Wkd’s Comments (group member since Jul 20, 2007)

Wkd’s comments from the What's the Name of That Book??? group.

Okay, thanks for everyone's input. I have tried a number of search engines from Amazon to LibraryThing with no luck.

It is a young couple, not brother & sister.
I really think the author had three names.
I know that it was in the new book section, somewhere between 1989 and 2000 (our library moved in 2000 to a brandnew building).

There are cars, etc and close to the end of the book, an ATV is mentioned, which makes me think it was a fairly recent setting.

Again, thanks for any help!

This sounds like "House of Scorpions" by Nancy Farmer.

Should be required reading, IMO

Taken by the Vikings by Michelle Styles seems very close but maybe too new of a book.

It was fiction. I'm not sure the library even had a real YA section at that time. I think it might have been adult fiction but as mentioned above, a young couple.

I believe the term was used in the book. The area that they moved to from either a city or town was VERY rural/isolated. There were a few houses there but people had to walk to get to any kind of store.

Unfortunately, most of the librarians from that time period are gone and the two left didn't remember the book. I have been so tempted to ask if there is a list of ALL fiction printed/purchased during that time period and see if I can figure it out by elimination.

That's not it but closer than anything. I still think it was a young couple but not much other family. Thanks for looking!

Maybe with all of the newer members, SOMEONE will recognize this. It has driven me crazy for years.

The author might have three names......I knew I would never forget it.

I think it was a younger couple, either late teens or early 20s....

Help!

The first title that comes to mind is Sara Davidson's "Loose Change: three women of the sixties". Could that be it?

maybe someone new will know..

I also remember vaguely there being some empty houses or an empty house where the girl finds some things she can use. She had to walk everywhere so trips to a store were few and far between.

Could it be "Blue Willow" by Doris Gates? I read it years ago. Thought it might have been a Lois Lenski book...Sounds familiar!

For several years I have been trying to discover the name of a book that I swore I would never forget....

I know it was published between 1989 and 1999. The author's name may be in the first half of the alphabet, if I remember correctly where it sat on the new books shelf. I thought it was an Algonquin Press but may be way off.

The story is a couple who live in a city and end up moving to the country, "up a holler" because of financial reasons. Think it is from the girl/woman's point of view. There are a few others living in the isolation of the holler as well....

Not sure when it is set, except sometime in the 20th century, probably closer to this end. Seems to me that the main character walked everywhere she had to go.

I think there might have been yellow on the cover and possibly flowers????

Any help would be appreciated.