Anonymous
06/14/2022 08:17
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
Anonymous wrote:2. Alien Secrets by Annette Klause, 1993
Yesssss thank you lovely anon poster!
Anonymous
06/14/2022 08:14
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
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
06/14/2022 08:06
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
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
06/14/2022 08:04
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
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
06/14/2022 07:53
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
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
06/14/2022 07:21
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
2. Alien Secrets by Annette Klause, 1993
Anonymous
06/14/2022 07:14
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
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
06/13/2022 21:30
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
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.
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
06/13/2022 20:08
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
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
06/13/2022 19:58
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
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
06/13/2022 18:35
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
If the answers given above aren't right, call the library, librarians are great at figuring this sort of thing out.
Anonymous
06/13/2022 18:34
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
Children of the River by Linda Crew
Twice Taken by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Twice Taken by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Anonymous
06/13/2022 18:33
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
Anonymous wrote:Is the second one “the face on the milk carton”?
Never mind, that was published in 1990.
Anonymous
06/13/2022 18:32
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
Is the second one “the face on the milk carton”?
Anonymous
06/13/2022 18:28
Subject: Books whose names I've forgotten
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.
- 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.