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

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

You're welcome!

Hate List by Jennifer Brown?

You're welcome! I'm happy to help. It's an odd little book and one of my favorites. I read it as a very young girl and it always stuck with me. I just bought myself a copy a few years ago. :)

And is this an adult book or YA?

Jennifer, can we consider this solved? I'll move the thread for you if so.

Lilly, if you want us to keep looking, I'll move this thread back to Unsolved. Keep bumping it up every few months and more people will see it, increasing your odds of it being solved!

The Killings At Badger's Drift came up when I searched mysteries, England, & incest.

And it's most definitely NOT Flowers in the Attic.

You're welcome. Happy to help! :)

Ok, time for some random guesswork: (all originally published pre-2001)

Wolf and Iron After a worldwide financial collapse cripples America, Jeremy Bellamy Walther, one of the few who knows how to reverse the catastrophe, begins a cross-country trek in order to spread his knowledge.

Noir In a futuristic thriller set in a post-apocalyptic America, an elaborate underground computer network offers the citizens of Los Angeles a means of indulging their illicit fantasies and the city's criminals a means of conspiracy and murder.

Firestar In a twenty-first-century America threatened by apathy, ignorance, and vast class and economic differences, Mariesa van Huyten, a great heiress, sets out to make a difference by creating a new educational system and a clandestine private space program.

The Star Country Rocked by civil wars, the collapse of the federal government, and the rise of independent confederacies, twenty-first-century America is visited by a defector from a highly and mysterious alien race.

Distraction In the year 2043, where technology is the enemy and self-appointed governments wreak havoc upon a corrupted nation, three individuals--a practical overachiever, his weird neurologist lover, and a pompous raging visionary--add to the utter confusion.

I'm pretty sure it's Herculeah Jones. Dead Letter is the one where she finds a letter in the lining of a second-hand coat. And King of Murder has a stabbing.

Her best friend/sidekick is a boy named Albert who she calls "Meat."

I think you're thinking of Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life It has b/w illustrations, a baby who won't stop crying and a pig wearing a sandwich board.

The Herculeah Jones series by Betsy Byars? Her father is a police officer and mother a private investigator.

The Dark Stairs is first in the series

I haven't read it, but my search turned up this:

Robert Westall - The Trap: A story which begins with a woman butchered to death in her own home and takes innovative torture by lie detector as its theme hardly sounds like the stuff of escapist children's supernatural fiction and The Trap would easily hold it's own in a Black Book Of Horror.

The story is in this anthology: On The Edge

Possibly Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind, though I don't remember anything about pentagrams or turbans.

Maybe Confessions of a Conjuror? Which I haven't read, so is just a guess.

Memory is a funny thing, isn't it? :) happy we could help!

And oh man, Surviving....wasn't that made into a TV movie starring Molly Ringwald?

Hmm. Here's a more obscure title: Neeley Never Said Goodbye

"Holly's older brother, Neeley, depressed after receiving a rejection from the art college he had hoped to attend, commits suicide by taking an overdose of his mother's prescription drugs."

Haven't found much about the plot of this one, but it's set in Haiti and does have zombies, so: The Evil

Some additional questions for your friend: is she sure this is a novel, or was it maybe a memoir from the mom's POV? Any recollection of the cover art?

And throwing this one out there: Jay's Journal

Oh well, each one that we rule out brings us that much closer to finding the right one!