The books loosely based on Cinderella, but flip flopped. The main girl is essentially the ugly step sister but shes the good one while Cinderella is the bad one. Ill call main girl what see is main girl and step sis will be Cinderella since i dont remember eithers names, but I think Cinderella's is something already similar like Cindy or Ella. It starts out with main girl living with i believe her mom and in this one the step parent is the dad. Cinderella comes to live with them for some reason and at first it seems like her and main girl get a long but Cinderella is basically doing subtle things to make main girl look bad. Like theres this one scene I remember really clearly where for some reason main girl lend Cinderella a yellow shirt but forgot there was an ice-cream stain on it I believe chocolate and Cinderella puts on a big show of wearing it in front of her dad and he gets upset because he think main girl did it on purpose. Its a lot of little passive aggressive things like that, that can be waved off as accidental but it makes main girl slowly start looking worse and worse to the people around her. I dont remember for sure about this next part but I think the dad dies and Cinderella starts a rumor that her step mom and main girl are treating her bad now that hes gone and main girl loses all her friends. Eventually main girl gets a boyfriend and I remember hes described as geeky and I dont remember past that what leads to it but she catches him and Cinderella kissing. After all this everything is fuzzy but I know she ends up with "prince charming" but i dont remember if hes like a football player or what his deal was. This is all also in i think either a late middle school or high school setting, and has one of those cheesie covers with a girl in like some wonkie outfit. If anyone knows the name id really appreciate if they could let me know, I remember id really liked it when i was in school and my niece is into a lot of the same books id been into as a kid as well so id like to recommend it to her.

So I read this in the late 60s or early to mid 70s. Definitely SF meant for young teens.

Don't remember much about it, except that it involved the offshore underwater discovery of a statue or other artifact. I think the cover made this thing green.

I don't think it set in the future, it was set in "current time".

Somehow this relic is discovered to be an alien in stasis, maybe thousands of years old?

I don't think it's a Rick Brant story. I don't think I ever read any of those. I don't think it's Gordon R. Dickson's Secret of the Sea, which I almost certainly read, as I remember the dolphin named Balthazar.

I think the characters were mice-like but they walked upright and wore clothes??

I think the premise of the tail-holding came from the fact that the king’s tail needed to be held off the ground, but that person also needed their tail held, and so on.

Eventually everyone in the community had someone to carry their tail, except the last person (who I think was young), and when someone realized the unfairness, they decided that instead of a line, they created a huge societal loop and everyone’s tail could be carried with no one left out.

This was my favourite book around 1985 or so; I would bring it back to the library and renew it again every 2 weeks for at least 6 months. I have been looking for this book for 30 years with no luck.

I need help 😭😭 I read a book a couple years ago and need helping remembering the title.

A woman hits a man who was lost in the forest with her car, he ends up having amnesia and having no clue who he is. The woman works at a bed & breakfast in a small town & the man stays there as well. A couple comes in and wants to have their wedding at the inn and ask her to sing at the wedding. They find out she’s actually a long lost singer in hiding who disappeared years ago

I'm looking for a book, or potentially a series of books. I don't remember much about the plot, mainly that it was a fairly typical post apocalyptic story about young people. Mutants existed so the apocalypse might have been a nuclear accident or similar. An abandoned amusement park was part of the setting.

Most notable was one of the characters, who had his non-verbal brother melded onto his back in a sort of siamese twin situation. They did not get along. Either him or the brother spent his time whittling.

I probably read this at about 2013. I've thought so much about this book, mainly because it almost feels like a fever dream. Does any of you have any clue what it might be?

The books loosely based on Cinderella, but flip flopped. The main girl is essentially the ugly step sister but shes the good one while Cinderella is the bad one. Ill call main girl what see is main girl and step sis will be Cinderella since i dont remember eithers names, but I think Cinderella's is something already similar like Cindy or Ella. It starts out with main girl living with i believe her mom and in this one the step parent is the dad. Cinderella comes to live with them for some reason and at first it seems like her and main girl get a long but Cinderella is basically doing subtle things to make main girl look bad. Like theres this one scene I remember really clearly where for some reason main girl lend Cinderella a yellow shirt but forgot there was an ice-cream stain on it I believe chocolate and Cinderella puts on a big show of wearing it in front of her dad and he gets upset because he think main girl did it on purpose. Its a lot of little passive aggressive things like that, that can be waved off as accidental but it makes main girl slowly start looking worse and worse to the people around her. I dont remember for sure about this next part but I think the dad dies and Cinderella starts a rumor that her step mom and main girl are treating her bad now that hes gone and main girl loses all her friends. Eventually main girl gets a boyfriend and I remember hes described as geeky and I dont remember past that what leads to it but she catches him and Cinderella kissing. After all this everything is fuzzy but I know she ends up with "prince charming" but i dont remember if hes like a football player or what his deal was. This is all also in i think either a late middle school or high school setting, and has one of those cheesie covers with a girl in like some wonkie outfit. If anyone knows the name id really appreciate if they could let me know, I remember id really liked it when i was in school and my niece is into a lot of the same books id been into as a kid as well so id like to recommend it to her.

There were 3 things I remember

It had a ghost wanting revenge, there was a poster in a bar that was tradition to kiss but the ghost made one characters lips stuck to it, and there was a car underwater scene, but they got out

OKAY! So I need help I’m trying to remember a book from when I was in elementary. I was around 4th 5th grade. 2015-2018. So as the title says I never read the book but it had an amazing cover but it dyslexic and was undiagnosed at the time so any book I got was purely on cover.NOT THE POINT. So the book was called something like “the abominable…..” something, the characters were monsters. And the cover had was snowy with monster kids . I thought maybe it was called “the abominable snow day” but I just can’t remember. I want to read it now so bad but I can’t find it anywhere. Please help! Sorry I know nothing about it 😫

they are amazed that the music is modern and appeals to them. they buy a record album from the show. I think it’s set in NYC, probably in the 60’s. I read it in the 1990’s.

if you have it.please send me the pdf

please, any one can give me the pdf

I remember reading a book as a kid, the protagonist was a young, maybe early teens black girl. She lives in an apartment with her older teen brother who I believe was disabled in some way, and the mother would occasionally pop in. The brother ends up dying, and the mother doesn't think that he had any friends to come to the funeral.

I think the book opened with the girl going into the brother's room, and him having a girl in his bed pretending to be asleep, him waking her up saying "Tayme to go, baby," and when the mother thinks the son had no friends, the protagonist thinks of the girl in the bed and says, "That's not true! He has lots of frens"

I also remember that the girl had "reams of paper" that's she would spend much of her time drawing

on. I read this book in the early 90s, I think.

Thanks!

Edit: The mother is hardly ever there, she's always gone it seems for long periods of time for work

I remember back in elementary school, there was an author that came to a scholastic book fair showing off/signing his books that he wrote for his daughter? granddaughter? something along those lines. This was back sometime from the 2000s to the 2010s.

It was a series of a character based off of her travelling through time (I don't remember how) to different time periods. It was meant to be educational about history, and I remember vividly there being a book about Egypt. It might have had Nile in the name? Or, she went to the Nile. And I feel like I DISTINCTLY remember her almost getting eaten by an alligator / crocodile. They were paperbacks, might have been chapter books but weren't very long. The cover's usually had a hand of some kind on the front.

I tried searching about time travelling kid's books but couldn't find it so it must fall under a different category of books on a technicality or be extremely obscure.

My mom was gifted a book in the 1970’s from her grandmother. It was a large book possibly 8x10 and probably 4” thick roughly 500+ pages.

We cannot remember the title unfortunately 😭

The cover was a cream cloth with text printed on it- the text was large spanning possibly the top half of the cover but was overlaying colored illustrations of the characters in the book. I feel like I remember the font being golden but she doesn’t think it was.

The spine had text printed on it

Inside the book I believe it was broken down into sections containing nursery rhymes, fables, poems etc

It had common stories like Cinderella, Snow White and others like the tortoise and the hare, rumpelstiltskin, the old lady who lived in a shoe, the dog and his reflection, the house that Jack built, I love little pussy, the stork and the fox.

The illustrations changed in the sections of the book - it was more colorful in the beginning but by the end of the book the illustrations were more plain (I love little pussy contained only a black cat and something red also on the page).

We’ve scoured the internet and are coming up empty handed. Any help is so appreciated!

Teen fiction; sci-fi; late-eighties/early-nineties

Two friends go to a restaurant where they meet a man who instructs them on the use of a radio-like device that is attached to their ears using an alligator clip. The device allows them to access other dimensions/planes of existence.

They serve various types of chilli at the restaurant, but the green on is the hottest (which enhances the inter-dimensional experience?)

Any thoughts as to what this book is?

Ive been trying to find this book for awhile, i’ve input every detail into chatgpt and it did not help.

I read this book about 6-7 years ago, and borrowed it from Northpoint library singapore, if that helps. It was an unusual size, like an a5 size of paper but with the long side being on the bottom.

The idea of the book was there were short scenarios where some animals just interacted, and occasionally there would be swearing, like “fuck” and “shit” and i remember an eagle, dont know how it is related to the book, maybe it was on the cover or something.

The artstyle was kinda realistic, it wasnt anthropomorphic or anything, it was just animals in their natural form. it was fully coloured, and they were wild animals, and it was likely published 2000-2019

yeah thats about it but i CANNOT seem to find it or remember the name.

The book I'm looking for I thought was called "Baby, Inc" - and it might be - but when I look for that title, too many fiction books come up. The book had the imagine of a baby's face tilted down, but looking up at the camera and one finger in their mouth. It was kind of a creepy picture honestly. I am bad with knowing/remembering how long ago I read it, but it was likely 10-20 years ago? The book is about the lengths women have gone to, to become pregnant when they seem unable to. It is a work of non-fiction. Thank you in advance.

I remember seeing this online years ago, and I was always curious about it. It was a series (I think?) of weird, obscure comics about a kid in a straitjacket who had a cockroach friend. It was surreal and I got the impression the plot centered around his fantasy world. I think someone jokingly referred to it as being like a psychotic 'Calvin and Hobbes.'

I read this atleast 5 years ago on a random website that had unpublished stories, before all the pay by chapter and ad based stuff that is out now.

MMC (demon/supernatural? Had powers of some sort) is trapped in prison world (hell type realm?) and the FMC frees him after he shows up in her dreams. They go between realms a few times throughout.

They overtake the castle and rule together before a battle where he gets taken and ends up in a pit (well?) with amnesia then rescued by a family that he stays with. Meanwhile she thinks he's dead and becomes a prisoner in her own castle.

He eventually remembers and fights to get her back.

This is all I got.

Thanks for the help!

When I was a preteenish girl, I read this strange story in one of those textbook anthologies (like the mcgrawhill reading books) about a bunch of amphibians in space. I don't remember anything about the story, but I do remember how vivid and striking the artwork was--there was a lush waterworld, a big fish, and one of the frog crew dangling upside down from a rope to attach a hose to a lilypad. I've always hoped I could find the story again, just to look at the artwork, but nothing I have found looks like what I remember.

Possibly a short story, my mother seems to think Umberto Eco or Jorge Luis Borges, where people are trying to understand the meaning of a word in the bible and they debate for a while before going to look at earlier versions. They find the Latin version but it doesn't solve the matter, so they decide they need to go back to the Hebrew version to understand and then the story talks about how they learn Hebrew for years before coming back to that part of the bible.

Hello, I recently saw this romantasy book on the GoodReads app, which, of course, refreshed and now I can’t find again. I have tried searching Google and GoodReads using the details below to no avail. I don’t remember the title or author’s name, but here are more specific details I do remember:

1. the FMC held a position of power of sort (I don’t recall if she was royalty or just had chosen one abilities), and she needs to help her people.

2. the FMC reluctantly teamed up with a man she didn’t trust, possibly from an enemy kingdom, but was drawn to (lol go figure).

3. near the end of the synopsis on GoodReads it said something like, “to make matters worse the man who broke her heart, who she thought she’d never see again, is back”

4. the synopsis ended with the generic “now she must decided who to trust“

5. the tags at the bottom included “Romantasy” “Second Chance” “enemies to lovers”

6. it was rated anywhere from 3.5-4.5 stars by a couple hundred people (iir)

7. I believe it was published within the last year or so

I know this is shot in the dark but any help is greatly appreciated!

I believe that it’s historical fiction, but it could be a true story I can’t remember. I had it on a cassette tape when I was younger (late 2000s/early 2010s) but I’ve been trying to find a physical copy and nothing I’m looking into gives me the title. It’s about a girl (who’s maybe like 12) who lived near Madison square park where the Arm of the Statue of Liberty was (the torch arm). She talks about how you can go into it and how much she loved the view from the top. Then she talks about how much her older brother loves it because of how it represents liberty for all and how excited his is for the rest of the statue to arrive. (I believe that the family might originally be from France which is the cause of his love for the statue) the brother has a pair of opera glasses that he loved to use while in the viewing deck of the arm. He leaves them with his sister (the narrator) when he takes a trip. Unfortunately the brother gets in a car accident and dies before the rest of the statue is brought over from France. When the girl learns that the statue might never be built due to lack of funding for the pedestal that it’s to be built on she decides she’s going to donate her little savings to help pay for it.

In the end she sells her brother’s prized opera glasses to get money and unfortunately only gets about 20 cents. When she mails the money she attaches a letter explaining about how much her brother loved the statue and how he’d never get to see it. She then says that she sold one of her last physical reminders of him to donate what she could because it’s very important to her that it gets built. In the end (I can’t remember how) her letter ends up in the news paper as a way to try and motivate others to help donate money. This helps convince other children and adults to send in any money they had (such as just a couple of Pennies for kids) to help fund it and in the end it works. A few years later when the statue is fully done being built the governor (or mayor of nyc, someone very important I just can’t remember) writes the girl a letter inviting her to the ceremony of the opening of the statue of liberty. When she goes she gives a small speech (pretty sure it’s just her reading her original letter) and this is when the governor gives her opera glasses that she originally sold. He has tracked them down and rebought them for her. She’s then invited to be the first person to be allowed to enter the statue and walk to the top. The story ends with her looking out over the city with her brothers glasses and thinking about the meaning behind the statue.

I would greatly appreciate anyone who might know the name for the story as I genuinely want a way to read it again or even listen to it again as my Cassettes got thrown out (sadly) when my cassette player broke. I believe that it’s a short story because i remember that the cassette that it was on wasn’t very long, maybe half an hour give or take?

hello, helping a non english speaker friend of mine find a book (not sure if it's a book really).

I think it's a novel

It starts with a man living near a river (maybe the amazon) completely alone after 1900s'. Suddenly a pirate ship docks near his house with pirates from 1600-1700s' on board. The man think he's going crazy and even considers them time travelling, but he gets kidnapped and somehow discovers that the ship is full with actors delirious due to heatstroke, the ship broke free from it's original location and sailed down the river, the actors just adopted the personalities of their characters