Discussion > SOLVED: Children's/YA

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SOLVED. Kids' novel (or series). A group of traveling (?) toys including a teddy bear (?) named Boston (with yellow fur) who's naughty or pushy. Read around 1980-1985. [s] RabbitMilitia 29 321 Mar 02, 2021 06:13PM  
SOLVED. YA Romance. The main character is a girl in high school (upperclassman I think) and she plays lacrosse. [s] Hailey 6 57 Mar 02, 2021 05:19PM  
SOLVED. YA Fantasy. Girl stands before council once she's coming of age, develops magic abilities, lives communally with a few other families, love interest, possibly magic tree. Read 2012-2015. [s] Tasha 7 64 Mar 02, 2021 03:39PM  
SOLVED. MG/ YA book. New boy in town wants to join his classmates' bluegrass band as banjo player, but he's impeded by rich kid, whose garage the band uses to practice. Read around 1975-1978. [s] SamSpayedPI 9 25 Mar 02, 2021 02:35PM  
SOLVED. Kids/ MG fiction. Girl volunteers? at hospital or center for children with disabilities, one child was described as resembling a baby bird. Read in late 1970s. [s] RabbitMilitia 4 19 Mar 02, 2021 02:00PM  
SOLVED. YA/ MG Fiction. Preteen girl's life stories illustrated with black & white line drawings/ cartoons. Dad bakes bread once a year, grandma, asks how parents got engaged. Cover: cartoon girl standing in messy bedroom. Read around 1989-1994. [s] Capn 6 529 Mar 02, 2021 12:12PM  
SOLVED. YA Time Travel. Muslim girl named Sara? was riding a bike, fell & bumped her head on rock, went into a coma. She wakes in a past time, stays with family who thinks she's Jewish. Meets boy who falls in love with her. Read 2011-2015. Spoilers. [s] Rabya 6 20 Mar 02, 2021 12:07PM  
SOLVED. YA Memoir or Fiction? Girl with eating disorder goes to an in-patient facility. Tumultuous relationship with her mother. Read around 2017. [s] belen 8 33 Mar 02, 2021 11:55AM  
SOLVED. Children's Picture book. Similar to Cinderella. Heroine's dress is woven out of silver or gold that shone like a star? it's a reward for her kindness. Three sisters, no stepmother, not a servant. Beautiful illustrations. Read around 2018. [s] Isabella 10 43 Mar 02, 2021 11:10AM  
SOLVED. YA Romance/ Fantasy? Almost journal style type of writing with watercolor pictures. Japanese/ Chinese man and woman. Man is gorgeous and has a secret. Read around 2010. Spoilers ahead. [s] deleted member 1 68 Mar 02, 2021 08:52AM  
SOLVED. YA Realistic Romance. Spanish girl works on project with new boy in Spanish class. She recently broke up with boy her parents disliked. Read around 2013-2015. [s] Caroline 5 39 Mar 02, 2021 08:17AM  
SOLVED. Children's Picture book. Girl's birthday gift to aging neighbor who is losing her eyesight is to list all sounds heard in the woods/ forest. They enjoy watching & listening to nature from woman's porch. Read 2021. Written 1990-2010? [s] Michelle 6 25 Mar 01, 2021 07:57PM  
SOLVED. Juvenile Fantasy. Boy's parents are divorcing, he gets magical pizza medals or something like that, and can go into books such as the Odyssey where he battled Cyclops. Canadian author? Read around 2000. (Written around 1995-2000.) [s] Eric 6 50 Mar 01, 2021 06:20PM  
SOLVED. Children's Mystery. Spooky house & mysterious drowning. 2 sisters try & solve the mystery of their dad? drowning in lake behind his childhood home, he was a talented swimmer. They look at old newspapers in town library. Read 2012. Ezra 4 14 Mar 01, 2021 05:47PM  
SOLVED. YA Fiction. Teen girl runs away from troubled parents/ mom? in Australia. She meets other young kids. Read in 1990's/late 1980's. [s] Tricia 9 14 Mar 01, 2021 04:27PM  
SOLVED. YA Sci-Fi. Mutant teenage boy with webbed feet enters video game competition on Earth. Teams of two (pilot & gunner) shoot targets from their spaceships. Read 2010-2014. Spoilers ahead. [s] L-Diamond 5 48 Mar 01, 2021 12:14PM  
SOLVED. YA Historical Romance. Wealthy girl and poor beggar boy, girl wrongs boy, revenge. Set around time of Spanish Inquisition. Read 2015-2017. Spoiler ahead. [s] Jemimah 3 12 Mar 01, 2021 10:59AM  
SOLVED. Children's/ YA Teen Mystery series. 2 boys and girl solve mysteries. General crime, maybe occasional kidnapping. One cover: girl on steep stairs of house, looking over her shoulder. Read in mid-late 1980's. [s] deleted member 31 1692 Mar 01, 2021 10:25AM  
SOLVED. Juvenile Fantasy. Wizard who lives up in the trees, I think, and comes down when a woman abandons her baby while being pursued by wolves. [s] Gg 5 314 Mar 01, 2021 09:48AM  
SOLVED. YA Fantasy. British? girl visits book-author uncle, crawls through hole in hedge and is in a different world. Read 1969-1972. Spoiler ahead. [s] Rhonda 4 148 Mar 01, 2021 09:07AM  
SOLVED. YA Paranormal. Anti-heroine whose powerful magic turns her dark and cruel, she becomes addicted to its power. She has a younger sister. Read 2015-2020. Spoilers ahead. [s] Fantasy Ficti… 7 25 Mar 01, 2021 06:52AM  
SOLVED. YA? Dark Novel. Girl moves town after friend/ parent/ sibling? dies. She has only one friend (Jamie?). Long book. Cover: human eye. Read before 2009. Spoiler ahead. [s] Katie 11 658 Mar 01, 2021 05:48AM  
SOLVED. YA/ Teen Fantasy. Girl is sent to a kingdom of ghosts to marry the prince. Her sister goes to the kingdom to try and save her. Spoiler ahead. [s] Lexus 6 533 Feb 28, 2021 08:48PM  
SOLVED. Children’s Picture book. Dog goes to a French finishing/ etiquette school and learns to walk on two feet and talk. Becomes too good for owner and leaves home. Ends up returning back into a dog and finds a home. Read in 1980's. [s] Katherine 10 28 Feb 28, 2021 08:01PM  
SOLVED. YA, fantasy, girl, hedge, wall, wolf [s] Katie 6 497 Feb 28, 2021 07:41PM  
SOLVED. YA LGBT? novel. Musical theater camp. Girl doesn't fit in with her singing family, she prefers writing songs for musicals. She goes to camp before senior year of high school or freshman college. Read in Feb. 2019. [s] Dylan 9 12 Feb 28, 2021 06:40PM  
SOLVED. YA Sci Fi. Boy finds his family & girlfriend start ignoring him then forget him completely. People & things fade to gray as people forget they are there & can't communicate with the coloured world. Read around 2000, published in 1970s? [s] Elara 5 17 Feb 28, 2021 05:52PM  
SOLVED. Children/ YA? Mystery. Girl named Sal? (11-12 years) goes to live with her female cousin in a new city. Mysterious person is sending them a basket full of flowers or fruits. Read around 2016-2018. [s] artemistix 8 29 Feb 28, 2021 05:07PM  
SOLVED. Juvenile/ MG book. Family's housekeeper/ grandma/ nanny has to leave suddenly. Kids become super energized and productive (not super powers). Read in 1970s. Spoiler ahead. [s] Noeline 12 50 Feb 28, 2021 02:57PM  
SOLVED. YA fiction, little Romance. Story of a troubled teen, main character's name is Kevin. Read around 2013. [s] Brittanie 8 723 Feb 28, 2021 11:46AM