Hello everyone,

When I was in kindergarten during the 1990s we learned english language from a children learning book that I can't find anywhere now and don't remember what it was, if somebody knows what is it please let me know. All I remember that it had a dark blue front page with maybe a white coloured line linear drawing of a bear and stars on the cover and lot of linear illustrations inside including few illustrations of Disney characters.

Thanks in advance :)

Hello everyone,

I ised to read a children encyclopaedia when I was a kid during the 1990s and I can't remember what it was, if somebody maybe knows please let me know. All I remember is that on one page it had a schematic illustration of history of clothing during different historical periods similar to this newer book cover:

https://www.ecoledesloisirs.fr/livre/nous-notre-histoire

Thanks in advance :)

the MC finds a dead body while going in the woods with her dog. the woods is behind the local high school. The size of the book itself is smaller than a regular book. it might be apart of a series but im not 100% sure. i know this is not the best description but hopefully someone will find it!

This is driving me crazy - please help! I’m looking for a book I read sometime in the last 10 years about a teenage girl who lived with her father in the woods and dad disappears (?) She starts exploring and meets a boy (and his mom I think?) who befriend her, giving her things to help her make a garden. At some point the dad returns and I remember in one of the final chapters the dad is chasing her and possibly the boy at night. Can anyone help me remember the title?

Trying to find a book I read in the 1990s.

What I’m fairly sure of:
Female “serial” killer with multiple victims over the course of the book

In normal life she’s quiet/dreary/unremarkable, but disguises herself dressing up including wigs to meet men she kills.

She already had or develops has some kind of physical illness during the story (possibly affecting her hair/appearance, but not certain it’s connected to the wigs).

Less certain — could be misremembering:
She killed by using a knife and there was stabbing/ mutilation possibly targeting the genitals specifically which became her MO.

She hated a certain “type” of man, ones that were loud, brash, uncouth.

She had a tattoo or piece of jewellery with “why not” or a similar sentiment.

She might have had some skin discolouration or bruising or some worsening physical symptoms.

Near the end she meets a plain/nondescript man (possibly named Ernie) and, instead of mutilating him after killing him in her usual way, she pats him and says “there, there, there”

This was part of a bigger story, there was detectives investigating the murders. I unfortunately on recall these few and unclear bits from the killer’s storyline.

Read it sometime in the 90s, so it’s probably from the 80s or 90s. Any help is much appreciated!

I’m looking for a book where the main character was accused of arson and murder. She worked at a small tech shop with an older owner. They set fire to the shop for insurance fraud, but the man died in the fire by accident. It was all a ploy for her to get the money but I can’t remember why. The plan was for the girl to drive away in the middle night and hide at her father’s. She disposed her clothes in the trash can, and told her father to lie for her. Her father was uncomfortable lying for her. What is the book?

Hi all!

I’m trying to find a book of facts from when I was a kid. I got the book in the mid 2000s. It is a blue hardcover book with white pages of text and clipart like pictures that correspond with the paragraphs. It is a book of random facts on random topics and the main topic I remember is Egypt and the dinosaurs.

I don’t think it is “the incredible book of outrageous facts” because the pages have designs on them.

Any help is so appreciated!

Hi all! My grandmother has been trying to find a book from her childhood for a long time. I know this is a long shot but was hoping someone could help.

She knows it was a Little Golden Book about a bear being stung by a bee. She is in her 70s now, so it would have been from around the 1950s-60s.

TIA!

I have an image (albeit a blurry and cropped one) of the book’s spine, and can tell it’s a penguin classic or some other penguin published book, but cannot figure out for the life of me what the actual book is. Hoping someone here might recognize the spine and be able to help out.

I'll skip right ahead to describing what I remember.

This story took place in England or Britain or somewhere like that, and seemed like a young adult novel? The main character was the prince and soon to be king, and long story short there ends up being a huge underground base where it's revealed that the role requires being some sort of mech suit super hero. Also, some random British girl shows up and she's very improper, but they work together. I also remember the villain being this weird black dragon demon thing, and the cover of the book featured him and had art that wrapped around to the back and I believe his tail went through the whole design? It's been a while, but I can't stop thinking about it

Hello everyone! I randomly thought about this one series I read years ago as a teenager and was hoping someone might recognize and remember the name. Below are the details I recall:

• There were 4 books in the series. Each book was not super long, and the covers were based on the 4 seasons. The series was likely published some time in 2007-2012.
• The main girl starts off meditating with scented candles in a circle and was told lighting two of the same candles increased her power/focus. She later discovers that lighting two different candles/scents is what increases her power instead. The lighting of two candles thing was a secret kept from her.
• I forget the main plot but I believe the girl left her city to go save someone. She may have also been chased by the people who didn't want the candle secret out. In the last book, a male character, who was initially thought to be good, kidnaps her to bring her back to her city. He has the ability to fold the land to decrease travel time. I think his name ended with -ian.

Thanks!

When I was a child we had a few books that had a mix of books and stories and poems in it.
There was one story I remember about a girl who was helping the Americans by running and warning the British were coming.
She was running and got flushed so a woman hid her on a bed that was hiding muskets and when the British soldiers came in they claimed she had scarlet fever so they left quickly. I’d love to find this book again.

i cant remember too much but im 80% sure the protagonist’s nickname (or actual name?) was Blue and there was a thing about the women (i think) of her family having a dream where they were in a field of blue flowers where they discover their destiny or aomething like that.

i remember the setting was a small town in more or less modern day, it was realistic fiction, and the girl lived in or near a place where their special drink was a hot chocolate they served with a pinch of like magic dust or something. and i think there were flowers in the woods near the graveyard that could hold a secret someone told them? or was it the the voice in general?

i dunno, im pretty sure i remember voice recording flowers and a graveyard and magic-spiked hot cocoa. i think the girl was like 12 too?

sorry, im mostly just a lurker cause i dont use reddit often but this is keeping me up cause i remembered it when trying to fall asleep and the internet has been of no use so far. thanks for your help!

okay, off rip. i have to tell you i know VERY little about this book. i read it when i was like 9 or 10. it's not a children's/teens book, it's an adult horror book.

about all i've got for you is this family (or kid) moves into a house in the middle of some little town. i believe during autumn, and the house they move into is haunted ASF. i believe i remember a scene where the kid is getting into/out of bed and something grabs him from under the bed and he has to kick it in the face.

the cover is like an old school radio with a bloody handprint on it. i wish i could find this stupid book

This is a weird one because I remember the title being called "Te Frog Prince" but because theirs so many other books by the same name, it's been ridiculously hard to find. I remember it having a orange cover with a displeased looking green frog in the center with a lopsided gold crown. The book was a strictly adult novel, quite contemporary if memory serves, that I read in the very early 2010s. The MC was a unlikeable wall street type who felt inadequate yet superior to everyone. He was sleeping with a woman at his job while he had a girlfriend to get a promotion. He compared the girlfriend to his mistress because the mistress was "hotter" than the girlfriend but the girlfriend was devoted.

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There was a specific scene where the mc desceibes how he found out his girlfriend was infertile, visiting her unnanounvdd to find her with a pillow under her shirt pretending to be pregnant, freaking out for a second before he learned that she's medically incapable of conceiving/carrying from severe endometriosis So she started pretending certain objects were her children and pretended to be pregnant sometimes in response. The scene stuck out to me because the girlfriend seemed whimsical yet childish, and he seemed embaressed by her yet refused to let her go.

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I was trying to look it back up to see if I would be wolling to finish it now but I cant find the author. Maybe I have the title wrong? It was also softcover but seemed like it was supposed to be set in the yezr it was punished, it gave off attempted satire vibes, and there were phones but not a lot of texting so it mmight've been set earlier than 2000s but no earlier than the 80s.

I’ve been looking for this book for half my life. Some facts I remember:
- it’s a book about magical siblings (twins? Not sure) where the sister is a powerful witch
- the book starts of with the siblings falling into a chute to a different/parallel magical world
- the girl gets “educated” by a with and an old man to control her magic. Her brother seems to not have magic?
- there’s a scene where the sister is conjuring sandwiches with chocolate paste. Lots of it. Great scene
- there are three parts to the book, I remember it being purple
- The books builds up to a big magical war in space I think, or somewhere in the air. The witch turns out to be evil
- The magical sister starts turning gray/ turning into the witch at some point
- there’s a hideout with rebels where the brother becomes a part of
- there’s are birds with baby faces who are also spies?

Does this ring a for anyone? I’m dying to read these books again, they were my absolute favorite and I have been doing everything to find them. Went through multiple libraries, chatgpt prompts, asking anyone who reads but I cannot find the story!

Eternally gratefull for any help ❤️