Lost Classics of Teen Lit: Name That Book!

I’m looking for a YA novel written in the 1980s about a society (probably futuristic but not obviously so) where everyone “lived” in their own personal little automobiles. The people had legs but never used them because they just lived in these little cars. It’s sort of like they were half human with the bottom half cars…except that at the end, I remember the teenage girl who was the protagonist drove down the highway and got out of the car and stood on her legs for the first time.

I read a book in 1975-76 that was sort of light sci-fi about people here who were human but from another planet and had ESP. They were trying to keep us from killing each other by looking outward into space. I remember that the young girl with ESP was able to “teach” her earth friend to use her own ESP by giving her a “pill” that she made from rolling a piece of bread. I loved this book, but this is all I can pull from my memories…

Okay this one has been annoying me for years! Kids book series about a girl who had lots of pets, including chinchillas, rabbits and guinea pigs. She had an Australian babysitter who played the didgeridoo. One of the books in the series described how to group animals, like a “school of fish” or a “murder of crows”. It was fiction, I read them in around 2008ish, for 8-12 year olds I’d say

I have spent YEARS trying to remember this book. Our teacher read it to us in 4th grade (surprisingly at my catholic school). The premise follows a girl in high school, I believe her mother died and she was trying to cope with it. She throws a party at her house and her drink was drugged and she has to fight a man who happens to be stalking her? It sounds like a book I would read now.

Okay so it was this yellow hardcover book I checked out from my school library. It was about a young girl who went to visit or stay with her dad near water I think? Through the book there’s this little island where the main girl strives to swim to and eventually does at some point. I always remember the words “wish magic” in the title but I’ve never found anything like it online and can’t remember any more details. It was the first like novel I read.

I have a vague memory of a YA book I loved that follows multiple generations of Scottish women, starting in maybe the 1700s and ending in the 20th century. All the women in this family have magic of some kind, and red hair. I think the cover is an illustration of a woman looking at the ruins of a castle. I know this is like every stereotype of a book set in Scotland, but figured it’s worth a shot!

Looking for a kid’s picture book about a little cabagge boy (looks like a cabbage with eyes mouth and small green arms/legs. he “lives” in the country/the field but decides to go away to see other things. Then he ends up smoking/drinking and gets very sick and then decides the field were he grew up was better than he thought and goes back. small chance it was a head of lettuce but i have no idea the title not the author.

Second, I have been driven mad by trying to remember or find a book or book series I read as a child, late 90s/early 00s but could have been published much before that. My memory is so sparse: it follows the happenings of a Catholic family with quite a few kids (like 4-5??). It’s very white bread and not very dramatic. They go to a school I believe called Sacred Heart. Could have even been a major plot point. It *may* have taken place in Pittsburgh? Please someone release me from this curse.

This was a large novel that was both about two men’s bullshit (one is a politician? the other is some kind of professor? they both sleep with the same woman?) and also about a literal angel who causes world war 2 (among other things) in order to engineer…some kind of divine event? the two plots are connected. at some point the world’s most uncomfortable sex scenes occurs when one of the men sleeps with the woman’s mother and her cervix grabs him.

It was a YA drama I think. The title was something about like What the Heart Wants or What Hearts the Hurt or some weird rephrasing of a trueism. I think the story mostly focused on a son watching his parents get divorced or like the fallout of a divorce