What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Trouble at Timpetill
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SOLVED. kids wake up, no parents in town. Set in Scandinavia. [s]
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I'm not sure, but just out of curiosity, why does everyone keep putting "bump" on their posts?
Natalie wrote: "I'm not sure, but just out of curiosity, why does everyone keep putting "bump" on their posts?"If a certain amount of time has elapsed with no posts, the thread falls way off the front page. Every once in a while members looking for a book will bump up the thread. It's common practice on boards, not just here at Goodreads. You can say something new in your post, but if there is no further information, the quickest way to do it is to post a message that just says bump. That way newer members/members who haven't seen the thread before, or members whose memories have returned, will see it and may know the book.
Any member is free to bump up their posts every week, every month, every year, whenever, though not within a week generally.
Lisa wrote: "Natalie wrote: "I'm not sure, but just out of curiosity, why does everyone keep putting "bump" on their posts?"If a certain amount of time has elapsed with no posts, the thread falls way off the ..."
Ah, thank you. That explains a lot :)
Was it an English book? I once read a book that could be it, but it was in German and there was no English translation. I'd research the name, if you want me to.
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I looked it up. The book I read was "Level 4 - die Stadt der Kinder" by Andreas Schlüter. There's no english translation. Sorry.
On a closer look, there is one.
It's called Level 4 Kid City.
It's called Level 4 Kid City.
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I should have said in my original post that I first read this at least 30 years ago, maybe even 40 years ago.
Level 4 Kid City is from 1994.
Sorry I couldn't help more.
Sorry I couldn't help more.
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Someone please find the name of this book. I've been searching like mad for it. I'll even pay if someone finds it. Driving me crazy. I read this in 6th grade english back in '95
I'll parse through the full list eventually, but if this helps, this guy did an awesome list of dystopian novels by date:http://eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com...
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As I said, it's set in a European country -- maybe Germany, although my impression from childhood is Denmark, or maybe Sweden. I'm sorry it's so vague.
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I found this description, which unfortunately doesn't fit the book I am remembering.
Thirteen high school students arrive at their small rural school as usual, only to discover none of their teachers there -- and no electricity, no communication with the outside world, and snipers to insure their isolation; when their school bus returns it is driverless and smashes. The ""teenagers'"" (an irksomely recurring phrase) speculate on possible causes of their plight, and until the source of the problem is revealed as a gang of five renegade youths motivated by drugs and despair, a modicum of suspense is maintained. After that the whole trip is downhill and the book's other faults become more evident. Determined to include representatives from almost every ethnic and/or sociological group, Schraff substitutes cliches for characterization, and the hero, an American Indian boy who is hung up on a blond neighbor (their big anticipation is ""the prom"" -- in a school of thirteen students?), is unlikely to appeal to the reluctant young adult reader at whom this series is aimed.
Hi Kate, I was the one who suggested "The Day the World Went Away", although I'm not sure what happened to my post. Your description was much more detailed than the one I found, sorry that wasn't it. I know I've come across this book before, I'll keep searching and see if I can find anything else.
Looking for similar books to "The Girl Who Owned a City". It was linked as a recommendation on the LibraryThing page for the book.Trouble at Timpetill by Henry Winterfeld; illustrated by William M. Hutchinson ; translated from the German by Kyrill Schabert.
When the Pirates, a gang of young boys in the small town of Timpetill, become too rowdy, the adults decide to discipline them by leaving the town in the middle of the night.
The children in Timpetill are so rotten, ill-behaved, and just all-around unpleasant that one night all the grown-ups in town leave for good. It falls to the kids to take care of themselves, and doing so is a lot harder than it looks. Not only must Thomas, Michael, and his friends figure out how to turn on the town's water, run the electricity, and feed a population of whiny children but they have do all that while battling a gang of the very worst kids--the ones who brought down this strange punishment in the first place.
- Trouble at Timpetill by Henry Winterfeld - goodreads page
- Kirkus Review contains spoilers.
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Grin. Excellent! Oh some can take quite a few years before being solved. A few of mine took about five years. Still haven't found a few. Many still unsolved out there but it may take the right search or person to come along.
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The kids wake up one day, and discover there are no adults in town. They experience the usual problems -- some looting, some bullies, then a few kids try to set up a system to protect little kids, manage problems, etc. This was a town in a Scandinavian country -- maybe Denmark, maybe Sweden.
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At the end, the adults show up. They had planned to be gone only a few hours, to teach the kids a lesson. Instead they had gotten lost in the woods and were gone for several days -- maybe a week?