What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Childrens/YA book. Title: "[Hello] My name is ____ the [2nd]" boarding or private school boy. Cover: brightly colored, girl with name tag on shirt & boy (front or back cover). Read in early 2000s, probably published in 1980s/early 1990s.
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☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᶜʳᵒᵘᶜʰᶤᶰᵍ ʰᵘᵐᵃᶰ ; ʰᶤᵈᵈᵉᶰ ᵗᶤᵗᵃᶰ ❜
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Jun 15, 2017 09:13PM
Anything here look familiar: https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=He...
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☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᶜʳᵒᵘᶜʰᶤᶰᵍ ʰᵘᵐᵃᶰ ; ʰᶤᵈᵈᵉᶰ ᵗᶤᵗᵃᶰ ❜ wrote: "Anything here look familiar: https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=He..."Unfortunately, no. I looked through all of those and I didn't see anything familiar.
Have you tried a play on words with the GR search bar?
☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᶜʳᵒᵘᶜʰᶤᶰᵍ ʰᵘᵐᵃᶰ ; ʰᶤᵈᵈᵉᶰ ᵗᶤᵗᵃᶰ ❜ wrote: "Have you tried a play on words with the GR search bar?"No, what do you mean by "play on words"?
Like my name is, or my name is m and then wait for the searches to come up.
☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᶜʳᵒᵘᶜʰᶤᶰᵍ ʰᵘᵐᵃᶰ ; ʰᶤᵈᵈᵉᶰ ᵗᶤᵗᵃᶰ ❜ wrote: "Have you tried a play on words with the GR search bar?"I just realized, I think the ending of his name was something like "malcolm the second" or something similar. So the title of the book was similar to "My name is Malcolm the second", but it included his middle and last name too, which I don't remember.
Mmhh nothing is showing and I have no idea what this could be :/
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Kris wrote: "Tonia, what's the tone - funny, angsty, coming of age, serious/sad, romantic, etc.?"Coming of age, sort of serious. The boy is very preppy. The book is first-person narration.
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Lobstergirl wrote: "Tonia, are you still looking for this or did you find it?"Tonia wrote: "Kris wrote: "Tonia, what's the tone - funny, angsty, coming of age, serious/sad, romantic, etc.?"
Coming of age, sort of serious. The boy is very preppy. The book is first-person narration."
Hi, thanks for replying. No, I haven't found this book yet. The front and back cover illustrations were brightly colored, with a picture of the girl with a name tag on her shirt on either the front or back cover. There was also a picture of the boy on the front or back cover.
I used WorldCat Fiction Finder to search for 'my name is' in the 'title' field, and then filtered by 'juvenile':http://experimental.worldcat.org/xfin...
I looked through the results and couldn't see anything promising but it might be worth you double checking (or playing around with the search tool yourself).
Orp doesn't quite fit, but here is the description from School Library JournalOrp, Orville Rudemeyer Pygenski, Jr., hates his name. Along with his friend Derrick Vivian Jones and his sister Chloe Urath Rudemeyer Pygenski, they form the "I Hate My Name Club." Their first meeting is attended by adults who hate their names. The meeting is a success, however, because Orp's parents attend the meeting, and along with everyone else, confess to hating their own names.
Was this part of a series?
Can you describe any of his classmates or teachers?
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Tab wrote: "Orp doesn't quite fit, but here is the description from School Library JournalOrp, Orville Rudemeyer Pygenski, Jr., hates his name. Along with his friend Derrick Vivian Jones and hi..."
I'm afraid that that "I hate my name" book is not it. The book I read had a more mature and complex plot and style of writing, for older kids and teens.
Tonia, did you delete your first post?The description from the duplicate thread....
Plot details: A wealthy, preppy boy attends a boarding or private school. He meets a girl his age who is named something like Susan or Sarah and they go to a trailer park at some point to meet a woman (her mother or just someone they know?). They are 11, 12, or 13 I think. Later, the girl and boy go to a high society party where everyone is wearing name tags. On the front and back cover are colorful drawings of the boy wearing a dress shirt or sweater vest with the boarding school crest and a tie, and the girl is wearing her nametag over her shirt. The book is in first person narration of the boy talking about his thoughts. Throughout the book, the boy discusses his relationship with his father or parents who sent him to the boarding school and he also talks about his friendship with his friend Sarah/Susan and the woman he met in the trailer park. The name of the book is something like "My name is Malcolm(Maxmillian?) the second" or "Hello, my name is Maxmillian the second/(third)?" or “Hello, my name is Sarah(or Susan?). I don't think Malcolm is the right name, but I think it started with an M or a similar preppy name. I read this book in the early 2000s, but the book was probably published in the 80s or early 90s.
Genre: children's/youth book, coming of age, fiction.
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