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{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] book about a hyper computer gone evil?.\nTrying to remember this book I read like 10 years ago about a worker in a government funded super computer that somehow goes evil and has to be destroyed (I think). I was so sure it was a michael crichton novel but haven’t found anything under his na...
[ { "content": "Daemon.\nA high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control—a daemon—designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world orderTechnology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000’s] A children’s book about a girl who finds a monster.\nEssentially the girl goes out in the rain, finds a monster, brings it home, and hides it from her mother. The book had pictures, and might have been from the late 90’s to the early 2000’s.", "id": "dywkxr", "tokenized_content...
[ { "content": "No More Monsters for Me!.\nAn enjoyable, funny way to address bedtime fears and scared-of-the-dark issuesGuess what's growing in the basement . . . a baby monster!Minneapolis Simpkin is hiding it down there. But a monster is a hard thing to keep secret, especially one that hiccups and cries, and g...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] YA Scifi Story about a Hyperspace Voyage.\nI checked out this story from my local library in the US on CD or cassette some time in the early 2000s.\n\nThe story is about a single trip through hyperspace on a space ship. I think the protagonist was a young woman or young girl, maybe going t...
[ { "content": "Alien Secrets.\nPuck, expelled from boarding school on Earth, is on her way to stay with her parents on the planet Shoon. On board the spaceship she befriends Hush, a native Shoowa who is also returning home in shame. He is desperately seeking a stolen treasure that was entrusted to him, a symbol ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Kid’s fiction book about a young girl in the 1800s, maybe named Mabel..\nI don’t remember much about this book except that it was a chapter book, set in the prairie or country in the 1800s, and the main character was a young girl named Mabel (I think). There was one chapter in particular w...
[ { "content": "In Grandma's Attic.\nPieces of Magic\nRemember when you were a child—when all the world was new, and the smallest object a thing of wonder? Arleta Richardson remembers: the funny wearable wire contraption hidden in the dusty attic, the century-old schoolchild's slate that belonged to Grandma, an a...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK SERIES] kid's book series, boy gets thrown into jail, clockpunk style.\nI remember reading the first book as a child, this would have been the late 2000s but the books could have been written anytime from the 1980s to the 2000s. It's a book series about a boy who gets thrown into jail filled...
[ { "content": "Incarceron.\nIncarceron -- a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology -- a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character,...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] children’s book involving assassins who used knitting needles.\nI read this book in late elementary school in the early 2000s. All I remember is that there were two antagonists that were assassins. One used knitting needles as a weapon. I’m thinking this might have been Artemis Fowl? But go...
[ { "content": "The Secret of Platform 13.\nA forgotten door on an abandoned railway platform is the entrance to a magical kingdom--an island where humans live happily with feys, mermaids, ogres, and other wonderful creatures. Carefully hidden from the world, the Island is only accessible when the door opens for ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book series I read as a kid in the late 80's and early 90's with character named Duncan.\nThere was a book series in the United States I read as a kid in elementary school. I remembered laughing out loud reading this series. The name of one of the characters sticks in my head, Duncan. The...
[ { "content": "Dunc's Halloween.\nDunc and his best friend, Amos, are planning the best route to get the most candy on Halloween. But their plans change when Amos is slightly bitten by a werewolf. He begins scratching himself and chasing UPS trucks: he's become a werepuppy!", "label": 1, "id": "962605", ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Book about kid who lives in cabin and does not return to cabin until end of book. (Takes place in 1800’s maybe). I remember a lot had changed in the town when he returned..\nI probably read this book in elementary school so it wasn’t that complex. I just vaguely remember a kid going on an ...
[ { "content": "Weasel.\nThe name has haunted my sleep and made my awake hours uneasy for as long as I can remember. Other children whisper that he is part man and part animal -- wild and blood-thirsty. But I know Weasel is real: a man, an Indian fighter the government sent to drive off the Indians -- to \"remove...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK SERIES] Kid named Max trains at a school for kids with magic powers.\nSounds Harry Potter-ish.\nSchool for kids with \"powers.\" Kid named Max is collected by a guy who gives him a test (woman who's going to die? But she's a monster?)\nA friend of Max at the school also has powers that are...
[ { "content": "The Hound of Rowan.\nMax McDaniels lives a quiet life in the suburbs of Chicago, until the day he stumbles upon a mysterious Celtic tapestry. Many strange people are interested in Max and his tapestry. His discovery leads him to Rowan Academy, a secret school where great things await him.But dark ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Fiction Book About a White Lab Mouse.\nI read a book a long time ago, in the early 2000s. It didn't have the cover slip so it was just a red book. It was about a white mouse who was born and follows it through its life. From what I remember, it was a lab mouse, but then it somehow es...
[ { "content": "Christopher Mouse: The Tale of a Small Traveler.\nAfter being sold to an unscrupulous pet store owner, a young mouse lives with several owners and has many adventures, before ending up with an appreciative family.", "label": 1, "id": "286866", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 56...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] book about a boy who was kidnapped, and started to believe the kidnapper was his father..\nWhen the police arrested the guy(kidnapper) the boy pretended to be another family’s son. (His kidnapper kept newspapers on every family he abducted from) so he knew all about the other boy. In the e...
[ { "content": "Counterfeit Son.\nCameron Miller is the son of a murderer. All he has ever known is the stench of the locked cellar, where he can hear the blows and cries and his father's torrent of terror and abuse. Then a miracle happens: his father is killed in a police shootout. In the aftermath, Cameron grab...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Teen/Tween book. One word title.\nread this book in 5th grade around 2010/2011. I remember the front cover had a drawing of a girl wearing a long skirt, and heels and jewelry maybe. I remember there being pink and green on the cover. The title was just one word and it was the nickname she ...
[ { "content": "Blister.\nAn ALA Notable Book and PW Best Children's Book of 2001 winner with a resilient 10-year-old heroine whom readers will love... now in an After Words edition!Alyssa Reed's life is a mess. Her parents can't stop fighting. Her mother won't stop crying. Alyssa's father has decided to move the...
{ "content": "[TOMT][PICTURE BOOK] [EARLY 2000's OR OLDER] A kids book where someone stole a plate of sandwiches and the culprit was revealed on the last page, behind a peel-off sticker..\nThis book was read to my classroom sometime in the early 2000's. I think all the characters were animals and the story was all ab...
[ { "content": "The Eleventh Hour.\nWhen Horace the elephant turns eleven, he celebrates in style by inviting his exotic friends to a splendid costume party. But a mystery is afoot, for in the midst of the games, music, and revelry, someone has eaten the birthday feast. The rhyming text and lavish, detailed illus...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][90's] Book about kids playing a VR game that becomes real over time.\nWhat I remember is that there is a group of college age people (book is written from the view of one of the women) where after college they aren't doing so well financially. They start playing the \"VR\" game where they'r...
[ { "content": "Invitation to the Game.\nA chilling account of life in 2154, when most jobs are done by machines. Lisse and her friends are unemployable after graduation, but the government gives them an abandoned warehouse in a bleak neighborhood to live in. Anxious to escape their dreary lives, the friends embr...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A YA novel about a floating world that was tiered. Had like 3 tiers with the rich being on top. Key feature was poisonous fig trees..\nI remember reading this book about a boy who was supposed to work on the level that grew these poisonous fig trees. He climbed the cliffs up to the top tier...
[ { "content": "The House of Power.\nFrom the creator of the Land of Elyon comes a riveting adventure set in an extraordinary satellite world created as a refuge from a dying Earth that begins to collapse and forever change the lives of its inhabitants. Edgar, a gifted climber, is a lonely boy scaling the perilou...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Children's book] Book about a woman who raised/rescued a lot of wild animals.\nThis was an early chapter book, I believe I read it around 2nd or 3rd grade. It was non fiction about a woman who lived with/experienced a lot of animals. She frequently talks about a pond she has in her foyer and I be...
[ { "content": "The Tarantula in My Purse and 172 Other Wild Pets: True-Life Stories to Read Aloud.\nFrom bestselling nature writer and Newbery Medal winner Jean Craighead George comes an autobiographical story about how wild it can be living in a house full of animal fans.Imagine living with a skunk in your clos...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book]HELP! I can't remember the title of a book...\nHey guys, there's this book I read about 8 years ago about a girl and her parents. It's split into two halves. In one half the mother survived the accident and in the other half the dad survived. There's also a weird sub plot where it turns out...
[ { "content": "The In-Between.\nWhen Elanor's near-death experience opens a door to a world inhabited by bold, beautiful Madeline, she finds her life quickly spiraling out of controlFourteen-year-old Elanor Moss has always been an outcast who fails at everything she tries—she's even got the fine, white scars to ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s-early 2010s?] Children’s fantasy about a family of criminals with star-shaped birthmarks.\nI read this in my elementary school library, and it continues to allude me. \n\nSo it takes place in a fantasy world with this family who all have a distinctive star-shaped birthmark. Their crim...
[ { "content": "The Vengekeep Prophecies.\n“You can’t convict what you can’t confirm.” That’s the motto of 12-year-old Jaxter Grimjinx and his infamous family of thieves. And while Jaxter may not have his father’s burglary prowess, his mother’s forgery skills, or his little sister’s mastery of sleight-of-hand, hi...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] A book about a kid who climbs Mount Everest.\nIn the book the kid has to fill up a moleskine for his English class, so he writes about his experience climbing Everest. And ends up filling like two(?) moleskines. \nI read this in 2013/2014, I don't remember much about it besides my English c...
[ { "content": "Peak.\nThe only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. - Peak Marcello\nAfter fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he's left with two choices: wither away in Juvenile Detention o...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000's??].\nIn the story the scientist is imprisoned (I can't remember why tho) and he wakes up in a room. He has these spikes coming out of his head instead of hair. There is an AI that basically tortures him. Other scientists are also trapped in these rooms and have figured out a way to ...
[ { "content": "Influx.\nPhysicist Jon Grady and his team have discovered a device that can reflect gravity—a triumph that will revolutionize the field of physics and change the future. But instead of acclaim, Grady’s lab is locked down by a covert organization known as the Bureau of Technology Control.The bureau...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Children’s book about a rabbit doll.\nI found this book around 2016-2017, but I believe it was written a while before that, and I can’t remember the original publishing date. I’ve forgotten the name, but I remember some of it’s story elements and most of its plot. The rabbit doll couldn’t ...
[ { "content": "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.\nA timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo, complete with stunning full-color plates by Bagram Ibatoulline, honors the enduring power of love.\"Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart. . . .\"Once, in a house on Egypt Street, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [YA] Book about an 18/19 yr old author of a book about psychopomps. She falls in love with a girl who wrote a book about pyromancy and cat powers?.\nI read this book probably back in middle school or early high school, so it's less than 3-4 years old. It was a young adult novel. Half the b...
[ { "content": "Afterworlds.\nBELIEVING IS DANGEROUS...Darcy Patel is afraid to believe all the hype. But it's really happening - her teen novel is getting published. Instead of heading to college, she's living in New York City, where she's welcomed into the dazzling world of YA publishing. That means book tours,...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] Young boy racing in Alaskan dog race.\nThe boy and his dog are racing in a sled dog race and his main opponent is a Native American with a team of dogs. His dog dies of a heart attack after making a comeback and the Native American guy (who he was scared of) draws a line in the snow and sa...
[ { "content": "Stone Fox.\nJohn Reynolds Gardiner's classic action-packed adventure story about a thrilling dogsled race has captivated readers for more than thirty years. Based on a Rocky Mountain legend, Stone Fox tells the story of Little Willy, who lives with his grandfather in Wyoming. When Grandfather fall...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] 2 Sisters Who Live in Attic and Have an Abusive Narcissistic Mom.\nOkay, so as the title says this book is about two sisters who are about high school age who have an abusive and narcissistic mom. \n\nI think they live in the attic with a slanted ceiling. They watch TV through a floor vent ...
[ { "content": "Pictures in the Dark.\nSisters Carlie and Sarah live in a little old house in Spokane, Washington. It's the 1950s and the Nevilles seem like the perfect family-Dad runs a floor-cleaning business, and Mom takes care of the girls. But something is wrong, and no matter how careful Sarah and Carlie ar...
{ "content": "[TOMT][book] takes place during the great depression with a young black boy.\nSo I read this book about 10 years ago, and I remember really liking it. I have no idea if im confusing it with another book but here's what I remember. It's a young black kid during the great depression, who is either a worke...
[ { "content": "Bud, Not Buddy.\nIt's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:He has his own suitcase full of special things.He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1990s-2000s] RL Stine collection of short stories that included a story about two children getting fattened up and auctioned off at a carnival..\nThis has been driving me crazy for years and I can’t find a trace of it online, I’ve read the story titles of all of his short story collections ...
[ { "content": "The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night.\nTen terrifying tales that will give you shivers...from the master of horror, R.L. StineRead the spine-tingling story of a babysitter who loves evil tricks...the terrifying tale of a boy who dared to lie down in the tomb of an ancient mummy...the gha...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] preteen girl in bosnia in the early 90's gets sent with her family to a refugee camp.\ni don't remember much about this book, as i read it about 10 years ago. if i recall correctly, the title had the word \"pelican\" in it. \n there was a girl in bosnia during the bosnian genocide who goes...
[ { "content": "The Day of the Pelican.\nMeli Lleshi is positive that her drawing of her teacher with his pelican nose started it all. The Lleshis are Albanians living in Kosovo, a country trying to fight off Serbian oppressors, and suddenly they are homeless refugees. Old and young alike, they find their courage...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] I’m looking for a book about a young adult who gets stuck on an iceberg in Antarctica. He is the only survivor and the Boat is stuck in the ice. He drinks whiskey to stay warm and eventually leaves the boat and finds people. Do you remember what it was?.\nDefinitely written for young adult...
[ { "content": "The Iceberg Hermit.\nShipwrecked in 1757 on an iceberg in the Arctic seas with only an orphaned polar bear cub for companionship, seventeen-year-old Allan begins a seemingly hopeless struggle for survival.", "label": 1, "id": "523757", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1996, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][2000s] Book that has two girls practicing their autographs and later has one of them forge the other's signature to do something (forge a check?) to betray her 'friend'..\nIt should be a chapter book for children or teens. I'm pretty sure the title of the book is 'Confidence' but I have no ...
[ { "content": "Con-Fidence.\nLauren would love to be part of the popular crowd at school, and when an attractive new girl seems to befriend her and offers a chance at popularity, Lauren does not recognize how she is being manipulated.", "label": 1, "id": "1965809", "tokenized_content": [ 101, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] members of a band are being found dead (shredded) and it turns out one of them is a werewolf.\nThe band was mixed gender, and had at least one girl. I’m pretty sure it was paper back, and I’m pretty sure it was made before 2000.", "id": "aj1jc4", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1031...
[ { "content": "Bad Moonlight.\nShe wasn’t just crying wolf…Danielle Verona can’t believe the band picked her to be their new lead singer. She’s on the road, performing at all the hot clubs. The adoring fans, the bright lights— it’s a dream come true!But when nighttime falls, Danielle can feel the terror in the d...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] [early 2000's?] A medical thriller about a girl who gets an ovary stolen.\nI kind of remember the story starting with tho friends who decide to donate their eggs, but one decided local anaesthetics and the other one general. \n\nAfter a while the one who chose general started having proble...
[ { "content": "Shock.\nCutting-edge technology and personal greed converge in this spine-tingling novel of medicine run amok. Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, students and close friends, spot a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: an exclusive, highly profitable fertility cli...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Novel][2000s] Seemingly obscure fantasy novel.\nHey there everyone! A friend of mine is trying to remember a book they read as a kid, but forgot the title. Here's what they've told me about it:\n\n\"but i remember parts of it vividly but only parts\n\nthe important ones\n\nlike there was a pearl ...
[ { "content": "I, Coriander.\nIn this exceptionally well-crafted tale, Coriander tells the story of her childhood in seventeenth-century London, and of her discovery that she has inherited magical powers from her mother, who was a fairy princess. But her mother's sudden death brings on a dark time for Coriander,...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] One of those \"kids go back in time, meet historical figures\" series.\nMy daughter's off to her freshman year of college. Today she called to ask the name of these books, said she had a dream about them and now wanted to read them all again. I told her there's a zillion such series, like M...
[ { "content": "Risked.\nJonah thought that after his last adventure in 1903, he and his sister Katherine would have a break from time travel for a while. For the first time, he’s willing to look into his own identity in the past, and he thinks this is his chance.But he barely has time for a single Google search ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] a children’s chapter book/YA book about a boy/teen who goes on a journey in Himalayas, meets up with some Yeti folk.\nThis book is either a children’s chapter book or a YA novel. It’s about a boy/teen who grows up in the Himalayan mountains (I think his parents were missionaries). A big ea...
[ { "content": "King of the Cloud Forests.\nWhen Japan invaded China, Ashley and Uncle Sung are forced to flee. It is a perilous journey across the Himalayas, and they struggle to survive.Then Ashley is captured.Who are these strange creatures that revere as their king?", "label": 1, "id": "1575366", ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][2000s?].\nHi, I've been trying to find this book about a young boy that's about 12-15 years old who is attacked in his room one night by a monster, who I think was disguised as his friend, and he is saved by monster hunters who then train him as a hunter. While I don't remember anything abo...
[ { "content": "Nightmare Academy.\nWhen Charlie Benjamin sleeps, monsters wake up. It's hard to fit in when your nightmares open portals to the Netherworld, where horrible creatures live--like the class 3 Netherstalker that invaded a sleepover and tried to eat the other children. Luckily there's a place for Char...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] YA romance novel that I can’t figure out the name!.\nI use to own this book and recently really wanted to read it again but I can’t find it anywhere and I don’t know the name or author so I’m just gonna describe it and hope for the best! \n-POV of a teen girl in high school\n-set in Seattl...
[ { "content": "Perfect Strangers.\nDear Blue, do you think it’s really possible to start over?Madison and Jeremy are both running for president of their high school. They’ve been bitter enemies since Jeremy punk’d Madison freshman year.Then Madison gets paired in an anonymous “pen pal” program. While the school ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Book of fantasy/horror short stories..\nDon't know the age of this book, but it was about 2013 when I read it.\n\nIt was a compendium of short stories by a female author (with, I think, a K name). Stories were all a bit creepy, if not outright horror.\n\nThe one I remember best was t...
[ { "content": "Pretty Monsters: Stories.\nKelly Link has lit up adult literary publishing, and Viking is honored to publish her first YA story collection. Through the lens of Link's vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning The Faery Handb...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000’s].\nOkay so when I was in like middle school (~2012), I was really into reading. Sorry if the formatting is funky, I’m on mobile.\n\nI read this book that I absolutely loved, I think it was probably written in the 2000s. I remember it was about this young girl who lived in a small tow...
[ { "content": "Savvy.\nFor generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a \"savvy\" -a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen. Grandpa Bomba moves mountains, her older brothers create hurricanes and spark electricity . . . and now it's the eve of Mibs...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Children's book, 80s or 90s, siblings visit relatives who live near cave with dragon(s) in it?.\nI remember checking it out from my local library back in 3rd or 4th grade. I don't remember much about it, though I might be mixing two books because as a kid I just read anything involving dra...
[ { "content": "The Dragon of Lonely Island.\nHannah, Zachary, and Sarah Emily are spending the summer at their great-aunt Mehitabel's house on faraway Lonely Island. There, in a cave hidden high above the ocean, they discover a fabulous creature: a glittering three-headed golden dragon with a kind heart, an unpr...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] young adult book I read about 3 sisters moving in next door to 3 brother.\nI read it in middle school. I remember the beginning was about how 3 brothers live together and their best friends/neighbor moved away, then one day a family with 3 athletic sisters move in next door. There’s a rival...
[ { "content": "The Boys Start the War.\nThe first book in the hilarious trilogy featuring the feuding Hatford and Malloy families. When a new family--with three daughters--moves into the neighborhood, the Hatford brothers decide to make Caroline and her sisters so miserable that they'll want to go back to Ohio."...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [90s/early 2000s].\nPretty sure I read the book in middle school, early 2000s. Young adult fiction. It's about a girl who's twin died at birth or really young. The living twin dies, goes to heaven (maybe?) and sees her deceased family members who tell her that it's not her time and send he...
[ { "content": "Haunted Sister.\nHow can you have a ghost story without a ghost? What if the ghost is only in your head? How would you know that you aren't losing your mind? By medical standards, sixteen-year-old Janine Palmer dies on the day of her automobile accident. When her spirit travels to the \"other side...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Young adult fiction about a gifted kid chef who was struck by lightning.\nThere was a book I read in middle school (2008-2011) where a kid was either struck by lightning or who's family was prone to being struck by lightning and so he doesn't go outside.\n\nHe's sent to like a boarding scho...
[ { "content": "Jolted: Newton Starker's Rules for Survival.\nThe Starker family is infamous. They’ve been chronicled on blogs, profiled on TV and researched by paranormal investigators. They appear to be cursed: everyone of Starker blood has died after being struck by lightning. Fourteen-year-old Newton Starker ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK].\nI'm looking for the name of a young adult novel. The story is about time travel. Everyone on the earth disappears but this one boy finds some other teenagers and they create a time machine. It turns out that they are the ones who made people disappear by using a time machine. One of the o...
[ { "content": "The Only Ones.\nLike the other children who have journeyed to the village of Xibalba, Martin Maple faces an awful truth. He was forgotten. When everyone else in the world disappeared one afternoon, these children were the only ones left behind. There's Darla, who drives a monster truck; Felix, who...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK].\nThe title had big neatly written letters I thought it was called “Serenity,” or “Serena,” and it has magic in it. The cover was blue and there was a girl and a boy on the cover, the boy in the book was kind of stuck up and stubborn. There’s a lady and a fire involved I think. On the cover...
[ { "content": "Legacy.\nWhen her widowed father dumps 16-year-old Katy Jessevar in a boarding school in Whitfield, Massachusetts, she has no idea that fate has just opened the door to both her future and her past. Nearly everyone in Whitfield is a witch, as is Katy herself, although she has struggled all her lif...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Maybe dystopian YA novel? Has a girl who lives with her autistic brother. She goes to a private school, is with this boy. Her best friend gets pregnant in the 1st or 2nd book..\nThe opening scene is this guy trying to force himself on her in her room and her brother busts in and gets him o...
[ { "content": "All These Things I've Done.\nIn 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fair...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] another one I know.\nSo this time this one is for me, but still might be a little vague.\n\nI am pretty sure this book was not stand alone and was probably planning on being a trilogy (I dont think when I read it that all of the books in it were out just yet.) I read it within the last 5 ye...
[ { "content": "Entangled.\nHiding her powers was never a problem for seventeen-year-old Graylee Perez. Not until her diabolical twin sister decided to go on a rampage that could expose them all or get someone hurt. To add to the aggravation, coven reject Raj McKenna catches Gray performing a complex spell and is...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] A fiction book where children are trained to crawl through volcano tunnels for treasure.\nOk so this is a children's (maybe young adult) book, not 100% sure on the publication date. I'm pretty sure the main antagonists ran an orphanage where they were very cruel to the children. In a...
[ { "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 ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK].\nAlright so I've been thinking back to book I read my 8th grade year circa 2007. It's about a kid in New York that has anxiety and ringing in his ears but doesn't know the cause. In the book his favorite band is shakes the clown or something like that.", "id": "bijp6w", "tokenized_con...
[ { "content": "10 Things to Do Before I Die.\n1) Lose my virginity2) Apologize to Rachel3) Get back at Biff4) Jam and party with Shakes the Clown5) Laugh in death’s face6) Go to Africa7) Rob a bank8) Tell Mark to screw himself9) Find out why Grandpa and Dad don't talk10) Tell the truthFrom the Hardcover edition....
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] A children's book about a blue starry cloak/robe/blanket? that gets reused over time..\nThis was a children's picture book I remember from the early 2000s. The book was about this cloak/robe(maybe it started off as a blanket?) that gets passed down over time. It gets cut away and re...
[ { "content": "Something from Nothing.\nThe blanket Joseph's grandfather made him is transformed into many things as the years go by: a jacket, a vest, a tie, a handkerchief--and finally a button. Gilman's modern adaptation and lively illustrations turn this favorite Jewish tale into a contemporary classic.", ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] I'm trying to find a book I saw in a used bookstore, and I can only remeber the cover, which depicted a skeleton bowling and a dragon wearing a top hat..\nThis is gonna sound made up, but I swear to God this book exists I just can't remeber the name of it for the life of me. All I can remeb...
[ { "content": "A Disagreement With Death.\nWuntvor has caught the cold eye of Death himself, who seeks to add the hapless apprentice to his morbid minions...", "label": 1, "id": "990033", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1037, 18185, 2007, 2331, 1012, 8814, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] looking for book title and author please..\nOkay so for the life of me I can't remember this book or its author and the character names are slipping my mind as well but I remember the synopsis. Maybe by describing it it'll trigger someone on here as this has haunted me for close to 2 years...
[ { "content": "Let the Good Prevail.\nSmall-town boys Caleb and Jake Boyd spend their days splitting logs and barely scraping by in the badlands of New Mexico. Caleb, a decorated war hero, wants to put his fighting days behind him, find a decent job, and start a quiet life with his new fiancé. But his brother Ja...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Looking for a young adult book about cats.\nA while ago I read this story about an orange cat who was supposed to become king of all cats, but his evil brother (?) was trying to take over the position by killing him. I think that's the plot anyway.\n\nI don't remember much about the story i...
[ { "content": "Cat Master, The.\nTension is growing between the Ferals and Indoors, and the old Cat Master, spiritual leader of all felines, is dying. Time is running out, and he must choose a successor that will rule wisely and keep peace among their kind.", "label": 1, "id": "696028", "tokenized_co...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] story about girl who somehow gets magic sunglasses?.\nAround the year of like 2007-ish there was this young adult fiction book I read that was about this girl in high school broke her regular glasses or something and was practically blind without them, but she somehow gets these sunglasses...
[ { "content": "Now You See It . . ..\nWendy isn't as blind as a bat--there are bats that can see better than she can. Which is why, when her new glasses break, she's all too happy to wear the dorky pair of sunglasses she finds on the lawn. They seem to match her prescription, and that's all that matters if she's...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [Mid 2000’s?] (i’mtipsy) They all wear gloves because the dad has burned hands.\nIt was a book i read in middle school. The main points i can remember are that she went back in time (maybe) and helped a boy who ended up being her dad and she was named after herself. The dad had burnt hands...
[ { "content": "The Lost Children.\nJosephine Russing owns 387 pairs of gloves. She's given a new pair every week by her father, a sullen man known best for his insistence that the citizens in town wear gloves at all times. A world away, the children of Gulm have been taken. No one knows where they might be, ex...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book series] Young adult/preteen fiction series about girls who become friends after being locked in bathroom together.\nI believe there were four girls, and they might have been models or trying to break into the modelling industry? They all had a kind of theme, like one was 'sporty', one was 'a...
[ { "content": "Fast Friends.\nMaddy Sparks is having a terrible day and then things suddenly get better. Find out how she ends up at a photo shoot and becomes a Limited Too catazine model!", "label": 1, "id": "15133276", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 3435, 2814, 1012, 2078...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Major character had a doll merged with her hand? Other with crows in back?.\nI seem to remember a dystopian book where the main character or someone she knew had a doll's head stuck to her. Some form of radiation or something had caused people to get pieces of objects and animals permanentl...
[ { "content": "Pure.\nWe know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amus...
{ "content": "[TOMT][book][2014?] book similar to dork diaries, diary of a wimpy kid, Amelia’s notebooks.\nI read this book 6-5 years ago? \n\nThe illustrations in the book was adequate, the book followed the life of twin sisters who were named after red stones I think? One of them was ruby and the other garnet I thi...
[ { "content": "Double Act.\nRuby and Garnet are ten-year-old twins. They're identical, and they do EVERYTHING together, especially since their mother died three years earlier - but they couldn't be more different. Bossy, bouncy, funny Ruby loves to take charge, and is desperate to be a famous actress, while quie...
{ "content": "[TOMT][book]teen novel about children reaching the north pole.\nI remember reading a book in elementery school (early 2000's) about a dystopian game show where children have to work together to reach the north pole, like some sort of dangerous historical reenactment. I remember one of the kids had photo...
[ { "content": "Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083.\nThe wind and snow blow so hard, you can't see your hand in front of your face. Your heating fuel is nearly gone, and so is your food. How do you survive?Five fourteen–year–olds face this desperate situation on a deadly journey in Antarctica. It is 2083. They...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s](?) YA novel about a young teenager dealing with being drafted to participate in a gruesome public ritual involving decapitating an animal..\nI read the book in my 6th grade English class (I'm currently 17 in 11th grade, so around 2013-2014 however relevant that is.) I remember one ...
[ { "content": "Wringer.\nSometimes he wished it would come after him, chase him, this thing he did not want to be. But the thing never moved. It merely waited. Waited for him to come to it. In Palmer LaRue's hometown of Waymer, turning ten is the biggest event of a boy's life. It marks the day when a boy is read...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s?] Book where a kid hears a news story about a particle decaying in a water tank, proceeds to count days since happening..\nI remember reading this book in elementary school and after finishing it never seeing it ever again. Things that happened: \n \n• The kid is in school and h...
[ { "content": "Smiles to Go.\nWhat is stargazer, skateboarder, chess champ, pepperoni pizza eater, older brother, sister hater, best friend, first kisser, science geek, control freak Will Tuppence so afraid of in this great big universe?Jerry Spinelli knows.", "label": 1, "id": "2287545", "tokenized_...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [CHILDREN'S BOOK] [80s-90s] About a creature that comes to town and is hard to understand.\nI used to have a book on tape as a kid that probably came out in the late 80s or early 90s. It was about a creature or stranger who came to town and was hard to understand. The townspeople would take what ...
[ { "content": "The Hungry Thing.\nWhat will the people do when a Hungry Thing comes to town? This hilarious book will get kids excited about reading and words as they fall in love with the Hungry Thing's crazy antics!", "label": 1, "id": "1109541", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1996, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s].\nIn maybe 2007 my teacher gave me a book. I only remember from the book that it the main character (a girl I believe) was part of a camel race (it plays somewhere in the orient iirc) and also something about thorns and roses etc.. does anybody know which book I'm referring to? Sadly...
[ { "content": "Broken Moon.\nI WILL NEVER HAVE A HUSBAND, BUT I HAVE THE BEST BROTHER IN THE WORLD. YOUR BREATH ON MY CHEEK -- ON MY SCAR -- FELT LIKE THE BREATH OF ALLAH. Nadira is spoiled goods. Scars from a beating she received for a crime that her older brother allegedly committed tell the world that she is...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A book containing a collection of short horror stories I think aimed at younger audiences.\nI read a book when I was younger which was a collection of short horror stories that I think were aimed at younger audiences. I think the book contained stories by multiple authors. The book was bla...
[ { "content": "Bites: Scary Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into.\nChilling, original tales about vampires and other creatures that bite, from some of today's best authors, including Christopher Paul Curtis, Neal Shusterman, Peter Lerangis, and more.Are you ready for spine-tingling tales by some of today's best write...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000’S].\nWhen I was younger, anywhere from 2007-2011 I read this children’s book, though it was one of those ones that straddled the line between children’s and YA, I think. Definitely leaning towards YA but still with less maturity. I remember the title being something like Alakazan (no...
[ { "content": "The Road to Inconceivable.\nKate's little brother Matt is missing, and Kate thinks she will never see him again.? But then she finds out that Matt is trapped in the world of Abadazad. Will Kate have the courage to look for her brother And if she leaves home--will she ever return?", "label": 1,...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] [2009-2014] Book about superheroes that lose their powers. Has a few comic pages.\nI read this book about 5 or 6 years ago. It was a fairly recent book, probably published within the past 5 years when I read it. It was hardcover. I don’t remember the title or the authors name but I remembe...
[ { "content": "A Once Crowded Sky.\nA tour de force debut novel from a former CIA counter-terrorism officer, A Once Crowded Sky fuses the sensibility of bombastic, comic-book-style storytelling with modern literary fiction to bring to life a universe of super men stripped of their powers, newly mortal men forced...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] zombie novel where people think the zombies are brought by aliens but it’s actually the government (?) dumping infected people near them.\nOne day people wake up and see a weird structure in their city, later revealed to be an art installation, and then there’s reports of weird creatures. P...
[ { "content": "In the After.\nIn debut author Demitria Lunetta's thriller, one girl must fight for her survival in a world overrun by violent, deadly creatures.Amy Harris's life changed forever when They took over. Her parents—vanished. The government—obsolete. Societal structure—nonexistent. No one knows where ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000-2010] YA fantasy/science-fiction where criminals are sent into a parallel world, and the protag goes in there to find someone.\nIt's a young adults (maybe even teen) book, sci-fi i would say. The criminals are sent into a parallel world but this world is in a really small object. I thi...
[ { "content": "Incarceron.\nIncarceron -- a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology -- a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character,...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Dystopian world where a girl and her brother is on a quest of some sort..\nIt starts with a father and his two kids in their small and damaged home, but shortly after he dies and they run away. They meey a pair of shady people and the girl gets involved in some type of cage fighting. When t...
[ { "content": "Blood Red Road.\n▶ \nACE #1\nSaba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][book] Nordic noir from between 2006-2011. B&W cover with casette tape..\nI've searched quite a bit for this book. I'm around 75% it's Swedish. I think it was a police procedural based around catching a killer/serial killer. It was incredibly boring.\n\nI remember it being badly written, or transl...
[ { "content": "Sun and Shadow.\nFrom the three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Award.A couple are found murdered in their flat in Gothenburg, their bodies symbolically arranged in a mysterious and grotesque fashion. As Winter follows the trail of clues into the cult world of the gothic, he becomes enme...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A book where 5 dads have a competition to go to space with 5 kids.\nI thought of this because there is new Nickelodeon movie, called “Astronauts” which showed 5 kids accidentally launching a space ship (the movie is different). \n\n1.\tThe main character, is supposed to be a dad, but he ac...
[ { "content": "Cosmic.\nLiam is too big for his boots. And his football strip. And his school blazer. But being super-sized height-wise has its advantages: he's the only eleven-year-old to ever ride the G-force defying Cosmic rollercoaster - or be offered the chance to drive a Porsche. Long-legged Liam makes a g...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Standalone Scifi book similar in plot to The Maze Runner (book 1).\nBook was similar to the maze runner in the sense that kids/teens were trapped walking up in a place with no memory of how they got there.\n\nOnly one girl in the group, just like maze runner. Except here, there were only f...
[ { "content": "House of Stairs.\nOne by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere, except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the mac...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Coming of age story about a boy in school. Released around a decade ago?.\nI can only remember a few specific things hopefully someone knows what i'm talking about.\n\n\\- Story starts with boy having gotten fitter over summer doing manual labor\n\n\\- Tense relationship with his father\n\n...
[ { "content": "Twisted.\nHigh school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background—average student, average looks, average dysfunctional family. But since he got busted for doing graffiti on the school, and spent the summer doing outdoor work to pay for it, he stands out like you w...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK SERIES] Long Lost Series from childhood.\nI remember starting to read a series in Catholic middle school, which was removed from the library due to it's contents. I don't remember much about it other than the cover having what I now know as a [Leviathan cross](http://symbolism.wikia.com/wi...
[ { "content": "Search for Senna.\nThere is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.David’s life was pretty normal. School. Friends. Girlfriend. Actu...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000’s] looking for an I Spy style book but it was entirely fantasy..\nI’m looking for an I spy style book that was fantasy based. It’s not the I Spy fantasy book but it was similar in the fact that you had to find specific things on the page. It had incredible illustrations that were very ...
[ { "content": "Dragon Quest.\nStunning fantasy-adventure scenes filled with things to find, mysteries to solve and colorful creatures and characters to outwit", "label": 1, "id": "1565367", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 5202, 8795, 1012, 14726, 5913, 1011, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] A fantasy book told from two perspectives, a boy - who ended up travelling between worlds - and a girl - who used magic that was catalogued with flowers..\nThis book was told from two perspectives. Both the boy and girl had a different font and came from different places, before finally me...
[ { "content": "The Merlin Conspiracy.\nWhen the Merlin of Blest dies, everyone thinks it's a natural death. But Roddy and Grundo, two children traveling with the Royal Court, soon discover the truth. The Merlin's replacement and other courtiers are scheming to steal the magic of Blest for their own purposes.Rodd...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][2000s-2010s] YA Mystery, Cover has a bunch of ivy, there's a cute weird little creature in it, maybe someone hiding at an old mansion?.\nI can't really remember the plot well, but I *think* it's kind of a YA mystery about an old mansion, and in the book the main character finds this cute li...
[ { "content": "The Valley of Secrets.\nStephen Lansbury is an orphan. He thinks he has no relatives at all -- until the day a letter arrives telling him that a distant uncle is dead. Suddenly Stephen finds himself the only heir to a great estate in the countryside. So Stephen sets off to claim his inheritance . ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] that I read when I was younger.\nI remember the girl was named Primerose, and I’m pretty sure she didn’t have parents. As for the plot of the book, I’m not sure, but I do remember that there was one part where the girl was in a ladies house and she ate something that tasted like moths. She...
[ { "content": "Everything on a Waffle.\nIn the small Canadian town of Coal Harbour, in a quaint restaurant called The Girl on the Red Swing, everything comes on a waffle--lasagna, fish, you name it. Even waffles! Eleven-year-old Primrose Squarp loves this homey place, especially its owner, Kate Bowzer, who takes...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000's] book about blue cat thats different from his family.\nI think it was a light novel about a blue cat that lived with his family members who all had names starting with the same letter except for him. Somebody new moves into his house and they have robot cats or something? the blue ca...
[ { "content": "Varjak Paw.\nMesopotamian Blue cat, Varjak Paw, has never been Outside before; he and his family have always lived in the isolated house at the top of the hill. But Varjak is forced out into the city when the sinister Gentleman and his two menacing cats take over his home. With help from his mysti...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Christian children's book about tree with chocolate hearts.\nOkay, so I remember being read this book as a kid but I can't find anything on it myself. It was about a group of animals and they have to travel to find this tree I believe, ultimately finding out it has chocolate hearts growing...
[ { "content": "The Treasure Tree.\nAnimals teach personality traits and how to respect each individual for who they are.", "label": 1, "id": "1541562", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1996, 8813, 3392, 1012, 4176, 6570, 6180, 12955, 1998, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Nerdy gamer and his friend go to a ‘Man’ camp.\nBasically this nerdy gamer kid and his friend go to a camp that his dad made them go to. At the camp there is really crappy and old shacks for the campers to go to and the camp leader orders everyone to have no phones, or devices at all. Event...
[ { "content": "I Have a Bad Feeling about This.\nWilderness Survival Tip #1 Drinking your own sweat will not save your life. Somebody might have told you that, but they were trying to find out if you'd really do it.Henry Lambert would rather play video games than spend time in the great outdoors--but that doesn'...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] YA novel about a girl who was pushed off a cliff..\nI remember reading this when I was younger, around 2015. At some point it is revealed a girl was pushed off a cliff by an older male (possibly a teacher?) and her bones are found buried at the bottom when a class is on a field trip. For t...
[ { "content": "The Ghost of Fossil Glen.\nAllie Nichols is being pursued by a ghost. Her friend Karen calls Allie a liar and doesn't want to hear \"stuff like that.\" But her old pal, Dub, listens eagerly as Allie tells him about the voice that guides her down a steep cliff side, the girl she imagines who begs, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOKS] A children's book about a friendly blue dragon with a strange design.\nOkay so I'm having trouble remembering one of my favorite books as a child. It was about this friendly blue dragon who wants to be friends with people, I believe he's not a very strong or intimidating dragon. The end of...
[ { "content": "How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head.\nA classic book from Bill Peet featuring Droofus the kindly (vegetarian) dragon all about not judging others, overcoming our differences, and working together.  Droofus the kindly dragon has a price on his head, but the small boy who befriends him refuses to s...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s].\nI've got very little context for this one. Book may be even older than early 2000s, but that's when I remember having read it.\n\nI think it was about a bunch of kids (or adults, not sure) that found some sort of a map of sewers, and went treasure (?) hunting underground their ci...
[ { "content": "The Secret City.\nSpies. Underground tunnels. Old maps. New enemies. Pirate oaths. Hidden treasure. Endless danger.This series has real boy appeal. It has a fast pace, adventure, international intrigue, and more.George is fascinated by his family's legacy, the stories that link his ancestors to th...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A book about a black highschool basketball player who killed himself, written with mostly dialogue.\nI read this book a long time ago back in middle school. It was a story about a mostly black high school. I remember some of the plot and one of the scenes. The main plot was that there was t...
[ { "content": "Tears of a Tiger.\nAfter a car accident kills Robert, Andy's best friend and teammate on the Hazelwood High Tigers, Andy doesn't know if he can go on. He's consumed with guilt for driving the night of the accident after a long evening of drinking and partying. With perceptiveness and compassion, S...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Novel/where the protagonist had a puffer fish poisoning then dies.\nIt's either Japanese or Russian literature. So the MC ate a puffer fish then fell ill. While suffering he starting to recount his actions in the past. I think he dies in the end but I'm not sure \n \nedit: add explanation...
[ { "content": "The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories.\nThis collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A children's book where a girl in a desert makes up her own holidays..\nMy teacher read this to us in 2nd or 3rd grade so it is at least 15 years old. It also has pictures. A girl who lives in the desert makes up her own holidays. She makes up one for when she saw a wolf/coyote, one for wh...
[ { "content": "I'm in Charge of Celebrations.\nFrom the highly acclaimed team of Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall comes the story of a girl who shares her love for desert life as she tells of treasured experiences like dancing in the wind on Dust Devil Day or sleeping outside on a hot summer night during The Time o...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Sci-Fi book where and apprentice and his master go on a quest to find a relic, turns out the relics were future tech.\nOne of the big twists at the end of the book is that their gods were just colonists who were cut off from the rest of civilization. I think one of the big artifacts was som...
[ { "content": "The Dark City.\nWelcome to Anara, a world mysteriously crumbling to devastation, where nothing is what it seems: Ancient relics emit technologically advanced powers, members of the old Order are hunted by the governing Watch yet revered by the people, and the great energy that connects all seems t...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] YA Science fiction novel about robots.\nI cannot find this thing anywhere. I’m starting to think I hallucinated it.\n\nI bought and read this book in like the early-mid 2010s I believe them subsequently threw it out and forgot the title. The cover is blue I think?\n\nFrom what I remember i...
[ { "content": "The Six.\nTo save humanity, they must give up their own.Adam's muscular dystrophy has stolen his mobility, his friends, and in a few short years, it will take his life. Virtual reality games are Adam's only escape from his wheelchair. In his alternate world, he can defeat anyone. Running, jumping,...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [CHILDREN'S BOOK] [2000s?].\nThere was a man whose house was full of clocks, but he thought he could never set them all to be the same time. He would check the clock downstairs, and it would say 3:00, then run up to the next floor and it would say 3:01. He didn't realize it was taking him time to...
[ { "content": "Clocks and More Clocks.\n\"A clock on each of the four floors and none of them tells the same time! Or so thinks Mr. Higgins as he dashes from hall--'twenty minutes past four'--up to attic--'twenty-three minutes past four'--down two flights to kitchen--'twenty-five minutes past four'--and up one t...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2010s] Young adult series, containing either three or four separate books. Basic plot involves an environmental crisis, and some form of time travel?.\nOk, so this is a weird one. I have a vivid memory of reading this series of books either in middle school or early high school. \n\nThe p...
[ { "content": "Firestorm.\nHis mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But if Jack hadn't broken the high school rushing record that night, he never would have known and nothing would have changed. He'd just be going out for pizza, playing football, trying yet again to score with his girlfriend, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] called \"House of ____\" (definitely NOT leaves).\nIts so fucking far out from my memory i only remember bare bones of the story but I'll do my best. \n\nBullets with an asterisk note plot points I am 100% sure on\n\nBegins with a normal kid in school\n\n*Something happens and now he lives...
[ { "content": "The Thief of Always.\nMaster storyteller and bestselling novelist Clive Barker creates an enchanting tale for both children and adults to cherish and retell. The Thief of Always tells the haunting story of Harvey, a bright 10-year-old who is suffering from the winter doldrums, and of a creature wh...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Children's book] book about how people around the world say hello (or possibly goodbye) to the sun.\nI read this book to my brothers when they were little and now I'm having my own kid and want to read it to them too :) \n\nI don't remember what the cover of the book looked like but it had a real...
[ { "content": "The Way to Start a Day.\nBeautiful paintings highlight a text depicting the ways various peoples from around the world welcome the sun and the start of a new day.Text first appeared in McCall Magazine, February, 1977.", "label": 1, "id": "299651", "tokenized_content": [ 101, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Recipe book aimed at twenty-somethings/college-age adults.\nIf I remember correctly, the cover was black and had a ketchup bottle on it. \n\nI used to own this recipe book around 2009-2010, so I know it had to have been published before then. It was relatively small—novel sized rather than...
[ { "content": "The Student Cookbook: 200 Cheap And Easy Recipes For Food, Drinks And Snacks (Cookery).\nA hungry student is a bad student. That's why we've put together a cookbook perfect for anyone in school. The rest of the cookbooks out there are written by adults—you know, old people like mom and dad, or you...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Horror scifi book where the days are getting shorter and monsters come out at night..\nI remember reading it as a child, but can't remember enough for google to find it apparently. The days are getting shorter gradually - by second to begin with but people are starting to notice. I think th...
[ { "content": "Nightworld.\nTerror spreads throughout the world as the days grow shorter and the nights longer. As scientists rush to discover why the sun is rising later and later each day, an ancient evil waits to be reborn. Soon the vampire called Rasalom and the spiritual warrior Glaeken will fight the final...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1990s]Girl taken through a mirror portal to world with magic whose people don't look into mirrors as they loose their mind.\nI read this book in the 1990s but it could be older. \n\nGirl lived in an apartment alone and a guy comes part way through a mirror and convinces her to return with ...
[ { "content": "The Mirror of Her Dreams.\nWith The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson changed the face of fantasy fiction forever. In The Mirror of Her Dreams, the astonishing first novel in the two-volume Mordant’s Need series, Donaldson shows us a world of wondrous beauty and seductive illusio...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][80s] Kids book about brain sharpeners.\nA book we read at school in the 80s. I was UK Primary school age, probably somewhere between 7 years old and 10, so it was a book aimed at that age group. I think there was a sequel, maybe more than one. Something about aliens abducting school kids an...
[ { "content": "Invasion of the Brain Sharpeners.\nExtraterrestrial beings attempt to sharpen the brains of a school class they wish to develop their new planets. One child resists.Reprint of the ed. published by Andersen, Press, London under title: Mr. Browser and the brain sharpeners.", "label": 1, "id"...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Children’s book where kids are living in the woods..\nAt some point they are raising baby raccoons. I think they were supposed to be staying with their grandparents or something but something happened. I read it in 94 or 95 but I think the book was older. ", "id": "a4dqwx", "tokenized_...
[ { "content": "The Hideaway Summer.\nA sister and brother miss the bus to camp and instead secretly spend an adventurous summer at a cabin in the woods.", "label": 1, "id": "865511", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1996, 5342, 9497, 2621, 1012, 1037, 2905, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Time Travel Book.\nHey everyone! I’ve been looking for this book for a very long time, and I was hoping you fine gold could help. I will try to format this as well as possible!\n\nThe Premise: Some time well into the future, there’s a society built around time travel. They use it in histor...
[ { "content": "Time's Chariot.\nTHE HIMALAYAS, 5000 BC:Commissioner Daiho is dead, but there’s no question of foul play. The murder of a Home Timer is about as likely as unauthorized interference with the work of a Correspondent. . . .Isfahan, Arabia, 1029:Abu Ali was startled. He hadn’t heard the stranger enter...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Novel] Novel about a world with only kids, and the kids would come out of some sort of machine and announce “I’m a Kid!” There is also some sort of social ranking the kids have..\nI remember several years back I listened to the first few chapters of an audio book that was a novel about a world wi...
[ { "content": "Hokey Pokey.\nWelcome to Hokey Pokey. A place and a time, when childhood is at its best: games to play, bikes to ride, experiences to be had. There are no adults in Hokey Pokey, just kids, and the laws governing Hokey Pokey are simple and finite. But when one of the biggest kids, Jack, has his bel...
{ "content": "[TOMT][GRAPHIC NOVEL][2010s] A graphic novel about a guy going back to his home town and a comic book within the graphic novel about New Zealand moving around.\nIt was a graphic novel which I would have seen in 2010-2012 (although it may have been published earlier) in which the main storyline, as I rem...
[ { "content": "Hicksville.\nWorld-famous cartoonist Dick Burger has earned millions and become the most powerful man in the comics industry in the few short years since the publication of his first CAPTAIN TOMORROW graphic novel. But behind his rapid rise to success, there lies a dark and terrible secret, as bio...