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Finding a Book When You've Forgotten Its Title by Gwen Glazer, CommunicationsNovember 22, 2017

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Library books lined up on a shelfCheck out selected results from NYPL Title Quest 2019, held August 2, 2019, as well as Title Quest 2018.

This is an update of a previous post by Sharon Rickson.

It can be tough to remember the title and author of a book you read a long time ago—even if it was a book that was really important to you. Fiction is cataloged by author and title, not by subject or plot line, which makes identifying books by just their storyline difficult.

Readers often ask librarians for help finding these kinds of books. And we can’t figure out the mystery every single time, but we do have a few tricks to help find the answer.

First, pin down everything you can remember about the book, plot, character names, time period in which the book may have been published, genre, etc. All these details are clues in identifying the title and author of the book.

Online resources can help with your search for a half-remembered book, even if all you have is a basic plot line. Searching yourself is a good place to start; then, you can post to a listserv or discussion forum, where someone might recognize it. Or, last but not least, leave a comment on this post!

Before You Start

Try Google! Type in everything you can remember about the book — as in, “picture book rabbi animals advice yiddish” — and scroll through the results. (That’s a real-life example of a book a patron was asking for: It Could Always Be Worse by Margot Zemach.)

You can also try googling one key detail you remember from a book. One of our librarians solved a book mystery by searching “USS You-Know-Who” — the name of a boat in the story that the patron happened to remember. (Another real-life example: She Flew No Flags by Joan Manley.)

Crowdsourcing

  • What’s the Name of That Book?
    A Goodreads group with searchable discussion posts and thousands of questions and answers.

  • Name That Book
    A LibraryThing group of ~3K members — many of whom are librarians or library-adjacent — who help solve book mysteries via threaded discussions.  

  • The Fiction_L listserv
    Stumpers! Search archives of past questions, answered by an intense book-ish community, or subscribe and post a new one. 

  • Reddit’s whatsthatbook thread
    A nearly endless thread of users trying to help other users remember book titles, including several frequently requested books. Especially good for science fiction and fantasy.

  • "Stump the Bookseller" blog
    A cool indie bookstore in Ohio that maintains extensive, searchable archives — and offers a $4 service for personalized help. Lots of children’s books here.

  • Big Book Search
    If you can only remember what the cover looks like, try this cover-search tool.

Library Databases (log in with your library card)

More Suggestions

  • If you can remember just one word, use the search function on Goodreads or Library Thing to find long lists of titles with a particular word.

  • Goodreads’ browse-able lists of titles that readers have shelved in unique categories, such as authors’ professions or decades of publication, is also be helpful.

  • For recently published books, the reviews in Booklist Online are broken down by detailed genre.

How to Move On

Sometimes, it's just not going to happen, and you can't find that elusive book you've been searching for. It's okay! Great news: The world is full of great books! Here are a few ways to find more...

Feel free to leave a comment and tell us about a book you’re trying to remember! Our library staff members will pop in and check it periodically, and readers of this post are welcome to make guesses and suggestions.

View all posts by Gwen Glazer

Comments

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Book

Submitted by Genesis Lyles (not verified) on January 2, 2020 - 5:20pm

I’ve wanted to find the same book as well. I read it so long ago I thought I was dreaming but please contact me if you found it.

Romance

Submitted by Phil (not verified) on October 26, 2018 - 10:17pm

Read an excerpt of this book but can't find it now it's about a girl i think her name is Hanna it goes something like along the fence i saw him or watched him he said you love me you know that you love me can not remember much more

!

Submitted by maura (not verified) on October 27, 2018 - 8:59am

i am looking for a book that is about a girl named Pam who is trying to find the cure to her baby sister's sickness. the cure ends up being a killer plant or something in a swamp. her friend Todd goes along too as well as Pam's brother. Pam's sister is named grace. thank you!

Name of erotic romance book

Submitted by Balerie (not verified) on October 27, 2018 - 5:27pm

Can anyone please tell me the name and/or author of a romance book where a guy and girl fall in love, the guy I believe is in a motorcycle club but not sure about that but he does have enemies which leads to him making a deal with his terminally ill twin brother to take the bofriend’s place and the girlfriend does not know of the switch and takes care of the “boyfriend” until he dies. This is a series of three books. In the next book she sees the boyfriend and finds out that he never died and that he switched places with his dying brother.

HELP ME FIND THIS BOOK/ MOVIE

Submitted by Isabella (not verified) on October 28, 2018 - 4:26pm

I am super stumped on this and can't figure it out! It was a book or movie i either read or watched when i was younger around 10-12 it had a brother and a sister that were gothic it seemed like. their parents died in a house fire and i think the boys name was Edward. I'm not sure if it was a book or a movie. Maybe something like "Edward and Elle" i know their names had started with the same letter. HELPPPPP !

Is it maybe a series of

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on October 30, 2018 - 11:20pm

Is it maybe a series of unfortunate events (lemony snickett)??

Try this

Submitted by Allison (not verified) on January 21, 2022 - 11:29pm

Try The Diamond in the Window by Jane Langton. Edward and Eleanor and the children. There are several books about them and were some of my favorites.

???

Submitted by Betsy (not verified) on October 28, 2018 - 8:47pm

So i read this book a whiiile ago about this girl who had, years previous, signed a contract to help these magic lands if needed?? there was a clown who had put a silence spell on this kingdom and she defeated him by hitting a golf club into this hole where his nose should be? I think she brought this prince home????

Looking for name of a book

Submitted by Deborah Fleming (not verified) on October 28, 2018 - 8:51pm

The end of the book has a twist where the old wiman who sits under a tree (singing?) and thought to be crazy is actually discovered to be mourning her son who was accidentally killed by his father, Frank, as a young child.

Looking for help

Submitted by Myriam (not verified) on October 29, 2018 - 12:30am

Could you please help me remember where I've seen this. Don't know if it's from a movie or a book, but in it there's a very sick man who's raving who sees a girl he doesn't know and mistakes her for someone else. She stays by his side and hold his hand and it seems to ease him, and she stays for a long time, probably until he dies.

I can't remember title

Submitted by Lisa Brown (not verified) on October 29, 2018 - 6:27pm

I read this thriller at the beach and can't remember title. 2 college girls returned home for visit and someone broke in and 1 hid and was safe and the other and family was murdered......the 1 survivor ended up in an rv the murder was traveling in and in the end it was the sheriff.....any body? it was a yellow book LOl if that helps..

Intensity by Dean Koontz

Submitted by G (not verified) on December 24, 2018 - 11:48am

Intensity by Dean Koontz

Train counting book

Submitted by Sherri (not verified) on October 30, 2018 - 1:02pm

My son had a book when he was a toddler and there was a section about "mama's homemade chili with rice".

Please help me find this book

Submitted by Angela (not verified) on October 30, 2018 - 10:52pm

I read a book sometime in the 1970s about kids that went to school on a boat/ship. That is all that I remember, except that I loved it.

PLZ help find this book

Submitted by Ana (not verified) on October 30, 2018 - 11:13pm

I read this book maybe 10 years ago and i want to re-read it and show it to my little brother (it was my fave book when i was his age). So the book has many stories inside it and i cannot for the life of me explicitly remember the plot to any of the stories, however I remember little parts. There was this crazy lady in the park that fed pigeons, and a man that would light street lamps. i also remember there being a lighthouse or a tall building with lost of stars that these children would climb. I remember when i was reading it it reminded me of the series of unfortunate events (lemony snickett) however its mostly the mystery and gothic style that was similar not the plot. I also remember the book was a hardcover and was a beige or yellowy colour. I know its not much but any help would be great fully appreciated!

I recognize parts of that!

Submitted by Jesse (not verified) on December 10, 2018 - 8:53pm

Are you thinking of the Mary Poppins books? There's definitely a lady feeding pigeons in one of those (and a park), and children climb ladders to place stars in the sky. Do you remember the stars coming from the wrappers of gingerbread, and a woman breaking off pieces of her fingers that turn out to be candy? Those books are amazingly creepy sometimes. They're the right era for gas street lamps that need to be lit, too.

Can't remember the name of the book

Submitted by Manona Berkenpas (not verified) on October 31, 2018 - 3:21am

Mc is helping a girl and her friend from a physcopath killer the girl and the mc find the friends family only to find out that she was kidnapped from her father who is also a mob boss . The girl finds out that her father sold her to the physcopths mother when she was just a child... While under the protection of the mc she paints a tiger on the wall in the club house then finds out that her mothers brother is also in the same mc that is protecting her only cause he recognized the tiger painting on the wall .. If any one can help me find this book I would be forever in your debt

Scary stories

Submitted by Kit (not verified) on October 31, 2018 - 7:32am

I’ve been searching for a couple of years now for this, and I can’t seem to let it go. It’s a book of short stories I read in middle school- all terrifying. I don’t think there were more than ten or so in the book. One was about a boy who got eaten by a giant, but survived by sheltering in the giant’s tooth. There were more people who were eaten, and they sometimes tried to cling to the giant’s teeth- but they usually ended up falling down its gullet, I think.. Another story was about a kid who could tell something was wrong with the area beneath his bed. When toys ended up underneath, they disappeared. He talked about the feeling of uneasiness he got from it all. One night, these hands crept up from beneath and tried to grab him. He tried yelling for his parents, but the door to his bedroom locked. And when the hands succeeded in dragging him down, he discovered they had entered some sort of underworld. Then he realized he recognized the person who had dragged him beneath the bed, and that person explained the reason. He was stuck in this underworld until he could grab someone else from their bed and force them to take his place. I can’t remember anything else, but know there are at least a couple more stories. Can you help me find this book, please?

I've read that story! Did a

Submitted by Leah (not verified) on October 25, 2019 - 1:50am

I've read that story! Did a search based on my own memories and your posts, and came up with the book/collection "ODDER THAN EVER" and that story in particular is "The Giant's Tooth" by Bruce Coville. Thanks for reminding me of its existence - putting it on my list of stories to revisit from my youth.

I need help to find this book

Submitted by Veronica (not verified) on October 31, 2018 - 9:20am

This book I read when I was probably 10/11 I don’t remember the cover, author or even tittle. I do know some of the details of it. The way it starts out is by a knight or a man riding a horse to take a child into the woods. He lays the child on a stomp but as he walks alway from the child he gets ugly and deformed. So her goes back to her and becomes her caretaker. Another scene from the book that I remember is that she comes in and there’s a group of young boys playing basketball then the same child now grown appears. She seems to be wearing a nurses uniform. That’s as much I can recall from the book. Please help and thank you.

Sci Fi

Submitted by Val (not verified) on November 1, 2018 - 1:58am

I read this sci book about a submarine mission.. A group ended up getting lost in another dimension. Instead of coming back to their own place and time they got sent back to a much later time and place.

I cant remember...

Submitted by Elsa (not verified) on November 1, 2018 - 4:51am

I read a book when i was in high school, roughly 15 years ago. I cant remember how it happened but a woman someone ended up in a cave and there was these big bats, human size, and there was a search-rescue team out looking for her. Found her eventually and this bat thing had kept her as his toy. raped her and so on. at the end i think she was pregnant with its offspring. cant remember anything about the cover, author, year or anything other than that vague memory.

This book is Olivia by R. Lee

Submitted by Avid Reader (not verified) on September 26, 2021 - 3:25am

This book is Olivia by R. Lee Smith

I've been trying to find this

Submitted by Louise J (not verified) on January 13, 2022 - 4:49pm

I've been trying to find this book for ages now. I think this is the one you're looking for: On Wings of Leather, although, when I read it years ago, it had a different title, which I think was the Devouring. I always remembered the character Morgan Blaylock for some reason!

Please help find the tittle of this awesome book i wanna reread.

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on November 1, 2018 - 9:42am

I am looking for a novel by twins.. they go by the names Allexis and Allex.. not sure though... the thin twin signs a deal to marry some tycoon... but she doesn't go through with it... and the other twin had to coz her sister forged her signature...

Is it "splitting hairs"? I'm

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on January 13, 2022 - 7:34am

Is it "splitting hairs"? I'm not sure too

Her name is the title

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on November 1, 2018 - 2:45pm

So I'm looking for this book where the girl is in high school and her name isnt even like a regular name it's like a word that starts with N. And she can read people's emotions by touching them. She's looking for her Dad through newspaper ads. Her mom sucks and yeah that's all I remember. Help?

I don't know what that book

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 28, 2020 - 3:11pm

I don't know what that book is, but those details match up very well with the girl from Marvel's Cloak and Dagger

This is the Nearly Series! I

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on January 7, 2021 - 9:27pm

This is the Nearly Series! I love them! The first book is Nearly Gone and the second is Nearly Found!

Please help me find this book

Submitted by Alex Ogun (not verified) on November 1, 2018 - 7:01pm

The story is about a poor but good looking guy who was a member of a band, a rich girl (Stacey Wescot) fell in love with him and on the night of their wedding his best friend (the drummer in the band Mike) had an accident on the way to the wedding and died. There was a girl (Fran Lane) who had been hanging out with Mike. Fran Lane was brought up by her Uncle who had in-roper sexual relations with her until her 18th Birthday when she came into her inheritance left to her by her aunt. Fran got into a relationship with the first guy and when his wife (Stacey) said she was pregnant Fran said she was also pregnant

please help

Submitted by paige (not verified) on November 1, 2018 - 9:21pm

this book i am looking for is about this girl in school her teacher is making the whole class write journals that they need to turn in at the end of each week. in her journals she writes about literally everything that goes on in her life. she talks about her mother step dad brother and she talks in the journals as if shes talking to the teacher. she first starts out saying its dumb and then she starts putting personal stuff into the book

I think I know!

Submitted by Mason Clark (not verified) on May 13, 2019 - 11:10am

Is it Freedom Writers?

Is it perhaps...

Submitted by ST (not verified) on October 30, 2020 - 12:48pm

Don’t You dare read this mrs dunphrey by margaret haddix

name of the book /author

Submitted by Ron (not verified) on November 1, 2018 - 11:20pm

30 years ago I read a story in German about a boy who went walking in the mountains (Swiss Alps?) with his father, the boy rested in a place while his father went on a bit further, the father never returned. Anyone know this?

HELP ME FIND THIS BOOK

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on November 2, 2018 - 12:48pm

This book is about an attorney that is investigating the death of a powerful man and its heritage, the widow plays an important role in the story. The lawyer was divorced and his ex wife is an attorney too. It's a book from de 90s

I’m looking for a book

Submitted by Denise (not verified) on November 2, 2018 - 3:11pm

The book I’m looking for had a Volkswagen on the front cover. A guy and girl may have been in there as well. The book goes back and forth between one summer in the 60’s and current times. The main character is a guy whose father makes him go work in a plant for one summer somewhere in the south. He makes friends with the guys he works with, one of whom nicknames him Smarts because Smarts secretly teaches this tough guy math and he’s a college graduate. These guys in the plant clean out tanks and later in life they are stricken with cancer. One of the guys in the plant works the loading dock and we don’t discover his name (they all have nicknames) until late in the book, but he’s a key player in the plot. There’s an Italian family that Smarts befriends. One of the girls becomes his secret girlfriend for the summer. She’s smart like him and ambitious. She has a sister who all the guys like. They have twin older brothers who get drafted at the end if the summer. Something happens and Smarts leaves before the end of the summer without saying goodbye. But no one ever really forgot him and he never forgot them. Fast forward 20 years or so and Smarts is back in town but I can’t remember why. This is when they discover the cancer causing chemicals were in the tanks they climbed inside to clean out. We also find out why Smarts left so abruptly that summer. And there’s another twist that is revealed concerning the model and construction of a shopping center. Whose original plan was it and who stole it and claimed it as his own. Great book! I’d love to find it so I can own a copy.

Short stories for children

Submitted by Julie (not verified) on November 2, 2018 - 3:16pm

Hi everyone. I remember the name of the stories but I don't remember the title of the book—it might even be an English textbook that contains short stories. I was in elementary school at the time when I had access to this book. The two stories contained were "The Wind In the Rosebush" and another horror short story called "Poor Sandy", at least I think that's the tittle. I have been unable to find Poor Sandy anywhere. Its about an unlucky boy who is turned into a tree and shortly after lumberjacks come into the forest and cut him down resulting in the forest being haunted. If anyone can point me to the right direction, I would appreciate it. Thanks!

Poor Sandy

Submitted by Kathryn (not verified) on October 3, 2019 - 9:51am

Is this it? https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Po%27_Sandy

I too was traumatized by that textbook.

Submitted by Sandy (not verified) on November 17, 2019 - 4:56pm

It had a white cover and was called Fantasy. It contained Poor Sandy, the Incredible Shrinking Man, and many other unforgettable stories. I read it in 1983, in elementary school. Wish I could find it on Amazon. But I can't find it ANYWHERE!! Must have been banned and burned.

Finding old books

Submitted by Trish (not verified) on December 5, 2020 - 1:31am

Try abebooks.com. Super helpful at finding out of print books.

Book with Golem in it

Submitted by Jose Rodriguez (not verified) on November 2, 2018 - 7:25pm

A rabbi's son is killed and a Black cop investigates. He falls in love with victim's widow and murder mystery gets deeper as rabbi and his friends awaken a golem to avenge young Jewish son.

holocaust book, cant remember name

Submitted by Lisa Lockley (not verified) on November 2, 2018 - 8:53pm

Years ago I came across a book that was written from the point of view of a young boy growing up in germany. His father was SS, a nazi. It showed how his father was his hero and him beginning to come to the realization of what his father's 'work' was. I didn't get a chance to finish the book. I am now homeschooling teens and want to use it to show how people were convinced to follow such a horrific path. Anyone know the title of the book?

Could it be Boy in the

Submitted by Vanessa Whitley (not verified) on May 5, 2019 - 12:47am

Could it be Boy in the Striped Pajamas?

Vampire Romance Novel?

Submitted by RJ Gilmore (not verified) on November 3, 2018 - 11:27am

Its so funny, because I read this book in the 90's about three times and I can't recall the name or title. I remember the cover a bit. A girl with long wavy black hair. I think she was in a red dress and she was being seduced by a man of course, in the photo. So all I can remember of the book is she was a vampire. I believe she escaped her maker, and she enlists in high school (not unlike the Last Vampire but it isn't that book) and she falls in love with a boy. The problem is, he has a girlfriend already. Well, the girlfriend and her get into a fight and somehow, the girlfriend becomes a vampire as well which causes further problems. In the midst of it all, I think she has to contend with being chased by her master who wants her back and this dudes girlfriend. I wanna say the vampires name was Rita, Anita, or something but I could be wrong. It was a good book and I would love to read it again.

Please help me find the name of this book

Submitted by Briana (not verified) on November 3, 2018 - 10:41pm

This is a novel about and an Egyptian princess who didn't know she was a princess.her mother gave birth to her in and died after child birth.the man who helped her mum deliver her raised her @ his child.he was a lion tamer and passed on his talent to his her.he use to tame lion for the royal Egyptian family.so on in his death his daughter travel to the empire to continue with with his job for the royal family while journeying through the sea she met the head worrior to the the current ruler,her half sister.he spotted her resemblance to queen immediately and also they both fell in love.he took her to the palace.long story short the queen also immediately recognized her resemblance to her and from the ring she wore on her neck not knowing that the ring is prove of her royal heritage.a kind of identification their father gave to his wives bjt the queen acted like she didn't.trying to test her to see if she wanted to take the throne from her.one or the man in the queen court wanted the queen death and gave fresh meat with blood to the lion continuously which was against the rule becuse it will make the lion kill people.this evil man then set the lion free to kill the queen and when the lion was about to attack the queen during court procession her half sister the lion tamer fought the lion and overpowered the lion as the expense of her own life.and the queen said to her what have you done little sister?the evil man accused her of being the one who tried the kill the queen but the queen knew better and said to him "did you just lie against a princess of the royal court and my half sister?everyone in court where amazed @ the revelation including the lion tamer herself and her love the head of millitary or so in the kingdom questioned the queen about it and queen said ,she is my father daughter and her mother was my father wife,does that not make her my half sister?which is why you recognized her resemblance to me when you first saw her.then lost princess said to her half sister the queen "please safe my baby"she was pregnant for her love(the warrior)although the had serious issues and not on talking term which I cannot remember what happened except what I have wrote up there.

Lost name of great book

Submitted by Ananda (not verified) on November 4, 2018 - 12:13am

The book I have been searching for is a book with yellow cover and an outline of a bird(i believe on the lower right hand corner of the cover) about a boy named ethan(I think its ethan) going to war or in the army and in the beginning of the book is is saying how he was raised on a chicken farm and when in bootcamp or something he has a picture of his childhood friend who he is completely in love with but never told her personally but plans on telling her he is also teased by his bunk mates for not telling her and how she is really pretty.

HELP ME I LOvE THIs BOOK AND I CANT REMEMBER THE TITLE

Submitted by Anna (not verified) on November 4, 2018 - 12:13am

I remember that a girl found out she was written by an author that came to her school one day. She has two friends one is named West I think. Both are boys. One main event is one of the boy and the main character, a girl, are having a midnight swim and are in love. In the end, the girl is in a white room because her author put her book(Life) away. The girl only has paper and pen in her pocket left and she writes her life back and in the end, West actually was supposed to be forced into her life but the boy she had a midnight swim with, love each other now.

Book

Submitted by John (not verified) on November 4, 2018 - 1:39am

I read this book a few months ago. It is a dystopian novel, has a male teenage protagonist, male author. It’s about this substance that can be shapeshifted into anything using the mind. The protagonist is on a spaceship with I think 19 other teens to go to a planet where this substance can be harvested. They compete to determine who gets to harvest it, and there’s a monetary reward for the winner. I believe the name of the book is the name of the substance, but I can’t remember what the substance was called. The cover was blue and black and shiny I think. Thanks to anyone who can help.

Title Quest success!

Submitted by Gwen Glazer on August 2, 2019 - 12:56pm

We think this book is Nyxia by Scott Reintgen!

I read the book like 7 years

Submitted by Ibrahim (not verified) on November 4, 2018 - 4:36am

I read the book like 7 years back is about a tree that when climbed it changes world there is this character that i can still remembered moon face

Folk of the Faraway Tree

Submitted by ML (not verified) on November 19, 2018 - 5:02pm

This sounds like Folk of the Faraway Tree (and the rest of the series) by Enid Blyton!

I Know Your Book!

Submitted by Maisie (not verified) on September 22, 2020 - 1:40am

The Faraway Tree series, by Enid Blyton :)

Amazing book read in grade 7

Submitted by Petrus (not verified) on November 4, 2018 - 12:55pm

I remember we read about a man who had good character. His brother committed a crime but he was sentenced in his place, because if he stood proxy, no one could sentence his brother again. I also remember there was a dual and someone was killed. There was a lot of time spend traveling by ship before he came back to win over the girl he once loved. Probably plays off in the 1800's and no its not The Count Of Monte Carlo.

Name of of the book, I can't remember the title

Submitted by Tharwah (not verified) on November 4, 2018 - 2:31pm

Its a book about a girl that was kidnapped and was kept in a cave close to the ocean. I think the book cover was white.

WIthout you by Saskia

Submitted by Ket (not verified) on November 29, 2021 - 7:43am

WIthout you by Saskia Sarginson

What Book Is This??

Submitted by Jason (not verified) on November 4, 2018 - 2:35pm

I read this book once about a boy and girl who drowned in a pond and their dog (Saint Bernard maybe?) went in to save them and drowned. They all live as ghosts now and discover new ghost powers and when someone buys the house they live in, they try to scare away this girl. At one point I think the boy kept opening the alive girl's dresser drawer to scare her.

Ghost story about drowning?

Submitted by Catherine (not verified) on May 26, 2020 - 2:14am

I think I'm looking for the same book?

It's called Ghost Twins by

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on August 14, 2020 - 8:29pm

It's called Ghost Twins by Dian Curtis Regan

Can you help me find this book?

Submitted by Ana (not verified) on November 4, 2018 - 11:16pm

I am looking for a book and can't remember the title and it's hard to explain what it's about. It's about a young woman working as a maid or servant in a cottage or lodge of some kind and a famous writer comes to stay and I think she has feelings for him but he is gay or bi. It mentions a couple of other writers or poets that he knew, can't remember who but along the lines of Oscar Wilde or Dickens, probably not that famous. The main writer doesn't live in the country but he goes there for a break, might be English countryside or American. I think it was around the Victorian era or early 1900s. The edition I had featured a man diving in boxers or shorts, just diving or swimming with a few flowers or maybe bees around him. It's a fairly new book so I'm thinking it would have been written after 2003. It reads like a biography, even while reading it I thought it was but it is a reimagining of a real writers life or what it would have been for the main girl to have known him. Sorry I can't be of much help when it comes to a keyword in the title. If I just knew the writer's name that would even help. He was assumed to be homosexual in real life. Don't think he was married. I am also looking for another book I read as a child. Again, very hard to explain. It is set in another fantasy universe. I remember it being a very dry, acrid place where people were nomadic. It centers around a young girl, the people in it had unusual names. The title may have something to do with 'summer'. Definately a young adult or youth book. Fantasy/sci fi genre.

Found!

Submitted by Ana (not verified) on November 22, 2018 - 11:05pm

The other night I came across a box of mine from when I last moved hidden underneath bags of other stuff in my parents garage and upon opening it I realized it contained a lot of books I haven’t read yet and some I really enjoyed and want to re read and lo and behold the first book I mentioned in my post was down the bottom. So thankful as I have many boxes of books in storage and without someone helping me with the title I thought it would be a while before I found it again. The book is ‘The Great Lover’. ‘The Great Lover is a 2009 biographical novel by Jill Dawson. The novel follows the fictional Nell Golightly as she encounters the eccentric poet Rupert Brooke in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire.’ Definitely going to read it again as when I searched reviews on the internet there were lots of details I don’t remember. I usually like fantasy or historical/period romance, so wasn’t sure if it would be my cup of tea but I recommend it to anyone who likes a strong, candid female protagonist and a frivolous but loveable poet set in a bygone era. Very good read. Love the poem of the titles namesake as well.

Can't remember the name of the book

Submitted by Scarlet (not verified) on November 5, 2018 - 2:08am

In this book the boy falls for a girl who already has a girl child and her husband is no more. Her husband was in military or something and he got killed there. The girl child in actual is not the husbands child. The girl gets raped by 2 guys during an event she goes with her best friend who was her husband now. The husband takes the responsibility on him and marries her. And the boy she is falling in love is a police. The end is with the three of them with the soon to come baby paying respect and thanking the husband for all his help And love.

Title Quest success!

Submitted by Gwen Glazer on August 2, 2019 - 1:40pm

We think this book is Annie's Song by Catherine Anderson!

Annie's Song is different, it

Submitted by Nikki (not verified) on May 21, 2021 - 6:42am

Annie's Song is different, it's about a deaf woman who was assaulted and doesn't realize she's pregnant, and a neighbor who marries her to sorry of take hey off hey family's hands and realizes she's deaf, not developmentally disabled like they thought.

Searching for a book

Submitted by Denise (not verified) on November 5, 2018 - 12:44pm

It's a book set in the south in the 60's. A college graduate is forced by his father to go down south (I think from NY) to work in a plant. He feels like a misfit but slowly makes friends with the other guys. One of the guys (I think his name is Sal) wants the college kid to secretly tutor him. So the college kid secretly leavs lesson notes for Sal and Sal gives him the nickname Smarts. The plant has huge tanks that the guys climb in and clean and there's a loading dock as well. I think Smarts only works the loading dock. There's an Italian family that befriends Smarts. They have two daughters (one of which Smarts starts dating) and twin boys, who get drafted by the end of the summer. I don't remember what exactly happens, but Smarts feels like the girl betrays him and he leaves town at the end of the summer without saying goodbye to anyone. Twenty years later, he comes back and finds the girl is a lawyer. She's a widow with two teenagers. Smarts starts looking up Sal, and some of the others guys from the plant. He finds some are sick and some have died. Turns out the tanks they climbed in contained cancer causing chemicals. Also, Sal had a secret plan he only showed Smarts to build a shopping center in his town. Someone stole his plan, claimed it as his own and got rich. It's a great book and I'd love to find it.

Book about a girl and boy who

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on November 5, 2018 - 2:42pm

Book about a girl and boy who the boy drives to school everyday. They listen to a different song everyday and they fall in love

It’s called shuffle repeat by

Submitted by Elizabeth Thompson (not verified) on September 25, 2020 - 11:14pm

It’s called shuffle repeat by Jen Klein I’m pretty sure

Book Called Grace

Submitted by Owen (not verified) on November 5, 2018 - 10:04pm

There was this book I once read about a guy who harbored a runaway named Grace. The book was called Grace when I read it but i found out the name changed. the runaway was pregnant and it turns out it was her stepdad's. Which is the reason she ran away. She falls in love with the guy who harbored her but realizes she has to go home and face her stepdad. The stepdad kills her and the kid knows, he tells the police and the find proof which puts the mother in shock. There is a memorial at school and the book ends. Don't remember author or the new name of the book

looking for a book about a teacher during the 1800s in the US

Submitted by Lydia Eltringham (not verified) on November 6, 2018 - 10:07am

My friend is a teacher and she loaned me this book and it was fascinating and I'd like to read it again. I think it was about the school children, what they had to do to get to school, walking through the snow, barely any shoes, etc. I think it was non fiction but it read well.

Possibly "The Thread That Runs So True"

Submitted by Teadye Howell (not verified) on November 20, 2019 - 10:40pm

This book is not set in the 1800's, but The Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart is an autobiography of Stuart's early careers beginning with teaching in Kentucky when he was still a teenager himself. His students were barefoot, I recall. Stuart later became a champion for higher pay and recognition for teachers and better funding for schools.

Possibly Christy?

Submitted by Nicole (not verified) on August 4, 2020 - 11:43pm

This description is very evocative of the Christy series by Catherine Marshall. It takes place in the early 1900s in Tennessee and is about a young woman from Asheville who goes to work as a schoolteacher. None of her students have shoes and there is a scene where she is looking at their tiny bare footprints in the snow. I have several of the books so I’m not sure if the one you read was the first one or not. It would be worth reading through the descriptions of the first 4 if the first book is not the one you want, since a good chunk of the first book is her traveling to the town where she will teach. They are fiction but based loosely on the life of the author’s mother.

Desperately Seeking A Specific Children's Book

Submitted by TJ (not verified) on November 6, 2018 - 12:08pm

PLEASE HELP! Looking for this book (a children's book) about a boy who doesn't understand why his parents, grand parents and teachers aren't as excited about what he does anymore. In the end it's trying to teach the little boy that as he grows up people are going to expect more from him and that's in turn how he grows. As I recall the cover is yellow with red lettering and shows the little boy and I believe he was hugging his dad.

Please help me find the name and author to this book!

Submitted by Iona Macleod (not verified) on November 6, 2018 - 12:44pm

Hello everyone! I have been scanning the internet for a book i read a few years ago but i have no idea who the author or the name of the book is. However, I shall give you a description of it in the hopes that someone will come to my rescue! The main character was a little girl who went by the name of Pia, Pea, Pip, or perhaps Beau; something along those lines! She had a younger sister whose name I cannot remember, and she lived with her heavily pregnant mother (Her father presumed dead or at war?) The book was set in early 1900's (possibly WW1 era) and she lived in the french country side. Although the book is set in France, the book is in english. Anyway, somewhere in the book, the two sisters meet a man- Claude I think his name is- and they befriend him ( i don't think the girls tell their mother about Claude). They run out every morning after breakfast to meet Claude and I believe Claude has a dog? Claude may have a pretty dark background, possibly to do with a wife or his children dying, and this is why he adores the girls so much. The scene in the book that i remember most vividly is when the girls and Claude are playing in a field where there is a big tree, and one of the girls decides to climb it but falls, hits her head and is knocked unconscious. She has a big gash in her head and the other girl runs home to tell her mother, as their house isn't very far away. Claude stays with the hurt girl to keep her company and look after her. But at this point in the book, the mothers due date is getting nearer and nearer, and so the stress of having to run after the girl to the place where her other daughter is lying unconscious is unbearable, triggering the mothers waters to break and her labour begins. Claude has to manage the vulnerability of the birthing mother and the two girls and so calls an ambulance an safely gets them both to the hospital, where the baby is safely delivered and the girl is fine. The family befriend Claude. So, if anyone had any idea of what book this is, Please could you email me. Iv'e wanted to re-read this book for so long!

A great and terrible beauty,

Submitted by Jamie (not verified) on July 31, 2020 - 5:30am

A great and terrible beauty, rebel angels and the sweet far thing :)

teen book

Submitted by Kathy Pirnie (not verified) on November 6, 2018 - 4:38pm

This book is about 5 (maybe 8) teens from a high school, waiting to go to a party Friday night. Each chapter is told by a different character till they come together. I'm pretty sure the title was something like The Party.

A recent book? Maybe ...

Submitted by G (not verified) on December 24, 2018 - 12:26pm

A recent book? Maybe ... Best. Night. Ever.: A Story Told from Seven Points of View

I'm trying to remember this

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on November 6, 2018 - 8:21pm

I'm trying to remember this book that I read back in high school. It's a fiction book about about five or six kids of all ages who live on the streets. They are all brought together by one girl who never stays with them. One girl runs away but returns home to bathe, eat, and get clean clothes but doesn't want to stay home because her step brother harms her. Can anyone help me?

Searching a book

Submitted by Charlotte (not verified) on November 7, 2018 - 2:10am

I once read a book and I don’t really remember the title but it’s about a married couple, they had a son but he disappeared... Many years later he come back but he didn’t aged but the woman and her husband became old... sorry for my bad English I’m still improving...

Looking for book for over 5 years.

Submitted by Renessa Canedy (not verified) on November 7, 2018 - 1:32pm

I read a book about 5+ years ago about a girl in the victorian age wanting to travel and see the world but with the era she lives in she is expected to be a lady. I do not remeber the title or the author. I remember the covered vividly of three characters, the main character included, which was a girl with black hair in a green dress, then the main character in the middle in a sapphire blue dress and auburn hair, and a blue eyed-blonde in a pink dress. The story was a mystery romance. The lover ended up being a famiky friend that she competed with until she joins him at the end to sail the world. Her friends and her lover solve a murder mystery. And in the story, you discover she has mutiple siblings; one being special-ed and having dwarfism. I have tried countless searches for this book. Anything would be great help!

Title Quest success!

Submitted by Gwen Glazer on August 2, 2019 - 1:20pm

We think this book is Three Maids for a Crown: A Novel of the Grey Sisters Paperback – August 2, 2011 -- by Ella March Chase!

i wanna know the name of i

Submitted by carmen (not verified) on November 7, 2018 - 1:59pm

i wanna know the name of i book about i girl that lives with her father and she found i lion, i baby lion and years later her father founds the lion thats not a baby any more and killes it

Book

Submitted by Dana (not verified) on November 7, 2018 - 4:59pm

I'm pretty sure it's a Canadian novel, about an Asian girl, her dad is a cop I think. She's always getting involved in mysteries. Is dating this older guy (like 1 or 2 years) that her dad thinks is a bad boy. In one book, it looked like he murdered the victim but it turns out he didn't.

spy novel

Submitted by ANSH (not verified) on November 8, 2018 - 6:33am

Charecter named Lana , executed by soviets story set on cold war background she dies but her son lives as free US Citizen

A manhua (chinese comic) I forgot the title

Submitted by Elaine (not verified) on November 9, 2018 - 3:03am

So I read this manhua around 2006 or 2007. It was a manhua (Chinese comic) with colection of horror stories inside. one of the story is about a girl who took a ring from statue. She wears the ring and become possessed by the spirit inside the ring and make her become a hyper sex. That's the only story i could remember, the other story was great too. I wan't to search for the manhua again but i totally forgot the title.Please tell me if you know the title or the author. Thank's a lot.

The Wallflower?

Submitted by Carlee W (not verified) on September 5, 2020 - 12:32pm

This sounds a lot like a japanese manga that was also adapted into an anime called The Wallflower. It has other titles too. If this isn't the one you were looking for, I'd still recommend reading The Wallflower though!

Revenge book set in USA I think NY and LA

Submitted by julie kelly (not verified) on November 9, 2018 - 8:24am

A while back I read a book about a fat actress who is in love with the Director - he dumps her and she walks and exercises to lose weight and saves up for cosmetic surgery. Looking totally different she goes to LA and becomes a famous actress where she turns the table on the (now famous) director. She had a black cat called Snowflake and a white cat called Midnight

Flavor of the Month is the

Submitted by Kris Conner (not verified) on July 19, 2020 - 6:47pm

Flavor of the Month is the name of the book

Flavor of the Month by Olivia

Submitted by kara (not verified) on September 4, 2020 - 1:36am

Flavor of the Month by Olivia Goldsmith

In search of a series

Submitted by Chasity Marie (not verified) on November 9, 2018 - 7:51pm

The YA Fiction series follows a girl (she may have been a princess..idk) who escapes a perilous situation and is entrusted to a male shapeshifting guard (I think he’s a wolf) He takes her around the country where they are running from this threat. They finally settle in this cabin up in the snowy mountains far away. One day while in the cabin he accidentally makes it to where she can’t in the cabin and she almost freezes to death. He then bares his throat in submission and offers to let her punish him.

Can Not Remember the Title

Submitted by Ashley Hughes (not verified) on November 10, 2018 - 2:57am

I read the first book maybe 10 years ago. It is a young adult fantasy book about a girl marrying a king of the goblin race, I think they were goblins. She is forced into it and during the ceremony she receives a golden snake around her arm. She ends up falling in love with the king, however the entire race is put under a spell. To find a way to save him, she attempts to awaken the snake by trying to kill herself. Also every king must marry a human. The second book is a young adult book about a girl raised with a prince in a commoner’s house. Their people have a legend about a white knight and she dresses as the knight to stop a war. She is actually a lord’s daughter and she is in love with the prince. I think her name is Belladonna or something similar.

The book you are looking for

Submitted by Michael Ramey (not verified) on March 15, 2019 - 11:14pm

The book you are looking for is The Hollow Kingdom. Close Kin is the second book and In the Coils of the Snake is the third book.

The second book you're

Submitted by Jenna (not verified) on August 29, 2019 - 10:51pm

The second book you're looking for is called Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley. I read it years ago as a preteen and I've been looking for it for months! I hope I've helped you find it too.

Don't Remember the Title or Author

Submitted by Leanette B (not verified) on November 10, 2018 - 8:52pm

I am looking for a vintage children's hardcover storybook about a large family, very similar to The Walton's (in fact, it was probably modeled after the TV series) of the middle son, roughly age 11 or 12, developing a growth spurt. Soon outgrowing his bed, his clothes, his shoes, and even growing taller than his dad and grandpa, as he reached his teenage years. The family seems to be laughing throughout the book, either amused or betwixed over his weird growth spurt. Eventually I think the dad and grandpa have to build him a bed, to accommodate his larger, taller size. The title was something around "What do we do about _____" or "The _______ Family". It was published between 1965 and 1975, as I bought it from a school book fair when I was about 9 or 10, which would have been 1978.

I'm looking for one that

Submitted by BH (not verified) on March 15, 2019 - 4:58pm

I'm looking for one that sounds similar from the same time period. I remember it being oversized with an orange (?) cover, and that they lived in either an apartment or a row house. Good luck!

Are you talking about the

Submitted by SV (not verified) on July 13, 2020 - 11:50am

Are you talking about the Penderwick Family?

I can't remember the title of the book

Submitted by Alyssa (not verified) on November 11, 2018 - 1:34am

It is a series where the girl lives in a government system that sorts the people into 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 according to their jobs. The girl come from a family of singer so they are on the cluster 5. Then there is a lottery of all women for the selection of the Prince's bride.

Is this The Selection Series

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on November 14, 2018 - 6:03pm

Is this The Selection Series by Kiera Cass?

The selection by keira cass

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on July 1, 2020 - 11:01am

The selection by keira cass

Help!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 11, 2018 - 2:02am

I cannot remember the name or author. But I remember reading this book. A teenage spy or secret agent or something goes to high school. He is trying to solve a murder. He ends up meeting a girl and when they are together, he says he has a hankering for vanilla ice cream. (Not actual ice cream.) At one point, she learns his true identity. And she stops trusting him but I think it ends with him hanging up some sort of banner and locking eyes with her down the hallway at the high school.

Can't remember the title of the books

Submitted by Sofia (not verified) on November 11, 2018 - 5:33am

I am looking for a book that I read back in like the 4th-6th grade between 2007-2009, it was about two girls that are best friends, I know there was more than one book about them and they lived in this very happy town with a lot of elder people and I think there was something about a quilt shop or something kind of shop they would visit/help out, I do remember one of the girls had curl red or orange hair and one of the book covers was pink. The town I think was in a fictional city in New York but more of a suburban area, there is a lot of trees and pretty yards with fences.

Main Street Series by Ann M.

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on July 13, 2020 - 11:52am

Main Street Series by Ann M. Martin?

Searching for book.

Submitted by Nicole (not verified) on November 11, 2018 - 12:35pm

Can anybody help me with the title or the author of a book that was published a year or three ago? In the first scene a couple comes out of the church where they have just gotten married (It's on an island --Nantucket, I think), get into a limousine to ride a couple of blocks to their reception and are killed in a crash. The description of the crash is particularly beautiful, all gossamer tulle floating around the passenger compartment as their skulls are being bashed in. The writing lets you see it all in slo-mo. I didn't read the book but heard the opening scene read in a book review on the radio. That first scene has never left me, and I'd like to find it, but I can't remember the title or the author. Does anyone recall?

Red Hook Road

Submitted by Catherine Bailey (not verified) on July 8, 2021 - 1:53am

Possibly Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman Newlyweds never make it to the reception… 2 families grappling with tragedy & grief - set on posh part of East Coast?

What is name of this book?

Submitted by Laura (not verified) on November 11, 2018 - 3:11pm

Book starts out about a woman who was getting ready to do press release because she was rescued from a serial killer. Her friend or neighbor had searched for clues to find her in, I think, a park bathroom that was marked off as closed. This is going to be a spoiler. I'm sorry. You find out she is still being held by the serial killer at the very end. Thank you so much for your help. I have spent hours online and can't find it.

Searching.......

Submitted by A. Miller (not verified) on November 11, 2018 - 8:14pm

Trying to find a book, I think it’s fiction. I believe it was about a research vessel and it came across nuclear waste. The cover might have been red or had a red ship on it. Maybe the name of the vessel was Phoenix?

Help me find this book

Submitted by Ash (not verified) on November 11, 2018 - 9:55pm

There is this book I cant find and its about a girl who got mad at her best friend because she cheated at chess and she got kidnapped and after she got appeared out of nowhere and her father is the president and she falls in love with her childhood best friend and almost gets the whole dance blew up and her friend got stabbed in the leg please help me find this book.

Did u ever find out which

Submitted by Amanda (not verified) on June 15, 2020 - 3:48am

Did u ever find out which book it was?

Teen mystery

Submitted by K (not verified) on November 12, 2018 - 7:52am

This book is about a teen girl staying with her aunt and other relatives. The aunt buys an old map from an antique store but turns out the store owner is part of a ring of smugglers and they use the maps to smuggle something. The teen girl also solves the mystery of the aunt's maid, Belle, actually being a long lost relative named Annabelle.

Looking for a YA book from the late 80s or early 90s

Submitted by Trace Henley (not verified) on November 12, 2018 - 11:40pm

Hello, I am looking for a YA romance from the lates 80s or early 90s. It likely was purchased from a scholastic magazine. The premise is a teenage girl—possibly a sophomore—tried out and made the football team as a kicker. The QB and his girlfriend had just broken up, and the QB started paying her attention. Another football player pestered her all of the time, and ended up helping to teach her how to improve her football game. The QB ended up getting back together with his girlfriend, and it ended up the female kicker had fallen for the player who had been pestering her. Turns out, he had liked her, too, and they ended up together. Can anyone help me find this book title?

Title Quest success!

Submitted by Gwen Glazer on August 2, 2019 - 1:39pm

We think this book is Playing With the Boys (Pretty Tough #2) by Liz Tigelaa!

I think this might be a First

Submitted by Michelle Voshell (not verified) on June 13, 2020 - 3:07am

I think this might be a First Love from Silhouette book called, "A Passing Game" by Beverly Sommers.

Can't remember the name

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on November 13, 2018 - 10:15am

In a YA novel there is a high school girl that lives alone with her mother. She ends up fallin in loce with this guy, who I believe was famous. He ended up having to leave and her mother was pregnant with a child. The girl was left with the responsibility to take car of her younger sibling because her mother was so depressed she could not even leave her room. She had to go to school and take care of a child that made her so exhausted she ended riding her bike into a pole, which is when people found out about her situation.

The book is called Breathe.

Submitted by Shay christensen (not verified) on June 15, 2020 - 9:34am

The book is called Breathe. Abbi Glines. The first book in the Sea breeze series. Main characters are Sadie, Jax and Marcus. Story is being told by Jax and Sadie.

It’s 5:12 AM and I can’t sleep

Submitted by Bella (not verified) on November 13, 2018 - 4:14pm

Hello,I’ve been obsessing over a book I read when I was in high school.I think it’s a mills and boon or silhouette romance.Its about a girl who gets married but her husband dies young in a plane crash and she has to marry his best friend.Turns out the best friend always liked her but she’s not giving in to him although she starts to have feelings for him too.These two guys were like brothers as they were at the same orphanage.

Finding book

Submitted by Dawn Larson (not verified) on November 13, 2018 - 7:08pm

Was told about a book were 2 people wer kidnapped.. One women sabed the other by staying prissioner in the aduse so the other could go free.

HELP

Submitted by Jocelyn Shores (not verified) on November 13, 2018 - 10:20pm

A book where a girl and her brother have to find their uncle in West Virginia with a guy named Zack. It’s kind of like Life as We Knew It.

A matter of days

Submitted by Brittany Cadena (not verified) on September 6, 2020 - 12:26am

A matter of days

A children adventure book series

Submitted by Genevieve (not verified) on November 14, 2018 - 9:27am

I read this book a fews ago. About a young dwarf boy that befriends human and they when on adventure of the seven wonders and mythical creatures if not mistaken. A dwarf boy thats does not look like a boy but more of a human due to his height. Thats all i can remember.

Lord of the rings?

Submitted by Sleep13 (not verified) on July 20, 2020 - 2:54pm

Lord of the rings?

I read a book in middle

Submitted by Kayla Streyffeler (not verified) on November 14, 2018 - 3:06pm

I read a book in middle school, and to this day I cannot forget it. I think it had a grey front cover. I just remember it being around the beginning to middle of the book and it was a fairly young boy and his sister (and their parents, they might have had another sibling, I dont remember), but the brother, sister, and the brothers friends were out exploring in some weird tunnel. The sister got hit by a car and it is extremely tragic. It goes through how the brother blames himself, at such a young age, and how his parents are torn apart. It also goes to his sisters point of view and how she sees a white light and goes through that. I think it explains her near death experience. This is all I can remember, but it had a grey cover and it was one of the best books I have read in my life- 10 years later and I'm trying to find out what it was so I can reread it!!!

Might be the book you were looking for

Submitted by Maria (not verified) on September 6, 2020 - 10:54pm

Could it have been Wenny Has Wings by Janet Lee Carey?

There was a book i had when i

Submitted by Bright rose (not verified) on November 14, 2018 - 5:47pm

There was a book i had when i was younger that had a girl looking in the mirror and seeing a ghost of alady in saloon girl like dress. I never read the book but the ghost was trying to tell her something. I don'tremember the title.

Try Betty Ren Wright "The Ghost Beneath Our Feet"

Submitted by Megan Olsen (not verified) on June 25, 2020 - 5:44pm

The old 1980's cover of that book fits your description. It takes place in an old mining town, and the ghost is trying to warn the main characters that the mine is going to collapse.

Stranger with my face

Submitted by ANNELISE MULDER (not verified) on June 27, 2020 - 9:20pm

Stranger with my face Dollhouse murders?

I can't find this book series

Submitted by Olivia (not verified) on November 14, 2018 - 7:18pm

This is a very vague description, but here it goes. It's a teen novel series about a group of friends with powers (I know one can read minds, but i dont know the others) and they either can lose their powers at a certain age or they die (I think, or become like a different being). It had to have been written before 2010 because i read it in middle school

Night world by LJ Smith?

Submitted by Erica (not verified) on May 31, 2020 - 2:07pm

Night world by LJ Smith?

(Really late reply but...)

Submitted by Jenny (not verified) on June 9, 2020 - 4:52pm

(Really late reply but...) Could it be Dark Visions by L.J. Smith?? (I read it in HS and your description made me remember it. Broke my head finding it again lol. Finally found it when I typed, "book of an evil school gathering teens with powers" lmao. Then pressed titles when a "Good read" website apeared.

Daughters of the Moon by Lynne Ewing

Submitted by Ticia (not verified) on August 23, 2021 - 4:31pm

I love this series and the girls fight evil with their powers and they can either give up their memories and powers at 16 or leave the world behind.... First book is Goddess of the Night

Fantasy Book I read in middle school

Submitted by Lillibeth Carmona (not verified) on November 15, 2018 - 3:46am

Hi I've been looking for this book hoping its not a figment of my imagination because the same year I checked it out from my middle school library, I went to go back to look for it and there was no record of it. I can't remember BIG details but its a girl and her best friend who want to train to become soldiers for their town? And there also exist healing magic that everyone looks down upon. She visits a healing doctor in which she becomes somewhat interested in magic. at one point and she finds out she can actually use magic herself but doesn't want to tell anyone. I believe this magic involves talking to plants. The cover of the book, the print is a girl holding a leaf to her chest. The hard copy of the book is just a brown book with the outline of a leaf in gold.

Adding more details. During

Submitted by Lillibeth Carmona (not verified) on June 7, 2019 - 8:21pm

Adding more details. During the book its mentioned that a leaf fell from a tree which the girl found odd because it was too early for the trees leafs to be falling. At the end of the book when she uses some power to talk to the trees and plants around her and she and her friends are safe, she realized the leaf was gone but it had imprinted itself on her chest. She can feel it turn cool and warm. (Im sad I can remember so many vague details of the book but not the exact plot or anything else)

a book where at the end this

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on November 15, 2018 - 9:51am

a book where at the end this guys kills a special guy and they guy inly wanted to tend to some rabbits

Such a sad book....

Submitted by Jesse (not verified) on December 11, 2018 - 7:26am

That's Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. A good read, but so sad.

Help me find a book please :(

Submitted by ElementEclipse (not verified) on November 15, 2018 - 6:43pm

I'm looking for a book that has kid who has a big mouth and has been kicked out of schools. He ends up going to this one school where he meets i think 4 or 5 more kids who all have psychic abilities. (seeing the future, moving stuff with mind, lighting stuff on fire through mind, etc) in the second book the person who can move stuff with his mind gets captured for accidentally stealing from a bank. His death was faked and he was thought to have died in a car crash, but instead he is kidnapped by a man who wants to show the world these powers exist. Any help on witch book this is? Searched google and library's official site.. Help!

Can it be the series written

Submitted by Marloes (not verified) on January 9, 2020 - 9:46am

Can it be the series written by Anthony Horowitz?

Fictional

Submitted by Querida (not verified) on May 23, 2020 - 2:47am

I remember reading a chapter book in elementary school, About two twins who are in a private school, they were dropped in off there because there parents are explorers, we’ll they come up missing and the kids have to go to a uncle they have never meet, his name is Wolf. He has a missing leg I think, He’s rich and owns a island. The kids end up lost in it and they fine a tree house. Inside they fine out Wolf was married and had a kid, the girl twin is his kids, her mom ends up dead because of an attack of an animal on the island I think, So the two twins are actually cousins. And for some reason men are after something that Wolf has and are chasing the kids too, hunters to think. I really would like to buy and reread The book if anyone has an idea What the tittle might be. I’ve been looking for years but came up with nothing.

ElementEclipse - That sounds

Submitted by Devon Kennedy (not verified) on August 21, 2021 - 7:20pm

ElementEclipse - That sounds like Hidden Talents by David Lubar.

Children's Anthology (Folklore?)

Submitted by John (not verified) on November 15, 2018 - 6:55pm

I'm looking for a children's anthology, I would have been 7 - 10 when I read it so we're talking late 90s/early 20s - but I don't think it was necessarily new. One of the stories was Baba Yaga, I remember that much - a witch that was a house on chicken legs and a pessel and mortar...? There was another about a kid who had to babysit a young boy who had big eyes (like oil...?) and then some scary stuff happened? And one about a girl who gets abducted (she has a tennis racket maybe?) by man in a car, but then its aliens and eating jelly substance and bubble cars? It's vague in my head. Anyone?

Short and Shivery

Submitted by Erica (not verified) on May 25, 2021 - 8:00pm

Could be Short and Shivery, I had a few of those books from scholastic book fairs

Book about a genius girl named Violet, age about 8 to 12.

Submitted by DC Wornock (not verified) on November 16, 2018 - 3:52am

I read the book in 1959 when I was in the Marine Corps at Cubi Point, Subic Bay, Philippines. The Naval base was built in 1951 so I believe the book would have been published in the 1950s, but not later than 1959. The book was about 200 pages, more or less. The book was probably written for ages 11 to young adults and written to be amusing. I think Violet was in grade school but possibly early Jr High. The title might have been “Violet” except I cannot find the book by that title. About all I remember Violet was in a Shakespeare school play and rewrote or reinvented her part. I recall the boy playing the other part was confused because she didn't follow the script. However, every time Violet spoke she will end with the proper cue so the boy could say his part. I suppose it was one of the parents that asked someone if that was the way Shakespeare wrote it, implying that is not how he or she remembered it.

Help me find book plz

Submitted by Unbby (not verified) on November 16, 2018 - 7:44am

It was a novel that I read when I was young, about a girl who transfers to a new school. Her friend she used to know from her previous school is already going here, called Felicia. She meets other people that were called Ryan and Amanda (I think?) and takes part in a project called Paws something.

i think i know..

Submitted by lilly (not verified) on July 14, 2020 - 6:56am

think its by Eleanor hawken

What’s the title of this book?

Submitted by Unbby (not verified) on November 16, 2018 - 7:47am

The cover of this book from what I remember was the face of a girl, closing her eyes, below the water. In the book it talked about the girl sinking, not floating? It was written from the perspective of her friend, who couldn’t help her when she was going through a tough time at school.

That sounds similar to the

Submitted by Anisa (not verified) on June 8, 2020 - 2:49am

That sounds similar to the book winter girls by Laurie Halse Anderson

I’m not sure if it was a book

Submitted by Hallie (not verified) on November 16, 2018 - 11:50pm

I’m not sure if it was a book, but it was a fairy/folk tale. I listened to it as part of these tapes we used to have. I remember there was a woman (a witch?) who was locked in a jail cell, but she drew a picture on the wall that came to life and helped her escape. If anyone knows the name or remembers any more details, they would be much appreciated.

This response is way late

Submitted by Daisy (not verified) on May 25, 2020 - 1:58am

Not sure if you’re still going to end up seeing this after 2 years, but this sounds to me like Pan’s Labyrinth. A girl ends up being trapped in her room and draws a door on her room leading to another place, allowing her to escape. This could also be that Barbie movie where the girl paints pictures on her wall of a beautiful town and ends up walking through the wall and into that place. I don’t think I’m being very helpful but those are two that cake to mind right away.

Pearl S Buck book about a woman who adopts her half black nephew

Submitted by Jennifer E Thomas (not verified) on November 17, 2018 - 6:23am

That is literally all that I can remember! Thanks!

could it be where women are

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on June 22, 2020 - 12:46am

could it be where women are kings?

I can’t find this book I was reading it like 1 year or two years

Submitted by Layla (not verified) on November 18, 2018 - 12:22am

A man and a dog live together and he plays cards with four of his friends or three (I think 1or2 were girls) and then one day he gets a gun in the mail and a card with an address after going back to hideout and thinking it over he goes to the house and it’s an old woman that baked a pie and put it on her window after a few days he decides to talk to the lady and gets to know her a bit. Later realizing he’s going to have to kill the lady but he gets a boat by some agents or talk people in black suites and that tell him he only has one bullet (I think). They tell him that he will have to choose who to kill. Ohhhh but the dog flips out when the come and the do something to the dog but the dogo wasn’t dead doe then they Knock him down and then leave him there after he tried to hit them or something.So At some point he gets 2 more cards having a total of three cards and the 2 I think is a girl and her abusive father the last one I think a construction worker or the father.

Hello! I think the book you

Submitted by Mariam (not verified) on May 13, 2020 - 2:31pm

Hello! I think the book you are talking about is "The Messenger" by Markus Zusak.

Finding a short story

Submitted by Sabrina (not verified) on November 18, 2018 - 1:45am

So In my American lit class in college there was a short story about this woman (pretty sure she was gay?) and her aunts come over to talk to her about not seeing her mother and they play billiards and she sort of notices how sturdy the women in her family are?????

Sturdy women

Submitted by Jesse (not verified) on December 11, 2018 - 7:32am

I can't pinpoint a specific story, but the mention of aunts, sturdy women, and the author possibly being gay makes me think it may be something by Dorothy Allison. She's marvelous! Definitely American, so it would make sense that you read her in lit class. Her stories are scattered around a bunch of anthologies and collections, so it may take you a while to find it. I'm STILL looking for one where she talks about going out with her friends and having only five dollars in her pocket but acting brave (I'm garbling it, but it was good)--I met her at a literary conference a few years ago and should have asked her what the heck I was remembering, but I didn't. Oops.

Can't remember

Submitted by Janie (not verified) on November 18, 2018 - 10:02am

I am looking for a historical romance book about a young girl who came to court looking for a husband. She falls in love with a widower who never planned to remarried. The day before their wedding she went and confesses her disfigurement to him. Her nursemaid had convinced her that her breasts was too large for her body. He tells her that he would only have sex with her if she uses a sponge. Because his first wife died in childbirth. She ends up getting pregnant with triplets.

Highland Wedding

Submitted by Sally May (not verified) on May 8, 2020 - 3:58am

Highland Wedding

A romantic book

Submitted by Yursa (not verified) on November 18, 2018 - 12:14pm

It's a book about a widow who after the death her husband in India returns to london and find out her husband is still alive and married with another woman

Need help finding a book

Submitted by Elizabeth (not verified) on November 18, 2018 - 2:05pm

I was read a book by my teacher in 2008. I remember the book looking kind of old with a made up word for the title, maybe a yellow book cover. If I recall correctly, there is a boy and another kid (i think a girl) that i think magically travel to another reality/world which they think is all made up. They have a male guide of some sort. There are a lot of made up words and creatures (its definitly not narnia), i recall the story to be surreal. It's only one book, not super lengthy. They may have at the end realized that this magical world is real and have to save it. Details given may be a bit off but thats how I remember the story. Thank you in advance for any help given. :)

The last of the really great

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on May 4, 2020 - 5:13pm

The last of the really great whangadoodle? I remember reading as a child title may be wrong but the plot sounds similar

Yup, this is The Last of the

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on July 13, 2020 - 12:03pm

Yup, this is The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

childrens story book

Submitted by sinali (not verified) on June 26, 2021 - 12:37am

a rich girl who went to England from India with her father and attended to a school and father return to India and suddenly died because of money . the girl is now poor and she became a servant in school

A Little Princess Frances

Submitted by Sadie (not verified) on July 4, 2021 - 2:16am

A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett

A little princess

Submitted by Herowyn (not verified) on July 5, 2021 - 2:12am

That's the plot of the book A little princess but I only saw the movie as a kid.

The Little Princess

Submitted by Carie Preston (not verified) on July 5, 2021 - 11:06am

The Little Princess by Madeline L. Engle

That is A Little Princess

Submitted by Kalena (not verified) on July 25, 2021 - 2:17am

That is A Little Princess

Help me please!

Submitted by Tori (not verified) on November 19, 2018 - 2:47am

I'm looking for a book about a girl who pretended to be teacher at an all girls school and has to solve a murder mystery about some chick who used to have the room who was supposedly murdered by her boyfriend? There's a character named Eli Starr and I know he kissed her in the library during a party where the all boys school came over. Another teacher helps the main character (the only character who's name I know is Eli Starr) solve the mystery by using a Ouija board. The murderer turns out to be the doctor who actually got the chick pregnant. I think she was a student but I'm not sure. The cover had water reeds in it and had pastel colors to it. It was like a paranormal mystery romance from I think 2012-2015. The main character gets possessed at the end if the book when the doctor is drowning her. I know the author if female. Please help me find the title!

I think its called Don't Look

Submitted by Annika (not verified) on June 7, 2021 - 11:46am

I think its called Don't Look for Me?

Glass, adair, horse, black hair green eyes, romance

Submitted by Jennifer Yoo (not verified) on November 19, 2018 - 5:23am

Trying to find this book about a girl. I believe that she was poor with an abusive dad. Started liking this guy with black hair and green eyes. Most of the men in his family had those traits. He was rich and he had a horse named adair. There was also a mention about glass. Either glass windows or glass house. The girl was also extremely shy. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of this romance book that I read when I was a kid. Please help!

Did you ever figure out the

Submitted by Teresa (not verified) on January 30, 2021 - 1:25am

Did you ever figure out the title or name of this book? I’ve been trying to identify it as well for my daughter...I read it when in middle school, 35 years ago but can’t figure out the title or author.

I'm trying to find a book

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on November 19, 2018 - 8:05pm

I'm trying to find a book that's about some college students trying to find a very old book, I believe it was the Decameron. I seem to remember there being a lot of puzzles involved and someone trying to kill them, but I'm not sure.

Cant remember childhood book

Submitted by Ana (not verified) on November 19, 2018 - 9:41pm

Ok so I'm at a loss maybe sombody on here wil remember this book. The cover was a girl and a ghost hand holding flowers reaching out of a computer screen. I read it in the 5th grade so maybe late 90s book. The plot was about this girl who's best friend drowned but later she finds out hes a ghost and in love with her. Anybody know what its called?

Looking for an old AR book. I think.

Submitted by Travis (not verified) on November 19, 2018 - 9:59pm

It was a book about a boy whose dad abducted children. One day he was caught or killed, and the boy pretends to be one of the kidnapped boys that was killed who he looked like. He is sent to live with the boys family. He has to pretend to be the kid, while a fbi tries to reveal his secret. Also his new sister doesn't believe him. Eventually his sister is kidnapped and the kidnappers escape on the boys boat. He rescues her by using a hidden fire extinguisher only the original boy knew about. Turns out the original kidnappers son died, and he was who he was pretending to be, but was brainwashed into believing he was the kidnappers son.

Did you ever find out the

Submitted by Devon (not verified) on May 20, 2020 - 11:05am

Did you ever find out the title!? I have also been looking for this book for years, it seems impossible to find!

Counterfeit Son

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on May 28, 2020 - 11:49pm

Counterfeit Son

Family Friendly Fiction

Submitted by Rose Olson (not verified) on November 20, 2018 - 1:16pm

I'm trying to remember the name of a book series. I believe there were two or three in the series. It starts out with a grandfather dying and the grandson moves him and his new wife to the family farm to take over the farming. Deals with the trials and tribulations of farm work. Also deals with different things like a miscarriage and someone getting injured and the neighbors come to help out. any help is appreciated.

i can't remember the name of this book

Submitted by Yael Mor (not verified) on November 20, 2018 - 4:32pm

A bbok about a girl who witnessed her boyfriend's death.. She doesn't cope well and leaves to NYC. After a few years she stumbles across her late boyfriend brother and he saves her from herself and her current bad relationship.. They become a couple and they also become a preforming duo..

I can't remember the book title or author

Submitted by Sahra Wakehouse (not verified) on November 20, 2018 - 5:32pm

The book is set in the South and is about a woman who lives in a farmhouse with her mother. The woman finds an unknown man with amnesia in the woods. In an attempt to see if the man is suffering any brain damage that might explain the amnesia she takes him to the hospital to get either an MRI scan or maybe it a cat scan? during the scan the man shorts-circuits the machine but is perfectly fine. later on in the book it is revealed that he was an angel. Please help me find the name of this book. I want to read it again. I remember reading it when I was in middle school which was around the year 2010-2012. The book may have been published before those years though. I have searched Google with the keywords and have come to a dead end. Please Help!

Book title inquiry

Submitted by Hendra (not verified) on November 21, 2018 - 4:15am

I am looking for a novel but I forgot the title. The story is about a detective who went into prison where the people he put behind bars are also inside the same prison. That's all I remember.

I need helping finding a childhood book.

Submitted by Bill (not verified) on November 21, 2018 - 8:19am

As a kid I read this book. And I’m just curious and want to find it again for my sister. It was about a little girl with red curly hair that liked ponies. She had a hourse and brought it to school with her. Can you help?(once again it was an old book but it was level 1 reading so it was quite easy)

Maybe Pippi Longstocking

Submitted by Teadye Howell (not verified) on August 11, 2019 - 6:18pm

Pippi Longstocking? Taking the horse to school sounds like her, but her red hair was in pigtails.

Kids/youth book with time jumping

Submitted by Marianne (not verified) on November 21, 2018 - 4:22pm

I am searching for a book when I was a kid, about 15-20 years ago. I could really use your help identifying the book, because I don't remember too many details about it. It is about a girl/young woman and a boy/young man. They somehow get sent back in time, to different locations and eras, and have to find a way to get back home. I don't remember if they were sent on some mission, or if being sent back in time were some sort of accident. I think I remember their names being something like "Siri" and "Bjørn", at least in the Norwegian translation, but I could be mistaken. There is one scene where they are sent way back, and encounter some kind of tribe. The tribe is not friendly at first, but are amazed when the girl starts singing "Amazing Grace". There is one scene in another era where the girl has been captured, and the prison guards are about to rape her. She escapes just in time by making another time jump. I think that it might be a magic ring that allows them to time jump? The boy and the girl is separated in time I think, and later on the girl sees a corpse that she understands is the boy. I don't remember how he died.  I'm sorry that I don't remember more details, but I am really hopeful that someone might recognise it, and maybe tell me the name of the book!

Did you by any chance find

Submitted by LookedForOverADecade (not verified) on April 26, 2020 - 8:25am

Did you by any chance find the book? I've been trying to find/google this book for nearly a decade now, without success. Please let me know if you found it.

I think that book is called

Submitted by Kamara (not verified) on June 16, 2020 - 1:22am

I think that book is called The Time Travelers (The Gideon Trilogy, Book 1) i remember read it and it was like how you exactly summarized it.I hope it is that book.

I think that book is called

Submitted by Kamara (not verified) on June 16, 2020 - 1:22am

I think that book is called The Time Travelers (The Gideon Trilogy, Book 1) i remember read it and it was like how you exactly summarized it.I hope it is that book.

forgotten title

Submitted by Amy (not verified) on November 21, 2018 - 7:10pm

Hi, am looking for a book about a girl with a crescent moon birthmark on her forehead and everyone in her town hates her because they think she's a witch and brings badluck.

Title Quest success!

Submitted by Gwen Glazer on August 2, 2019 - 1:07pm

We think this might be The Cataluna Chronicles by R. L. Stine!

This could be the House of

Submitted by Amy (not verified) on June 3, 2020 - 3:57am

This could be the House of Night series! Book called: Marked

Cant remember the book

Submitted by Isuri (not verified) on November 21, 2018 - 9:58pm

Two young rich young brother n older sister. Sister must be age less than 12 or 15. Had a happy life with parents. But one day they came to their house. Their paraents and their big house burnt. After thier parents they went to the oraphant house. Rest of the story cant remember . At the end a man actor arrange a fake marrage like a drama to marry this girl and to have her property . She knew it and she sign the marrage certificate left handed. And brother coming to stop the marrage. Cant remember properly.

Lemony Snickett

Submitted by Rosemary (not verified) on April 26, 2019 - 12:41am

This sounds very much like the first book in A Series of Unfortunate Events - “Bad Beginning.” There are three children. I distinctly remember the wedding disguised as a play at the end.

series of unfortunate events

Submitted by Fel Mason (not verified) on April 26, 2020 - 11:31pm

series of unfortunate events

Definitely "The Bad Beginning

Submitted by Stephanie (not verified) on March 6, 2021 - 11:47am

Definitely "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket. Signing the marriage paper with the left hand was a big part of the plot at the end.

help me find the book

Submitted by waleeza (not verified) on November 22, 2018 - 2:41am

i read a book when i was too young it was about a woman to had to find the name of an elf looking man . At the end . She was the queen may be , One night That person was taking his name and circling around the fire . Her soldiers hiding in the bush heard it and gave that name to her . End of the story was like when he came to his castle she told him his name and he broke his foot with anger .

Book

Submitted by Rachel (not verified) on January 26, 2019 - 8:09pm

It's Rumplestilskin!

Looking for a book i read awhile ago

Submitted by Declan Simard (not verified) on November 22, 2018 - 3:45am

Hello I'm 18 and I'm looking for a book i read at least 5 years ago. Despite having read it as a kid it wasn't very childlike at all and dealt with a lot of mature content. Unfortunately i remember almost nothing aboht it other than its fictional, set in WW2, and it follows the path of at least two maybe more characters and they eventually all meet up and then get split up again. I remember one of them was a french orphan named mark who escaped/ran away from his orphanage because the caretaker was really abusive. And the other main chatacters were a young boy and his older sister who's names i cannot recall but I'm pretty sure theyre also orphans. I really liked the book and if someone knows it or knows how to help me find it i would really appreciate it!

Book

Submitted by Meira (not verified) on April 8, 2020 - 8:29pm

I believe the book you are referencing to is written by Morris Gleitzman. I think it might be 'once'.

Could it be?

Submitted by Sarah (not verified) on February 19, 2022 - 3:38am

This description reminds me of The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier. Kids from a family who have been split up from their dad (mum is dead) travel from Poland with another boy, all trying to get to Switzerland.

What is the name of book?

Submitted by Nanija (not verified) on November 22, 2018 - 9:09am

The book is about group of friends in high school (I think it is one girl an three boys). She is working in family restaurant and in love with one of her friends, but she is not saying anything. Then some boy comes in town and she goes out with him, and later marries him, but she is stil in love with her friend...I know that at the end he gots a chid with some girl and build a house, and she comes back in town to be with him leaving her husband. I think that plot goes somehow like this

Book

Submitted by Jamie (not verified) on November 23, 2018 - 2:39am

book about a young women who falls through a storm shelter cellar door in the middle of a field and is trapped. She ends up giving bith to a baby boy. Years later she finds her way out only to find out her sister has married her husband. It was a book with 2 stories in it and I think it was a ya book.

When Darkness Loves Us by Elizabeth Engstrom?

Submitted by Angela (not verified) on February 26, 2021 - 5:09pm

When Darkness Loves Us by Elizabeth Engstrom?

Children's book

Submitted by Tracy (not verified) on November 23, 2018 - 10:16pm

I'm looking for the title of a children's book about a young boy maybe and some forest animals that make something like a dragon out of an old hollow log and some other things to scare something or someone?? Vague memory but I loved the book!

The Question of a Dragon by

Submitted by Wendy (not verified) on April 13, 2020 - 5:43pm

The Question of a Dragon by Edgar Parker!!! I love that book - sadly all of his books are out of print.

Book I read in elementary school

Submitted by Grace (not verified) on November 23, 2018 - 11:07pm

I vaguely remember reading a book in elementary school about some kids with terrible abusive parents. There was some guy — maybe a step-brother, maybe just an older brother, I don’t know — who would make one them draw a picture of a house, but if the kid screwed up even the tiniest bit he or she would have to start the entire thing over. I feel like there was something about one of the girls having a super long name and something about monogrammed clothes or something, but I might be imagining that. I think at the end the parents climb Mount Everest and die. That’s all I’ve got.

Is it the willoughbys? I

Submitted by Krista-Eve Hernandez (not verified) on May 2, 2020 - 2:54pm

Is it the willoughbys? I never read the book but since the movie came out it sounds a bit like that.

help - I need the title of the book

Submitted by Lynda Tanner (not verified) on November 24, 2018 - 8:34am

I'm hoping someone can help me. The book was published in the last 15 years or so and it's about five older siblings, all brothers, who I believe spend a brief time with their father in his home prior to his death. Then it follows the repercussions of inheritance. There are other twists, but I cannot remember them. Thanks.

Horror fantasy fiction book read in the late 90s

Submitted by Joanne (not verified) on November 24, 2018 - 3:35pm

I am looking for a book I once owned, i can't remember the title or the author so hoping someone out there has read it and can help me. The story is about a group of strangers who all won a competition for an holiday to Mexico (I think) they collect their tickets from a portakabin in the desert. The holiday is a trap as they all have some ability that is needed, one of the characters (I think is called Danny) has the ability to sense when a person is about to lose something, in his everyday life he'd follow ppl and take their wallets when they dropped them. There is another couple in the story, an older man with a prosthetic foot, and I think another young woman. The idea of gathering them together is to bring back quetzalcoatl. I hope this is enough info as I have literally been looking for years! Many thanks

Autobiography or a memoir not sure

Submitted by Lii ali (not verified) on November 25, 2018 - 10:58am

I once read a small purple book back in 2010 it was about a boy whose mother marries again after the death of his father I think. The step father beats on the boy and mistreats him and then the step father's sister goes to live with her brother she is also just as cruel as her brother after the boy's mother dies he runs from home or he's kicked out I'm not sure ....please anybody know that book I've been searching

David Copperfield?

Submitted by Teadye Howell (not verified) on August 9, 2019 - 10:08am

This is a longshot, but that is part of the beginning of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

I think this is "David

Submitted by Stephanie (not verified) on March 6, 2021 - 11:52am

I think this is "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens. The description matches the first part of the book with David's childhood perfectly. Maybe you had a version that only has the first part of the book? That sometimes happens with long classic books.

Can’t remember the name

Submitted by Lauren Great (not verified) on November 25, 2018 - 1:29pm

There is a boy who tells stories about people in his town. One story is about when he to a girl to his neighbor’s to watch him kill chickens and she steals a chicken head. There’s a story about his deaf Native American friend. There’s a story where his neighbors built a house of concrete so that it would never catch on fire but one day it caught on fire. One story invoked his friend getting stuck in an auto mechanic cleaning area and the mechanic used his arm to stop the acid causing him to lose the arm. And the last part of the book was when he snuck into the castle in the town and met the owner and the owner showed him all of the weird fish experiments he was doing. I read the book in Texas around 2001 if that helps.

Please find the title

Submitted by Onat (not verified) on November 25, 2018 - 4:59pm

This entry contains spoiler lol There is a girl who had a car accident and open her eyes in a hospital nearby. Suddenly she start to see 3 man which had died or imprisoned since her high school years. Because of they abused her. Later on we figure out that 3 man were russian agents and our main doctor guy was a good guy all along. Probably best of the plot twists i have ever read!!

Could it be The House of

Submitted by Dawn (not verified) on August 18, 2020 - 5:43am

Could it be The House of Thunder by Leigh Nichols a.k.a. Dean Koontz?

Boy on suspension bridge (not current best seller)

Submitted by Nellie (not verified) on November 25, 2018 - 6:47pm

I'm seeking a book of juvenile or YA reader level published probably between 1950 - 1960 about a boy who runs away from home (or is perhaps orphaned) and takes refuge in a utility room at the top of a tower of a suspension bridge. He spends nights exploring the bridge structure and is eventually spotted as some sort of "phantom."

May have found it!

Submitted by Jesse (not verified) on December 11, 2018 - 8:15am

According to the Loganberry Books "Stump the Bookseller" forum, there's a book from 1938 called "The Boy Who Lived On London Bridge" that fits this description. It's by Rupert Sargent Holland. If you google it, be sure to put the entire title in quotation marks (as above); otherwise you mostly get really sad modern true stories of homeless guys living in bridges and getting kicked out.

Children's book

Submitted by Summer Rose (not verified) on November 25, 2018 - 9:27pm

I'm looking for a children's book that I read when I was younger. The title i believe was something witch or something magic. The cover had a green background with a girls head showing, she may or may not have been red haired. It was about a young girl who had magic, and her cat suddenly turns human, and refers to hands as monkey hands. Somehow their neighbors are involved, and one of them falls in love with her cat, but gets put off by her cat-like tendencies. Eventually the girl tells the guy that as long as the cat-girl has food and is allowed to sit in his lap and be petted from time to time, then she will be happy, and fine. There may also have been an evil villain that the girl has to fight.

Book I read a decade ago

Submitted by Neha (not verified) on November 26, 2018 - 4:20am

I read this book at least 8 years ago at a library and haven't been able to find it since. It was a love story of sorts. Historical fiction. Where this girl is sent to this farm and she's supposed to marry this boy. He does horse racing. Everyone races. She falls in love with his brother. Who like airplanes. It was set around when airplanes and flying was a recent concept I think. World War era. The brothers' father was in a wheelchair. There was a scene where she goes to a dance with the guy who she's "supposed to be wity" and at the end of the evening leaves in a car with the other one never to return. Something like that. It was heavy on the love triangle. Heavy on the racing. That's all I remember.

Flambards, KM Peyton

Submitted by Cady (not verified) on July 9, 2020 - 9:10am

Flambards, KM Peyton

Periwinkle hardcover

Submitted by Caitlynn Davison (not verified) on November 26, 2018 - 6:25am

I remember very little about a book I read when I was young. I remember it was a book about a girl who found a book that had strange contents (i think it was the story of her life) and that I took off the paper cover and it was a periwinkle hard cover. The title might have had the word "moon" in it - not sure

Is it possibly "Molly Moon's

Submitted by Storm (not verified) on March 27, 2019 - 6:53pm

Is it possibly "Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism"? It was made into a movie a few years back too

Is it "book of tomorrow" by

Submitted by Sleep13 (not verified) on July 20, 2020 - 3:07pm

Is it "book of tomorrow" by Cecilia Ahern

wattpad story in which a

Submitted by Megha (not verified) on November 26, 2018 - 2:44pm

wattpad story in which a billionaire is forced to marry a poor girl.later he fall inlove her.but she is another mans wife and mother.then her husband dies and billionaire gets his second chance

Young adult novel re dna editing

Submitted by Nadia (not verified) on November 27, 2018 - 12:05am

Trying to remember a book I read at least 15 years ago. Young adult novel, possibly considered sci fi, set in not so distant future. Female lead. Had to do with gene or DNA editing and the ethical considerations that come with that. She might have had a twin? Thought it was called something like star spliced but can’t find anything....

Is it double identity by

Submitted by Krista-Eve Hernandez (not verified) on May 2, 2020 - 3:00pm

Is it double identity by Margret haddix?

Replica

Submitted by Becca (not verified) on May 15, 2021 - 9:22pm

I’m pretty sure that’s the Replica series! And she has a crescent shaped birthmark/tattoo, right?

What book is this?

Submitted by Sarah (not verified) on November 27, 2018 - 4:55pm

I read this series a while ago and I absolutely loved it. I think I borrowed it from my school library but I can’t remember clearly, it wasn’t too long ago but I guess I’ve read one too many books lately, it’s jumbled my memory. It takes place on earth in the future, about 300 years from now if I remember correctly, but I may be wrong on that. There is very little water left on Earth, and the setting seems to be at the top of the basin that used to be one of the Great Lakes. The main character is a teenage girl with a burn scar on her face. Her and her mother were midwives. At the edge of their village is a wall, and on the other side of that wall is a city. The people inside the wall are extremely inbred, and genetic issues have begun to arise, so every month the first so many children born must be turned over to the city, and are raised inside the wall. One day the main character’s parents are arrested and taken inside the wall. She goes after them to rescue them. She wears a red cloak to disguise herself as a servant. Eventually she ends up falling in love with the city leader’s son, if my memory serves me right, his name is Leon. Some other stuff goes down but I can’t recall the details, and her and Leon end up fleeing. They get separated and cross the desert and then find themselves in this little town run by women. This is where the main character and Leon are reunited. The main character learns that her grandmother used to be the leader of this town. There are very few girls born in this town and nobody can leave or they die. They later learn it’s because their water source was contaiminated from an old fish farm that used chemicals to only produce male fish. It was causing the babies that should have been female to be male instead, these males were infertile, and when one was autopsied, it was discovered that he had fully formed female reproductive organs. As for why they couldnt leave, they were surrounded by a plant that was essentially contaminating the air with highly addictive drugs. If they left they died from withdraw. The only way to leave was to take the plant with them and chew/smoke it as they left to slowly ween their bodies off of it. The entire town leaves their home and heads back to the main character’s home, where they raise a rebellion and blow up the wall. Also somewhere along the story the city government kidnaps the main character and steal her ovaries to farm her eggs in order to use them towards the whole their limited gene pool issue.

Did you ever find what book

Submitted by ab (not verified) on November 7, 2019 - 10:35pm

Did you ever find what book this was! I think I'm looking for a similar book

The book series is

Submitted by Valerie (not verified) on April 1, 2020 - 7:49pm

The book series is Birthmarked by Caragh M. Obrien

might be birthmarked

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 2, 2020 - 5:58am

might be birthmarked

Book Name and Series

Submitted by Aria Ice (not verified) on April 9, 2020 - 3:27pm

Hello! I believe the book you are referring to is the book Birthmarked. I think your facts are right and the next book is called Prized. The main characters name was Gaia Stone. Hope this helped!

Can't name this book

Submitted by Deborah (not verified) on November 27, 2018 - 8:57pm

I read this story when I was in eighth grade and I'd love to be able to remember the name of it. The story is of a native boy coming into manhood and he goes out in the wilderness and comes across a wolf who's leg is stuck in a bear trap. The boy earns the trust of the wolf and saves him. I don't remember much else of the story line. I think the wolf saves the boy from a bear at some point.

I Don't Know The Name of This Book

Submitted by Ally Vastano (not verified) on November 28, 2018 - 1:36am

i dont remember what the book is about, I read it a while ago when I was in like elementary school (I read at advanced levels though and it's not a children's book). the cover was a light tan/brown with a really plain looking tree without leaves whose branches had blue bottles at the ends. at one point I think a girl falls off a really dangerous bridge and hits her head, in a place with a bunch of other kids. i think the kids thought the area was haunted because another person had fallen off the bridge and died. don't remember if the girl died after she fell or not :///

Is it circle of secrets by

Submitted by Krista-Eve Hernandez (not verified) on May 2, 2020 - 3:08pm

Is it circle of secrets by Kimberly Griffith?

The two books I can think of

Submitted by Ellie Gerhard (not verified) on April 15, 2021 - 12:47am

The two books I can think of are “Bless me Ultima” or “The Bridge to Terabithia”

Woman was too skinny so she was blown away by wind? 1990's

Submitted by Emma (not verified) on November 28, 2018 - 2:59am

I read a book in primary school so it was in the 1990's. I can't remember the Title of the book, all I remember is that the woman was really thin, was wearing a black dress and had black straggly hair. In the end, the wind blew her away as she was so thin. I would love to buy this book, any ideas on the Title? Or if anyone thinks they have heard about it or read it before???

I cannot find the name of a

Submitted by Mary (not verified) on November 28, 2018 - 4:02pm

I cannot find the name of a book. It is about a two twin girls are pulled into the future because there are these guys that need the one twin's help because she is a genius. They intended to only pull the one twin but ended up pulling both of them because they have identical DNA. Also, one of the scientists that pulled the girls has twin boys. One of the boys died and the other lived. The one that lived "replaced" or took his dead twin's name so even his dad did not know that the one he thought was dead actually wasn't.

It's by CJ hill. Erasing Time

Submitted by Alisyn (not verified) on March 7, 2020 - 4:07am

It's by CJ hill. Erasing Time

I dont have much information

Submitted by Claire (not verified) on November 28, 2018 - 4:30pm

So i remember this book but not much about it other than there was a little girl and sge would put bread crusts /food in a drawer in the table rarher than eating them. Think it had something to do with curls in her hair. It would be pre 1986 and i have it in my head it had a blue cover? So i know thats not much information but hopefully someobe can help although may have just been in the uk.

Second Star to the Right

Submitted by G (not verified) on December 24, 2018 - 12:50pm

Second Star to the Right Best Little Girl in the World both old novels about anorexia

That should say Second Star

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on December 28, 2018 - 10:27pm

That should say Second Star to the Right OR The Best Little Girl in the World. But I also suggest Goodbye Paper Doll.

So, I forgot the name of this book and it's auhtor

Submitted by Khadeejah Husein (not verified) on November 28, 2018 - 9:36pm

The book talks about this girl who goes into the human world after being kicked out from her world. At one point, she's living in–I think–somewhere... Underground. I know that she goes down a flight of steps to reach it. Also, in the story there was a yacht party which she attended. There was a guy there and he supposedly had a girlfriend. But the MC found his girlfriend cheating on him. Also, at the end of the yacht part, she was standing on the railing and the guy goes to see her. Then after they finish their conversation, she goes on and disappears. My memory of this book is very vague, but I do remember one of the copies of the books, the cover had a guy walking and holding the girl bridal style. That's all I can remember

Title Quest success!

Submitted by Gwen Glazer on August 2, 2019 - 1:53pm

We think this is the Fates series by Lanie Bross. The plot is from the first book. The book cover description is Book 2 the series.

Can't remember the title

Submitted by Kylie (not verified) on November 29, 2018 - 12:13am

It was about a girl who's little sister I believe died and she only has a necklace of hers (I believe it was like a blue gem) and she tries to figure out what happened. I'm sorry that it's vague, I just remember reading it like 8 years ago and really enjoying it. I believe the cover was blue with a picture of the necklace on it.

The description doesn't match

Submitted by Krista-Eve Hernandez (not verified) on May 2, 2020 - 3:13pm

The description doesn't match up exactly but are you sure this isn't immortal by Gillian shields

PLEASE HELP!

Submitted by Jen (not verified) on November 30, 2018 - 12:26am

I’ve been trying to find this book for a while because the plot is amazing. It was about a girl with a huge gash on her cheek and she covered it up with tons of makeup and her hair cut in an odd way. She meets a boy in a coffee shop, I think his name might be luke, and they both try and find what happened to her sister I think. But it thrns out that her sister was the one with the gash on her cheek and the girl didn’t actually have it. She witnessed it when she was very young and they were all in a fire and she was saved by the boy, who is actually older in real life. I can’t remember it and I don’t know if I’m explaining it right!!!

It might be The Girl with the

Submitted by Kelsey (not verified) on September 30, 2021 - 7:02am

It might be The Girl with the Wrong Name by Barnabus Miller.

title / author missing

Submitted by Noha (not verified) on November 30, 2018 - 8:26am

The male main character was in love with a girl, but after a great robbery in his business, he believed she was guilty. Thinking that she betrayed him with his enemy, the protagonist humiliated her in the worst way using her younger sister, whom the protagonist loved a lot. * The man marries the younger sister and the protagonist was the godmother of marriage. * During the honeymoon trip (which lasts a month) her sister becomes pregnant with the protagonist. * The female protagonist is destroyed because she was betrayed by the two people she loved the most and goes to work as a missionary to places where there were wars. Time after is reported as missing. * When he discovers the innocence of the protagonist goes crazy with regret. for having married the sister of the woman he loves and expecting a child with her while the woman he really loves was in dangerous places.

Did you find it?

Submitted by Emilia Marino (not verified) on March 26, 2020 - 10:20pm

Did you ever find the book?

While this is not the book

Submitted by J (not verified) on April 19, 2020 - 6:14am

While this is not the book you are looking for (sorry! but this may help someone else), there is a similar plot in Green Dolphin Street, a novel by Elizabeth Goudge (1944). The similarity is that the man is in love with one sister but proposes to the other sister by a miscommunication (it's set in the time of letters being sent by ships). And the sadness that he and his love experience, as he must honor his (mistaken) proposal. It's set in the 1800s in New Zealand.

1950's teen romance need authors name

Submitted by linda (not verified) on November 30, 2018 - 9:03am

this would be in the Betty Cavanna genre probably published in 1950's, about a girl who dates a boy named Danny who is unreliable in every way and shows up late for their prom date without excuses, eventually she moves on and sees him one day with another girl and he is still the same. A couple lines from the book are "For Jenny had an itchy foot, Jenny liked to travel" about the older salesclerk in the story, and "I'll always be your girl Danny-one of your many girls" says the main character., and "She has a dozen suede jackets" about a minor character

I read this book a decade ago and have been trying to find it ag

Submitted by Christiana (not verified) on December 1, 2018 - 12:38pm

The book I’m looking for involves a young girl who can see and communicate with spirits. She visits an older woman’s home frequently (I believe it was her teacher but I could be wrong) and the two have tea or talk to the ghost in the kitchen. There is also a boy, although I’m not sure about much with him. The 3 wind up getting on a boat to go to London and see Madame Tussauds. While on the boat, the girl gets temporarily sent back in time. That’s all I can remember, I know I loved the book though. I read it in middle school.

Maybe the Evermore series?

Submitted by Rachel Duff (not verified) on January 21, 2019 - 9:28pm

Maybe the Evermore series?

Probably not the mediator

Submitted by Krista-Eve Hernandez (not verified) on May 2, 2020 - 3:32pm

Probably not the mediator series but it sounds similiar

I know this one!

Submitted by Patrice (not verified) on April 5, 2021 - 5:25pm

I don't remember which one was specifically the one where they go to London, but it's from the Blossom Culp series by Richard Peck. I think you're looking for the Titanic one, and there's another one where they go to New Orleans. They're great!

Ghosts I Have Been by Richard

Submitted by Kristine A Brady (not verified) on April 8, 2021 - 7:32pm

Ghosts I Have Been by Richard Peck.

Please help me f8nd this book

Submitted by Zahra (not verified) on December 1, 2018 - 4:19pm

Its a really old children's book about a young girl who used to live in a seaside village but loves ships but later move in with her uncle and his family in a house on a narrow street, the house has two blue dolphins on the door or something. The uncle has 4 or 5 children, Beatrice (who play acts that she is Catherine of aragon sometimes), (Giles?), Piers and a baby (littlest?). Piers also loves ships and longs to sail, he and the girl (Tamsin?) connected. The cover of the book is a girl holding a boat or something, standing in a street with a row of houses behind her. Oh, Piers has freckles that turn dark when he experiences any emotion

This book is called "The

Submitted by Stephanie (not verified) on March 2, 2021 - 12:25pm

This book is called "The Armourer's House" by Rosemary Sutcliff. It was first published in 1951.

Book teacher read me in early 80s 4th grade

Submitted by HOLLY (not verified) on December 1, 2018 - 10:45pm

This girl is sent to live in a house. She sees a painting on wall and goes through it to a different time. I think back to early 1900s or late 1890s. She has to ride in a carriage and delivers baskets. There are sisters in the book who may be witches? They were on the roof.She has to sleep in this mansion and is introduced to a heating bag. All rooms have a fire place. What is the name of the book? Thank you

This is "The Wicked, Wicked

Submitted by Nunyo Bidness (not verified) on March 26, 2020 - 10:58am

This is "The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House" (sometimes listed as "The Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Garden").

Book name please

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on December 2, 2018 - 4:36am

I read this book 1 or 2 years ago.it is a paranormal book. heroine is princess of the other kingdom and hero invades that kingdom and eveyone else in palace is killed and heroine is taken to hero kingdom and she works as a slave to a women who wants to marry the hero who is a prince of other kingdom. This book contains adult content I guess. When the hero and heryare finally in love a prince from another kingdom comes saying that he is the heroine's bethrowed. He has tiger or lion for pet I think and it becomes fond of the heroine I guess. Can you help me find the book name?

Please help me find this book!!

Submitted by Shirley (not verified) on December 2, 2018 - 8:29am

I read this novel a long time ago. Probably set in France and an American is on a hunt to find a killer and he is helped by a woman named Mimi. The goons who work for the villain ride motor bikes and wear leather outfits. The villain looks like a fish as he has gills for ears..

Child Abduction, Kidnapping

Submitted by Zoe (not verified) on December 2, 2018 - 12:23pm

I’m looking for a book I read in 2015 maybe the cover of it was black and the plot was this girl maybe 12 was kidnapped while riding her bicycle she was raped and eventually years later she was found by the police I think the had this big news event on it. She later got a boyfriend who experienced trauma himself and he asked her to help him to kill his father. She agreed and they made it look like he hit his head on a rock (I think) and died by accident. The guilt got to her boyfriend and he invited her over then he shot himself in his head. I can’t remember anything else but I would love if someone could tell me that name of the book even the author’s name. Thank you.

I can’t remember the name of

Submitted by Courtney (not verified) on December 2, 2018 - 3:39pm

I can’t remember the name of this book... so this girl hears voices in her head and the voice tells her when and not to talk to people her mum got killed at the pizza place they own and they live hear a fair the girl meets this girl and goes to this like therapy group and then she tells her dad about the voices and then she gets some medication Can anyone help? When I tried to google it it just came up with things about hearing voices not a book

years back i read a vampire

Submitted by annetta (not verified) on December 3, 2018 - 10:38am

years back i read a vampire story in pdf that i dont remember the name of. the plot is about a female vampire who falls in love with a man, and avoids him thinking he is human, when he was a vampire. & she bears his family crest on her (that his mother gave) to protect her from other vampires

help me find this book

Submitted by yoliswa ndlovu (not verified) on December 3, 2018 - 7:43pm

I have no idea who wrote the book, the storyline and its genre. I came across this quotation and I was captivated knew I had to read the book. "his son.not hers.still.she took him in to make his life hell" can someone help me please

I really want to remember

Submitted by Alice Crusoe (not verified) on December 4, 2018 - 1:49am

I really want to remember this book. I think the title has something to do with "bees". I don't remember the plot or the characters, I just remember that there is a girl that her life is changing because her dad left her with her mother. Her mom became crazy ever since and always tie her long hair so high and always tell the girl to walk straight and raise her head and be a strong women. The plot is somehow confusing and I remember that sometimes there are clouds and bees at the front of their house. I'm not sure if the girl ran but I think she ever lived with a family that is not her mother and eventually found the mystery of her family.

Secret life of bees 95% match

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on January 28, 2019 - 5:41pm

Secret life of bees 95% match I think

Star Bright!

Submitted by Melindissa (not verified) on December 4, 2018 - 9:51am

I feel like the name of the book was either Star Bright! Or Star… Bright! Something like that. Anyway, it has been driving me crazy trying to find this book for the past several years. I had this book in the late 1980s/early 90s as an adolescent, it was about a girl who had low self-esteem and thought very little of herself, had no boyfriend, etc. Then she makes a wish or something and wakes up the next morning and she looks totally different in the mirror, she eventually gets the most popular guy to go out with her, etc. Then an angel visits her then and in the end and she finds it’s just because she had more self-confidence that everyone was more attracted toward her, but that she never *actually* had looked any different. The whole message was that beauty comes from within. I think it was some type of Christian book, because I remember reading that on the inside cover at some point, though I don’t remember the book having any overt religious references besides the presence of the angel. Please help! What is this book?

This book is called Starlife!

Submitted by Stephanie (not verified) on March 2, 2021 - 12:35pm

This book is called Starlife! by Lynda Rutledge Stephenson. (The exclamation point is part of the title). According to what I can find, it was published in 1985, but it must have been reprinted in the 1990s at some point, because that's when I read it, along with some other books by the publisher Regal Books (I think I was given a bundle of them at a church event).

I cant remember this book

Submitted by Brianna (not verified) on December 4, 2018 - 1:28pm

So there was this book that my friends and I found at Hastings(way before it closed down) called Book of Shadows, it had a black cover and the title was in gold writing(or silver), nothing too fancy and I remember in the first pages it was about the rules of Wicca, and even about the goddesses then it would go on to talk about the ingredients and what each color stood for, then there were spells that had all the ingredients needed and it would have instructions. This was about 7 years ago, and I've been trying to look for it since the book we had disappeared one day and we could never find it. I think the author was male.

Probably this one

Submitted by Jesse (not verified) on December 11, 2018 - 8:45am

It was probably Book of Shadows by Gerald Gardner. It's been republished a bunch of times so you may not find the cover you remember, but I definitely remember that cover too (from the late 1990s maybe?). Another very common (male) author of books on Wicca is Raymond Buckland; can't remember if he had one titled Book of Shadows, but it's likely. Best of luck!

Revolutionary War Spy novel set in Fairfield Co. CT

Submitted by millicent Hughes (not verified) on December 4, 2018 - 2:46pm

This 1880's novel was about a brother and sister with both Tory and patriot friends. The girl's name was Desire and her brother was finally suspected of being a spy, but it was the girl all along. She attracted men like flies and Tory men were happy to tell her anything that would help their case.

Can’t remember much about it

Submitted by Amanda K (not verified) on December 4, 2018 - 4:49pm

I have something in my head of a book I have read. A few kids, two sisters I think. live in a house, big garden with a tree to climb or tree house, neighbour kid come through/over the fence to play, I think there is a cat. ( it’s not to kill a mocking bird, but similar with the kids) they go off investigating something, go to a site where they are building new houses, it’s hot and the tarmac is hot. I think the kids live with mother. Really vague I know but it’s driving me mad.

Blue Book

Submitted by Brooke (not verified) on December 5, 2018 - 2:46pm

So it was about a young (10/11) girl and her parents were going through a divorce so they send her to her grandparents. She finds out her grandma has cancer. With her cousins, she goes into the woods when she’s not supposed to and meets some boys. She has a whole story figured out around the things that happen. She has “blue days” which she finds out in the end of the book is depression. It would be nice to read it again so I could distinguish between reality and fantasy that she creates. When I searched this on google is showed a response on here, but I couldn’t go through 5 pages of submissions. Could we add a search bar?

Try Your Browser's Search Function

Submitted by Norm S. on December 6, 2018 - 8:49am

Hi Brooke- While we don't have a search bar for particular blog posts, I do have a suggestion. At each page of this post, try the search function within your browser (hit control-F, for example). You can then search the text on that page for any instances of a word or phrase you're looking for. Let us know if that works for you. -Norm, NYPL

May have found it!

Submitted by Jesse (not verified) on December 11, 2018 - 8:54am

Based on the Goodreads summary, I think it's Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand. I've never had much luck with Google for books, but recently I've discovered that it helps if you put each detail in its own set of quotes and then include the term fiction (not in quotes). For yours I used: "blue days" "cancer" "cousins" fiction. It's not 100% effective, but since "blue days" was such a specific term it worked this time--yay! When the first search doesn't work, adding more within-their-own-set-of-quotes details (or taking out ones that don't seem to be helping) can narrow it down.

Children’s book about a butterfly

Submitted by Brittlyn (not verified) on December 5, 2018 - 5:28pm

Looking for the title of a book that was read to me in the 80s. It’s a children’s book with beautiful illustrations whose main character is a butterfly living in a house in the woods. Different animals knock on the door to come in and she doesn’t refuse any of them. I believe a bear comes in and breaks the house it’s so big. Thanks for your help!

An invitation to butterfly

Submitted by Krista-Eve Hernandez (not verified) on May 2, 2020 - 3:58pm

An invitation to butterfly ball?

True Story, killed husband and used lye

Submitted by Rachel Norwood (not verified) on December 6, 2018 - 2:35am

Story I am looking for is a based on a true story novel written about an area in WA state; or possibly MA. Read it in the late 90s. Wife murders her abusive husband and disposes of his body with lye. Her brother is accused of being the killer. Part that really sticks out is that the author invented a traveling salesman character for the story and hinted that he might be the father of her twins and not her husband.

What's the title???

Submitted by Suzie (not verified) on December 6, 2018 - 12:37pm

There was a book a read for school a few years ago and I really liked it. There was a society with rich black people and white slaves, or poor people. A black girl and white boy were best friends and fell in love. I remember that the white boy's sister commits suicide by walking in front of a bus, and then at some point the black girl is kidnapped and she gets pregnant with her white friend's/lover's baby. Her parents want her to get an abortion but she refuses, so her father has the boy get hanged. She keeps the baby. That's all I can remember, please help I want to read it again! :)

I think this is it!

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on December 8, 2019 - 7:10am

Naughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman i believe!

Looking for a science fiction novel published before 1964

Submitted by Be Warne (not verified) on December 6, 2018 - 8:55pm

It may have been what was called then a Juvenile but the library shelved with regular books. It was about a young man who could take over the minds of animals. It was probably published in the 50s or maybe even earlier.

Teen Spy

Submitted by Caitlin (not verified) on December 7, 2018 - 12:07am

I read a book about a blonde teen/tween in about 2013/2014. The main character was a female and was very involved with code breaking. It was a series and I know that one of the books involved a cover that had something to do with cooking or baking.

Hi! I’m not sure if this is

Submitted by Jade (not verified) on March 11, 2019 - 1:46am

Hi! I’m not sure if this is the book your’e looking for but The Candymakers has a tween spy girl with blonde hair, and there is lots of candy on the cover! Hope this could help! :-)

Book I read a long time ago.

Submitted by Chickenfroggie (not verified) on December 7, 2018 - 2:41am

I remember reading a book when I was about five, I think, and it was about a girl who went into a different world through water or something, and she liked that wold better because the other one smelled bad or something, and anyway in the other world that she went to, the season is different and it is like winter or something, and she is barefoot all the time I think, and she lived in a treehouse thing, And I know that she lived in a forest in that world. Oh, and also in the first world that she was in, she was running from someone I think, and she was like on a farm or in the country or somethin, and anyways back in the other world she went on a journey, and she met the Highnesses or something with a title like that, but while she was waiting to meet them she looked through a rock thing that her dad gave her which has a hole in it and that you are supposed to look through to see things for what they really are, and she looked through it and I'm pretty sure she found out something about someone in her group, but then when she was meeting the Highnesses there was something about their crowns I think, and then I am pretty sure she spends some time in like a cave with a person who cant travel between the worlds but they are friends or something, and yeah, I've been looking for this book for like 8 years, and have found nothing on it, so if someone could help me out, that would be great. Oh, and also it was kind of in like the same style thing as Ella Enchanted and I was reading that as well.

Coraline? she gets a rock

Submitted by Amy (not verified) on February 4, 2021 - 6:27pm

Coraline? she gets a rock with a hole in it that shows her what things really are and she goes to another world as well. Uh it's a horror book though.

I read abook when i was very

Submitted by Fatema (not verified) on December 7, 2018 - 4:25am

I read abook when i was very young a bout a young lady who ends up travelling the universe. I cant remeber very much about the story as it it was about 18 years ago. All i remember is a scene where she returns to her younger self to warn her over something that is going to happen. If anybody can help me at all that would be great thanks

NEED HELP

Submitted by Alyssa (not verified) on December 7, 2018 - 11:40pm

Okay so it's been a few years since I've read this book, it's definitely one of my favorites. It has an orange cover & all white subdivision style homes on it. It's about a teenage boy, who's father owns the community. A new girl moves to the neighborhood who is sort of a rebel. The boy is only allowed to make A's & I think they're all made to take medicine in the community. I remember at the beginning he was listening to something on his headphones then hears the mysterious girl on her skateboard? By the end of the book I believe they're trying to escape the community. The boy also mentions his mom left his dad? Please help if you can, I love this book & haven't bern able to get it off my mind since.

Please help

Submitted by JohnnySphinx (not verified) on December 8, 2018 - 12:17am

I am looking for a book about a man who died I think of old age and was rebirthed or reincarnated into abother world where he kept all his memories of his previous life. His family owned a leather shop where his mother made handcrafted leather bags to people and he was 13 I think when he started helping with sales. The magician's or sorcerers in this world have a test where the touch you with a old relic to test or unlock your power but it had negative effects and would sometime destroy that person's ability to use magic. He protected himself with a kind of leather that negates magic and then went on from there to go to a school of magic if anybody can help I would be ever grateful.

The Mysterious Case of

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on June 2, 2020 - 10:17pm

The Mysterious Case of Benjamin Button, possibly

Can't remember the book title

Submitted by Casey (not verified) on December 8, 2018 - 10:30am

I remember a girl coming to a new place leaving her mother and sister who used to ill treat her.She meets a guy in a gym.The guy got cheated from his girlfriend who is former's sister.He has two friends one of theirs name is McKenzie. Both the girl and boy become best friends and she will help him to come out of depression.The girl will be very naive. The girl and boy fall in love and marry each other at the end I dont remember its title.

Romance

Submitted by Jasmine (not verified) on December 8, 2018 - 1:24pm

I’m looking for a young adult romance book that I read several years ago. It’s about a girl with two brothers and the brothers’ best friend I think his name was Hunter? She’s in love with him but isn’t allowed to be with him because of the whole bro code thing and he loves her too but can’t. Anyway, fast forward and they end up having sex in a mountain house and I think she gets preggo and her brothers flip and they’re all at college and PLEASE HELP!!

Romance novel

Submitted by Lena (not verified) on December 8, 2018 - 3:56pm

Hello, sorry I remember so little about this book, I've never finished reading it (I remember I borrowed it from someone while away on holiday). I spent weeks looking for it to no avail. All I remember is that the main character was a redheaded woman who was a car mechanic (I think, possibly some other stereotypical "manly" job) in Ireland. It was very Danielle Steel style, but I can't seem to find it on her list of books. Thank you for your help!

Romance Novel Title

Submitted by Marjorie (not verified) on January 28, 2020 - 12:02am

I don't know Danielle Steel, but this sounds like one of the books in a Nora Roberts series, possibly a trilogy. Unfortunately, I don't remember which one (although I'm pretty sure it was about sisters), but at least that gives you a starting place. It is not recent. Hope this helps.

Is this a book or a movie?

Submitted by Sue (not verified) on December 8, 2018 - 10:15pm

I dont remeber if its a movie or a book bit its about a man who has an affair gets the woman pregnant then kills hers to cover his tracks but there is a dairy the woman left behind that gives clues to who he is without saying his name.

Love the book

Submitted by Cal (not verified) on December 9, 2018 - 7:49am

The story is a book based around black characters... I remember very little but that there is a young woman who moves to this place and there is a black man with blue eyes. It has a sexual under current from what I remember but other than that I genuinely don't know any more I would love to find this book read it whilst in hospital having my daughter.

Outlaw

Submitted by svala (not verified) on December 9, 2018 - 10:32am

I read the book in Icelandic and a direct translation of the title would be outlaw. It's a story of a young white girl's life who lives in Africa, she is very troubled, has close to no friends in schools (i believe it's a boarding school, i think thats what its called). Then her family decides it's time for her to move to England, which she does not agree with at all. Side notes her parents fight a lot, her mother moves to England before she does, she ends up with her fathers friend, a real shady guy who has a pregnant girlfriend, she also has an older sister, there's more i can mention but i think it's enough for now.

Help me find this book

Submitted by Carlyjsjsjsjsjs (not verified) on December 9, 2018 - 10:57am

A Y/A novel with a girl whose mother works for an evil man as a cook. we don’t know he is an evil man at the time. The evil man son is the girls best friend. I think the sons name starts with an R. The girl meets a guy who is a king though she doesn’t know it yet. I think his name starts with an I. The king I think is fae and he does traditional braiding on the girls hair. They are In love. The girl is the kings mate. The royal family has all blue eyes. The evil man is the top of the royal family and when a child is born without blue eyes he either kills it or does not give it any attention and makes their life hell. The girl is a seer and so is her father. In the story there is magic. This is a book series. When the girl wants a vision she has to drink this stuff.

Trying to find a book

Submitted by Nara (not verified) on December 9, 2018 - 5:44pm

I’mm searching for a book series I read when I was about 10-11 years old. I am now 18. I can’t remember much, but the first of the 4 book is about a boy who1s living with his mother and sister. His mother steals. I’m not sure, but I think the mother get caught. Somehow they end up like some undercover children agents who travels around the world on secrets mission.

I'm pretty sure that book is

Submitted by Jojo (not verified) on May 4, 2019 - 11:50pm

I'm pretty sure that book is called CHERUB, The Recruit It's by Robert Muchamore

Help! I can't remember the name of this book!

Submitted by Emily Krueckeberg (not verified) on December 10, 2018 - 11:48am

Book with girl who has powers and her dad is abusive so she punches a mirror because her dad likes her sister better so she is being burned at the stake and she makes huge black creatures rise out of the ground! So she finds out she has powers and that 's why her dad hated her, but that her sister also had powers and used her powers to take her sisters away so she would not hate the dad. But eventually, the dad comes to see her and she creates an illusion which scars his horse and the horse crushes the dad and he dies ALso there is a boy named the alchemist, and the cover is black and white

It's possibly the young

Submitted by I (not verified) on March 7, 2020 - 4:21am

It's possibly the young elites by Marie lu

Please help me find this book

Submitted by Lowel (not verified) on December 10, 2018 - 8:55pm

I have to books that need finding: 1, a comic book released from the 1980s to the late 2010s. This book is primarily in the color blue. I don't know the author or the name. The book was a mystery, and had an iconic panel where the page was sort of a keyhole. 2, a picture book about a kid in Ohio who learns how to play a harmonica (released in the 1930s to the late 1960s) Thank you to anyone who tries to find these books or replies :)

Is is Lentil?

Submitted by Hianna (not verified) on December 31, 2018 - 3:22pm

Lentil by Robert McCloskey....You may check this out: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29289.Lentil - I simply searched your clues online...

Can't remember book name

Submitted by Tyler (not verified) on January 11, 2021 - 6:25am

Young girl has psychological issues after accidentally killing her mother when she tried to "save" Her. Her brother is in the military but they are really close so when he comes home she gets excited yet still somewhat numb she doesn't wanna worry him. She goes to a party with her friends her friend tried to kiss her her brother saw and flipped out. They got into a fight but other than that were fine. She's in a secret society where they protect the hidden Royal blood line. Everyone thought they all does tragically when someone murdered the Royal Family but a maid manager to flee with the young baby. Their bodies were put on "display" Hanging from the castle all bloody and dead they were up there for about a week when "men" In black suits finally got I side and cut the down giving them a proper burial since then they have a a huge bonfire and event to signify that the event would never be repeated almost as a sign of peace between the royals and their subjects.

The series is by Ally Carter

Submitted by Makenna (not verified) on January 13, 2021 - 7:51am

The series is by Ally Carter the book titles I believe is All Fall Down Take the key and lock her up See how they run

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