Category: Name That Book Request

 I know it’s a long shot but I’ve been trying to find the name of this book since I was very young. For some reason it just completely evades me! 

I can describe the cover. It was deep red and there was some form of emerald jewel on it. There is some sort of link to an emerald stone. I just can’t remember what it is. I’m almost certain the book is set somewhere like Russia. It’s about a girl who is separated for her mother and her name MAY be Anastasia but it’s all hazy! 

Please let me know if you have any idea what it is as I would love to read it again, it was one of my favourites when I was young! 
P.S. I appreciate the information I have given is very sparse. I’ve done my own research and it’s never achieved any results, but I thought it might be worth a shot to ask you! 

Now I’m not sure if this is a YA book or not because I remember sneaking to read this book because it belonged to my aunt.  It was about a girl in high school who lived in the woods or the swamp with her mother. She wasn’t popular. I think her mother ends up dying and she’s alone. But she develops like witch’s powers maybe, but I definitely remember that she gets these birds (crows or ravens) that listen to her. She ends up offing the coach in her school and some other people who were mean to her by using the birds. They would follow people and watch them. I think she ends up liking this boy but of course he’s not really into her. And the birds get him too. I can’t remember the ending, or if I even finished it because I think I got caught reading it lol.

I actually have two requests!

1) Old short story that was written/takes place around early 1900s? A guy is travelling when he meets this old man who lives in a house in the country and gets invited to stay for a few days. The old man really likes guy and tells him all about his wife and how awesome she is and she’ll be coming home from travels in a few weeks, and begs guy to stay until she arrives. They plan a huge coming home party for her with all the neighbors, who get the old man super drunk until he passes out. The neighbors put the old man to bed and guy asks where the wife is, she never showed up. The neighbors say that they do this every month, she’s been dead for years but the old man can’t cope so he just always thinks she’s coming home soon.

2) Read this is the late 80s/early 90s. Book about a girl who gets a demon attached to her when she is a kid. The demon has long tendrils coming out of its head. It leaves her alone and then comes back when she’s an adult and she has to deal with it.

I’m looking for a book I read a long time ago for a book report project.  As I recall it’s a fantasy novel that has to do with a girl, kingdoms, a thimble, and this reference to how the world/universe is this one big tapestry that is constantly being weaved. And I think that the girl, with the thimble, has the ability to add to that tapestry or manipulate through magic. Also, I think the cover of the book was navy blue with gold accents or something like that. Sorry, I read this book quite some time ago and the details are fuzzy. I hope you can help out me out! 

1) This was a relatively thin book, a YA fantasy. if I remember correctly reviews on the back compared it to a wrinkle in time, or called it a sequel in spirit. It features a young girl as the protag, shes got a pair of older brothers who are twins. One treats her horribly the other is really nice. She ends up developing these strange psychic powers and is trained by an elderly woman. I vividly remember a scene in the beginning of them catching snakes in sacs, all these kids competing to have the most snakes in their bag, the girl caught a large one which ended up having babies and she won.

2) this one was a series I believe, of YA fantasy. It’s really hard to find a distinction between each one and the memories have blurred together. It was about a fantasy world where wizards are normal, and how its learned from master to apprentice. The story had followed a few different characters who were interconnected; like the adventures of the master in his youth alongside the story of the apprentice. The master had disobeyed his own master and done some form of interdimensional travel. He was married to a woman named Millie (I believe it was) who in the flashbacks ended up being some form of ancient god with multiple arms and had only picked the name because it was cute. The apprentice often described him as bland or boring and straitlaced which was funny given his adventures in his youth. I think it’s also in the same series as another story where a wizard has to make a “interactive haunted house experience” using magic and pretends to be some dark overlord that the people overthrow in the haunted house as part of the experience. Its basically just wizard stuff but in a world where its mundane and normal and not seen as bizarre.

3) this is a YA fantasy novel for sure. this story had a demon named lovelace? He was very much against humans but in his past had made friends with a human that was in a contract with him i believe. The perspective changes between the demon and other human characters. The only strong memory i have of this book is when a girl goes into the demon realm to talk to him. The place is a constant whirlwind of energy with no corporeal formations. The demon criticises her and other human’s need to define themselves with a physical form because she keeps trying to give herself shape with all the particles around them while in the realm and he easily made a shape for himself and even a house while he criticized her.

I remember reading this book in elementary school early 2000’s (like 2007). I am now a college junior and have been searching for this book for ages.   All I can remember is that it was a female or princess camp where their father sent them away to learn how to fight and become proper women. They were supposed to have a day to find a husband and be matched up, but their secluded mountain for training got attacked. And all of these young women fighters had to fight them off.

a book I started in 5th grade and really liked, but never finished and I’ve never been able to find the title. I even emailed my 5th grade teacher years ago, and she remembered the book but not the title and couldn’t find it (I’m now 24). Basically, the book was a period book about royalty. I believe the book was a maroon/red color, with a queen on the cover. It was a chapter book about a girl that is learning the rules of nobility, and I believe there was jousting in it. There’s definitely some romance in it too, but I don’t remember the specifics (sorry). My memory has faded incredibly since it’s been so long, and I’ve read so many other books about nobility lol. Wishing I had written more down. It was definitely a more advanced book for 5th grade, I read at a higher level as us books nerds do.

I may be confused with Ballet Shoes but I definitely read a book in my teens (1980s), borrowed from school library.  The only things I remember are that there was ballet involved, it was at least partially in Russia, sure there was a mention of a White Palace. There was a bit of teen romance and I think the boy was called Sebastian.  Maybe I am muddling up a load of books but I just have the feeling that there is a book out there somewhere I once read and loved. 

I’m looking for a book called Rook. I was given it by my mum who had loaned it from the library. I must have read it in the 90s, around 1995 ish. It was about a boy, who spent a lot of time in the woods and was a bit dark, I think he befriended a rook (the bird?) I remember loving the book but details are very sketchy!

Trying to remember the title of a children’s book set in Scottish Highlands (west coast). Time shift from C20th to an early time, probably post-Pictish – I think there was a reference to Pictish law as being from the old times; that law (mentioned early in the book) related to the right of anyone to fish & hunt for food they needed. Brochs featured as dwelling places. The time shifting started intermittently, and then the protagonists were permanently in the past. I’m fairly sure that after the resolution there was a return to their original C20th setting. 2 protagonists, 1 boy, 1 girl. Target readership probably pre or early teen. I’d have read it in the mid-late 1960s. My copy was hardback, I’m sure. The author… can’t recall; likely female. My memory suggested a surname like Reece or Treece/Trease but I’ve searched synopses of their books & not recognised it.