Books whose names I've forgotten

[Anonymous]

And I want my DD, 11, to read

- one is about a teen who has moved to the United States from Cambodia. She is teased and I feel like she is friends with/dates a popular guy? Read this in middle school, early 90s
- one is about a teen who inadvertently finds out she was kidnapped, by her dad, as a kid. Follows the reconciliation process with her mom. Read this at the library in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Is the second one “the face on the milk carton”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the second one “the face on the milk carton”?

Never mind, that was published in 1990.

[Anonymous]

Children of the River by Linda Crew

Twice Taken by Susan Beth Pfeffer

[Anonymous]

If the answers given above aren't right, call the library, librarians are great at figuring this sort of thing out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the answers given above aren't right, call the library, librarians are great at figuring this sort of thing out.

This is so true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Children of the River by Linda Crew

Twice Taken by Susan Beth Pfeffer

The first was right on but not sure on the second. I remember reading it when I was 10...in 1989. But that book was written a bit later. May need to check it out from the library and see, and talk to the librarian!

Thanks all.

-OP

[Anonymous]

Librarians are great! While we're on the subject -- this is really far out there but here are a few from me:

1. Read in the 90s but I think maybe the book was older -- it was set in Toronto and was a ghost/two time period setting where the modern characters were trying to figure out what had happened in the past. And a crucial point (identifying a particular house) has to do with realizing that the gingerbreading on the brickwork has been changed in the intervening decades. Literally all I remember, except that maybe it had a pink cover and there were twins?

2. Also read in the 90s, main character is a teen girl called Robin Goodfellow (goes by Puck) and she's on a spaceship going back to her parents after screwing up at school. She finds something science magical, there's a cat, and in the end she gets to be a pilot. The cover had a lovely abstract design. I could swear it was called Cat's Cradle but google only has Vonnegut for that.

[Anonymous]

I am impressed that people remember details from books. I forget things like this. It saves me money on books because I can re-read them after a few years.

[Anonymous]

2. Alien Secrets by Annette Klause, 1993

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Librarians are great! While we're on the subject -- this is really far out there but here are a few from me:

1. Read in the 90s but I think maybe the book was older -- it was set in Toronto and was a ghost/two time period setting where the modern characters were trying to figure out what had happened in the past. And a crucial point (identifying a particular house) has to do with realizing that the gingerbreading on the brickwork has been changed in the intervening decades. Literally all I remember, except that maybe it had a pink cover and there were twins?

2. Also read in the 90s, main character is a teen girl called Robin Goodfellow (goes by Puck) and she's on a spaceship going back to her parents after screwing up at school. She finds something science magical, there's a cat, and in the end she gets to be a pilot. The cover had a lovely abstract design. I could swear it was called Cat's Cradle but google only has Vonnegut for that.

I had a childhood book that I could not remember that was very similar to #1. After looking around, I think it might be A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Librarians are great! While we're on the subject -- this is really far out there but here are a few from me:

1. Read in the 90s but I think maybe the book was older -- it was set in Toronto and was a ghost/two time period setting where the modern characters were trying to figure out what had happened in the past. And a crucial point (identifying a particular house) has to do with realizing that the gingerbreading on the brickwork has been changed in the intervening decades. Literally all I remember, except that maybe it had a pink cover and there were twins?

2. Also read in the 90s, main character is a teen girl called Robin Goodfellow (goes by Puck) and she's on a spaceship going back to her parents after screwing up at school. She finds something science magical, there's a cat, and in the end she gets to be a pilot. The cover had a lovely abstract design. I could swear it was called Cat's Cradle but google only has Vonnegut for that.

Alien Secrets is the second one

[Anonymous]

There’s one from the late 80s or early 90s about treasure hidden in a house, and the clue is a rainbow on a quilt. I think the treasure is in a window seat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s one from the late 80s or early 90s about treasure hidden in a house, and the clue is a rainbow on a quilt. I think the treasure is in a window seat.

Jamie and the Mystery Quilt

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2. Alien Secrets by Annette Klause, 1993

Yesssss thank you lovely anon poster!