Category: Name That Book Request

 The story is about a blind girl who could feel stories or could tell stories from small rewards you could give her. Then there was a king who was cursed by his old lover to never sleep again, he then became a tyrant king. So when this king heard about the girl that could tell stories he decided to have her as his wife. Her task was to help him fall asleep and if she could not do it by a certain time, he would kill her…. or something like that.
I’ve been trying to find this book everywhere, I just can’t find it. I remember the cover had red theater drapes and a girl who had a nose ring and alot of jewelery around her neck. It looked very rusty so i thought it was a old book. 

 I read a book in second grade, which would have been the late 1980s. I can’t remember the name of the author or title. It’s about a girl named Megan who moves from Oakdale, South Dakota to a new state (I want to say Ohio but I won’t swear to that). She meets a girl named Heather and they become friends. She also meets a girl named Cheryl, the classic popular mean girl, and the bulk of the book is Megan trying to work through these friendships. I vividly remember a scene at the end where Megan sticks a wad of gum in Cheryl’s hair, and I remember the passage: But it wasn’t Heather’s hair she stuck the gum in, it was Cheryl’s! Cheryl let out a blood curdling scream.”

With these details I have not been able to find anything on any website I’ve searched and I’m at a loss! I’d love to let my daughter read it because I remember I loved it so much.

I am searching for a book probably written very early 60s. Its about a girl that goes through a gate or door in a hedge and finds fairies. She goes to play with them every day. I think her name was Nan and I think the book had castle or manor in the title but I could be wrong about this. Ive searched and searched with no luck. Its not The Secret Garden. 

I am looking for a short story that believe appeared in READ magazine between 1977-1985.
The story involved a high school boy who was overweight and wanted to play the flute in the high school band to impress a girl.  He began to eat salads and jog to slim down. In the end she still rejected him but he did not turn back to eating a dozen jelly donuts. Sound familiar?

Solved by Lost Classics reader Sheesh, who writes: the story is called Fat Boy (real imaginative right?). I read it in a book of short stories called You Can’t Tell Me What To Do.

I am looking for a book I read somewhere between 1987-89

A young couple goes to a chapel to get married. The old couple who runs it ends up kidnapping them. I think they kill the grooms and hold all the brides hostage in the attic giving them possibly fruit names. I just remember the name Peaches.

Ok it does sound cheesy but it was a really good book and I think about it a lot wishing I could find it. I’ve been trying for a few years with no luck. I do remember it had a white cover with maybe a girl coming out of a flower.

I’ve tried lots of forums including Facebook and Reddit with no luck. I’m about to give up but thought I would give this a shot.

I’m looking for a book I read in 1976-77. It could have been published in the 1960’s or 1970’s. It was a compilation of spooky short stories with some sort of figure in the cover. One story talks about heroin as “rat’s poison.” The story I remember most is about a red-haired boy name Rusty who drowned, but whose ghost saves another boy from drowning. I would love to find this book again. 

 I’m looking for a book that is about a girl with cancer, i think leukemia, whose parents resign their Jobs and sell their house with the goal of going in a travel with their own recently bought boat to enjoy the last months of life of their daughte

I cannot remember the title of this YA book from late 1970s or 1980s.

Group of girls in junior high. The main character really likes the popular girl Laura and wants to get into her friend group. At one sleepover they were playing Truth or Dare and the main character’s best friends gets a Truth: “Who in this room do you like best?” The main character anticipates that her friend will say Laura (since that is what se would say) but the friend says, “Me. I like me best!”

I recently recalled a book that I read as a boy, and enjoyed – would love to revisit it, but i remember only scant details other than enjoying it. Here is what i remember:

I read the book ~1976 (i was 12, it was age appropriate)
That doesn’t indicate the publishing date – i wouldn’t have paid any attention, so it could be older.
It was new, so it was in print around that time.
paperback, ~150 pages, few or no illustrations.
I do recall a white cover, with a pen/ink drawing of a black-lab type dog.

(very few) plot details:

a bookish boy, best friend is his dog – he refers to the dog as Cerberus (the mythical 3-headed hound of hell) even though it has a real name, and only one head. The boy’s father is mildly irritated at this “he has a name” but isn’t cruel, just concerned about his son’s introversion.

at least a portion of the story is told from the dog’s POV – i remember that the dog was confused by the human practice of “showing teeth” when happy, instead of the canine snarl.
the rest of the plot (i seem to remember some separation – lost dog or something but wouldn’t bet much on that) has pretty much faded from memory.

this isn’t much to go on, but perhaps it jars the memory of another visitor to the site.

There’s a book and I can’t remember the title or author.  It was YA from the 80’s and it had a really long title, something like Part Time Beginner Experimental High School Witch.  The main character and her sister move with their parents to Florida where the main character finds a diary with witch spells in it in the attic.  She starts trying to perform the spells in her spare time as she slowly gets to know people and make friends.  Her sister does ballet and has lessons.  She falls right before an audition and gets hurt.  The sister misses the audition and the main character thinks she was responsible.  The main character starts thinking she’s responsible for bad things that happen around her until she meets the person who wrote the diary in the first place, and she realizes something, and I forget everything that happens.  The cover seemed to be fantasy but the book itself was more of a realistic coming of age novel, if I remember right.  Help?  Thanks!