Category: Name That Book Request

//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

The first is a library book from my childhood that I checked out often. It was about a dragon, who perhaps couldn’t shoot fire? But then I think he learned how to shoot fireworks instead? There was probably a little prince involved, I can’t remember the details. But I loved that book.  The publication date must’ve been somewhere from late 50s to early 70s. All the illustrations were in gray and purple and white. Very 60s chic.  The second book was a middle grade spooky Book about a little girl who makes friends with the ghost girl whose  lives in her backyard. Or perhaps up in the attic? Anyway, there’s an iconic scene where the little girl who is alive is trying to eat blackberries, and the ghost girl obviously can’t eat them. The twist in the book is when you realize that the little ghost girl was killed in a fire in her house, and is still haunting that space. It was such a great book, I checked it out from the library often! Anyways, any assistance would be appreciated. Thank you so much!

Hello! This feels like a long shot in more ways than one, because not only is my memory of the book very hazy, and remembered details limited, but the book itself is possibly from outside of the time period listed on your website. All I remember of the book is as follows: I read the book some time between 2008 and 2012 (this may be around the time the book was published, but I dont remember) at my local public library, the main character was a once proud dragon who had been magically transformed into a dragon, and there is a scene in the book where he holds logs in his arms for several hours as a test of endurance.  The remaining details I can recall are all ambiguous, I remember at some point there being a large abandoned castle made of either ice-like crystals or crystal-like ice, I remember there being a large tree that some people(maybe elves) lives in, and I remember a fantasy world map at the front of the book. 

1)  A sci-fi novel set in what seems to be a school, with various children who maybe have physical difficulties / differences and maybe superpowers? At the end, I seem to recall we discover (along with the child protagonist) that there has been a nuclear war and this is a closed community of survivors while the outside world is devastated.

2) A fantasy novel set in a watery world of islands inhabited only by women. I think they had purple skin (?) and travelled to each other’s islands by boat. At the end of the book, the men arrive and basically ruin everything by bringing war.

Back in the sixties, when I was a kid, there was a book about this boy in  the far north (Scandanavia?) whose family all dies one night. Father drowned at sea, Mom hit by a tree out in a storm looking for a doctor for sick little sister, who dies. Kid is sent to live with various families in the village, and everything he does after turns eventually into how a Christmas tradition comes about. (Like making toys for each family he lives with, putting them in their socks, etc.) I’d love to find that book for my grandkids.

Born 1972 so this book would have been available 1982-1985 ish — Ballet teen book /YA one character named Lupe (mexican?) all others were white girls bulimia theme having to purge to be skinny enough to be in the ballet company remember it as being very sad. did someone die from bulimia? Would love to figure this out! thank you!

 It’s been about 30 years that I’ve been trying to find this book again; I read it for the first time in either the first or second grade (so the late 80s, early 90s, but I think it was published before then). I never got to finish it, because it was a school library book that was immensely popular among my peers and I after my teacher had read a chapter for story time, and I was never able to check it out again. The parts I remember most clearly are: The book cover, either the cover itself or the inside cover, had a picture of a blond boy in a sailor suit that I feel was common in the early 1900s. This boy was the protagonist, and the only other part I recall is that a canary came to his bedroom window and whisked him away to what I believe was a fantasy world where he had multiple adventures. It may have been part of a series.

I have described this book to children’s librarians in several states and just received blank stares.  Young boy, 99% sure named Fulton, invents a perpetual motion machine by accident. Military types show up and want to steal/pay him for the plans, it involves a huge amount of sugar in the manufacturing process, chaos ensues. I read it in grade school in the 70’s if I wasn’t slipped acid unknowingly.