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

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

Hi Grace, you said you read this a while ago, but can you give us a rough guess of what year that was? Or even a range of years. It will help us search.

My Second Death, maybe?

Chime, maybe?

Possibly Roanoke: A Novel of the Lost Colony?

So Lyrical ?

Congratulations on finding your book, Glenn! I'll mark this question solved.

Yay!!! So happy to help. I tried a bunch of different search strategies but what finally did it was a Google book search: "self help" subject:"home" - then scrolled through the results until I found one that sounded right.

The Accursed?

(Google books has a preview of Feeling at Home, and it starts out talking about Paris and has a list of words that signify "home.")

ooh, maybe this one: Feeling at Home: Defining Who You Are and How You Want to Live

This is just a guess: Somebody's Someone: A Memoir

If that's not the one, do you remember where the story took place?

Home Life: A Journey Through Rooms and Recollections, maybe?

Sounds like Tragedy Girl

Possibly: The Good Patient ?

I think this is The Beasties

The detailed illustrations make me think of Graeme Base, so maybe The Sign of the Seahorse?

Although, The Wretched Stone by Chris van Allsburg involves an island and bananas, so maybe that?

The Voices ?

I believe this is Copper by Rebecca Lisle.

"Pursued by enemies of the family she never knew she had, ten-year-old Copper Beach flees to Spindle House, her paternal home, and decides to uncover the truth about a feud between the Stone and Wood clans that sent her into exile six years earlier."

I bet it's: Hit Me with Music.

Sounds like The Grimm Legacy, by the delightful Polly Shulman