each other. The cousin claimed to be a witch and was going to let the other kids become witches if they could prove themselves. I think most of the book was about the tests. The ones I remember most were “wear all black” because the kids had to go around and find random items of black clothing that didn’t go together. And one day was that they couldn’t touch metal- so one ended up eating dinner with a Barbie Doll Fork. The cousin got annoyed on some days because the other kids finished the test in a way she didn’t want. They were creative but not witches? The kids all thought the house they were in was haunted, but it turns out it was just the cousin doing weird stuff because she wanted everyone to think she was cool? I think she wasn’t actually a witch. I remember being disappointed that there was no real magic.

I don’t think it was specifically YA but it *was* in my middle or high school library in the mid-2000s. High fantasy, probably published in the 80s or 90s. I may be mixing up several books here, but there are two things that stand out in my mind: first, there was a plotline where the personification of Death was in love with a Chosen One female protagonist, who had towering magical abilities. This was (I believe) a fantasy series, and this plotline would have been the overarching plot. The only other thing I remember is one of the books begins with several men traveling through a cave, which ends up being dangerous in some way, and one of the men is frequently swearing by his god’s balls (lol).