Category: Name That Book Request

There are 3 books I’m trying to find. The 3rd one is the one I am most lost on. All of these would been read between 2000-2010.

1. Preteen-teenage girl falls in water on a whale watching boat ride. She becomes a whale. When the opportunity to become a human again arises, she doesn’t really want to.

2. Teenage maybe college age girl studies abroad. Not sure where probably Europe. She almost gets SA’d by the man ripping off the button of her jeans, and I think later she tosses that button in a fountain? Cover of the book looked like an envelope.

3. A girl and her family go on a beach vacation (maybe a whole summer, not sure) and there is also another family staying on the beach nearby. I think the other family has multiple boys. The girl likes one of the boys and I think they kiss at some point. There was some kind of significance pertaining to a pebble? Maybe a shell? Something like that.

I have been searching for this book for almost a decade now and have had no luck, and I stumbled upon your blog and thought I might email you to give it a shot.  It wasn’t very long, more of a novella I imagine, and it was about a cat. The main character was a girl or teenager who kept seeing this cat and either she would black out or she would watch the cat destroy and I think even attack people around her, and when she came to awareness the cat was gone and all of the damage was blamed on her. In one instance of this there was a dress that was destroyed. The cat was some representation of the devil or something and there was a scene I think near the end where the girl chased the cat into an alley. The cover was mostly red or at least prominently featured it, and I think the title maybe had the word cat in it or some direct reference to the animal, though I could be wrong. 

I would like to ask regarding two books I’ve read as a young teenager around 5-7 years ago. One is a fantasy novel. I hope i remember the details correctly But it’s A series in fact where a young pig farmer boy was sucked up in an adventure of a lifetime even though he doesn’t seem to care too much. And for some reason people think that the prophecy is about him when it’s not and he’s always desperate to find someone else the prophecy could be about. It’s a good take on a reluctant hero being reluctant throughout the entire series 🤣 and a scene I remember vividly is where he beats the main antagonist of the series using pigs. Or something haha I hope this isn’t too obscure or nonsensical! The other is more of a coming-of-age story about this teenager who doesn’t have much going for him besides bowling. Where the story mainly revolves around his growing up being demotivated in school and has familial issues but eventually wins a bowling trophy. 

theres a book ive spent ten years trying to find but i cant. i got this book when i was 11 and i took it to school the very next day because i was excited to read it and forgot it somewhere (because i never took novels or literature books from home to school normally) and i havent been able to find it since then. i never got to read it properly, i read the first chapter but i dont remember it. what i do remember is the title and cover: it was called champagne (or had champagne in the name) and the cover was a dim yellow with an animated girl with a round face, hair pulled back in a bun, she was wearing a fancy yellow dress as if in a hollwood party, her shoulders, arm and half her chest were bare, and she was probably holding a champagne flute.

they might both be the same book/series or set in the same universe, im not too sure, which is why i’m saying book/s anyway! these are both YA 1. they make magic candles by the sea (?) maybe? it’s a kid learning from someone older. they’re not human but are humanoid and are the main species on this planet. they don’t have technology. i remember them moulding the candles and making some to order and maybe making deliveries 🤔 they channeled magical energy into them 2. also humanoid and main species. it follows one kid i think but maybe more,, they’re in this town that’s surrounded by a hedge i think that they can’t get through bc it’s dangerous outside except there’s a gate thing that might have a monster in it or someone guarding it anyway. i think they’re assigned jobs? it was def a coming of age and escaping one! there were elders i think? at some point they definitely interacted w creatures that were dangerous last one that i don’t think is related 3. also YA,, oh my god i can’t remember anything except that it had a map 😭 i don’t think i’ll ever remember this one and it rly hurts my heart bc i want to know!!

I have had this book pop into my head many times in the last few years and could never find it! I was born in 1997, I think I read it in the mid- to late-2000s but don’t know when I would have been published. Believe it was in the genres of realistic fiction / youth or young adult / potentially historical fiction bc it was placed before a lot of medical advancement? I think it was also a series! A couple books? Plot…. What I think I remember…. Thief / lower class man fell through ceiling glass section of roof when fleeing from being chased. A doctor (?) ended up fixing all his injuries and paid him to be an example during his lectures of the techniques he used. Eventually after healing and making money, he becomes more middle/upper class. I think he continues to do crime but people don’t expect him bc he looks like he wouldn’t be a thief. I think that is the gist of the first book but there is a sequel or two beyond that. Cover: vaguely remember black and red, nothing else.

It was not the Frank L. Baum one that Rankin Bass Adapted. I think Santa was a boy living with a guardian (his grandma, I think) in an Arctic mountain range or something. There was like an elf on the cover that looks more like a halfling. I remember seeing it in 6th grade, 2005-2006. I think it was trying to cash in on the young magic user craze that Harry Potter started and was carried on by Percy Jackson, Charlie Bone, and Artemis Fowl.

These are the things I remember: The main character was a young London boy, not sure who he was being raised by. Either his parents or aunts? Two men showed up and robbed the home, the boy was told to hide in cabinet or closet under rags/towels. He was taken (not sure what happened to the adults but I think they were killed.) He gets taken to a mansion and made into a butler or something. The staff would only let him eat scraps. Eventually he finds out the nice old man who owned the mansion was in fact his grandfather. I I read this book in elementary. I know it’s not Oliver Twist, but most people guess it is.

I’ve been thinking about this book for ages and no matter how hard I look I haven’t been able to find it and I hope you could help. I read this book somewhere around 2016-18. It was about a girl and her uncle, who was the same age as her, going to this school for gifted students. The school’s district was described as stretching out like an octopus and the children were made to drink smoothies or something while running on treadmills. I want to say it had a yellow cover but I can’t be certai

There was this book I read when I was a kid that gave me nightmares. It was definitely a series, possibly young adult/pre-teen books.  Halfway through it, the protagonist’s parents are in a car crash (the car flips on the motorway) because of some ghost/spirit/esoteric creature gets into the car radio. Like a horror fiction young adult book. I have a feeling there were 5+ books. I can’t remember anything else other than the car flipping.  I’m based in Ireland so maybe an English or Irish author? Although maybe a red herring. It was a popular series for sure. I’m 26, so likely 14 years ago at least?