Category: Name That Book Request

Looking to ID a YA book about a shy high school girl who lives alone with her father-her mother has died or maybe left. She likes a popular boy in school, and he is somewhat friendly with her. She is befriended by a popular, outgoing girl who teaches her about makeup (they go to a department store and the shy girl buys an expensive lipstick) and how to be more confident and outgoing. In the meantime, the popular girl makes herself over to be more shy and quiet and eventually wins the boy’ attention.

I’m looking for a book with has the quote “Nicola wants what Nicola wants.” It’s a story about a girl and a man murdered in the woods with an arrow. Turns out the girl is a manipulative sex worker even though her father is rich and used to be a cop and that’s where the police concentrate their efforts, but turns out the murder was because of the guy and they were murdered by someone named “Michaelson”.

Hello! I’m trying to remember a book I read when I was 11 in 6th grade. I’m 31 now, so the book was definitely not a recent book. It was about a teenage boy trying to uncover what he believes is the murder of his girlfriend. She was believed to have committed suicide from carbon monoxide from her car in the garage. (Spoilers) I know the ending involved him uncovering that it was really the girls mother who somehow had forced her into the car, I believe? I think her mother was somehow jealous of the girl or wanted the attention from the public that her daughters death would bring? It wasn’t a large book, and the chapters were rather short. I believe some of them could be just about a page or two long, so you felt like you were reading really fast. Thank you in advance for the help!

The only things I remember is that it was 2 boys who were friends and they go on some kind of adventure, and I think at one point there’s a falling out and one has to rescue the other. I remember Woodrow Wilson being mentioned, and at one point they were in a large hall of sorts, because that’s where I first learned the term “flying buttresses.” I read it in the 90s but not sure of the pub date. I remember a dusty purple color but that’s it. This has plagued me for years!

 I don’t remember much about the novel, but I think it may have been for young adults. I read it in 1991, and is likely a Scholastic book. The main characters find clues and determine that there’s going to be some kind of attack on London by the Germans. Towards the end of the book, they steal a fighter plane, and take off in the early morning to try and stave off the attack. They’re expecting to see German aircraft approaching, but only see a lone British Lancaster bomber heading to London. They head towards it, make contact with the pilot using hand signals, because the bomber signals that their communications equipment is damaged. The main characters can’t figure out why there are no German aircraft heading toward London, because they were so certain that an attack was imminent. They then put clues together about the Lancaster bomber that don’t make sense, like the fact that there’s no damage to the bomber that’s returning from a bombing run over Germany. They conclude that the Lancaster bomber must be the key to the attack on London. They make the difficult decision to shoot the bomber down, and when it crashes there’s a huge explosion. The main characters later discover that the bomber was a decoy operated by the Germans, and was on its way to do a sneak attack London. They also learned from Air Command that there was no Lancaster bomber scheduled to return that morning, and that they “saved the day.”

If anyone remembers the title of this book, I’d really love to read it again! Thanks!

Please help. This was read in the late 70s/early 80s (5th/6th/7th grade?). The main character is a overweight girl from a wealthy family accustomed to getting her way. A parent may pressure her to rake better care of herself. She feels unwanted/unloved(?), I think she hides in a large forest, pretending to runaway from home, and gets lost. I vaguely recall her hiding in a hollow tree for some time. She learns to survive (primitive survival) in the wilderness. When she is found much later, she has shaped up both physically and matured emotionally.

Read a book in the late 90s that I have been searching for. For years. Unfortunately the copy I had at the time (early 2000s) my mom borrowed and accidentally left at a hospital when she had surgery for cancer at the time. And, I can’t find the book at all! Driving me crazy.

The book starts with a boy having issues with his mom who doesn’t really take care of him well(Think just bad parenting and drugs and alcohol perhaps). She sends him to live with her parents in the small town she grew up in. To keep him out of trouble. Fire starting is part of it though I can’t seem to remember if Fire is in the title or not. The small town is different for him and his grandparents are strict. He meets his dad for the first time as his dad stayed in that town and started a life and everything. There’s a fire at some point and he is to blame but I don’t really remember anything else.

 1960s innercity (probably NY) Teen girl is new and meets a trouble making group. A girl named Juanita steals something and the main character gets blamed for it. I’m still struggling to remember more. Something about a new sweater??? Suggestion: Ellen and the Gang by Frieda Friedman

 I am looking for a book for teen literature that was about a boy in school (don’t recall if it’s elementary, middle or high school) where he was a bad basketball player and unpopular but then he learned to visualize without feelings to shoot the basketball and became great and popular but did not experience the feeling of joy and at the end he had to make a free throw shot and decided not to use his visualization technique instead tried to use his ability and made the last shot and he felt joy instead of nothing. I thought it was a scholastic apple published booked, the art work of the cover was in baby blue I think.