Andria’s Comments (group member since Jul 03, 2012)

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

Where the River Ends?

You're welcome! Happy to help. :-)

Dreaming In Color? It was apparently also published under the title Daddy's Girl

Here is a user review that gives more detail than the GR summary: "This is the story of three women. Bobby is a battered and sexually abused wife. She decides that she and her six year old daughter, Penny, need to leave home because her husband has started hitting Penny. She drives to Connecticut and finds a job working for Eva. Bobby takes care of Eva's Aunt Alma, who had a stroke on her left side. Bobby and Penny grow to love Alma very quickly. Eva is a little different. She is a long time widow with a college age daughter. She is a writer. Eva has a hard time with Bobby because she remembers her friend Deborah who was also a battered wife. Will these women be able to get along and help each other?"

Yay!!! I love reuniting books and readers. Happy to help, and glad you found your book, Alannah!

One of Us?

What was it?

You're welcome! Happy to help.

Possibly A Wizard Named Nell - it's first in the Keepers series, about the Keepers of the Light.

Magisterium, maybe?

Not the colors you recall, but it's got a boy in a birdcage made of branches, so maybe?

Excellent! May we consider this solved, then?

Here's a thread where someone was looking for a similar plot - it turned out the book they wanted was Anne Frank and Me, but if you're sure that's not it, maybe one of the other titles suggested in the thread will be what you're looking for: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Possibly the Lucky Santangelo series by Jackie Collins? The first one is Chances, the second one is Lucky

Jay's Journal?

Here are some random shots in the dark:

Cold Feet
The Haunting Of Chas McGill And Other Stories
Whistle in the Graveyard: Folktales to Chill Your Bones

A Will And A Way <--- GR link for Sue's suggestion

Excellent clue, Sue! I believe it is Absolute Zero: Being the Second Part of the Bagthorpe Saga

See mention of missing can labels in this review: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re...

Helen Hoke edited a bunch of scary stories anthologies for kids in the 70's and 80's - maybe one of them will look familiar?

Hmmm. Can you be more specific about when you read it? "Years and years ago" means different things to different people. If you can narrow it down to a range of years, it will help the searching process.

Glad you found it, Neeraj! I've moved this to solved.