Lost Classics of Teen Lit: Name That Book!

Read this children’s/YA book in a random used bookstore growing up in Lawrence, KS, have been trying to find it again for the last ~15 years. Maybe the cover was red? The main theme is solipsism, which is referenced by name numerous times (how I learned the word solipsism as a kid, lol) — the main character is a teen, can’t remember if girl or boy, who becomes convinced that their whole reality is a fiction invented by their brain, and people/scenes will just stop existing once they leave them. They try various things to test this hypothesis, like leaving a room and then quickly going back in, to see if they can catch things disappearing. Their parents make a living traveling around selling things at craft fairs. They move somewhere, I think California, and rent a house from a family that had two children, a girl and a boy — the girl’s bedroom is stereotypically pink and frilly, the boy’s bedroom has model airplanes hanging from the ceiling, there’s a big American flag in the living room. One particular scene I remember, the kid goes down to a river and sees a fisherman in a boat and a kingfisher, tries for awhile to determine whether the fisherman and kingfisher will continue to exist when they leave/look away … My memory of actual plot points is fuzzy but I think towards the end they are attending a craft fair

A YA book i think set in the Phillipines where this boy won’t stop growing?? I think he had a tumor or something im not sure but I read this book ages ago and I cant find it. Had a blue cover i think

Hi! I’ve been searching for a specific book for years now, and this is honestly my last hope haha. I read this book around 2016, could be earlier but around that time. It’s a young adult book about a group of delinquent teens who are sent to a camp with a super strict counselor. I think it’s written in the points of view of each different teen (both boys and girls) but I’m not sure. I remember that they were forced to hike this really long trail and the counselor was yelling at them the whole time. There was also a scene in the book where the teens sneak into the counselors tent to use the radio but I think it was broken or something. And in the end the teens all tried to escape through a cave but there was a flood and I’m pretty sure the counselor followed them to the cave and drowned. That’s pretty much all I know. Thank you!

I need help finding a fantasy/sci-fi book of my youth (late 1970s/early 1980s). Swords and sorcery adventure with a hero who returned from the Crusades. He fought with an unusual, curved sword called a “falchion” that he picked up in the Middle East. I think there may have been a series, but I only read one. Help!

It was about a deep sea fishing crew that found a fish-human hybrid that goes on a rampage to kill it. It was fairly contemporary so would’ve been set in like the 2000s or something. The tag line was something along the lines of “their first mistake was bringing it on-board. Their second mistake was assuming it was dead. Their last mistake was assuming it was the only one.”

I read a book sometime between 2001-2005 about a witch who lives in the woods and is a loner/outcast and it’s deeply cottagecore and I think the cover had a lot of green on it.

A story where two sisters move to this small town and it has a sign that lists how many residents live there. The younger sister befriends the main protagonist girl in the story. The new girl’s older sister is a goth I think? She starts dating the main protagonist’s older brother. The goth sister dies I believe and the brother is very sad about it. Because of what happened the younger sister and her family move out of the town. The protagonist changes the population number to include her friend as someone who lives there. I think her name was Summer.

This was an anthology of children’s stories or children’s literature that was in print in the middle 1970’s. The hard cover was a robin’s egg blue and the book was relatively thick, but *not* coffee table sized. One of the stories was about a Spanish infanta (princess) who was under the protection of her duenna (like a guardian or nanny). Possibly also had Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales but not sure.

YA book I read in like 2012 it is set in like Ancient Rome or Greece. it’s about this girl who falls in love with this boy but he ends up being a god of some sort. In order for them to be together she had to pass this test where basically you have a skill and you must become the god of that skill. She chooses dancing or singing I think. And if you’re like holy enough you will be able to swallow this liquid and become a god she does this while dancing and ends up swallowing it and she becomes a god.

I remember a full colour illustrated book about an underground cat kingdom, with large cat statues and river channels. It has been wrecking my head trying to remember more but I recall the feeling of wonder associated with it as a child.