Category: Name That Book Request

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).

//TW CHILD FATALITY There’s a group of kids playing and one of the children (I believe a boy) gets stung by a bee and goes into anaphylaxis but his friends think he’s joking around when he can’t breathe and dies.

I hope you can help me. I’m looking for a book (possibly paperback) that I read as a young teenager around 1977-81. The book was about the murder investigation of a girl(s) whose bones were dumped in a river in rural surroundings. I can’t recall much, but the word(s) “bones” and/or “river” or possibly “white bones,” are in the book’s title. The cover may even show an illustration of a river or underwater scene with bones. As I said, unfortunately. I can’t recall much but I would like to find it and read it again of possible. Any assistance finding this book is greatly appreciated. 

Read in 1971/72 in a Jr high library sci fi short story collection  Kid is smart, keeps asking parents questions. Parents have random noise-generating devices locked onto their heads, so they can never complete a complex thought. Kid is almost of age to have their own device fitted on. Something about “all men are created equal” by having the smart ones dumbed down by these devices. Resonates a lot lately