Category: Name That Book Request

Looking for a book I read early 1990’s… As I recall, it was a paperback novel, in the Christian fiction genre. The setting seemed to be a suburb at the edge of a town in the American Midwest(?). Seems like a son or daughter of this Christian family encountered and befriended a creature in the wild, and didn’t know for sure how to categorize or react to this creature. It was some sort of Bigfoot or Sasquatch specimen.  Others in the town wanted to kill it/he/she(?) out of fear or superstition. As I sort of remember, it seemed the dad interviewed some theologians and came up with a good case to evangelize and baptize the creature.

This was a book that I was reading as a child, in 1967 in England.  Just one thing to go on (I don’t recall anything else about the book!).  The (main?) child character had a cat called Shadow.  I know this, because I got a cat later that year on my 8th birthday, and called him Shadow. As I say, only one short clue to go on.  Sorry. It would be good to know the name and author of this book.

I would like your help in finding a book I read a while back. Things I remember about the novel:

1) The book was set in a previously all boys high school that now accepts girls.
2) The girl lead’s mother had severe depression and could not get out of bed.
3) I think the girl also had a younger sibling.
4) Later, the girl run away from home but was later found ( by the male lead I think).
5) The male lead was described as having unique eyebrows; they were bushy and I think they were almost connected (I’m not sure).
6) The male lead was a class/student representative.
7) It was a YA novel.

I’ve been searching for a book I read aged about 8 in 1990 it’s a bit younger that YA. There is a young boy called Joe. Joe helps his family who own an italian restaurant. He has an aunt Maria.  He meets an old lady who lives inside an old broken traditional carousel. The old lady dies and the family end up making the carousel part of the restaurant. Absolutely no idea what it’s called or who wrote it but how want to share with my own 7 year old

The book is a series i believe and it involves a whistle of some kind, there’s also sand involved? I feel like there might be sand and whistle in the title even. It’s magical I believe, happening either in the desert or in a made up place – I vaguely remember a scene of MC getting to a town/village square and having to climb somewhere to blow the whistle? That could be very wrong and I misremembered it.  It involves fighting and such, probably YA considering it was in our school’s library. It’s definitely a series and the books have different titles, this is just the one i remember mostly. 

I’ve been trying to find this one for so long I’m starting to think I made it up. I read it in school and have even reached out to friends who were in my class to try to figure it out, but no one remembers it. Here’s what I remember… The cover: In my memory the paperback cover had a light yellow background with black or grey silhouette-type images of a fence, a person, maybe a dog, and some kind of tree (dogwood? Willow? I thought the type of tree was part of the title, like “under the something tree,“ but years of Googles and library searches makes me think probably no).  The story: The protagonist was a boy. He and his mom (who was a murderer? or mentally ill?) lived at a farm-like-institution. I think his mom wasn’t always there, or she was put in solitary or something.  He helped out the lady in charge with the other residents (possibly all adult women) of the farmstitution. One of the residents closest to his age he killed accidentally or almost killed while playing and splashing because she didn’t have a nose or ears, just slits. Either way she got super sick afterward with pneumonia or something and he felt guilty and was sad he had no one to play with. 

I read a short story about the end of the world, I’m sure it started with “nobody really remembered the exact date it started raining. Everyone knew that whenever that day was, it hadn’t stopped”. It then goes on to describe one guys’ attempt to drive his family to the top of a mountain while the world continues to flood.

i’ve been trying to find this book since i remembered it like 5 years ago. i remember them being in highschool. typical girl with grey eyes, mouse brown hair thinks she’s too plain and boring. she somehow gets with the bad boy and they have a whirlwind probably toxic relationship. i remember it being a series where he dies at some point (i think saving her)?? not sure. i remember reading at the back under the author bio that it was loosely based on her life and something like the guy dying saving her had happened to her. i think the second book had a cover that had both of them together maybe, i know for certain it was autumnal, very orange like set in a park during autumn.

I have one that’s been a head-scratcher. My mom checked it out from the library, I read just enough of it to get hooked, but she hated it so didn’t keep it long enough for me to read more.  As I recall it centers around a rather isolated community who lives either on an island or a sparsely inhabited seascape area. Main character is a “medicine woman” type of person, whose love interest is out to sea. She’s being wooed by someone she doesn’t like, but because of the community’s laws/customs, if her man doesn’t come back within a certain period of time she’ll have to marry the smarmy dude. Anyway, meanwhile, she’s doing her medicine thing. The community has a very low survival rate for infants, and newborns/new mothers are kept fairly isolated for ?a month? after the birth, during which time most infants die. The mother is then expected to act like nothing happened. The MC’s best friend loses an infant this way, and the MC is a little confused at why her friend is grieving so deeply, because after all it was expected that the baby would die. Their falling out leaves the MC unsupported when her love interest doesn’t return as expected.  I think there’s a hint of magical realism, and I don’t recall that it was tied to any real-world place or time, although the vibe I got was maybe mid-1800s far north Atlantic – Outer Hebrides, Faroe Islands, that type of setting. I’ve been asking for years with no joy. 

I am looking for a book that I read approximately around 2014. I believe it had a green and purple cover. it may have had the word “soda pop” and a cup or a can on it?  the narrator is a chubby boy in high school who plays an instrument (i believe trombone) in the marching band. the marching band gets funding from the vending machine, but the school for some reason redirects it to the cheerleading team. the plot is the main characters trying to get funding back for the band. there is a love interest who works in a donut shop.