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SOLVED. Children's chapter/middle-grade book. Weather subplot: kid thinks she's right and the weather reporters are wrong because it's always two degrees warmer/ colder outside her house. Read in 1980s. [s] Daisy 8 47 Jan 16, 2021 02:47PM  
SOLVED. Juvenile Horror, Ghost story. Two siblings/ friends visit relatives at old haunted house/ mansion. Chapter titles: "one-third of a ghost", "two-thirds of a ghost", etc. Read in early 1970s. [s] Dave 6 36 Jan 16, 2021 01:09PM  
SOLVED. Children’s Picture book. Big sister supposed to watch little sister (Asian characters), little sister disappears, little sister ends up being found at the park. Anna or Ana? Read 1990s. [s] Somegirl2121 5 22 Jan 16, 2021 12:19PM  
SOLVED. Teens locked in room, told only way to get out was to kill one of them [s] Walnut 5 84 Jan 16, 2021 09:31AM  
SOLVED. YA Baseball Novel About Keeping Score [s] Daniel 4 11 Jan 16, 2021 09:21AM  
SOLVED. Children's Picture book. Kinda creepy about a box. I think the box made people dumb, and at the end it's supposed to be a TV. Read in 1999. [s] Sabina 6 43 Jan 16, 2021 06:14AM  
SOLVED. YA Fantasy/ Sci-Fi. Teens in same school have strange dreams. Girl (MC) thinks she's invited to fae world. Guy thinks he's abducted by aliens. Read in 1990's. Spoiler ahead. [s] Brandie 6 44 Jan 16, 2021 12:27AM  
SOLVED. Middle Grade/ Children's Fantasy series. 6 tween girls create a portal to a magical world where they each get to learn a different type of magic (earth, water, fire, etc.). Cover: green. Read around 2008-2013. Maya 3 467 Jan 15, 2021 11:11PM  
SOLVED. YA Early 2000s Friends writing notes Laura 3 19 Jan 15, 2021 11:10PM  
SOLVED. Children's chapter book. Dolls (and toys?) are rented or borrowed from a store/ business. If you take care of the doll properly for a specific time period, you get to keep the doll. Read around late 1980s in U.S. Spoiler ahead. [s] Daisy 7 55 Jan 15, 2021 08:22PM  
SOLVED. YA fantasy book, circa 1998? About an alien race that comes to earth, they look like blue horses and they're trying to save the universe? [s] Sasha 6 355 Jan 15, 2021 07:06PM  
SOLVED. Juvenile Fantasy. Girl and brother find a wizard inside an old tree. Then their swimming pool becomes a portal to other places like a pirate ship. [s] Drake 6 27 Jan 15, 2021 06:35PM  
SOLVED. YA Contemporary fiction. Pastor's wealthy daughter shoplifts, crashes car, sees psychiatrist near the end. No later than 1987. [s] Leela4 6 79 Jan 15, 2021 06:34PM  
SOLVED. Young Adult Fantasy. Retelling of Oscar Wilde's Canterville Ghost, told in first person by the ghost. Read in 1980's. [s] Patnel 4 15 Jan 15, 2021 05:38PM  
SOLVED. Children's Adventure/ Mystery. Girl is born in and lives in a library with her dad (caretaker?). Library contains books considered nonsense, there's a hidden or secret room. Meets Peter who had a lantern or sword. Read 2016-2017. [s] Cindy 4 47 Jan 15, 2021 01:59PM  
SOLVED. YA Mystery/ Romance. Teen boy pretends to be a family member at funerals for money, solves a murder with the sister of the person whose funeral he attended. Read around 2019. Possible Spoiler ahead. deleted member 3 17 Jan 15, 2021 12:28PM  
SOLVED. Children's book. Animal characters are hungry, they need to obtain a fruit and first ask the lion king on an island. Read in late 1990s. [s] Brie 3 18 Jan 15, 2021 10:11AM  
SOLVED. YA? girl works in museum, tied up during a flood [s] Leela4 15 746 Jan 15, 2021 03:01AM  
SOLVED. YA Superhero Fantasy series. Teenage boy discovers he has super speed and stamina. He's taken? to a school for students with powers. His parents went missing at the beginning? Father taught him survival rules. Read 2013-2015. [s] Dylan 4 26 Jan 15, 2021 12:50AM  
SOLVED. YA Fantasy. Boy sees ghost of Grimm brother. Bread around 2013-2014. [s] Abigail 4 201 Jan 14, 2021 08:38PM  
SOLVED. YA book. High school boy is dumped by girlfriend Jasmine, he runs away to live with dad. He does a detailed painting of a Wave, might learn to surf. Cover: wave. Read 1992-1993. [s] Chris 7 19 Jan 14, 2021 06:56PM  
SOLVED. Middle Grade Fantasy. Girl is spanked with a hairbrush for letting someone into her house. Read before 1993. [s] Rainbowheart 8 248 Jan 14, 2021 06:41PM  
SOLVED. YA fiction. Girl is raped (at a party?) and ends up pregnant. She gets bullied at school afterward. Read around 2009-2011. [s] Mallory 11 50 Jan 14, 2021 06:25PM  
SOLVED. YA Fantasy. Girl grows plants in her hair. She's held captive, captor makes her give him the plants as soon as they grow. Read around early 2000s. [s] Kristi 4 24 Jan 14, 2021 05:53PM  
SOLVED. YA Fantasy. Rapunzel-like story of a servant girl trapped in a room with a princess. Girl has vitiligo? Middle Eastern or Central Asian characters/ setting? Read in 2012-2013. [s] Lyndsey 3 22 Jan 14, 2021 04:47PM  
SOLVED. YA book. Cover: three girls on the cover, two are sitting at school cafeteria table together whispering and smiling about another girl. [s] Jenna 4 25 Jan 14, 2021 03:23PM  
SOLVED. Middle grade fantasy about a girl and her brother who have to save their castle [S] Amanda 3 16 Jan 14, 2021 01:48PM  
SOLVED. Middle Grade/ YA book. Orphan girl can't remember who she is. She goes to live with a warm family and several young children who create stories about her past (e.g., a princess named Una or Ena?). Read in 1980s. [s] Amanda 13 58 Jan 14, 2021 10:15AM  
SOLVED. YA? book. Girl's family lives on a property with a fountain statue. Someone destroys this statue, then begins to destroy all fountains/ statues across the world. Family has amulet that allows you to fly. Read 2003-2008. [s] Sarah 10 38 Jan 14, 2021 06:45AM  
SOLVED. Merlin lives in culvert in the park [s] Leigh 8 500 Jan 13, 2021 08:46PM