Category: Name That Book Request

I’ve been looking for a book for years but can’t remember the title or much about it! It’s a Young Adult book, and it’s similar to Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg, and i know i found said book near this book at the library. I read my book between 2012-2015. I can’t pin point the plot exactly but it’s about a teenage girl visiting her military father i believe in another country where she meets a boy and they begin seeing each other. i believe the authors last name started between D-H but i’m not 100% sure.

I read an ebook (it was on an ipod I had in 5th grade, and I’ve tried looking everywhere for it but can’t find it anywhere) when I was younger about two girls who I think were high school age? And they were the exact same age as each other (born like minutes apart). I don’t remember the character names, so I’ll call the main character A and the best friend B. So for their whole life, B was training to develop her super powers (because her dad had powers and I guess it was genetic). A was jealous of the thought of powers, but didn’t show it. And throughout the book, weird things kept happening around A. Swarms of animals would follow her everywhere, like frogs, birds, bugs, etc.  Also there was a new guy who moved to town and he had powers too because he’s from the same world as B’s dad (like a whole different dimension or something idk). And B was like “yes match made in heaven” and they started dating, and A was super jealous because B always got the good things in life (A’s dad died and I think her mom was very ill). But then in the end it’s revealed that A and B got switched at birth, and their moms didn’t realize, so B’s family is actually A’s family, and A’s is actually B’s. A also realizes that she actually has powers, and B doesn’t (B was never shown to actually be able to use her powers). 

I am currently looking for 2 books which I haven’t been able to find. 

1. Her name is Felicity, she is a redhead, a children’s teacher and she lives in a small town. This doctor moves into town and they go to a dance together. While at the dance, her necklace gets stuck between them so they have to find a way to maneuver it. They end up having an affair. One scene in the book stands out where it was snowing and he came over. I read this as a teenage girl and can’t remember the name, but this is all the details I have. 

2. I think it’s called Argrosy? It’s a collection of stories from one with an iceberg to one with a moose and rattlesnake. I can’t find it anywhere and I can’t remember what it looks like. It was a gift to me as a child and I don’t know how I lost it.  I would be so grateful if you could help me find these books. I have been searching for years. 

 I have a book from my childhood I can remember but not name.  It was about three siblings, two brothers and a sister (I think her name was Lydia.) whose dad was the caretaker of a dragon. Something happens and their father and the dragon are killed. The siblings end up on a dangerous quest with a dragon egg they are trying to keep safe. 

We read it in class when I was in 8th grade – around 2012. Our teacher mostly read it to us because she only had a handful of copies, so I never held the book physically in my hands and I think that’s part of why I can’t remember what the book is called. I just remember I cried at the end. But it was about these two girls who live in a very small town. I remember there being something important about a cul-de-sac – maybe they all lived around the same cul-de-sac? But these girls have been best friends forever until this boy moves into town. His name was Ethan. They start fighting over him, and I think I remember there being something tragic about his past? The main character is really nice and sweet, I think she had a little brother, and the other one is kind of mean and jealous. There’s a school fire at the very end and Ethan dies. I’ve been trying to find it FOREVER, not necessarily because I liked it, but because I’m frustrated I can’t remember what it is. 

I have been looking for a mystery/horror novel from years ago.  I don’t know the name or author, but I swore it was something like The Wind In The Trees or similar.  I remember a scene in the book where a girl was wandering in these sinister woods, and the trees picked her up high in the air, and dropped her, killing her. I know this sounds awful, but it was actually a really good, scary book.  Do you have a way to search for this?

When I was really young my mom used to read me fairy tales from this big red book and it was pretty old. Each of the pages had filigree running along the top, and it had classic stories. Help me find it please! 

The main character was a young girl with an older brother named Jack- Jack becomes sick and is soon diagnosed with cancer or some other life threatening illness (my memory is foggy). At the hospital where Jack is being kept, the main character meets another young cancer patient named Lara, who gets in trouble from her mother constantly for smoking, despite her illness. The main character has a love for horses, I believe. I don’t remember exactly, but I think there might have been a chapter where her and her friend from school go horse back riding. The book ends with Lara dying, but that’s all I remember.

I hope your cohort can help! I read this book in the ‘70s. It’s an adventure book – can’t quite recall if it’s only girls or if there are boys, too – and they chant a prayer to the Egyptian cat god, Bast/Bastet… I’ve been trying to remember it for decades!

If you’re taking submissions mine was this pretty short prob under 170 pages about this girl who grew up in a nunnery or something like that under the care of nuns in Russia or eastern Europe.  She had a baby I think or some complex relationship with her mother and that was a big theme through the book. Mothers and daughters and there was someone named Anne or Anna but i can’t recall if it was the characters name of part of the author’s name.  Sorry that’s hella vague, but if you know it, please let me know?! I’d love to re-read that book.