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"content": "[TOMT][YA novel][Early 2010s] Help me find this book I read about a time traveling girl.\nHi! Hope I formatted everything correctly because I really really really wanna find this book. I read it because my younger sister wouldn’t shut up about it and forced me to read. She was a part of this competition... | [
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"content": "The Magic Half.\nMiri is the only single child in the middle of a family with two sets of twins--older brothers and younger sisters. When the family moves to an old farmhouse Miri accidentally travels back in time to 1935 only to discover Molly, a girl in need of a real family to call her own. A v... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][2017 or earlier] Weird book I read some years back.\nI don't remember much and what I do remember may be a bit incorrect, but I remember in the book there's this family with two kids (maybe a teenage boy and a tween girl?) moved out to the woods, the younger kid met someone but wouldn't exp... | [
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"content": "The Beasties.\nThe master of suspense delivers a hard-core horror story to thrill and chill. Fans will get more than goose bumps from this terrifying tour de force by William Sleator. The nightmare begins when Doug's family moves to the desolate northern woods; soon he and his little sister, Colet... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book about... 3? Pagan girls. One of them is called Agnes?.\nPretty much as in the title. Google brought nothing sadly. \n\nHere are couple of details: \n\n- There are 3 girls?\n- One of them called Agnes, or its the name of Saint that represents her?\n- They are pagans?\n- Agnes might have... | [
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"content": "The Blessed.\nFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling ghostgirl series, the start to a captivating and haunting teen trilogy about three girls who become entangled with an enigmatic boy—a boy who believes he is a saint.What if martyrs and saints lived among us? And what if you were told ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] A girl gets a box from her uncle that has a plant that slows time..\nThe girl gets gifted a plant from her uncle that slows or stops time, excluding her and (eventually) her friend. Then at one point some corporation tries to profit off it, but she freezes and destroys everything.\n\nThere ... | [
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"content": "The Boxes.\nOrphan Anne Levi tolerates her distant Aunt Ruth, with whom she lives, but adores her mysterious Uncle Marco, who flits in and out of their lives at irregular intervals. When he gives Anne two unusual boxes with strict instructions not to open them, curiosity gets the better of her. Op... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s] a book about a girl adjusting to life after her brother's death.\nI read this book in the 4th grade what I remember, is it was about a girl who had to adjust to life after her brother died from a bike accident because he wasn't wearing a helmet and then a little later she had a bre... | [
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"content": "Mick Harte Was Here.\nHow could someone like Mick die?He was the kid who freaked out his mom by putting a ceramic eye in a defrosted chicken, the kid who did a wild dance in front of the whole school—and the kid who, if only he had worn his bicycle helmet, would still be alive today. But now Phoeb... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A boy goes back in time and meets Shakespeare?.\nI've tried searching for it everywhere and I can't find it. It was a good book I read a couple years ago and want to reread. \n\nBasically, a young boy is putting on a play at a remake of the Globe Theater, and he plays Puck in A Midsummer N... | [
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"content": "King of Shadows.\nWHAT'S NAT DOING IN SHAKESPEARE'S TIME?Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform \"A Midsummer Night's Dre... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Male character's relative dies and leaves a bookshop to him clean up/close up. Lovecraft universe-adjacent..\nI listened to this audiobook maybe five years ago and I think it was written in the past 20 years or so but possibly slighter longer. Male character has to figure out what to... | [
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"content": "Carter & Lovecraft.\nThe start of a thrilling supernatural series that brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century, optioned by Warner Bros TV.Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case-the hunt for a serial killer-went wrong in strange ways and soured the ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] [late 2000s-early 2010s] YA or middle grade book with a male protagonist who encounters ghosts of historical figures in New York city, some are benevolent and helpful and a lot are not, and I think that the ghost of serial murderer Albert Fish is the villain.\nTrying to find the title of t... | [
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"content": "Gods of Manhattan.\nLook. What do you see? Sidewalks, skyscrapers, pigeons? But theres more. More that only twelve-year-old Rory Hennessey can see. More that only Rory can reveal to others. So, look again. What do you see? Layered on our own New York is a spirit city inhabited by warrior cockroach... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][2000s] Boy in forest finds boar with dart embedded in it.\nThe title is the only detail I can remember. There's a boy either up in a tree or on the ground and a boar, either dead or incapacitated - I think it might've been chasing him? He finds a dart with a leaf symbol embedded in the boar... | [
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"content": "Wolf Brother.\nSix thousand years ago. Evil stalks the land. Only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion can defeat it. Their journey together takes them through deep forests, across giant glaciers, and into dangers they never imagined. In this page-turning, original, and spectacularly t... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK][2000s] Book about russian man who makes a bet with the devil and lives whole 20th century.\nI read it in 2013 and remember hating it so much. The book was about a russian man who makes some kind of bet with the devil on New Years Eve of 1899. He then lives through the entire 20th century a... | [
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"content": "Documents Concerning Rubashov the Gambler.\nSt Petersburg, 1899. Obsessive gambler Rubashov has played every game in town. Now on New Year's Eve, he finds himself on the brink of ruin, and decides to make a bid for the ultimate rush, the biggest gamble ever, to challenge the Devil to a poker game.... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Adventurer parachutes into volcano and finds a society/civilisation there underground..\nI read this book when I was a young teen and I'd love to find it again.\n\nI remember it was an adventure book possibly set in the 1950s in South America. It starts with a man getting into trouble in an... | [
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"content": "The Twenty-One Balloons.\nProfessor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on the secret island of Krakatoa where he discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions. Winner of the 19... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] Old fantasy picture-only book with very detailed pictures and a small child hiding in each picture..\nLoved it when I was a child. Only picture I remember with much detail was a bunch of bees/hornets/wasps fighting with swords and shields. No words in the book, just pictures.",
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"content": "Animalia.\nMore than three million copies of Animaliahave been sold around the world, making Graeme Base's amazing alliterative alphabet book one of the most beloved titles of the past quarter century. To celebrate thirty years, Abrams is proud to publish a special anniversary edition. Animalia'si... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Kids’ book with Groucho Marx as a genie.\nOk, I swear I’m not making this up. So when I was in elementary school, I saw a chapter book about a girl who finds a bottle with a genie inside, only the genie is Groucho Marx for whatever reason??? That’s all I remember about the story, but I thin... | [
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"content": "Genie with the Light Blue Hair.\nOn Jeannie Warren's 15th birthday, she receives a genie with magical powers. Amazed when her wishes begin to come true, she soon discovers that her genie's powers are rusty. Consequently, she winds up in some very embarrassing situations.",
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] A book for older kids or young adults about an alien exchange student who has come to study Earth’s biodiversity..\nSome of the following details may be inaccurate it was a long, long time ago I read this: \n\nIt was a commentary on conservationism and environmentalism. Earth is suffering a... | [
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"content": "The Exchange Student.\nWhat a time for an exchange student to arrive, Daria thought, especially one from another planet! Daria is one of Earth's youngest licensed breeders of endangered species, and she has enough to do caring for her menagerie without having to cope with Fen. Besides his color-sh... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Children's Book] Guide to monsters of world mythology, dark rhyming book..\nBecause I’m having such great luck on here today, I wanted to put up one last book request.\n\nThis kids book was sort of a “Monster’s Guide” where each set of two pages was a water color scene of a specific creature fro... | [
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"content": "The Essential Worldwide Monster Guide.\n\"Dear Traveler: \"Say you're sailing in the south,Or hiking in the east.Your holiday's delightful --Till you meet a pesky beast.What now?Should you ignore it?Offer presents?Run and hide?Don't make a costly blunder --Take our handy monster guide!",
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"content": "[tomt] [book] [2000s].\nI remember vaguely reading a book about this girl who (i think) moved to a relatives place. It was in New Orleans I believe because I think I remember something about Mardi Gras. There was a graveyard near her house and she could see ghosts and stuff. I know that at the end there... | [
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"content": "Ruined.\nA gripping YA supernatural novel set in New Orleans: Twilight with a ghostly twist.Rebecca couldn't feel more out of place in New Orleans, where she comes to spend the year while her dad is traveling. She's staying in a creepy old house with her Aunt Claudia, who reads Tarot cards for a l... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK/STORY] Story about talking bats being captured and used for bat bombs in WWII?.\n I remember reading something in elementary/middle school about bats being used by the govt in WWII to transport bombs. It was a fiction book where the bats talked to each other and I remember them being captu... | [
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"content": "Sunwing.\nKenneth Oppel gives a bat's-eye view of the horrors of animal testing in Sunwing, the sequel to his popular and award-winning novel for middle readers, Silverwing. Shade, the lost baby bat of the first book, has rejoined his colony only to lose his freedom as the bats plunge into a myste... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Kids book involving a shoe museum?.\nI have this memory about a kids book that involved I think a family who's vehicle (RV?) breaks down and they go through this messed up museum that in theory is a museum of shoes, but had a number of strange rooms. I remember the cover of the book having ... | [
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"content": "Scared Silly.\nA shoe museum?When Mary Rose and Jo-Beth Onetree and their father see a sign for \"The Walk-Your-Way-Around-the-World Museum,\" they just have to stop and go exploring. At first, everyone's disappointed. The Walk-Your-Way-Around-the-World Museum is full of boring old shoes. But then... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Young Adult fiction about astral projection.\nIt was a YA fiction novel probably written after 2000. I remember that the protagonist was a girl who experiments with astral projection/out-of-body experiences and ends up having her body taken by something malicious and she just has to ... | [
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"content": "Stranger with My Face.\nLaurie was at home, but her boyfriend swears he saw her on the beach with another guy. Her family insists they see her coming and going when she's been out of the house for hours. Who--or what--is taking over Laurie's life?",
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Old? Post nuclear holocaust book that recently got turners into a movie..\nI read it in 5th grade so I forgot the name, however, I do remember some other things.\n\n- Lone woman wakes up after nuclear blast and is completely alone \n- She finds a man who is all geared up in radioactive appa... | [
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"content": "Z for Zachariah.\nIs anyone out there? Ann Burden is sixteen years old and completely alone. The world as she once knew it is gone, ravaged by a nuclear war that has taken everyone from her. For the past year, she has lived in a remote valley with no evidence of any other survivors. But the smok... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000?] Book I read as a teen during summer camp.\nWhen I was a teen, I read a book that I literally can’t find anywhere anymore. We even got free copies of the book. The plot is basically: there is a company that forced all of their workers to put their future children into an experiment to... | [
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"content": "The Gardener.\nMason has never known his father, but longs to. All he has of him is a DVD of a man whose face is never seen, reading a children's book. One day, on a whim, he plays the DVD for a group of comatose teens at the nursing home where his mother works. One of them, a beautiful girl, resp... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [90-2000s].\nOkay, this is a long shot and possibly obscure... I may also be misremembering parts?\n\nThere was a book I read in middle school (so before like 2008) that was about a boy who lived in the mountains and went with his father to the valley to graze their cows. I remember a pass... | [
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"content": "The Haymeadow.\nFourteen-year-old John Barron is asked, like his father and grandfather before him, to spend the summer taking care of their sheep in the haymeadow. Six thousand sheep. John will be alone, except for two horses, four dogs, and all those sheep.John doesn't feel up to the task, but h... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][Around 2010] Book about some people who manipulate reality.\nThis was a book read to me in like second grade (so probably YA) or something and it was about this boy who like worked in some company that did stuff with reality or they like tried to maintain it.\nSome details I can remember:\n... | [
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"content": "The Glitch in Sleep.\nTwelve-year-old Becker Drane has definitely got the coolest job of any seventh grader in Highland Park, New Jersey. He works as a Fixer for The Seems. From the Department of Weather to the Department of Sleep, The Seems is a secret organization that makes sure our world keeps... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Trilogy of books, main characters named Damian and Ghanji (read within last 10 years).\nI read a trilogy of fantasy books years ago (within the last 10 years). From what I remember there was a main character named Damian (or a similar spelling) who was some form of assassin. During the firs... | [
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"content": "Thieves of Blood.\nOnce one of his world's deadliest assassins, Diran has turned his back on violence to seek peace in the life of a wandering priest, but his past is about to catch up with him as raiders capture his former lover, and he must risk everything to free her from these minions of Erdas... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000’s] book about a guy with voices in his head that commentate on his life except the guy is extremely self aware of their existence..\nRead it in 7th grade about 5 years ago and the title pretty much says it all. The guy introduces about how he has various little characters in his mind t... | [
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"content": "Crazy.\nFifteen-year-old Jason has fallen upon bad times—his mother has died and his father has succumbed to mental illness. As he tries to hold his crazy father and their crumbling home together, Jason relies on a host of imaginary friends for guidance as he stumbles along trying not to draw atte... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][90s-2000s] Book about a kid waking up early in space..\nThere was a book I read when I was younger. Book was probably from the 90s maybe very early 2000’s. People have begun searching for a habitable planet as the sun will explode in thousands of years. They find one and begin sending peopl... | [
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"content": "Sleepers, Wake.\nDody, a space pioneer of the future, wakes long before anyone else during his ship's journey and grows old while his family continues to sleep.",
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Psychic investigates a serial killing at a small town.\nIt's a thriller/mystery about a psychic who is sent to a town to investigate the death of young women. She developed her abilities after an accident when she was very young, and now works with the police as a \"consultant\" of sorts. T... | [
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"content": "An Ice Cold Grave.\nHired to find a boy gone missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver head there, only to discover that the boy was the only one left of several who had disappeared over the previous five years. All of them teenagers. All unlikely runaways. Al... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book featuring teens who use Facebook to look at their future selves, they end up dating by end of book.\nCan't remember much else. I think they share one computer that has this future-seeing power but I'm not sure.",
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"content": "The Future of Us.\nIt's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They've been best friends almost as long—at least, up until last November, when Josh did something that changed everything. Things have been weird between them ever since, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A relatively short commercial fiction work about an excavation that goes awry in Egypt.\nI don't remember a whole lot, but I believe it was published relatively recently. It was a fictitious piece about a huge archaeological excavation in Egypt (I believe it was being bankrolled by some re... | [
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"content": "The Third Gate.\nUnder the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of an ancient pharaoh who was unlike any other in history. Stone believes he has found the burial chamber of King Narmer, the near mythical god- king who united upp... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000-2018] The book started off with a prologue in Africa or South America and it's told to us that once one kid dies in the chain, the signs of power go to the next kid in line..\nIn the first chapter, the next kid in line moves to a new school, falls for a girl, punches a jock and then ... | [
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"content": "I Am Number Four.\nNine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A book I read in Elementary about a kid whose father was a trucker, the dog was a significant character. Kid really missed his dad, scene where dog jumped on the kid and it was supposed to be heartwarming..\nRead this book around 8 or a few more yrs ago in elementary school. It was about th... | [
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"content": "Dear Mr. Henshaw.\nLeigh has been Boyd Henshaw's number one fan ever since he was in second grade. Now in sixth grade, Leigh lives with his mother and is the new kid in school. He's lonely, troubled by the absence of his father, a cross-country trucker, and angry because a mysterious thief steals ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Mystery book involving three golden statues of Greek gods if I remember correctly.\nI know it had some twist ending where the girl bicycles to a house where the path leading up to it has trees curving over it. That’s a very random detail and has almost no plot significance but it’s what I r... | [
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"content": "Misty Gordon and the Mystery of the Ghost Pirates.\nHere is a funny middle-grade mystery from a bright new fiction talent.Things in the New England town of Ashcrumb are getting weird. Or just weirder. Misty Gordon, whose antique-dealing parents drive a van that says “D.E.A.D.” on the side (for “De... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] A fantasy book about a character who had the last magical wishes in the world. Read in late 90's-early 2000's..\nFirst things first, a timeline. This book was read to my elementary school class in... Maybe 4th or 5th grade, so it was published BEFORE 2002 (and likely before even that).\n\nT... | [
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"content": "Bright Shadow.\nFive wishes can save a suffering kingdom--but at a high price to 12-year-old Morwenna, who is responsible for granting them. A sensitively written tale which poses philosophical questions about selfishness, selflessness, and the terrible burden of what first appears to be wonderful... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] A creepy book I read in the early 2000s about a kid getting locked in a mall after hours and the mannequins come alive.\nI thought this was a goosebumps book, but can’t seem to find it, so I think it’s just something similar to goosebumps. Basically this kid goes to the mall with his parent... | [
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"content": "Silent Night 3.\nRich, snobby Reva Dalby wants a little fame or Christmas. And since her daddy owns Dalby's Department Store, she can have whatever she wants. Someone else will always pay. Except this year Reva goes too far. Now someone is watching her. When she's sleeping, and when she's awake--u... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s]College student and his friend must study an ancient codex to find a vault containing lost art.\nA book about a college student who decides to devote a huge amount of time studying an ancient manuscript full of clues about the location of a lost vault. In the vault, it is said to cont... | [
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"content": "The Rule of Four.\nAn ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four -- a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery.It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] a book about genetically engineered humans and class structures..\nits a book about class structures and each class has genetically modified humans for each class, for example, the lowest class epsilons are stupid but suited for grunt work and manual labor and the high class the alphas are ... | [
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"content": "Brave New World.\nHuxley's bleak future prophesized in Brave New World was a capitalist civilization which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Satirical and disturbin... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] An Excerpt from a book about watching Dumbo and bullying..\nI'm looking for what I'm pretty sure is an excerpt from a book or essay or something where a guy is talking about watching Dumbo in class in kindergarten and all the kids who bullied him mercilessly were appalled that the crows we... | [
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"content": "The Idiot.\nA portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befr... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Weird adventure kids book.\nI read this book when i was in maybe 4th or 5th grade and I’ve been trying to remember the title for like 3 years, but i don’t have that much info on it. It was a tween fantasy book with a green, like leafy cover with this kid with black hair on it. It was like ... | [
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"content": "Beyond the Deepwoods.\nAbandoned at birth in the perilous Deepwoods, Twig Verginix is brought up by a family of woodtrolls. One cold night, Twig does what no woodtroll has ever done before – he strays from the path. So begins a heart-stopping adventure that will take Twig through a nightmare world... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] Novel I Read When I was Little.\nSo there was this book I read a long time ago that I can't remember.\n\nSo the setting was on a island or a beach, and the story revolves around a young girl who lived at a hotel or regular house, can't remember. So her and her family recently lost a baby d... | [
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"content": "Baby.\nLarkin's family welcomes Sophie into their home, caring for her and teaching her games and new words. They come to love this baby as their own, all the while knowing that eventually Sophie's mother will return one day to take her from them.",
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s][Romance/Familyfeud/YoungAdultstory].\nSo this is a book I read in elementary school or middle school, and all I remember is the cover and vaguely part of the plot.\n\nThe cover featured a man and a women looking at each other in the foreground, a burning house in the background, and ... | [
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"content": "The Burning.\nThe end…and the beginningSimon Fear thought changing his name would stop the evil. He was wrong—dead wrong.After generations of unspeakable horror, it is up to Daniel and Nora, brought together by their fateful love, to unite the feuding families. But is their forbidden love strong e... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] A book my mother wants me to read.\nIt’s a book about a woman who moves to Alaska with her husband, and settles down there. She makes friends and meets a lot of people and starts a family. One day a person says to her that she has “a really nice first family.” The woman is confused and does... | [
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"content": "Mrs. Mike.\nA moving love story set in the Canadian wilderness, Mrs. Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of the Great North to life—and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Question about a book I saw once but I forgot its title....\n My question is about a non-fiction book that I saw in a bookshop and browsed it for a few minutes, its main topic was about agriculture being the single biggest mistake in the history of humankind. It wasn't \"Sapiens\"... | [
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"content": "Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization.\nIn this provocative, wide-ranging book, Against the Grain, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives an... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] A children's picture book about mammals and birds competing in lacrosse. The birds always beat the mammals until a bat helps the mammals win..\nI was read this book in grade school in either 2005-2006. I remember the art was not realistic but simpler and child-friendly. It was a shor... | [
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"content": "The Great Ball Game: A Muskogee Story.\nWith characteristic action and wit, renowned Native American storyteller Bruchac retells the amusing and rousing folktale of an epic ball game between the Birds and the Animals, which offers the explanation as to why birds fly south every winter. Roth's bril... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s]Title of a book I read many years ago..\nWas directed here from r/books. I remembered the plot for a book I read when I was a teen yesterday. Naturally, spoilers for the plot of the story.\n\nIt starts with a group of friends going to a private island. During their stay there, they st... | [
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"content": "I Know What You Did Last Wednesday.\nWhen the Diamond Brothers receive an invitation to a school reunion on a remote Scottish island, things seem to be looking up. But Nick's got a bad feeling, and it's not indigestion. And when he meets their fellow guests, the feeling only gets worse - especiall... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [book] Deaf girl and a gorilla/chimpanzee....\nI'm pretty sure I bought this book at a book fair in school so it's been around for a while and was probably written for young teens. It's about a deaf girl named Joey (I'm almost certain that was her name) who went deaf when her dad or stepdad assau... | [
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"content": "Hurt Go Happy.\nThirteen-year-old Joey Willis is used to being left out of conversations. Though she's been deaf since the age of six, Joey's mother has never allowed her to learn sign language. She strains to read the lips of those around her, but often fails. Everything changes when Joey meets D... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] WW2 Hitler Youth book?.\nI'm looking for a book I read in Middle School a young girl is kidnapped by Nazi occupiers. She is forced into Hitler Youth because of Aryan features, and I believe she is adopted by a German officer. I think near the end of the book her house gets bombed maybe? I'm... | [
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"content": "Someone Named Eva.\nIn 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken from her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, along with other blond, blue-eyed children to a Lebensborn center in Poland. There she is trained to be a \"proper German\" for adoption by a German family, and all the while she struggles to reme... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] a children’s/young adult book about a cross eyed boy with a W name.\nI had to read this book in elementary school (so the 2000s). It was about a kid that was cross eyed and I think he had big glasses. His name started with a W, I’m pretty sure it was Woodrow or something. He had a female f... | [
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"content": "Belle Prater's Boy.\nAn alternate cover edition can be found here. When Belle Prater disappears, Belle’s boy, Woodrow, comes to live with his grandparents in Coal Station, Virginia. Woodrow’s cousin Gypsy is the town beauty, but she has hidden sorrows and secrets of her own. She wonders how Woodro... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [NOVEL] fantasy novel retelling Shakespeare's The Tempest largely from the perspective of Ariel.\nI found this book in a library about ten or twelve years ago, it was a newish (?) hardcover (it was a recent arrival to the library, I think, and the book itself was in pretty fresh condition, but i... | [
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"content": "Ariel.\nAriel is beautiful and magical, a creator of dreams and of mischief. Sprung from the mind of a dazed sailor shipwrecked in the Bermuda Triangle, she rules half of her enchanted isle, dreaming of the savior from the east who will help her conquer all. When Prospero, a lost mariner, appears... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] Alternate future where the US government has become a totalitarian Christian Regime. Criminals get their skin color changed based on their crimes.\nThe book follows a young woman who gets her skin turned red for murder after getting an abortion. She tries to flee to Canada.\n\nRead this bo... | [
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"content": "When She Woke.\nWhen She Woke is a fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, who embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith.Bellwether P... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Post-apocalyptic novel with teenage male protagonist, may contain “Path” in the name, YA.\nThe novel I’m looking for takes place in a post-apocalyptic period and focuses on a teenage boy as the main character. I remember the main character serving in some sort of militia with his lit... | [
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"content": "The Darkest Path.\nUSA TODAY bestselling author Jeff Hirsch once again creates a futuristic world with stunning, dramatic realism.A civil war rages between the Glorious Path--a militant religion based on the teachings of a former US soldier--and what's left of the US government. Fifteen-year-old C... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1990s-2000s(?)] It was a science fiction YA novel about an albino boy who discovers his underground past..\nThe boy is albino and lives with his older sister and his mother. The mother is an alcoholic. The boy's only friend is a boy with eczema and they get along do their physical abnormali... | [
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"content": "Tunnels.\n14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when his dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearan... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] Children's book about singing gospel family?.\nI remember so many things about this book except for the title. I probably read it like 8 years ago.\n\nThere is a traveling singing gospel family. There is the father, the mother, twin boys and two daughters. One of the daughters is a really ... | [
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"content": "The Glory Girl.\nAnna Glory, the one non-singing member of a gospel-singing family, feels left out, like her misfit Uncle Newt, until the day the family bus is involved in a terrible accident.",
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1970s-1990s] YoungAdult fantasy book about boy on journey of revenge against Marquis who carved green M on his chest.\nIt's an older book so maybe 1970s-1990s publishing. It was an easy read, probably a Young Adult novel, and it was probably under 200 pages.\n\nSettings was some kind of med... | [
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"content": "Blade of the Poisoner.\nTwelve-year-old Jarral and three friends with strong psychic Talents fight the evil of Prince Mephtik the Poisoner, who serves the Demon-Driver.",
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] collection of detective/riddle stories where you have to know some random info to get the answer.\nI never owned the book and have vague memory of how it looks, but the last I've seen it was 10 years ago. I kind of remember 2 stories. One involved a detective knowing to arrest a nun in a cr... | [
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"content": "Two-Minute Mysteries.\nWhether testing their own sleuthing abilities by working against the clock or enjoying the intrigue of unraveling the case, readers get lots of spine-tingling mystery in these thrilling puzzlers.",
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Kids story about a black spot.\nA story read to me sometime between 2004-2008 about a society where people get a black spot put on them if they do something wrong. I think one guy in the story had loads of black spots because he took them from people when they did bad things and showed for... | [
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"content": "You Are Special.\nMax was interested in helping children understand their value - not from the world's perspective, but from God's. Wemmicksville is a land created by Eli, the \"God\" figure of the story. He creates each Wemmick in Wemmicksville uniquely, each with its own look and personality. Ea... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Kids book set in future / on another planet.\nWhen I was in third grade we were read a book about a group of children? /adolescents? who ended up being sent to a far off planet because they couldn’t survive on earth (climate change related I think). They had to learn to live on a special k... | [
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"content": "The Green Book.\nPattie and her family are among the last refuees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been success. But as they begin to settle this shining world, t... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A 4 narrative book set during WW2 and the Blitz..\nI vaguely remember the title being something along the lines of “lights out” however, that isn’t the title and yields no results. The story has 4 narratives, the main one is a brother and sister duo investigating thievery happening during b... | [
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"content": "Put Out The Light.\nIt's 1940 and war is underway. In Sheffield, England, a brother and sister set out to solve a mystery, brazenly believing that the air-raid signals are only false alarms. In Dachau, Germany, two boys come up with a bold plan to bring an end to the war and help a Polish prisoner... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A girl's sister (possibly twin) died under mysterious circumstances..\nI believe that they're in high school. The sister may have been more popular/pretty/talented. She spends most of the story trying to figure out the murderer/the reason for her sister's death. She grows close to her siste... | [
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"content": "Frayed.\nDear Kesley, My therapist tells me I should write you a letter. Like flushing all my thoughts and feelings out of my system and onto paper. I tell her it's a stupid idea. But here I am, writing a letter to a dead girl. Where do I start? Where did our story begin? From the moment you were... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Illustrated children's book about a house taken over by robots.\nThere was this picture book I had as a kid; published in the early 2000s at the latest, possibly earlier (like 90s or maybe even 80s) These kids lived in a mansion with all sorts of robots in it, and one day the robots ... | [
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"content": "Benjamin McFadden and the Robot Babysitter.\n\"Drawing or writing, Bush's pen is loaded with wit.\" Welcome to the spaceship home of Benjamin McFadden--where tennis is played in spacesuits, books are read in zero gravity, and robot babysitters have eight arms and are preprogrammed to send you to b... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [19XX-2010] A book about mirrormakers in Venice..\nIt's a youth book about two orphans? working for a mirror maker in venice. They go into the mirrors to catch the shadows that make the mirror blind. \n\nI only remember fragments of the story:\n\nOne of them is blind and gets two mirrors a... | [
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"content": "The Water Mirror.\nIn Venice, magic is not unusual. Merle is apprenticed to a magic mirror maker, and Serafin -- a boy who was once a master thief -- works for a weaver of magic cloth. Merle and Serafin are used to the mermaids who live in the canals of the city -- beautiful creatures with hideous... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [book] about the last survivor of a nuclear apocalypse.\nShe lives in a valley, seemingly untouched by the radiation. There’s water and food but her whole family has died or disappeared. It’s never said quite what destroyed everything but heavily implied a nuclear apocalypse. One day a guy in a h... | [
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"content": "Z for Zachariah.\nIs anyone out there? Ann Burden is sixteen years old and completely alone. The world as she once knew it is gone, ravaged by a nuclear war that has taken everyone from her. For the past year, she has lived in a remote valley with no evidence of any other survivors. But the smok... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2010s?] YA Book about a teenage-twitter-famous girl who goes on a road trip to find her father with a boy named Josh..\nI don't know when it was actually published, but a big point was that she only had online friends/followers, (specifically Twitter, I think) so I would assume it is someti... | [
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"content": "#16thingsithoughtweretrue.\nHeart attacks happen to other people #thingsIthoughtweretrue When Morgan's mom gets sick, it's hard not to panic. Without her mother, she would have no one—until she finds out the dad who walked out on her as a baby isn't as far away as she thought...Adam is a stuck-up,... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Children’s book, illustrated, topic possibly “not being afraid because mom/parent/guardian is there”?.\nMy mom used to read this book to me that was, I think, about not being afraid of stuff because your mom/parent/guardian is always there to protect you. I remember a page having a dark tre... | [
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"content": "I Promise I'll Find You.\nA beloved classic continues to reassure children.I Promise I'll Find You is a moving story that parents will love reading to and sharing with their children again and again.The fear of being separated from loved ones is a universal emotion. Consider a child who feels lost... |
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"content": "[TOMT][book] book about a teenage girl with her father in prison? i can't remember much, but the game 'chess' was very prominent in the story..\ni'm trying to find this book again, because it was such a pleasant read! but I haven't read or heard of the book in over two years, and it has escaped my mind.... | [
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"content": "The Row.\nA death sentence. A family torn apart. One girl’s hunt for the truth.Seventeen-year-old Riley Beckett is no stranger to prison. Her father is a convicted serial killer on death row who has always maintained that he was falsely accused. Riley has never missed a single visit with her fathe... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] YA novel about a girl with OCD-like tendencies whose mother goes missing?.\nI would say this was written anywhere from the 90s to around 2010. \n\nIt was about this teen girl whose mother goes missing, but at first she isn’t too concerned because her mom has some kind of substance abuse pr... | [
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"content": "Buried.\nClaudine has long buried her own needs and dreams to care for her alcoholic mother. But after Mom suddenly disappears, a much darker truth that lies buried under years of angry denial and enabling behavior is waiting to be uncovered. When Claudine eventually hits rock bottom, she must lit... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Fantasy book.\nI'm searching for a book I read a few years back. It was about a Asian girl who gets whisked away into a fantasy world where she meets her mother I think. There are monsters who talk about how fat she is and how ugly she looks. I remember the cover having two girls falling fr... | [
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"content": "Half World.\nMelanie Tamaki is human—but her parents aren’t. They are from Half World, a Limbo between our world and the afterlife, and her father is still there. When her mother disappears, Melanie must follow her to Half World—and neither of them may return alive.",
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] [Y/A Fiction] About a kid who accidentally shoots a guy on his roof..\nI can’t remember the title at all and I couldn’t find anything when I googled it. \n\nI read this book for school in 8th grade. This kid gets a gun for his birthday, which is on the 4th of July. He shoots a bullet into ... | [
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"content": "Swallowing Stones.\nIt begins with a free and joyful act--but from then on, Michael finds it impossible even to remember what it felt like to be free and joyful. When he fires his new rifle into the air on his seventeenth birthday, he never imagines that the bullet will end up killing someone. But... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book].\nIt's a book about three kids and a mentor of some sort. They apply for this 'school' for gifted children. Main character (narrator) is a normal white kid, other two kids are a black kid with glasses named Stanley I think, and the other is a tomboy. The mentor had epilepsy and one of the t... | [
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"content": "The Mysterious Benedict Society.\n\"ARE YOU A GIFTED CHILD LOOKING FOR SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES?\"
When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests. (And you, dear reader, can test your wits right alongside them.) But in the... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] young adult novel, the cover is a close up of a boy coming out of the water with a small wise looking creature on his shoulder..\nI don’t remember much about the book, but it was a fantasy novel that split time between two characters. One is the boy in the cover, who I think develops gills... | [
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"content": "Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo.\nWELCOME TO FOO.Fourteen-year-old Leven Thumps (a.k.a. \"Lev\") lives a wretched life in Burnt Culvert, Oklahoma. But his life is about to change and his destiny be fulfilled as he learns about a secret gateway that bridges two worlds -- the real world and Foo,... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Children's chapter book, girl tries to make perfume.\nWritten before 2000. I remember one part. A girl wants to make perfume for her mother as a gift, so she tries to combine a bunch of scents that her mother likes. Her mother mentions that she likes the way babies smell, so the little girl... | [
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"content": "Attaboy, Sam!.\nIn this second book about Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, Sam concocts a perfume made of his mother's favorite smells to honor her request for only homemade gifts for her birthday. \"Warm, lively, true to children's real inner lives, and laugh-aloud funny all the way.\" -- Kir... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1980s][1990s][2000s] Book where a girl was planning to buy roller skates on her 12th birthday buys a haunted dollhouse instead; it entrances her and when she gets home she's like \"What? Why did I buy a dollhouse?! I wanted rollerskates!\" Creepy stuff then happens in her life..\nI had this... | [
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"content": "Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge: A Ghost Story.\nZibby Thorne knows there's something wrong with the shabby dollhouse she bought for her twelfth birthday. She hears strange rustling and ringing noises when there's no one else in the room, and one of the dolls never seems to be in the same place she... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s] a book about a boy taking care of his poisoned parents and meeting odd friends in their care home..\nI read this book is middle school(2006-2009) but I don’t know if it was a new title. (A boy)The main character’s parents were poisoned and in a coma or something similar. His famil... | [
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"content": "Love Among the Walnuts.\nSandy Huntington-Ackerman's life becomes increasingly complicated when his bungling, moneygrubbing uncles try to shanghai the family fortune by poisoning a birthday cake. Luckily, those conniving uncles prove yet again that they can't do anything right. Instead of bumping ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2010ish?] A novel for young adults about a writer who orders dolls/toys but when they arrive they’re children with special abilities/powers/or are mythical creatures. One of the kids is a little Paul Bunyan..\nOKAY I NEED HELP\n\nI read this book when I was younger and for the life of me ... | [
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"content": "Sender Unknown.\nMark receives catalogs. Not just any catalogs, but the most obscure toy catalogs he has ever seen. And then on a whim he decides to order from one of them. Action figures. Maybe he should have thrown the catalogs away, because now he has his hands full—and there are no refunds and... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Young adult fantasy novel about a (black?) kid with super powers who has to battle a super being from another dimension.\n \n\nI know the title is pretty vague but it's all I can remember about the darn book. The main character is accompanied by 2 other characters (his cousin and lit... | [
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"content": "The Marvelous Effect.\nLouis Proof is an Ordinary kid. He loves listening to hip Hop, racing radio controlled cars, and hanging out with his best friend, Brandon. Then a mysterious letter invites him to visit the local junkyard. There he finds a secret underground amusement park like no other in e... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Novel] around 2010, give or take a few years. A dystopian kind of novel revolving around two kids..\nFrom what I can remember, it takes place in a fairly desert/arid region where it’s quite hot. It’s fiction, and revolves around two children, who are i think around 12 or so. The other main things... | [
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"content": "The Wind Singer.\nThe first in a trilogy, The Wind Singer is a mesmerizing and remarkably realized fantasy novel full of adventure, suspense, humor and warmth.In the city of Aramanth, the mantra is, \"Better today than yesterday. Better tomorrow than today.\" Harder work means the citizens of Aram... |
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"content": "[TOMT][YA Book][Late 1990s-2000s?].\nI keep thinking about this YA book I read yearsssss ago. I don’t remember any characters names but here’s what I do got: There’s an elementary school girl who’s really damn sad, I think she lives alone with her father and grandmother(?) who’s very superstitious, she’... | [
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"content": "Dancing on the Edge.\nMiracle McCloy comes from an unusual family: Her father, Dane is a prodigy who published his first book at age thirteen; her grandmother, Gigi, is clairvoyant; and her mother was dead when her \"miracle\" daughter was pulled from her womb. Having been raised according to a se... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s] Horror book about abondoned windmill.\nIn like 2007 or 2008, there was this semi popular, I think, horror book that I read with my class where there were these group of kids in a normal town that used to be owned by some company. Basically, it used to be a mining town and the MC an... | [
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"content": "Skeleton Creek.\nA breakthrough new series from bestselling author Patrick Carman, featuring text and technology in an innovative new way.Strange things are happening in Skeleton Creek... and Ryan and Sarah are trying to get to the heart of it. But after an eerie accident leaves Ryan housebound an... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] NA Contemporary book I read years ago that I can't remember the name of..\nThis is driving me crazy but I can't remember the name of this book and no one I talk to has heard of it before! I read it years ago, so I'm thinking it was written in the early 2000s. It is a New Adult/Young adult ... | [
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"content": "LoveSick.\nTed's drunk-driving accident has ruined his life. it cost him his basketball scholarship, ended his plans for college, and forced him into AA. But just when Ted has resigned himself to his new life, Michael appears. The wealthy father of a bulimic Manhattan rich girl has a tempting prop... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][mid 2000s-early 2010s] a book that had multiple stories from soldiers in afghanistan that included a story about Private Channing Moss.\nWhen I was a little younger I read a book that had multiple stories of different acts of heroism from Afghanistan, including the operation that had an RPG... | [
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"content": "Battle Heroes: Voices from Afghanistan.\nIn a remote Afghan village, Marine Lieutenant Stephen Boada picks up a chilling Taliban message on his radio scanner: \"The Americans will never make it out alive.\" Can the outnumbered Marines fight their way out? Medic Mark DeCorte jumps from a chopper on... |
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"content": "[TOMT][CHILDRENS BOOK][2000s] Young boy gets a carnivorous plant that keeps growing out of control.\nIt was a beautifully illustrated childrens books; the protagonist was a young boy, slightly chubby and maybe blonde with glasses. He gets given an initially very small plant which keeps growing and eatin... | [
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"content": "Plantzilla.\nMortimer Henryson loves Plantzilla, the plant he's been taking care of all year in his third-grade classroom. He loves him so much, he takes him home for summer vacation. What could go wrong with a . . . plant? But life in the Henryson household soon takes a strange turn. A pot roast ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][FICTION][2000s] Depressing short novel about a girl with a pet bird in a tower block which blows up at the end..\nA book I read at school aged 10 in 2008, intended for that age group. Was probably not newly published, I'd estimate no more than 10 years old at time of reading. It was written... | [
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"content": "Mercedes Ice: An Urban Fairy Story For Modern Children.\nIn the beginning, Shadow Point was the tallest, most magnificent tower block anyone had ever seen. But soon the shining concrete began to crack and the gleaming windows became grimy and dull. Into this colourless decay comes Mercedes Ice, Cr... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A book about a kid in japan that is maybe adopted by a feudal lord.\nIts a series of books, in one of them there is something special about the boy hands and he was part of a clan or people that died. He was kinda trained by an old man as far I can remember in the use of his special qualit... | [
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"content": "Across the Nightingale Floor.\nIn his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard.The youth Takeo has been brought up in a remote mountai... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] A WW2 based book, involves some romance, girls husband is posing as a Nazi who is actually a secret agent tasked with killing Hitler..\nGirlfriend can’t remember the name of the book.\n\nTitle either has Rose in it, or a characters name is Rose. White cover, roses on it.\n\nStory is based ... | [
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"content": "Black Roses.\nBerlin, 1933. Warning bells ring across Europe as Hitler comes to power. Clara Vine, an attractive young Anglo-German actress, arrives in Berlin to find work at the famous Ufa studios. Through a chance meeting, she is unwillingly drawn into a circle of Nazi wives, among them Magda Go... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Girld kidnapped by 'aunts' and taken to victorian asylum.\nA girl named Anastasia was kidnapped by two women claiming to be her aunts and they took her to a Victorian asylum and locked her there. Anastasia Finds two boys named Ollie and idk and they escape together. In the next two books, t... | [
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"content": "The League of Beastly Dreadfuls.\nA creepy Victorian house, secretive aunties, and a great escape combine in this debut that is part Mysterious Benedict Society, part Roald Dahl. Join the League. . . . Anastasia is a completely average almost-eleven-year-old. That is, UNTIL her parents die in a ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A relatively YA book about a girl with amnesia.\nI don’t think the amnesia part is specified at the beginning? She has things written all over her arms to help her remember stuff and her name is tattooed on her hand, and she goes on this epic journey to find the guy she’s fallen in love wit... | [
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"content": "The One Memory of Flora Banks.\nHOW DO YOU KNOW WHO TO TRUST WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN TRUST YOURSELF?I look at my hands. One of them says FLORA BE BRAVE.Flora has anterograde amnesia. She can't remember anything day-to-day: the joke her friend made, the instructions her parents gave her, how old she is... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Period piece about a mulatto composer..\nHey there. I read a book in college I'm trying to refind now. The story was about a mixed-race man who passed for white, and basically journaling his life.\n\nHe learns about this first when some racist visits his classroom and his teacher makes him ... | [
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"content": "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.\nJames Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction.The first fictional memoir ever written by a black person, The Auto... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A fantasy novel I read in middle school (early 2000s) though I don't remember when said book came out that was about an Evil Overlord.\nSo I read a book in middle school that I've been trying to remember for the better part of a year since I can sorta vaguely remember the cover and sorta va... | [
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"content": "Dark Lord of Derkholm.\nEveryone - wizards, soldiers, farmers, elves, dragons, kings and queens alike - is fed up with Mr Chesney's Pilgrim Parties: groups of tourists from the world next door who descend en masse every year to take the Grand Tour. What they expect are all the trappings of a grand... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Story] A woman’s fiancé goes missing when he goes to war, so she marries someone else on the condition that she can leave if her first fiancé returns. Fiancé returns but woman ends up staying with her husband..\nI think I read this story in a very old (pre-2000s or very early 2000s) Reader’s Dige... | [
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"content": "To See You Again: A True Story of Love in a Time of War.\nBetty Markowitz and Richie Kovacs fell in love as teenagers in Budapest amid the terror and uncertainty of a world at war. They planned their future together, secure in the belief that their love could survive anything, even Hitler. Then, i... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] YA novel where a blind girl gets mirror shards for eyes and gains ability to see. Features mermaids with wide, sharp-toothed mouths..\nI actually remember quite a lot about this book, just not the title, but Google is surprisingly unhelpful for finding it. It takes place either in Venice, o... | [
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"content": "The Water Mirror.\nIn Venice, magic is not unusual. Merle is apprenticed to a magic mirror maker, and Serafin -- a boy who was once a master thief -- works for a weaver of magic cloth. Merle and Serafin are used to the mermaids who live in the canals of the city -- beautiful creatures with hideous... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] - Book with a child taking fiery rice alcohol from woman on the street.\nAll I can remember is this very vivid description (that I think happens in the beginning of the book) where the child protagonist is offered or takes some kind of rice spirit (I think) from a homeless woman on the stre... | [
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"content": "Artemis Fowl.\nTwelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius, and above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories—they're dangerous! Full of u... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s] Book about an american boy who is incredibly good at cross country running, due to genetic engineering..\nAs far as I remember this book is about a boy called Will, who is really good at running cross country. At some point at school he is required to take a 4 hours test or somethi... | [
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"content": "The Paladin Prophecy.\nWill West is careful to live life under the radar. At his parents' insistence, he's made sure to get mediocre grades and to stay in the middle of the pack on his cross-country team. Then Will slips up, accidentally scoring off the charts on a nationwide exam.Now Will is bein... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] book about a child with low functioning parents who goes off on a journey to find her dad.\ni remember reading a children’s book about this girl who lived with her mother and another girl. the mom was disabled and low functioning. the other girl was maybe 20-ish years old and couldnt leave ... | [
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"content": "So B. It.\nNow a major motion picture starring Alfre Woodard, Jessica Collins, John Heard, Jacinda Barrett, Cloris Leachman, and Talitha Bateman—in theaters October 2017!From acclaimed author Sarah Weeks comes a touching coming-of-age story about a young girl who goes on a cross-country journey to... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] A children's book about a girl who only drinks lemonade, and her equally picky siblings. They make their mother a cake with all of their favorite foods..\nI believe one child only eats apples, and another only wants milk, and another mashed potatoes. I vividly remember this book. They take ... | [
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"content": "The Seven Silly Eaters.\nPeter wants only milk, Lucy won’t settle for anything but homemade lemonade, and Jack is stuck on applesauce. Each new addition to the household brings a new demand for a special meal. What’s a mother to do? “[A] highly comic rhyming romp that surprisingly (and nicely) twi... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Novel about people that can sort of interact with parallel dimensions?.\nWas told about this book years ago, and despite never having read it the details I was told have stuck with me. I didn't think to write down the name of the book at the time, and have never been able to find it, though... | [
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"content": "From the Corner of His Eye.\nThe Barnes & Noble Review\nIn his most suspenseful and riveting novel yet, Dean Koontz explores the effects of quantum physics on human relationships in From the Corner of His Eye. If the idea of this complex scientific bent scares you, think again. Although the underl... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Fiction novel about a boy who photographs ghosts?.\nI remember reading it in elementary school (probably around 2007-9); \n\nthe cover was light brown/tan i think, and it had a picture of a house or apartments of some sort? with a young mans back in view, i think he might have been wearing ... | [
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"content": "The Seer of Shadows.\nNewbery Medalist Avi weaves one of his most suspenseful and scary tales—about a ghost who has to be seen to be believed and must be kept from carrying out a horrifying revenge.The time is 1872. The place is New York City. Horace Carpetine has been raised to believe in science... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Children's Book] Book where a character has perfect pitch and can sing to make rocks glow..\nIt's a book I read when I was little. That's basically the only thing I can remember from it. and it's driving me crazy!",
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"content": "The Secret of Zoom.\nChristina lives in an old stone mansion on the edge of a forest surrounded by barbed wire and signs that read TRESPASSERSWILL BE BOILED. Deep within the forest is the laboratory where her father works—and where her mother was blown to bits years ago. Christina is not supposed ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book about lady wanting a fairy baby.\nI read it in like 4th or 3rd grade, it's about this lady who makes a deal w the fairies in her garden to have a kid, but the kid is born with these strands of the blue hair that I think grant wishes? \n\nthanks",
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"content": "The Fairy Rebel.\nThe Fairy Queen strictly forbids fairies from using their magic power on humans. But after Tiki accidentally meets Jan, a woman who is desperate for a baby daughter, she finds it impossible to resist fulfilling her wish. Now up against the dark and vicious power of evil, this fai... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] Set in a world with a very immersive fantasy VR game, a kid and his friends game the system and defeat an unbeatable dragon?.\nThis is a long shot. I read a book when I was a kid about this guy who would go into this immersive world and he had friends there. You could build your own avatar... | [
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"content": "Epic.\nWelcome to a society governed through computer games! On New Earth, society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. If you win, you have the chance to fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing. When... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2010’s].\nIt’s about a kid in colorado in a band, and it’s partially written through a blog, the main characters brother is a lacrosse player and comes home from college. at the end the guys band wins this battle of the bands.",
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"content": "Rock On.\nOri Taylor is the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the Band To Be Named Later, a garage band he started with his friends. After years of being known only as the kid brother of sports star Del, Ori is looking forward to stepping out of his older brother's shadow, learning to perf... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] [2000s] Children’s short story book about ghost sports stories?.\nThe cover was a skeleton up to bat in a baseball game and the book contained several “real” ghost stories that occurred during sports events.",
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"content": "Haunted Athletes (True Ghost Stories).\nHave you heard what happened to the boy who found a strange baseball glove? Has anyone ever told you about the girls' soccer team whose practice field was built on an old family burial ground? Do you know about the basketball player who received advice from ... |
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