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

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

In case she's misremembering details, I'll throw this one out: Silent to the Bone. The little sister was injured, not kidnapped, but the boy has become mute as a result and his friend has to figure out how to communicate with him to find out what happened.

Gah, I absolutely read this book back in the day. Both of those things trigger strong memories but I'm not sure which book. Let's start with a guess of Chloris and the Creeps or Mom, the Wolf Man, and Me? Or something else by one of those two authors?

Your description made me think of The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...

I read DNTD in the late 80s and I went crazy trying to find it again twenty years later! It’s an overwrought, beautiful, terrible mess of a book that sticks with you. The thing with the kitten definitely rings a bell, and the storms. Hurricanes, I think it was.

I think this is Disturb Not The Dream by Paula Trachtman

Breathe My Name by R.A. Nelson?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Lynne Reid Banks is a British author. Be sure to come back and let us know what she says, because if this isn’t it we’ll keep looking.

Maybe One More River. First published in London, 1972

Here's the link: Just Tell Me When We're Dead!

I'm glad you found your book!

You're welcome! I'll take care of changing this to "solved" along with your other one, about the amusement park. :)

This could be: Scared Silly

I can't find a summary of the plot, but perhaps the cover will look familiar: The Tramp And The Dog - published in London in 1975

The Secret History was the first thing that came to my mind, also. But I'll throw this out, too. The Lords of Discipline has a secret society called "The Ten" and there's a scene where someone attempts suicide by jumping off a building on campus.

You're welcome. It sounds really interesting, I'm going to check it out too!

I think it may be The Rise & Fall of Great Powers.

The first sentence of one of the reviews is: "As a child, Tooly Zylberberg led a peripatetic existence."

(and her mother's name is Sarah, I think)

You're welcome!

Throwing this out there: Disturb Not The Dream. There's a part where menstrual blood leads to murder, somehow.

Dr. Franklin's Island

Thanks, Rosa. I guess I wasn't clear.

From the summary of Camera: "In 1905, Jacob is apprenticed to Herbert Burrows who photographs the séances of the Theosophist Society. Among the members of the society is Reverend Charles Leadbetter, who also employs Burrows for an altogether more sinister task. Intrigued by the possibilities of photography, Leadbetter secretly uses young children in experiments to capture the soul on film as it leaves the body. When Leadbetter's scheme is discovered it leads to further deceit and murder.

The true story is gradually pieced together from Johanna's research and Jacob's own account, leading to a chilling discovery in the Thames..."

Camera?