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!
I am looking for a series of books I read when I was in Middle School around the 1990’s, probably published before then. It was about a group of ghosts, at least four or five, who went around investigating things that happened, including why people died, mysteries involved around the living, and at least one where a ghost who had moved on to the next realm was affecting the current ghostly realm out of vengeance. Would love to find the books again, but I do not remember the names of any of the books as I have read hundreds of books since then. They were just some random finds one day when I got bored and was sent to the library to find a book at the middle school in North Carolina.
I read it in 1997, but I don’t think it was newly published. It was children’s (probably today it would be YA). In any case, it was in my elementary school’s library. I think the author’s last name was near the beginning of the alphabet. I think it had “bride” in the title.
It’s a historical fiction set in the West. The main character is a girl (teenager?) who is an orphan and lives with her aunt and uncle. They’re not abusive, but they’re not nice either. They force her to marry this old man. Their wedding night he dies and she’s left a widow. The book is about her growing up and realizing that she’s actually got power – that she doesn’t have to let her aunt and uncle dictate her life, that she’s wealthy now (the husband was wealthy I think) and that she can do what she wants. There might have been a hint of romance at the end, but I don’t remember.
Two scenes I do remember: the night after the husband’s funeral? or the night after he dies? the aunt and uncle come over and try to force her out of her bed to sleep on the floor and she’s like “no, this is my house, my bed, you’re not forcing me to sleep on the floor while you and your kids who are younger than me sleep in beds.”
The other scene is her buying fabric to make a new dress and she sees this white fabric with ivy on it and wants to buy it and at first I think the shopkeeper is saying that she should still be in mourning, and either it’s been a year and she says so or she says that they weren’t even married a full day so she’s not a mourning widow. In any case, she buys the fabric and feels good about it. Bargain Bride by Evelyn Sisley Lampman solved by Lost Classics Reader Sashutch!
So my granddaughter is trying to find some books to read I was trying to remember some that I read when I was 12 so that would have been around 1985 or so all of the books the titles are just one singular name of a girl they’re were either 4 or 5 books . It was about yhese girl who became friends. All the books were connected but each book was about each individual girl if you could please help me I’ve went down to rabbit hole on this thank you. The title of each book was that girls name. I feel like one of them was heaven or maybe raven. I know thats not alot to go on. One of the girls was a runaway.
Suggestion from Lost Classics reader Charlotte: sounds like late Virginia Andrews books- The Runaways series. The girls were called Brooke, Crystal, Raven and Butterfly. The poster may be mixing it up with the Casteel series also by Virginia Andrews where the protagonist is called Heaven.
Hoping someone remembers this book, I read it in the late 90s but I feel like it would’ve been published in the 80s. I only have a few vague memories…
A girl goes on a camp, meets this popular group of beautiful girls and they sneak out at night to go to a bar or something and hang out with handsome guys. Then after a while, the girls tell her they have to sacrifice her to a mythical beast (a sentinel maybe?) And that’s how they’ve stayed young and beautiful for so long…
The book was a small paperback, black and had a white horse on the front who maybe had red eyes???
Hope someone can help, it’s been driving me mad
Could be 1930-1950s. A book takes place in meadow at the edge of a forest, a big pond. Each chapter is written from the perspective of the trout, grasshopper, bear cub, etc. young adult. My dads favorite and we can’t remember the title.
About a daughter’s relationship with her mom (at least in part.) One of them might be named Violet? I remember them jokingly hitchhiking when the dad pulled up one day. I think the mom may have been mentally ill but I can’t remember finishing the book! I believe this book may be the same as 134 &/or 193.
I’m looking for a possible coming of age possibly published in the 80s or 90s about a young girl and the things I remember most is her having a little sister, and that she had a birthday where she got to get her ears pierced as well as a kayak/canoe from her dad, either the boat or the paddle was red and engraved and she was thrilled with it. She also often paddled out to this little mini island and there may have been something about glass somewhere? There’s one part where she comes down the stairs one morning after getting her ears pierced and her mom asks how they are. They’re res and throb a little and she either comments that it’s normal or says something else but I don’t remember it lasted long.
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