Lost Classics of Teen Lit: Name That Book!

I have been searching for many years for a YA book I read in grade school that I loved and have not been able to forget. I would love to find it and read it again. I was in 5th or 6th grade so it was published before 1956. It may have been a paperback. It was told from the perspective of a young girl living in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake. As I remember she experienced the quake and the aftermath; she explained in great detail her shock and fear and how this affected her life. Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated.

This is so random but I read this book when I was like a pre teen (I’m 19 now) and I need to remember what it was called! The plot was like these two girls, this one of them had like moved in because they shared a dad or something. She was a bit older than the other one. The other one was like a young ish girl that had like problems arguing with her parents and stuff. She wanted to go to this party and I believe the parents said no. Then the older girl (think she could of been a babysitter? I can’t remember) was like I’ll help you!!! And got her dressed up and stuff to go to this party and I think the other girl ended up having a horrible time. Girl A (younger girl) ended up going home and crying and girl B (older girl) like told her parents she was like crazy and stuff and girl A was like so mad. Girl B turned on girl A abd I really want to know the name of the book. if you can help that would be amazinf !!!!

I’m trying to find the title of a book my good friend has been looking for.  She most likely read it in the early 70s but we’re not sure about that. (She was born in 1964 and remembers reading it as a youth.  She described it this way. A young girl is forced (for whatever reason) to go live with her grandmother.  While there she starts to get clues about her own jewish heritage, which she knew nothing about. She sees her grandmother lighting a special candle every Friday night.  Eventually in the story she finds a piece of lace that somehow can be traced back to her family’s history Jewish history and things they went through in years past. I would greatly appreciate you posting this for me on the site, or somehow your help in connecting me with any entity (website, link or person) that will help reveal to me the title of this book. Thank you very much for your help in advance!

I’m searching for a book I read around 2010-2012, it was a middle grade anthology book published between the late eighties and early 2000s and the author was a man. One of the longer stories in the anthology follows a girl who makes a deal with some malicious entity who promises to fulfill her wishes in exchange for slivers of silver, which she pays with silver candle shavings. As the entity grants more wishes it asks for more expensive payments, eventually asking for slivers of gold, which the girl once again pays with golden candle shavings. The deals are sealed with a gold amulet in this short story, and at the end of the story it was revealed that the entity was stealing gold links from the amulet as payment until the length of the chain got so short the girl was choked. 

All stories in this anthology are in the same vein of cautionary tale and middle grade horror. The cover of the edition I read was lime green with the title in misshapen lettering, and there was a flower and mirrors reflecting eyes on the front cover as well. 

It was not scary stories to tell in the dark, and it was not the Cursed Carnival and Ofher Calamities. 

It’s from 1980 or 81. it’s about a girl named Tatiana who is a sexually active teen lives with her sister (ophelia I think) and parents. Her mother is a commercial actress and Tatiana also made her first movie. Hints: there’s a reference to the movie 10; Tatiana has long red hair, she has a interview with people magazine and ends up on the cover  I believe her boyfriends name is Josh.

I came across your page during a week long endeavor to find the title to a book I read back in the early 2000s. I’ve been wracking my brain and it’s killing me. I will include all that I remember below. I’m pretty sure it could have been an older book and I think it had a mauve/dusty pink paperback cover.

So here’s what I remember: It starts out in a castle with a girl who I think is maybe a princess. She’s a tomboy. I remember they have a big grey dog that she loves. Her parents go missing while she’s asleep and then her nurse maid comes to tell her to get out of the castle and hide. Then she gets chased by someone, presumably trying to kill her. She runs upstairs past a abandoned passage in the castle and hides in a closet of sorts and hears two voices trying to find her and kill her. She ends up escaping somehow and wanders through the woods and ends up coming across some woodsman (kind of 7 dwarves vibes) and they take her in. I’m pretty sure she’s with them for a while through the winter.

One day she gets taken by some robbers or spies and they knock her out and bring her with them. She wakes up by a fire in the woods with the people around the fire. She sees one of them (an ugly old lady) sharpening a dagger made of ice and she finds out that the ice is mixed with poison so that it melts slower. She ends up getting stabbed I her back with the ice and from there she gets really feverish and blurry as the poison takes effect. Obviously she ends up okay at some point and I think she ends up reunited with her mom but that’s about all I remember

Anything helps and thank you so much in advance!

I’ve been trying to track down the title and/or author of a book I remember reading as a tween back in the late 80s/early 90s. My Google search of  ‘henry hudson valley psychic twin indian ghost book’ brought me to your page. It’s set in the Hudson River valley, and follows a set of twins @ 12 years old. The boy is the narrator, his sister is psychic. There’s the ghost of a Native American girl, who has some connection to Henry Hudson, and the plot revolves around putting her spirit to rest. Can you help me find it?

I was doing google searches trying to identify the name of the short sci-fi story by plot and I came across your blog. Maybe it can ring the bell. Plot as I remember: Older man dominated society.  Female Virginity is required for teens.  Boarding school for boys and girls. One of the boys brings to school a furry animal created specifically for boys to rape instead of touching the girls.  Animal can scream.

IT’s been driving me crazy – I’ve been trying to remember a book series that involved magic. I know that the general plot involved a woman driving up in a Rolls Royce and the protagonist starting the adventure through her and her car. I feel like maybe one of the books involved the magic causing hiccups that could not be uncured without a new magic spell.

This is great, thank you! I am looking for a book I read probably in the early 90s. About a boy who met an older kid named “Flim Flam” at the community pool. I don’t remember much else but that is where I learned what that word meant.