Lazygal's comments (member since Jul 24, 2007)

Lazygal's comments from the What's The Name of That Book??? group.

What about The Darkangel Trilogy?

It's Hope Campbell's Meanwhile, Back at the Castle: Suzie Henderson and her brother Sam are two teenagers on the verge of total involvement - the Peace Movement! Women's Lib! Rock! - when their father becomes a "middle-aged drop-out". He uproots the family from Manhattan and buys a two-acre island in the middle of the St. Lawrence River. Then, to their delight, Suzie and Sam discover that their island is a free and independent territory! The Hendersons decided to proclaim the Independence of the Democratic Monarch of Great Mosquito Island. Overnight, the whole world is involved, from "the suburbs" (the U.S. and Canada) to a group of young people who want to become citizens of T.D.M.o.G.M.I. From network television to the United Nations, the knotty problems and the zany solutions multiply in a hilarious novel of today. (from back jacket blurb, pulled from my bookshelves).

It is a fun read, a little dated now (published in '70).

Oh yes, Lisa, it's a great series - pity more haven't/aren't reading it!

or maybe an "a"

I read this awhile ago - weren't there pages?

What about Un Lun Dun by China Mielville?

I'm wondering if you're thinking of the Green Knowe series? Except there's no real magic... and it's not at a school... But there are several books that, at a remove and conflated, but have turned into what you remember.

Definitely A Confederacy of Dunces.

One of the editions of Fatherland (Harris) looks like it could have a plane on the cover.

And if it sounds like the movie The Village, well, there's a lawsuit about the incredible similarities between the Haddix book and Shyamalan's vision.

I, too, have something running around in my head... and then I keep thinking of the tv miniseries, The 60s, which is semi-similar...

Are you thinking of Susan Minot? Monkeys is a little old, but she does have a newer one out.

Lisa, the spoilers are there for the buyers at B&N, etc, not for us mere readers.

I have a friend who just wrote a book and she said that the blurbs and jacket copy were (she was told) not for us, the reader, but for the Few, the Powerful book buyers. Apparently they don't read the books, just the jackets/blurbs and that's how they base their order decisions. Sigh.

Not to be pedantic, but Denslow only illustrated two books (Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Scarecrow and Tin-Man of Oz); all other Baum Oz books were illustrated by Neill.

There is an International Wizard of Oz Club (http://www.ozclub.org/) and you may be able to learn more about the various versions there.

I'm not sure (the blurb isn't really specific) but what about Sphereland, yet another sequel to Flatland?

Are you sure you're not thinking about "A History of Violence"? The movie was based on a graphic novel...

What about Sarah: A Novel by Marek Halter? It's part of the Canaan trilogy.

God. This sounds like an illustrated version of one of the stories in Bradbury's Illustrated Man (The Veldt)... don't know if any were ever done, though.