Lost Classics of Teen Lit: Name That Book!

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

When the book starts a young woman is getting painting lessons from one of the Butler Yeats brothers (William or Jack) in Ireland. By the end of the book (1979) she is in Iran during the revolution that ended with the Shah being overthrown. And that’s all I remember.

I’ve been searching for a book for YEARS and I still can’t find it. It was a book with 3 teenage girls in a dormitory/boarding school. There was magic involved and some sort of danger (maybe a person coming there to harm them?). One of the girls’ dad shows up with a warning about the danger in the middle of the night. I’ve done google searches for years and I cannot find this book. It was a YA book from the library. Not sure if it was a series or not….

It was a Victorian story I think, the boy had a twin sister that died and it was a big family secret that no one could figure out but it turned out she was murdered and her ghost came to the cousin who was visiting the family house and the ghost helped solve her murder.

I’m searching for a fantasy children’s book that I read over and over as a kid. Sadly I don’t remember too much, but I do remember the main character was a boy and he had a small box(small enough to hold with one hand, possibly a gift from his mother?) and he was warned to never open it. It gets stolen in the beginning and the boy has to go on a quest to get it back before it gets opened. I don’t remember too much about the cover, but I think the boy has was riding a giant bird of some sort? Please, if anyone knows what I’m talking about I would be so grateful to hear.

I’m looking for a book about talking hares (it’s not any of the Redwall series) set in a wintertime landscape. The main character (a hare) goes on some sort of quest. I read it in grade 5 so it’s teen oriented I assume

YA book published in the 80s or 90s. About adventures in space. Female protagonist with a cat in space – cover has a young woman interacting with a cat. Can’t quite remember the plot but it involved outer space navigation.