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{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2010's]Young Adult Novel about a boy whose father is on death row..\nThis book is about a boy whose father is on death row in Texas (I believe). The chapters of the book switch back and forth from past to present. He and his friend along with his dog drive to Texas and go speak with his dad...
[ { "content": "Take Me There.\nDylan has a bad-boy past and a criminal record. He knows that rich, beautiful Jess is way too good for him but she has always been the one person who sees through his tough exterior and straight to his heart, and he has been hopelessly in love with her from the first time they met....
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK].\nI read maybe 1/8 of it in elementary school back in the early 2000's, but there's a little girl who's living in either an orphanage or boarding school and there's a garden on the other side of a wall that she climbs over to tend to in secret.", "id": "c633zs", "tokenized_content": [ ...
[ { "content": "Mandy.\nThe magic of finding a home Mandy, a ten-year-old orphan, dreams of a place to call her own. Escaping over the orphanage wall to explore the outside world, Mandy discovers a tiny deserted cottage in the woods. All through the spring, summer, and fall, Mandy works to make it truly hers. Som...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Children's Book][1990s] A book about two kids who crawl through a tree stump and one eventually turns to stone.\nI remember reading it as a kid and it having a really dark style of artwork. I think it was a brother and sister who crawled through this tree stump into a forest. The sister wanted to...
[ { "content": "The Tunnel.\nJack fearlessly explores the tunnel he found while playing, but when he doesn't return, his sister Rose goes in the tunnel to find him.", "label": 1, "id": "105446", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1996, 5234, 1012, 2990, 22518, 2135, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][NOVEL][EARLY 2000'S].\nI don't remember much about this book at all. I think there was a girl who's parents died but since she was a child she didn't understand the gravity of it? She ended up living alone for a while and used money her grandmother gave her to buy cheese, then she got sick of eat...
[ { "content": "Love, Aubrey.\n\"I had everything I needed to run a household: a house, food, and a new family. From now on it would just be me and Sammy–the two of us, and no one else.\"A tragic accident has turned eleven-year-old Aubrey’s world upside down. Starting a new life all alone, Aubrey has everything s...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1990S] Urban fantasy book with a young girl?.\nI remember reading this book probably late 90s, maybe even early 2000s. It stuck with me and I'm trying to find it again.\n\nIt centers around a teenage boy, who ends up in some weird gang. All I remember is that helps a young girl with blonde ...
[ { "content": "Elsewhere.\nWhen Ron runs away, he ends up in Bordertown, a grim city that lies between the real world and the world of faerie, a place where elf and human gangs stalk the streets side by side, and where magic works better than technology. If the city doesn't kill him, it just may teach him what i...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [90s-2000s].\nThere's a book I read when I was a kid that I loved and I cannot remember the title or author of the book for the life of me!! It was about a girl coming home from school and seeing the aftermath a house robbery, and her mom was missing. Her mom had been acting suspicious day...
[ { "content": "Escape from Memory.\n\"Well, I'm sure I don't have any secrets...,\" I said, trying to sound certain. \"Can't we just tell them that?\" Mom's steady gaze was driving me crazy. \"Oh,\" she said slowly, \"but that's where you're wrong. You see, you do have the secrets. You know them.\" When Kira ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] About a government becoming dystopian and some smart kids trying to fight against it though terrorism.\nI only remember the beginning but regardless here is what I remember. Protagonist is very tech savvy, has I think 2 friends. The book sets a very \"fight the system\" tone right away, in...
[ { "content": "Little Brother.\nMarcus aka “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.Bu...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Couple of kids driving to or from college crash in a snowstorm and are stuck, read in the mid-80s.\nTwo kids - a guy and a girl, not really friends - rideshare back to college (I think they're headed TO school since one of the kids has a tin of cookies some family member made them), they c...
[ { "content": "Snow Bound.\nAt fifteen, Tony Laporte is what many people would call a throughly spoiled kid. He gets away with a lot because his parents want him to have all the things they never had. But when they surprise him by refusing to let him keep a stray dog he has found, Tony decides to teach them a le...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] A story about a kid and his dad building a house in a different state but the dad leaves to go pick up his sister and mom which takes months.\nI don’t remember much about it but that he lived by himself and then met a native tribe. Any ideas?", "id": "it2jwv", "tokenized_content": [ ...
[ { "content": "The Sign of the Beaver.\nTwelve-year-old Matt is left on his own in the Maine wilderness while his father leaves to bring the rest of the family to their new settlement. When he befriends Attean, an Indian chief's grandson, he is invited to join the Beaver tribe and move north. Should Matt abandon...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][Late 80s-Early 90s?] Book about a boy king who goes to war.\nSo the book I'm thinking of is about a 10 or 11 year old boy who's king of his country. At one point he sneaks off to the war and is in the trenches. There's a child parliament that he implements. At some point he goes to the dese...
[ { "content": "King Matt the First.\nJanusz Korczak was a Polish physician and educator who wrote over twenty books--his fiction was in his time as well known as Peter Pan, and his nonfiction works bore passionate messages of child advocacy. During World War II, the Jewish orphanage he directed was relocated to ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][book] book series about a group of teen divers, one of whom was a colorblind photographer.\nHopefully the title is enough, but here's some more\n\nI read the first book in 8th grade, and never found the second one. Essentially, a group of young teens win some kinda competition to go diving, but ...
[ { "content": "The Complete Dive Trilogy, #1-3.\nThis edition contains all three books in the Dive Trilogy; The Discovery, The Deep and The Danger.\nThe Discovery\nSharks, shipwreck, and sunken treasure in the latest adventure trilogy from Gordon Korman.Four kids are on a marine expedition for the summer, diving...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] YA Sci-Fi with society where you get induced vision telling you about your future; love interest is male swimmer..\nThis is a young adult book that I read not long after it was released, between 2013-2016. \n\nThe main character is female (maybe named Maya), and she has a sister and lives ...
[ { "content": "Forget Tomorrow.\nImagine a world where your destiny has already been decided...by your future self. It's Callie's seventeenth birthday and, like everyone else, she's eagerly awaiting her vision—a memory sent back in time to sculpt each citizen into the person they're meant to be. A world-class sw...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Little girl makes lunch meat monster.\nI read these books when I was younger, but I completely spaced out on the title. She’s a stereotypical gothy girl, she’s fairly young and she’s a very talented scientist. In one of the books she made a meat monster, and I think there was a part of the ...
[ { "content": "Lunch Walks Among Us.\nFranny K. Stein is not your average girl -- she's a mad scientist. She prefers poison ivy to daisies, and when Franny jumps rope, she uses her pet snake. The kids in Franny's class think she's weird, wacky, and just plain creepy. Tired of being stared at, Franny decides to ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Teen story. Cover is mostly blue color. Has main character, teen boy, swimming down in ocean. He has a watch on his wrist. I believe the title has the word fire in it possibly.\nPlot was about a boy running away from people who were trying to capture him. He travels with a girl who betrays...
[ { "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] [1980s] A book about a kid named LeRoy who moves down to Louisiana from up north to live with a relative. The relative lives in a shack and (I think) is a fisherman..\nI’m not entirely sure it’s an 80s book but I’m going off my vague recollection of the cover art. I read the book in middle...
[ { "content": "Leroy and the Old Man.\nWhen Leroy witnesses a mugging, he must decide whether to remain safe and silent or speak up and reveal what he saw.", "label": 1, "id": "2943754", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 19103, 1998, 1996, 2214, 2158, 1012, 2...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Book where the main character is possessed by a dragon spirit and becomes a king because of it..\nBeen trying to remember the name of this book/series for a couple days now, but despite remembering most of the plot I can't seem to remember anything identifying enough to find it.\n\nT...
[ { "content": "Lord of Snow and Shadows.\nCombining the best of fantasy traditions with her own unique vision, Sarah Ash brings to dazzling life a new saga filled with epic adventure and unforgettable characters. Far-reaching in scope and imagination, Lord of Snow and Shadows embarks on a journey like no other—i...
{ "content": "[tomt] [book] I need help finding the title of this book!.\nThis book is more of a romantic type where the boy's father worked at the girl's apartment and her parents left for London and the boy and girl fell in love. She ends up moving to the UK and he ends up moving around a bunch with his dad and the...
[ { "content": "The Geography of You and Me.\nLucy and Owen meet somewhere between the tenth and eleventh floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they’re rescued, they spend a single night together, wandering the darkened streets and marveling at...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Novel] Alien Abduction Novel featuring Child Protagonist.\nI'm trying to remember the name of a novel I read in middle school during the early 2000s (prior to 2006). It was a novel about a missing boy that showed up years later after everyone has stopped searching for him. I can only remember a f...
[ { "content": "The Door in the Lake.\nWhen Joey Finney was twelve, he and his family went camping near Smokewater Lake-and Joey vanished. Now, two years later, he has reappeared. But something's stopping him from settling back into his old life. Joey still looks twelve. He feels sick all of the time and he hears...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Woman receives a call from a stranger about a murder they commited, then tries to find out who the voice on the phone was.\nI don't remember much about this book, but it opens with a woman receiving a call from a stranger who confesses to killing someone. Distraught over this, the rest of t...
[ { "content": "Wolf Rider.\nOn an ordinary evening, just as he's about to leave for a party, 15-year-old Andy Zadinski receives a phone call from a stranger that changes his life. The caller, Zeke, confesses to the murder of a young woman named Nina Klemmer. Andy immediately calls the police, who shrug it off as...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Read a few years ago belive it was written fairly recent. Young adult book as some of the content is riskè.\nI remember this book being about this guy trying to save the world from a terrible fututure by saving the enviorment. In the begining of the book everything is fine and then one nig...
[ { "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][CHILDREN’S BOOK] Old Man, Beets, and a Wheel of Cheese.\nI remember reading this children’s book when I was a kid and loving the illustrations. The book is about an old man and his wife who were super poor and could only afford to eat beets (I’m pretty sure it was beets or maybe radish? I know it...
[ { "content": "Socks for Supper.\nWhen a poor couple exchange socks for cheese and milk, they receive more than expected.", "label": 1, "id": "611120", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 14829, 2005, 15264, 1012, 2043, 1037, 3532, 3232, 3863, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] With something to do with fae..\nAll I can remember is that it at first took place in a hotel of some sort and then one persons baby got swapped with a shape shifter faerie. The main character was a girl and faeries were harassing her but her mom didn't believe her and sent her off to the ...
[ { "content": "13 Treasures.\nNo one else can see the evil fairies that rouse Tanya from her sleep, torturing her at the slightest mention of their existence, but they are as real to the 13-year-old as anything she's ever known. She cannot rid herself of them, nor can she ignore them. But it is her insistence on...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000’s] Teen adventure book taking place in Ancient Greece.\nI remember reading this book probably around 2008-2012, I think the the author’s name was a bit strange, it might even have been a pseudonym. Probably American or British. Main target group young teenagers, 11-15 year olds.\n\nSpo...
[ { "content": "Halo.\nWashed ashore as a baby in ancient Greece, Halo is discovered by a family of centaurs. Although her true identity remains a mystery, she is loved as one of their own. But when Halo is dragged away by fishermen, her wild adventure begins . . .Halo soon realizes that if she is to survive then...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Vampire series.\nLooking for a book series a read ages ago. It's about a girl in a post apocolyptic world that's ruled by vampires. She starts as a human in the outer ring of society and goes on a hunt for food with some people she lives with. She gets knocked out and wakes up at night time...
[ { "content": "The Immortal Rules.\nTo survive in a ruined world, she must embrace the darkness…Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred o...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] The last thing he heard was sp- as he never heard the lat.\nAs the title says, I’m looking for a book that has that as either the opening line, or very early on. \n\nThe splat is a kid falling out of a hotel window, I remember the book being relatively comedic, but google has completely fai...
[ { "content": "The Fall of Fergal: The First Unlikely Exploit.\nThe very last words young Fergal McNally heard in his life were: \"Don't lean out of that window!\" The very last sounds were probably the air whistling past his sticky-out ears as he fell the fourteen stories, the honk of traffic horns below (getti...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] book about young wizard.\nTrying to remember a book I read in elementary school about a young wizard who goes to a school for magic but finds he can't excel at it the way other students do. At the end of the story it is revealed he has the ability to increase the power of magic and that mak...
[ { "content": "Wizard's Hall.\nPoor Henry. It’s not enough that his mother has sent him away from home to learn magic. It’s not enough that everyone at his new school calls him Thornmallow because he’s “prickly on the outside, squishy within.” It’s not enough that the only talent he shows at Wizard’s Hall is an ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][2000-2015] Young adult fiction I bought at a Dollar Tree in 2016.\nI read this book about 3 years ago but can't remember the title or author. For some reason, most of humanity was infertile. Many people had robot/android children that they raised as human. The children would get \"upgrad...
[ { "content": "Expiration Day.\nWhat happens when you turn eighteen and there are no more tomorrows?It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction….Tania Deeley has always been told that she’s a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book about sewing magic.\nI read a book a couple years ago that featured magic based on sewing. Thimbles were used for protection, a boy was crushed by a tree and kept in suspended animation by being submerged in wax. The same boy spends most of the book as a ghost that only a princess can ...
[ { "content": "Woven.\nTwo unlikely allies must journey across a kingdom in the hopes of thwarting death itself.All his life, Nels has wanted to be a knight of the kingdom of Avërand. Tall and strong, and with a knack for helping those in need, the people of his sleepy little village have even taken to calling h...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [NOVEL] ['70s-'80s] Novel that cuts between scenes in the Old West and scenes in silent-era Hollywood.\nLooking for something on behalf of my dad here - he remembers reading a novel, some time in the '70s or '80s, that featured alternating chapters set in the Old West and chapters featuring the s...
[ { "content": "The Englishman's Boy.\nWinner of the Governor General's AwardCounterpointing the stories of the legendary Western cowboy Shorty McAdoo and Harry Vincent, the ambitious young screenwriter commissioned to retell his story in 1920s Hollywood, this novel reconstructs an epic journey through Montana in...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [EARLY 2000's?].\nI remember reading a book about a mute boy, maybe he was deaf too? \nI don't remember much. \nI think he lived with his mother and I think he communicated by writing things down. \n\nSomething happened and he had to be either in an orphanage or a homeless shelter. I remem...
[ { "content": "The Half-a-Moon Inn.\nAaron has never left alone before. He is mute, and depends on his mother for everything. But tomorrow Aaron will be twelve years old, old enough to stay home by himself while his mother goes to town. Everything will be fine, as long as he stays close to the house. And if ther...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK].\nI’m trying to remember the name of an old book. It starts off with a young boy wishing his life was more exciting, and then he is whisked away to some magical adventure.\n\nIn this new world he finds himself in, all four seasons take place in one day. The boy later realizes that this is b...
[ { "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][Book][Early 2000s] Futuristic kids book about a young robot.\nHello all,\n\nI read a book about a young robot that served a family in the future and am trying to remember the title. I read it around 2006-2007, and I think it probably came out not too far before that.\n\nThe cover of the book was ...
[ { "content": "Eager.\nIt's the end of the 21st century where technocrats rule and robots take care of humans’ every need. Your house watches you, knows your secrets, and talks to you. And your closest friend can be—a machine? Gavin Bell and his teenage sister Fleur come from a middle-class family. Their much-lo...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] YA novel about a girl who while poking around in her attic accidentally turns a male friend/father/grandfather into a crow or raven which flies out the window and she tries to go find him.\nI’ve had this memory of this for so long but I can’t find anything through google. It was Ya b...
[ { "content": "The Book of Story Beginnings.\nKristin Kladstrup's wonderfully transporting fantasy - featuring a ship full of orphaned pirate children, a pair of warring royals, and plenty of magic potions - is sure to thrill all those who dare turn its pages.Oscar Martin was fourteen when he mysteriously disapp...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book]A short book about kids looking for a hidden treasure in modern day?.\nI remember when I was really young that I read a story that had a couple of young kids searching for treasure left by a Pirate? mobster? explorer? I forget which. They travel to an amusement park that is covered in vines ...
[ { "content": "Trapped in Death Cave.\nA CURSED TREASURE! Everybody thinks Gary's grampa died in a fishing accident. But from a note Grampa left, Gary suspects he was murdered. The note tells of a million dollars in gold hidden in a cave and an old Indian curse promising that anyone who touches it will die! Gar...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] a book about someone who finds an older man on the last platform of the train station/last route..\nthe man has a lantern with him and tells the main character a series of different horror short stories, all making the protagonist more and more anxious with each coming story. the cover of ...
[ { "content": "The Wrong Train.\nImagine that it's dark. You look up, and suddenly realize that you've taken the wrong train... so you get off at the next station. Only it isn't a station. And you're not alone...", "label": 1, "id": "50886065", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1996, 3308...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOKS][2010s].\nThe name of a book, I think it was a YA book about a boy who had stabbed his previously best friend for unknown reasons and the book was recounting the story of how their friendship had deteriorated, I believe the boy was on trial at the start of the book.I also think the book had...
[ { "content": "Deposing Nathan.\nNate never imagined that he would be attacked by his best friend, Cam.Now, Nate is being called to deliver a sworn statement that will get Cam convicted. The problem is, the real story isn’t that easy or convenient—just like Nate and Cam’s friendship. Cam challenged Nate on every...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Novel][90s] Novel about a boy and his dog who are immortal and can telepathically communicate.\nI read this when I was in middle school and I don't remember a whole lot about it. If I remember right the boy and his dog were stowaways on a ship circa 1600 and the ship sank, the boy and his dog sur...
[ { "content": "Castaways of the Flying Dutchman.\nA boy and dog trapped aboard the Flying Dutchman, are sent off on an eternal journey by an avenging angel, roaming the earth throughout the centuries in search of those in need. Their travels lead them to Chapelvale, a sleepy nineteenth century village whose exis...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A book about a boy in victorian London who’s mother dies and he gets separated from his sister..\nHe meets a friend iirc, goes to an orphanage where they’re treat badly, works for a coal miner sort of guy on a boat and ends up covering him in coal, and dances in the street for money. It wa...
[ { "content": "Street Child.\nA fictional account of the experiences of Jim Jarvis, a young orphan who escapes the workhouse in 1860's London and survives brutal treatment and desperate circumstances until he is taken in by Dr. Barnardo, founder of a school for the city's \"ragged\" children.", "label": 1, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Book that starts with a Boy not liking a girl then liking her again.\nIt begins with a boy who had a girl move near him and he didn't like her through their elementary years (I remember him saying he would do the 'ole ditch play' on her) and then she grew to be attractive and she didn't lik...
[ { "content": "Flipped.\nFlipped is a romance told in two voices. The first time Juli Baker saw Bryce Loski, she flipped. The first time Bryce saw Juli, he ran. That's pretty much the pattern for these two neighbors until the eighth grade, when, just as Juli is realizing Bryce isn't as wonderful as she thought, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Young child and old fisherman fall into a whirlpool and end up in a land that continuously slows down. Also, there are glowing angler fish..\nI read this in the early 2000s I believe. The glowing angler-type fish are some kind of omen/good luck charm to the people in the fishing village as ...
[ { "content": "The Lampfish Of Twill.\nEveryone in Twickham knew the black boil of water that was the whirlpool off Cantrip's Point. Only Eric and the old fishcatcher have survived to tell about its terrors and wonders. No one believes what Eric has to say--they're too busy thinking about the coming Season of St...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][90s?].\nA collection of short story’s, on the cover there was a 3D stick person commiting some sort of self-harm, (I believe shooting himself) which had to do with the story’s themes. I was able to read one story in the book, the plot was about a bus driver who never picked up late passenge...
[ { "content": "The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God and Other Stories.\nIsrael's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time i...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK][2000s] - fiction. Plot was about Evil Nuns who run a convent and serve up people in meat pies..\nRead this as a papertrash novel in 2000. \nThe plot surrounds a convent of nuns who take in stray girls. One of whom is the protagonist. \nThe town thinks they are respectable, and the nuns sus...
[ { "content": "Moonfall.\nMoonfall, the picturesque community nestled in the mountains of Southern California, is a quaint hamlet of antique stores and craft shops run by the dedicated nuns of St. Gertrude’s Home for girls. As autumn fills the air, the townspeople prepare for the festive Halloween Haunt, Moonfal...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][Myster/Romance/Teen Fiction][2010s] A teen mystery novel about a girl who's picture perfect, beautiful older sister suddenly dies in an apartment complex, and its up to her to find out the truth behind everything, as well as cope with her own grief before she slowly turns insane..\nI sorta ...
[ { "content": "Wild Awake.\nThings you earnestly believe will happen while your parents are away:1. You will remember to water the azaleas.2. You will take detailed, accurate messages.3. You will call your older brother, Denny, if even the slightest thing goes wrong.4. You and your best friend/bandmate Lukas wil...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [GRAPHIC NOVEL] [2000s/2010s] Graphic novel about a girl searching for her kidnapped brother.\nDisclaimer: this might be really niche because I’ve been searching for about an hour and haven’t found it, or maybe I’m just shit at searching. It also might not be originally in English, I read it in S...
[ { "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][YA BOOK][≈2016]A dystopian society where your memory can be wiped, either voluntarily or to prevent a rebellion.\nAbout four years ago, I read a young adult novel where the main character, a teenage girl, wakes up with her memories wiped and is told that she's been adopted by a new family. It fol...
[ { "content": "Slated.\nKyla’s memory has been erased,her personality wiped blank,her memories lost for ever.She’s been Slated.The government claims she was a terrorist and that they are giving her a second chance - as long as she plays by their rules. But echoes of the past whisper in Kyla’s mind. Someone is ly...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] A post apocalyptic YA semi-dystopia in which they live in sewers and other underground remnants of society..\nIn said book the protagonist is a strong, independent late teens girl (because of course), and in most ways resembles a typical YA dystopian sci-fi. The girl lives in a tribalistic ...
[ { "content": "Enclave.\nNew York City has been decimated by war and plague, and most of civilization has migrated to underground enclaves, where life expectancy is no more than the early 20's. When Deuce turns 15, she takes on her role as a Huntress, and is paired with Fade, a teenage Hunter who lived Topside a...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A young adult novel I can't seem to remember all the way.\nThis was a young adult novel/novella in the same vein as the Goosebumps books. The plot had to do with a brother and sister visiting a sort of apple Mill, and the twist was that they were ghosts solving the mystery of how they died...
[ { "content": "The Awful Apple Orchard.\nHave some tasty, ghostly apples!!!Daniel and his little sister, Sara, are allowed to miss school for a two week vacation. While enjoying the view, their father mentions rumors that the local apple orchard and cider mill are haunted. Frightening things begin to happen. Dan...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][1990s?] About the Guanches.\nI recently remembered reading a book, somewhere during the 1990s- probably the first half of the decade. The book may have been older though.\n\nIt is about a holiday (or archaeological expedition) somewhere on the Canary Islands, I don't quite remember why they...
[ { "content": "Der Vulkanteufel.\nAuf der Insel La Palma lassen die Ureinwohner der Kanaren, die Guanchen, ihre Kulte plötzlich wieder aufleben. An abgelegenen Orten, in dunklen Schluchten und im Schatten mächtiger Vulkane finden dunkle Rituale statt. Sogar ein Teufel treibt dort sein Unwesen. Harald Braem erzäh...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Girl writes about how she isn’t proud to be an American.\n*Repost because it got lost in the stream and I didn’t get any accurate responses*\n\nThe cover of the book is a closeup of one of those anatomical wooden figures used for drawing with a nail through its head (closeup is of the head...
[ { "content": "Watching Jimmy.\nWatching Jimmy is impossible-to-put-down; full of danger, warmth, and dark humor. With shocking candor, Carolyn relates what really happened to her best friend, Jimmy, when his uncle chose the perfect time to teach him a lesson he would never forget. The truth is Jimmy didn't fall...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2010's] Boy sells his soul/ 'real body' for powers like immunity to pain and immortality.\nThis has been bothering me for like a week. It was probably anywhere from 2009-2015 when I read this, it was a YA novel I think, might've had a Scholastics book trailer but kinda doubt it bc of the so...
[ { "content": "The Boy Who Couldn't Die.\nWhen seventeen-year-old Ken's best friend Roger dies in a plane crash, Ken suddenly realizes that he too could die at any moment. Terrified, he seeks out a plump, middle-aged psychic named Cherie Buttercup, who grants him invulnerability from death in exchange for his so...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A fantasy novel about feys and shadowrealm..\nYears ago I read a series of books about a fantasy land in which fey and humans were at war and eventually there is a romance between two powerful royal members as they go to get married one of the priests sets a towel with holy water on the br...
[ { "content": "The Sacrifice.\nThe Fey have swept across three continents and never faced defeat. But now they have reached Blue Isle, where there dwells a people of simplicity and faith, untainted by war. Yet as they face invasion, the Islanders discover a deadly undreamed-of power of their own. So begins a con...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] School children with odd powers. Pretty generic..\nA few years back I read a book about school aged children with powers of some description. All I really remember is the main character being called Will and he could run pretty nicely and one of the other mains being a girl called Brooke. ...
[ { "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...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][SCI-FI WITH DINOSAURS].\nThe 1st book I read as a kid that made me realise, \"wow there are some badly written books out there\".\n\nThe premise is that space-faring humanity comes across a **planet of dinosaur-like** creatures. \nOne scene, they **save one of the big herbivorous ones** fr...
[ { "content": "Dinosaur Planet.\nTHE MISSIONThe Exploratory and Evaluation Corps of the Federated Sentient Planets had sent ARCT-10, with its mixed crew of shipbred and planet-bound technicians, to Ireta to catalogue fauna and flora and search for new energy sources. It was a simple mission. A standard crew.THE ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][Pre-2010 middle school reading list]Story about a lil girl having to defeat a cannibal skeleton.\nIt's been a long time, back in middle school in American, pre-2010 when I read this. All I can specifically remember is the story of an old man, being hungry, and accidentally burning his finge...
[ { "content": "Skeleton Man.\nEver since the morning Molly woke up to find that her parents had vanished, her life has become filled with terrible questions. Where have her parents gone? Who is this spooky old man who's taken her to live with him, claiming to be her great-uncle? Why does he never eat, and why do...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] (early to mid 2010s, I think).\nRead a book when I was younger, probably about high school age, so at least before 2011. \n\nIt was set in maybe Great Britain? Set in a school, with a bunch of middle school or high school age children. There was no magic, but there was a second timeline of...
[ { "content": "Witch Week.\nThere are good witches and bad witches, but the law says that all witches must be burned at the stake. So when an anonymous note warns, \"Someone in this class is a witch,\" the students in 6B are nervous -- especially the boy who's just discovered that he can cast spells and the girl...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [80S OR 90S?].\n \\[TOMT\\]\n\nI'm trying to find a book to re-read or read with my kids.\n\nIt was a \"survival in the woods\" type book that I would have read in the late 80s or early 90s as a young kid. I am fairly sure it's not \"Hatchet\" or \"My Side of The Mountain,\" but it has a l...
[ { "content": "Terror on the Mountain.\nSet in the Pemigewasset Wilderness of New Hampshire in the 1960s. Paul starts out on this trip thinking that he a a \"loser\" since he is not good at sports, etc. At the end of this survival trip, he ends up believing in himself. A fine journey towards self-reliance and fi...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Book about a kid in poverty who finds an amazing violin and makes lots of money playing it on the street.\nI don’t remember much about the book other than that he is in an orphanage or something else similar and that he found a violin thrown away near the ocean or something like that.", "...
[ { "content": "The Clockwork Three.\nGiuseppe is an orphaned street musician who sees no way to escape from his ruthless master, until the day he finds an enchanted green violin.Frederick is an apprentice clockmaker with a past he cannot remember, who secretly works to build the most magnificent clockwork man th...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Children's Picture Book.\nI'm looking for a children's picture book, where I think it's two siblings riding a bicycle and the bicycle rides through time? At one point they see a obelisk, and also a crocodile which they punch and I remember the text says \"It expired.\" Might have been a poo...
[ { "content": "The Epiplectic Bicycle.\nWhile Embley and Yewbert are hitting one another with croquet mallets one day, an untenanted bicycle rolls into their garden. This book chronicles their adventures across turnip fields, through barns and into bushes.", "label": 1, "id": "529770", "tokenized_con...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [YA] girl who’s apart of a magical species and falls in love with a guy whose family hunts her kind.\nBetween 3-5 or so years ago me and my sister both read this story, though neither of us can remember the title.\n\nI remember a few details but none that aid me in my search for it’s title...
[ { "content": "Firelight.\nA hidden truth. Mortal enemies. Doomed love. Marked as special at an early age, Jacinda knows her every move is watched. But she longs for freedom to make her own choices. When she breaks the most sacred tenet among her kind, she nearly pays with her life. Until a beautiful stranger ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2010s] middle grade or YA novel about boy who spends night or weekend in woods.\nI read this in middle school, I think, and I’m pretty sure I saw it at a book fair, so it was probably published between very late 2000s to mid 2010s. It was about a boy who either got lost in the woods, or ran...
[ { "content": "A Week in the Woods.\nCollision course The fifth-grade Week in the Woods is a beloved tradition of Hardy Elementary, where Mark Chelmsley (the Fourth) is pretty much killing time before his parents send him off to an exclusive prep school. But then Mark realizes the Week might be a chance to prov...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book about a 15 year old white girl falling in love with a 47 year old Native American?.\nFor some reason, when I was in elementary school, I picked up this random book and read the first chapter of it I think. It described an \"Anglo-Saxon\" girl talking to a drunk 47 year old Native Ameri...
[ { "content": "Waiting for Deliverance.\nIn this gripping tale set in 1793, 15-year-old Deliverance Pelton and her younger cousin are sold at a pauper auction after their family is killed on a flooding river. Their new master was raised by Seneca Indians, and he sends Livy (Deliverance) to his Seneca relatives t...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][90s-2000s] Forgotten Realms Novel with a sea serpent on the front cover.\nI checked it out from the library because it had a cool cover but can't remember the title for the life of me. The perspective bounced around from character to character and was divided into sections marked by the dat...
[ { "content": "Whisper of Waves.\nThe WizardPledged to the Red Wizards of Thay from boyhood, he will do anything for anyone who can give him more power. In a twisted dimension outside the walls of time and space, he plots and plans.The SenatorA genasi, he has fought his way up from the gutter and will never go b...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] YA book about a cat named Cat, possibly from the '80s or earlier.\nMy school library had this book in the early '90s but that copy was yellowed enough that it was probably published some years earlier. A boy adopts a cat and names it Cat. At one point they are in a car with the boy's paren...
[ { "content": "It's Like This, Cat.\nDave Mitchell is fourteen and growing up in the midst of the variety and excitement of New York City. In this quiet, reflective, and humorous story of a boy's journey toward adulthood, Emily Neville captures the flavor of one kind of New York boyhood -- the sights and sounds ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] collection of short stories about a magical and fictional history of Paris with a paradise reference in title.\nHi all,\n\nThis was a book I got from the science fiction book club sometime in the early/mid 2000s but the book may be older. It's a collection of short stories from I bel...
[ { "content": "The Book of the Mad.\nIn her darkly dazzling finish to The Secret Books of Paradys, Tanith Lee tempts the reader with a tale of horror, lust and madness that leaves no perversity untouched, no taboo unbroken. This time, the seductive nightmare unfolds in three parallel versions of the City - Parad...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A weird book of collection of short horror stories.\nThis was a book I read around 2005-ish. There's not much I can remember about the contents but the cover of the book is a bunch of hotdog men holding lawnmowers? Or rakes? Something about gardening.\n\nThe stories inside are creepypasta-...
[ { "content": "In the Land of the Lawn Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales.\nKids can be such monsters. Literally.From the award-winning author of Hidden Talents, two remarkable short story collections - Kidzilla and The Witch's Monkey - together for the first time. Plus several brand new stories. Each hil...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][2000s] A book where the main character would order kids through a catalog.\nIt was a kids book I read when I was younger, so probably in the 2000s at some point. I remember the main character was a man who would order these kids through a catalog, and something was always off (albino, etc)....
[ { "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...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Post apocalypse, only children are left. Roaming gangs are a big concern. If I’m not mistaken it takes place mostly in suburbia..\nYA book I read somewhere between 7th and 11th grade 2007-2010. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if this book was much older as the cover was a bit “nineties”. The...
[ { "content": "The Girl Who Owned a City.\nA killing virus has swept the earth, sparing only children through the age of twelve. There is chaos everywhere, even in formely prosperous mid-America. Gangs and fierce armies of children begin to form almost immediately. It would be the same for the children on Grand ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] 1970s or 80s gothic novel for teens about a freaky boarding school.\ni cannot remember the name of this book! it was first written in the 70s/80s i think, then got a rewrite later on to make it more modern. \n\nall i can remember is the girl gets sent to a boarding school, or some sort of a...
[ { "content": "Down a Dark Hall.\nWhy does the exclusive boarding school Blackwood have only four students?Kit walks the dark halls and feels a penetrating chill. What terror waits around the next corner?", "label": 1, "id": "46735", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 2091, 1037, 260...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Children's Book] - Baloney / Bologna Solves Mystery.\nIn the mid-90s, I remember reading a preteen/children's book (likely fantasy in the vein of *A Wrinkle in Time* or *The Lion Witch and the Wardrobe*) where in one of the final chapters the protagonist boy and girl (likely siblings) must solve...
[ { "content": "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.\nNew York City girl Claudia, a mere month shy of being a twelve-year-old, has resolved to run away from home with her younger brother, Jamie. She knows that she could never pull off the classic spur-of-the-moment departure without a destination...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A girl moves into a house and befriends a girl that lives in the attic who is a werewolf.\nI’ve been looking for this book I read in elementary school in a classroom library for almost 8 years now. I remember the cover having a browned haired girl with braids and wearing a green dress whil...
[ { "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...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] [2000’s] book about a boy going to school and living with a hippie grandmother?.\nI read this book in elementary school so it’s obvious a young adult book, but from what I can remember this book was about a boy who is forced to go to public school even though his hippie grandma doesn’t wan...
[ { "content": "Schooled.\nHomeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a school counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Young adult book about being scammed by relatives?.\nThis was in the format of a diary I think... a girl meets a cool rich cousin of hers and it turns out the cousin’s parents are scammers and not actually rich. They trick her into spending a lot of money on her emergency credit card, incl...
[ { "content": "Lily B. on the Brink of Cool.\nNote to future biographers: I am Lily B.Likes: Recording events in my journal which will be widely praised when I am famousDislikes: Family outings, people who make own bed in hotels (read: MY MOTHER), and the many uncool items in my closet.Summer Plans: I figured I ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Russian American Librarian helps closeted gay kid run away from conservative christian parents..\nThis librarian of russian descent works in a small town. I think she has red hair. This kid stows away in the back of her car to get away from home and she ends up going along with it. She even...
[ { "content": "The Borrower.\nLucy Hull, a children’s librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. Ian needs Lucy’s help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay class...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] welsh psychic.\nIt was a book about a Welsh boy named Dafydd who inherits his grand father's psychic abilities... I am 90% sure the title was the Gift, but that is so generic I can't begin to sift through", "id": "bz6nrh", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1031, 3419, 2102, ...
[ { "content": "The Gift.\nDavy Price, a boy with erratic telepathic powers, finds himself in touch with the mind of a violent criminal, with whom his irresponsible father is also somehow involved. Originally published in 1973, this thrilling tale is from the writer whom Philip Pullman calls \"one of the real mas...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Teenagers on a road trip are the only people left in town. At the end, they discover they're trapped in a jar like insects..\nMy friend is trying to remember some young adult horror novels she read when she was younger and is intimidated by Reddit so I'm trying to help her find them!", "i...
[ { "content": "Whisper of Death.\nRoxanne and Pepper are a teenage couple with problems. They leave their small town for a weekend to try and solve them. They don't really succeed, and when they return home they find their town empty. They call other towns. They find the whole world empty.But eventually they dis...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [CHILDREN'S BOOK] An illustrated spooky short stories book, with a drawing of a vampire sitting on top of the monkey bars at a school, waiting for them to come out..\nYou can see the children looking out the windows at the vampire, who is smiling, but they don't want to leave the school. It's a s...
[ { "content": "Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep.\n\"A dozen original poems on the `horrifying' subjects (ghouls, vampires, skeletons, etc.) so dear to many young hearts....Your steel-nerved patrons will appreciate both poems and pictures.\"--School Library Journal.", "label": 1, "id": "2716406", ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] - Plot about a teenager, aliens, spaceships, and a video game.\nIt's neither Armada, nor Ender's game.\n\nKey points in the book I remember include:\n\n- A scene involving a spaceship \"drifting\" - like a race car\n- Plot revolves around main character finding out the aliens that players ...
[ { "content": "Only You Can Save Mankind.\nIt's just a game . . . isn't it?The alien spaceship is in his sights. His finger is on the Fire button. Johnny Maxwell is about to set the new high score on the computer game Only You Can Save Mankind.Suddenly, a message appears:We wish to talk. We surrender.But the ali...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] I read it in 7th grade and got it from a school library..\nEDIT: 7th grade being 2015\nIt's a corny book (but I actually kinda liked it) about 2 people saving the world because giant immune system cells start killing everyone and it sweeps across the earth in a fog. The two people then go b...
[ { "content": "The Tomorrow Code.\nTHE END OF THE WORLD started quietly enough for Tane Williams and Rebecca Richards. . . .Tane and Rebecca aren’t sure what to make of it—a sequence of 1s and 0s, the message looks like nothing more than a random collection of alternating digits. Working to decode it, however, T...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s] Book about a kid who was accused of a crime he didn't commit and put away. He went mute and refused to talk to anyone until one day his friend proved his innocence..\nI read this book in middle school about 10 years ago (not a required read) and have been wanting to read it but tha...
[ { "content": "Silent to the Bone.\nConnor is sure his best friend, Branwell, couldn't have hurt Branwell's baby half sister, Nikki. But Nikki lies in a coma, and Branwell is in a juvenile behavioral center, suspected of a horrible crime and unable to utter the words to tell what really happened. Connor is the o...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] girl with a burnt left breast and an alien?.\nI’m on mobile, so sorry for any formatting errors. \nI remember reading this book about a high school boy who has a crush on a popular girl named Posey / Posie (?). The protagonist has vague memories of being abducted by aliens, and I believe at...
[ { "content": "First Day on Earth.\nA startling, wonderful novel about the true meaning of being an alien in an equally alien world.\"We are specks. Pieces of dust in this universe. Big nothings. \"I know what I am.\"Mal lives on the fringes of high school. Angry. Misunderstood. Yet loving the world -- or, at le...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Story] Post-apocalyptic (lethal/acid rain) short story, girl pretends to be a boy to survive.\nI'm trying to remember a short story with a post-apocalyptic setting. I think it's aimed at a YA audience but I could be wrong.\n\nThe basic premise is that some kind of lethal rain (maybe acid rain?) ...
[ { "content": "The Stuff of Nightmares.\nKyle has always been afraid of things, especially dying. Whilst on a train on a school trip, Kyle realises that he isn’t the only one who has buried fears and, more importantly, he now burns with the desire to live, and to live without fear. But will Death release him?", ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][2010's] Book about a invention competition for children, ran by a genius inventor guy..\nThe winners of the competition go to a resort type thing with lots of resources, and are happy until they find out the inventor guy is creating bombs that look like cars with malicious intent. they esca...
[ { "content": "The Inventors.\nNate and Cat absolutely love inventing. You name it, they've tried to build it. After accidentally turning their headmaster blue, they win a year's scholarship with the world's richest, cleverest, most charismatic inventor, Ebenezer Saint. And along with twenty-three of the brighte...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][80s-90s]Novel about gang who go around London busting CCTV cameras.\nIt's set in the UK. There's one perspective from the gang recruiting a new guy and detailing their goal of destroying the \"Big Brother\" in surveillance. The other perspective is of the Law enforcement detectives looking ...
[ { "content": "Omega Place.\nA young man runs away from home and into the arms of a radical organization intent on upsetting the country's wide surveillance system that watches our every move. But are the people as principled as they would like Paul to think, and do they too have dark secrets lurking?", "lab...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2011] book about a haunted doll..\nIn 2011 I was in third class and read a book about a doll that was so upset that it had been abandoned by the girl who made her that she took on a life of her own. \n\nI remember very little about this book but it’s plagued me ever since. The color schem...
[ { "content": "Someone's Watching, Someone's Waiting.\nWhen Emma goes to stay with her aunt and uncle in old Cote's Hall, she anticipates a holiday of boredom. But things begin to change when she discovers a beautiful doll that is uncannily real. Gavin also wrote \"Grandpa Chatterji\" and \"The Wheel of Surya.\"...
{ "content": "[tomt][book] fiction future society book that reflects on society today.\nThe book is about an experiment where they take orphans (I believe) In the future (I believe) and have them do a dance? To get food. It progresses to where they begin hitting each other to get food and its rewarded, after a while ...
[ { "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] A children’s book about 2 girls from different places. One is from a tropical island while another is from Maine..\nI read this book when I was still in elementary school. The story starts with a little tan girl that lives on a tropical Island, it shows how she and her family live their li...
[ { "content": "Cocoa Ice.\nOn the island of Santo Domingo, the sun bakes the earth until it is hot and steamy like a roasted plantain. In Maine, cold can have so hard a grip that rivers freeze thick and clear, and ice is a crop that families depend upon for their livelihoods. Back in distant days of high-rigged ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] About a man who enters a portal and travels from modern day America to a tribal/less advanced world, only to discover it's actually Earth in the future.\nI remember the reason he figured out it was future Earth was because he was given a gift of glass on which \"Coca-Cola\" was inscribed. \...
[ { "content": "The Transall Saga.\nMark's solo camping trip in the desert turns into a terrifying and thrilling odyssey when a mysterious beam of light transports him to another time on what appears to be another planet. As Mark searches for a pathway back to his own time on Earth, he must make a new life in a n...
{ "content": "[TOMT][book] about a summer camp, lake, spooky goings on, think there was \"moon\" in the title.\nThis has been driving me crazy. I read this book as a kid and have been completely unable to find it despite copious googling. The main character was a kid named or nicknamed Tiger who was the main hope for...
[ { "content": "The Night of the Moonbow.\nIn this spellbinding novel of idyllic childhoods torn apart by the blossoming terror of child pitted against child, Tryon spins a tale of the hidden horrors that lurk behind children's innocence, and an inevitable explosion of evil.", "label": 1, "id": "1813298",...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] about teenage outcasts.\nok so way back in elementary school/early middle school my mom got me this book. i loved it so much but for some reason got rid of it a few years ago. it popped back into my mind recently and i’m itching to re read it but i cant remember the title. \n\nbasically it...
[ { "content": "Homeroom Diaries.\nJames Patterson introduces the best selling \"illustrated fiction\" format to teens! It's \"Middle School\" for high schoolers!In James Patterson's first highly illustrated \"diary fiction\" story for teens, the mega-bestselling author's most endearing and original teen heroine ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book]A YA book from the late 90s/early 2000s where the fae are real and shit gets dark real fast..\nThis one might be a bit hard. Back in the late 90s/early 2000s, I read a surprisingly dark fantasy book that I don't remember much of. The MC is a girl, maybe high school age, who somehow is aware ...
[ { "content": "Tithe.\nWelcome to the realm of very scary faeries!Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop,...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] in which a teen boy has to take care of a crazy old man but befriends him and learns to play the guitar.\nAwfully vague description, my apologies, but any help would be greatly appreciated! Some more details I remember is that in the beginning of the book, the boy crashes his mom’s car whic...
[ { "content": "Notes from the Midnight Driver.\nFrom hot new talent Jordan Sonnenblick, a \"Tuesdays with Morrie\" for teens.16-year-old Alex decides to get even. His parents are separated, his father is dating his former third-grade teacher, and being 16 isn't easy, especially when it comes to girls. Instead of...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A sci-fi book about a virus invading a spaceship.\nI read a part of the book back in high school but they either moved or got rid of it, so I haven't found it since. I forgot the title and the author's name.\n\nI think the cover has a young male running away from something, he has a scared ...
[ { "content": "Living Hell.\nA gripping, sci-fi thriller about a spaceship which transforms into a living organism after flying through a radiation field, and then begins to turn on the human crew as if they are parasites. Ages 14+.", "label": 1, "id": "6627072", "tokenized_content": [ 101, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Boy's friend dies tragically in a rollercoaster.\nI only remember a beginning of the book,\n\nIt starts positively and happy, and then it's revealed that the boy who's the main character rides a rollercoaster with his friend who gets decapitated, or something like that.\n\nIt might have so...
[ { "content": "The Beginning of Everything.\nRobyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything is a witty and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of books by John Green and Ned Vizzini, novels such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and classics like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye.Varsi...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][90s-2010s] Young adult realistic fiction about 2 girls who meet at the mall and go on this wild all-night odyssey.\nI think the name of the book references Saint Rosalia (? Or maybe mother Teresa) because at the end of the book Girl A gets a tattoo of her because Saint Rosalia looks like Gi...
[ { "content": "Rose of No Man's Land.\nFourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a gender-blurring, self-described loner whose family expects nothing of her. While her mother lies on the couch in a hypochondriac haze and her sister aspires to be on The Real World, Trisha struggles to find her own place among the neon...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] [Early 2000s?] Book about a girl orphaned an a vacation in Italy..\nI read a book when I was younger and have been trying to find it again for forever. It’s about a young girl who is on a trip to Italy with her father. They have car trouble and he gets out to fix the tire or look at the en...
[ { "content": "Three Days.\nWhile driving in the Italian countryside, eleven-year-old Jackie's father suddenly collapses at the wheel. Fear for her father's life quickly turns to terror when two Italian men kidnap her and drive to their remote home in the countryside.  Jackie soon discovers that her captors are ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][YA Book] book where a non human kid (?) gets arrested and has to write out the whole story leading up to his arrest..\nHis family are all ship makers, he spends some time in some sort of orphanage, there’s a giant seashell place where you can hear all around the world, and a king who loves to do ...
[ { "content": "The Floating Island.\nLong ago, in the Second Age of history, a young Nain explorer by the name of Ven Polypheme traveled much of the known and unknown world, recording his adventures. Recently discovered by archaeologists, a few fragments of his original journals are reproduced in this book. Grea...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Teen boy enters portal to the past, gets trapped, lives out an entire life.\n15+ year old Young Adult novel about a kid who watches his mom get killed by his father and somehow accesses a door to the past (like 50 years prior in the book's timeline.) Protagonist lives an entire lifetime, se...
[ { "content": "Mr. Was.\nJack Lund figures a good day is when his dad's too drunk to beat up his mom. For Jack, Bogg's End is the end. The end of the turbulent, see-saw years of watching his father go on the wagon and fall right back off again. Once it took two years, but the inevitable inevitably happened. No...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Woman is submitted to an insane asylum and writes a book about her experience after leaving..\nI don't remember very much about the book, but I do remember that the author went through the experience. I believe the author was female, was submitted, and was able to leave some time later aft...
[ { "content": "Girl, Interrupted.\nIn 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientel...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2011-2012] Teen fiction about red glasses.\nI remember reading a book back in my junior year of high school where these boy(s)? Would put on these red glasses or lens that would transport them to another world. It’s possible that when the main character would take them off before he was put...
[ { "content": "The Marbury Lens.\nSixteen-year-old Jack gets drunk and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is kidnapped. He escapes, narrowly. The only person he tells is his best friend, Conner. When they arrive in London as planned for summer break, a stranger hands Jack a pair of glasses. Through the ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [SCI-FI] [1990s].\nI have been looking for a book I read when I was younger for a very long time with no luck. It was in the Young-Adult Sci-Fi section at the local library, I read it sometime in the early 90s but it is very likely the book is much older. \n\nHere's everything I can recall...
[ { "content": "Brother to Dragons.\nBorn of a crack-addicted mother in a charity ward in Washington, D.C., after the \"\"crash,\"\" Job Napoleon Salk is destined to change the world.", "label": 1, "id": "1010687", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 2567, 2000, 8626, 1012, ...