Category: Name That Book Request

I would have read this book in the 70s. I’m not sure if it was YA, but probably.  A young girl is lost in the prairie and is taken in and cared for by badgers.  This is realistically depicted, these are not cartoon badgers.  I think she lives there for some time and becomes like a ‘wild girl/wolf girl’, in that vein.  

I’m looking for a book that’s about a high schooler, who most likely worked at this hotel for a summer job, and the hotel was hosting a Murder Mystery party where the hotel guests have to decide by the end of the night who murdered someone, but a hotel guest actually does end up dying. I think the guests weren’t able to actually leave out the hotel but were able to move around between floors. Another thing about the book was that there was a vacant hotel room thought to be haunted by a man (or woman) who committed suicide, I think. One scene the high schooler ends up going inside the room cause she thought she might’ve heard something inside. I do remember the high schooler having to wear shorts and a blue top as uniform while working. The genre was YA mystery and the author had other books that was similar, in the sense of the genre, kind of like how R.L Stein is with his books. The cover of the book might’ve had a girl on the front and she was looking behind her while running, I’m not 100% sure.

I have been trying to find two books that I cannot remember the names of.

1) set in medieval times, a Lady is left in a crumbling tower with a rose garden and one attendant.  A male thief comes to the to the tower and takes her hostage (I think). It’s a very short novela, and I read it around 1990 or 1991 so it may have been printed in the 80s. It read like a ya romance. 

2) I read this book around 1994 from the school library, but I think it may have been printed much earlier. A boy from a large city with an alcoholic mother. He takes stolen car radios from car thieves, and fixes them/sells them. Someone gets hurt in one of the thefts, he gets the radio and before he can get rid of it his mom is taken to jail or rehab by the police. He’s then sent to live with relatives in the country and had to adjust/go to therapy. Eventually the police realize that he was involved with the stolen radio and his relatives help him through the resulting legal stuff but that’s where my memory goes hazy. 

I’m looking for a book I read at school in 2002. I think it might has been published around 90’s or early 2000. It’s a teenage romance book, whre the plot basically describes how two best friends try to deny they love each other and finally end up together. What i remember from the book cover is that it was clear, and the picture of the boy was in the front (like the sun valley series books). In regards to the plot, i have several lagoons, however i remember the follwing:
– the story develops during summer.
-he was described as a handsome guy and that all girls wanted to be with him.
– at some point of the story, she figures out that she knows exactly the way he loves eating hamburgers, with all exact details and questions herself why is that.
– they also loved to go to the cinema or theatre (not sure) to see old movies
– in the last chapter i remember he was described like feeling jealous, and being in bed, so he got up, with all his messy hair and went to the cinema they used to go together, without knowing exactly why, but he needed to. Si he got there and bought a ticket. She also went to the cinema, she felt terrible,  and was crying (i guess).

They didn’t know they were both at the same time at the cinema, so when they got out, they found each other and kissed. I hope you May help me!

Maybe someone can help with this one – probably published in 1950s or early 60s, but I read it in the 70s.  No dust jacket, since I think my mom got it at a library or garage sale – but hardback, plain red cover.   Girl (named Gabrielle, I think, perhaps French-Canadian?) in high school, trying to fit in.  I remember she starts writing anonymous reports to the school paper with the pen name “Gadfly.”  At some point she wants to get a job and hears the local department store wants girls to model clothing – she doesn’t have anything fancy, but shows up in her snowsuit and at the audition poses as if she’s skiing – and gets the job.  At some point she goes to a barn dance or hayride and meets a college boy, which impresses her peers.  I thought the name of the book was something like “Gabby” but that doesn’t seem to turn anything up.

The book is about a girl with a very controlling boyfriend. He gets jealous if she even looks at another boy. Her mother had a mental break down and she doesn’t know why. She goes to the local pond/lake to ice skate. There she meets a boy she has never seen before. She begins seeing him everywhere. And slips into these trances where she sees visions of him. At one point she realizes he is a ghost because she sees him frozen under the ice at the lake. It turns out he is her uncle. He was murdered trying to protect her mother from her own extremely controlling boyfriend. Who is the uncle of the MCs boyfriend. The bfs uncle was blackmailing the mcs parents because only four people knew the truth and one was dead. He still wanted mcs mom. I think he gave a twisted version of what happened to the bf of mc. I know mc cut her finger on a staple in an old year book she was looking through for something i think school related. And comes across his photo causing a vision of him under the ice with blood. It was a young adult book. I read it early 2000s. Maybe 01 or 02. I would love to read it again. 

I read it in middle or early highschool so I read it in mid to late 90s. It was about a girl, teen???, was home alone when a group of teens or young adults broke in her house. She was thrown in the basement, hurt bad. They messed up the house and I know one of the guys ur!n@ted in a (her?) room.  They got away and she was found and spent some time in the hospital; she had some amnesia which made it harder for authorities to catch the people who broke in.  One of the guys that was in the group felt bad about what they did and was keeping tabs on her. I don’t remember how but he ended up meeting her and since she didn’t remember him they became close.  She eventually remembered or somehow found out he was part of it but I don’t remember what happened after that.  I’m a huge dark romance reader and I do remember hoping the guy would get redemption so I would love to find this and read it again.

I have been searching for years for a book of short stories for girls. I believe it was published in the sixties. I vaguely remember the title being “Stories for Young Girls”. One of the stories was about a girl who didn’t have friends. Her grandmother (as I recall) bought her a St. Bernard puppy to force her to take it out for walks and get out of her house to hopefully meet people. The puppy was very rambunctious and attracted a lot of attention. When people approached the dog, they typically asked “Will he bite?” So the girl named the dog “Willie Bite.” She meets a boy and ends up having a social life. I also remember from that same story that she ate a Sunday dinner of pork and baked beans! I would so love to find this collection of stories for my own granddaughters!

I read a book in the 1980s about a girl (maybe 12yo) who’s mother was mentally ill and/or an alcoholic. They get evicted/move a lot, they were poor, she is picked on in school, she may have had a younger sibling. There was time spent telling about Mom gets a job and they get a place to live and mom is trying to make it feel like a home. Meanwhile the girl is holding her breath and waiting for everything to unravel again. I think mom goes through several unhealthy relationships. I THINK it was written in the girl’s perspective. 

I’ve been searching for this book for a while now. The narrator of the story is a male detective who travels to this small town to solve the cold case of a teenage girl who was mysteriously murdered in the woods. The detective interviews a variety of people in the town . He meets this one woman who was friends with the girl who died when they were teenagers. The woman has a fear of bridges. He also interviews this other woman who lives with her brother who is described as being mentally ill.

Later on in the story we discover that the woman was in a secret lesbian relationship with the girl who died, and they were spotted together in the woods or on a beach by the boy who was mentally ill. The boy went home that night after spotting the girls together and tells his sister who then orders the boy to murder the girl .