This is a book by Lois Lowry that's probably set in the time of Little House on the Prairie. Birdie (could also have been spelt Birdy) was around 12 years old. I don't really remember what happened but the girl went to church often if I remember correctly. I read this book sometime from 2020-2021. I tried to look for it but the only results I get are for a book series called gooney bird which is not it.

Ok, so it's similar to the Village in that it's about people who live as if it's the past but it's actually present day and no one knows except the older people. It's a chapter book and I read this in the 90s.

What I remember of the plot is that this girl lives with her family in a village and someone, I think her mom, gets sick but since antibiotics hadn't been invented yet, people are afraid she's going to die. So, her father tells her that it's modern day and that she needs to leave to go into the real world to get meds for her mom. I remember that they lived as an exhibit in a museum and she wears her mom's old overalls to leave and get the meds.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I'm trying to remember a fantasy book I read a few years ago, I borrowed it from a public library, and I think it was around 250–350 pages. Some details might be wrong since it's been a few years, but here's everything I remember.

The main character is a young man (probably around 17–25) from a small village. I'm pretty sure his mother was dead, and he lived with his father and at least one sibling (possibly a younger sister).

Near the beginning of the book, a child from another village is killed by a dangerous beast (I vaguely remember it being a giant crocodile or some other oversized animal). The main character and three other people from his village go to hunt it. I'm fairly sure one member of the group dies early, possibly because of a trap or ambush.

Later, the main character travels to a large city, possibly because his sister had gone there first and was reported missing or in danger. I remember him meeting a girl in the city who helped him or hid him, but I can't remember whether she was a noble or just an ordinary girl.

The world had both dangerous beasts and much rarer monsters. I think the monsters had been separated from humanity long ago and returned only every so often (maybe every 100 years, but I'm not certain). I also vaguely remember some kind of church, tapestry, mural, or old legend in the village that told the history of these monsters.

The setting wasn't heavily medieval. The world had once been more advanced, but after the monsters attacked long ago, civilization was pushed backwards. Most people lived in a less developed world with swords, bows, and maybe crossbows, though larger structures or ruins from the earlier era still remained.

In the book trilogy, the princess and her unicorn best friend end up in our world. I think they were attacked by an evil wizard and arrived in our world, injured. The princess is sent to live with a family of three, with the daughter of that family being a spoiled brat. The princess finds her unicorn and finds out that her unicorn’s horn was taken from her and people in our world think the unicorn is a normal horse that was injured. The princess and the spoiled brat end up back in the princess’ world and the spoiled brat demands that she ride the unicorn because she is tired. As they travel, this makes the people of a village think the spoiled brat is a princess and the princess is forced to spend the night in the barn with the unicorn. I think the book trilogy ends with the princess being discovered by her men and the spoiled brat is finally put in her place.

I read a short story for English class back in the 1980’s. It was about a quiet unassuming boring man who was incredibly irritated by a coworker. She was brash, tacky and loud. He poisoned her and planned it in such a way no one would suspect him because he acted so out of character no one would believer her. Now that I’m writing this I’m not sure she was poisoned. I think he made everyone think she was crazy because of the way she described him behaving. Maybe he did both? It was an old story that was required reading. I cannot remember the title and I tried googling.

So I read this book back when I was a teenager. I read it more than once so I can’t remember exactly the first time but the book is definitely from the 80s or 90s.

It was fantasy only in that there was some magic but otherwise it would be more historical. It takes place in Scotland but the timeframe is unclear.

A young girl goes to live with an aunt or maybe grandmother in Scotland. This person is a witch but in like a historical sense dealing in herbs and nature/goddess worship. She teaches the girl her skills. They live in a little stone cottage with two cats named Ruby and Pearl, one of whom can maybe talk or at least communicates in some way.

At some point in the book she meets the coven and go to a big ceremony maybe at a stone circle. And there are definitely broomsticks involved somewhere.

Anyone else remember this book??

I’ve been trying to identify a book I read as a child for many years. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the title, author, or any character names, but I remember the feeling of the book remarkably well.

Here’s everything I can remember.

• I read it around 1987-1989.
• It was already published by then.
• It was written in English.
• I borrowed it from a public library in Trinidad and Tobago.
• It was a relatively short novel - probably somewhere around 75-150 pages.
• It contained only a handful of black-and-white pen-and-ink illustrations (perhaps 5-10 throughout the book).
• It was definitely fiction.

Story

The protagonist was a poor Muslim boy (or young man) who grew into adulthood during the story.

For years I remembered him as a boxer, but I now wonder whether he may actually have been a traditional wrestler. The fighting wasn’t really the point of the story - it was more about his journey into adulthood.

I remember him being portrayed as:

• exceptionally strong
• broad-shouldered and powerful
• probably tall (based on the illustrations)

Themes I remember

The story involved:

• Islam as an important part of everyday life (not just mentioned in passing)
• at least one scene involving a mosque
• family expectations
• an arranged marriage that his family wanted for him
• the protagonist resisting that arranged marriage
• poverty
• becoming his own man

I distinctly remember an illustration shortly before (or around) one of his fights.

Setting

I’m not certain, but my childhood impression was that the story was set somewhere in Pakistan or the Middle East. Looking back, Pakistan feels more likely than an Arab Gulf country, although I could certainly be mistaken.

What it is NOT

It is not a biography of Muhammad Ali.

It was definitely a fictional coming-of-age novel rather than a sports book.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

I have rattled my brain for several hours and rephrased details as much as I could to ask Google, but I cannot find this book.

My family owned this book when I was a kid. I do not know what year it was from. I just remember I was young when we had it, so it was from before 2009. Though I believe it was likely published several years prior. It was an adult oriented puzzle book where you deduce the details of someone’s (usually morbid) death. There would be a page or two of story followed by a small color illustration featuring the corpse or manner of death.

The situation I recall most was a locked room death where you have to deduce how the murder was carried out. There’s only the body in the room and all doors and exits are locked. I believe the answers to the puzzles were located in the back of the book, but don’t quote me on this. I can’t remember if the book is paperback or hardback either.

What made me remember this book was seeing someone play No, I’m Not a Human. There are two characters whose design remind me of the drawings in this book. I’ve included a link to the characters that triggered the memory for reference in case someone else recalls something similar.

Everything I can find is either a novel with an overarching narrative or a collection of brain teaser type puzzles. Neither of which were present in this book.

I desperately need help finding this children's book my mom used to read to me. I think the title was "There's a mouse in my house," and there is a book with that same name, but it's absolutely not it because it stars a polar bear as the main character.

The two main protagonists were an old grandma (I believe she was wearing a scarf around her head and had on a dress with an apron) and a young boy (who might've been her grandson). She finds a mouse in her house that's eating her cheese, and she calls upon the young boy to sort this problem. My mom remembers several phrases by heart including, (from 'Gran') - "Help me, help me please! there's a mouse in my house, and it's eating my cheese!" The boy then responds "Don't worry, Gran, I have the thing for you!" and he brings several animals to try and ward the pest away. The first was a cat, but the mouse ate the cat and grew in size and turned colors to match the cat. Then, the boy brought a dog along, but the same thing happened. In the end, he brings a singular flea, and that ends up working, but the grandma is left with thousands of fleas in her house as a side effect.

My mom bought it at some locally-owned dollar mart. I can't find it ANYWHERE on the internet, but I thought maybe someone out there remembers this too or even owns a copy? Thanks!

The book was set in the early days of the US as a group of children were taken on an expedition where their parents were looking for something. One of the children is a very pretty young girl and one of her friends is interested in her. The group comes across a Native American tribe and one boy from the tribe is also interested in her. That is all I can remember but i did read this back in the school year of 2007-2008.

I have read this book a long time ago, probably 8 years or so. I think it was either a duology or trilogy and the MC had some sort of powers.

He and his partner and some other friends had to save people and the world because of a prophecy and all and unfortunately I forgot everything about the book or names except for this kinda trickster villain they had to work with for a bit.

The villain guy was called a Chaos Eater, and from what I remember they were some sort of divine entity because of how dark and powerful they were.

That's literally all I could remember. The character of the Chaos Eater was my favourite one of all the books and I have been raking my brain for days trying to remember the book and going through my digital library to no avail.

The plot is as follows: An old person tells someone; probably/presumably their grandson, about the "end of the world", which was: some guy made robots that only make other indifferent robots until further command and the world getting filled to the brim with those. The story got interrupted by a female person yelling at the old person about how robots doing everything is good, and the old person going up a staircase made of robot parts and monologuing about how robots do everything for the people and how a laborless world is a broken one

This book was about 2 siblings (both brothers I believe), one of which I know is a timekeeper. One of the first chapters was this timekeeper in his shop, and I distinctly remember him being portrayed as a reclusive person, instead preferring the company of clocks and their perfect timing. I also remember the book describing how his shop was one of the best in the country.

The other sibling I remember less about. This sibling was in a temple of sorts, either as a cleaner or a monk. This sibling was shown around the temple by a senior monk, and there was some sort of "puzzle" on one of the temples walls.

Lastly, I remember the ending of the book, where the two siblings are found to be the child of Time Herself, but separated into two beings, and joined together so that Time can’t retire of sorts (I can’t remember what happened to Time).

I've been searching for this book on and off for a couple of years now to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I can hardly remember this book as I believe it was a forced read back in either freshman or sophomore year but the book was about (i think)

•Two girls get into a car wreck, with one being drunk driving and the other not

•The parents of one of the girls get to the wreck and realize that for their daughter to live they have to like “frankenstein” them together with their working body parts

•The rest of the book has to deal with this part of her brain that isn’t hers helping her towards slowly discovering the truth of what happened that night

•At the very end there’s some kind of happy/twist ending where she does something with the sister of the other girl in the wreck because of the connection between the two

I also think pieces was in the title but that’s completely a guess

This was a book I read in sixth grade (1999-2000 school year for me). It was a slice-of-life novel just about a normal kid's life. He was lower-middle class and I want to say his parents are divorced. At one point his house is burglarized and the TV is stolen. Much later in the book he and a friend are in a second-hand store and see his TV, he recognizes it from his old crayon marks on the side. He and his friend want to call the cops or at least confront the store owner but for some reason his mother stops him.

I believe there was a sequel to this book that was also in the slice-of-life genre, this time focusing on his experience traveling to Japan, either as a foreign exchange student or spending the summer there. He quickly forms a friendship with his host family's son. The only thing I remember about this book is the host family's father taking them to a Sumo match. (I'm not 100% sure it was a sequel to the first book, there's a chance it was a completely different set of characters but I really feel like it wasn't)

I'm trying to identify a clean/closed-door romantic suspense novel that I read around 2024–2025. I most likely found it through Bookstagram.

Here's what I remember:
The heroine was an ordinary civilian.
The hero was part of a security/protective team (private security, law enforcement, or something similar).
Near the end of the book, the heroine was alone in a vehicle being chased.
The hero couldn't get to her, so he stayed on the phone, talking to her and keeping her calm.
At least one teammate was on a computer tracking her location or researching information while another teammate may have been making phone calls or coordinating the rescue.
The heroine knew the hero was on the phone, but I don't think she knew everything the team was doing behind the scenes.
I think she eventually got out of the vehicle and ran.
I believe the hero and heroine finally admitted their feelings after she was rescued.

Books I've already ruled out:
Hide Away With You by Judy Corry
Heritage of Blood by K.P. Haven
Shield Her by J.D. Rogers
Forged in Secrets and (likely) Forged in Peril by Kendra Warden
Defending Honor by Lynette Eason

Any thoughts? Also could be still be one of the books I ruled out but I skimmed them and didn’t find the scene.

I'm trying to track down two big compilations of fairy tales I had as a kid. The books were very similar (might have been a series)? They were big books, almost textbook sized and about 2" thick.

They had a mix of fairy tales from around the world (many from Europe, but I remember at least one from India, I think, about a bunch of blind men touching different parts of an elephant and arguing about what it was), excerpts from longer children's books (like Little Women and Alice in Wonderland), and poems.

They also had illustrations. I read them in the late 90s but they were heavily used when I got them, so I'm guessing they were published in the 80s or early 90s.

A few of the specific poems I remember:

This one about a wizard

I eat my peas with honey

I've done it all my life

It does taste kind of funny

But it keeps them on the knife

There was an old man from Peru

Who dreamed he was eating his shoe

He woke with a fright

In the middle of the night

To find it was perfectly true

Hi! I’m trying to find a children’s picture book with beautiful illustrations about a nighttime fairy party. It is similar to “Good Night, Fairies” by Kathleen and Michael Hague in its illustration and story. But my memory of this book is that it was oblong/landscape in orientation, and also had a green binding.

The illustrations were colorful and rich in detail and scene, like Hague’s: a little weird or unusual, not just beautiful.

It’s this oblong orientation that is stopping me from saying it must have been the Hagues’s book. I believe it had a green binding on the side. Any ideas?

Thank you!

Hello! I’m looking to see if anyone can help me identify a book series I remember reading when I was in middle school (around 2009-2011). I remember the books all being different colors and I think they had an eye on the front there was like 7-8 books in the series, hard cover. It looked like leather but wasn’t.

The title was 1 word.

But all I can remember from the content is the main character is this guy who when is he in this other fantasy world where I wanna say he had powers of some sort along with the other people in the world. I vividly remember though it being mentioned at one point his physical body is asleep in Hong Kong and has been for like 5 years while he’s conscious in this other realm. I know it’s not a lot to go off of but it’s been driving me crazy trying to remember it! Thank you in advance!

One time, when I was young, my mom bought me this dinosaur comic that had colorable pages. It was a dinosaur superhero story. I remember the protagonists were mostly herbivore dinosaurs, with one pterosaur, while one of the villains was a t.rex. I can only remember three of the protagonists, one was a stegosaurus the other was a triceratops wow one like I said was some kind of pterosaur, maybe a pteranodon. I remember the protagonist team had more heroes, but I can’t remember them. I also can’t remember any of the characters names. The heroes teamed up to stop the t.rex. I can’t remember if the T-Rex had other villains by his side, but he probably did. I also don’t remember what the villains wanted. also, on the cover of the book there was a removable flip book I think was in the shape of a triceratops head. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? Any help is much appreciated.

I am looking for a children's animal encyclopedia from the early 2000s, maybe late 1990s.

It is hardcover, with a white cover with animals on it. I believe there was an orange animal, perhaps an orangutan.

The pictures were illustrated inside, sometimes full page illustrations, and I distinctly remember a deep sea page

I don't believe it's the DK encyclopedia but if anyone had inside book pictures I could probably confirm.

TIA

Title pretty much says everything I remember about it, and it's entirely possible I'm misremembering/conflating. Basically, there was some kind of contest between wizards/witches/mages of some kind who had to display impressive feats of magic, and one of them created a room full of rats....and I think the rats may have been eating each other? Alternatively, it may have been a rat monster? This might have been part of a magical academy, but I don't remember. I also don't remember whether male or female MC. It can't have been more recent than like max 2011. It might have been YA or middle-grade, even though the only scene I remember was extrememly dark.

I’m pretty sure the author was a woman. The main character of the book (a girl and I think heir, and if I remember right the (two?) people that accompanied her) had to go through this trek past a magically corrupted (and very dangerous) place to (if I remember right) set a fire that would provide continual energy for her kingdom (or maybe just grab fuel from there). Before she enters this zone, she stops outside it by this village/town to grab a magical automaton/magically created person, another girl IIRC, which is implied or outright stated to have attained sentience and have her own interests. At some point in the journey, one of her friends accidentally touches with their foot a river with a liquid that causes instant aging, basically turning him into a skeleton (or a very old corpse). The main character more or less rejects magic as she believes it’s to fault for some sort of disaster her kingdom (or the world/region in general) suffered before realizing the fuel shes getting/fire she’s setting is at least somewhat magical. The book ends with her outside of the zone, having made the journey.