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{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2010s] A recent Science Fiction book about a girl in space.\nIt's a recent book about a girl in space who was smart whose father fixed electrical things. They lived on a planet in space and had a shipment of new people every month. She also had a pen pal from Kenya (boy) whose mother was pa...
[ { "content": "Artemis.\nJazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your jo...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Novel] Vampires dealing with the fact they're vampires.\nHi, first time posting here.\n\nI read this book several years ago. At the time I enjoyed it on a surface level, but lately I've been thinking about some of the deeper themes it might've had and would like to read it with new eyes.\n\nI'm ...
[ { "content": "Night Road.\nFor a heme like Cole, life is a tightrope existence in which sunlight is his deadly enemy and one mistake could trap him underground, staring at the inside of a coffin lid, for eternity. After a century of wandering he may still look like a teenager, but he's known in the heme communi...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Book likely from the 2000s about a boy living on his own.\nIt was a book I read in the 2000s, maybe around 2008-2010? A boy's parents died, and he was meant to go off and live with a relative of his. He didn't want to for some reason, and so he ran away and began living on his own. I remem...
[ { "content": "The Hideout.\nIn a moment of madness, Jeremy Holland's parents were killed by a gunman in a Seattle mall. Now he faces a new life with his uncle Ed, a man with a vastly different lifestyle from the one Jeremy is used to. As he sits on the train hurtling toward Chicago, he can barely believe the t...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] YA Sci-fi Novel.\nHi, I'm looking for the name of a book I read in the late 2000s early 2010s. I have no idea when exactly it was written.\n\nI remember very little, but I'll describe what I do to the best of my ability.\n\nThe cover was had a red bottom The title was in all caps. I vaguel...
[ { "content": "The Roar.\nMika and Ellie live in a future behind a wall: Solid concrete topped with high-voltage razor wire and guarded by a battalion of Ghengis Borgs, it was built to keep out the animals, because animals carry the plague. At least that's what Ellie, who was kidnapped as a child, has always bee...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [NOVEL] [EARLY 20C] A novel that is written in 4 parts and that has two characters with the same name?.\nThink it’s John Steinbeck but can’t place the name. \n\nThe sections were each written in first person, 4 different family members & the first was someone who had autism or another mental heal...
[ { "content": "Zgomotul şi furia.\nThe text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text. David Minter's annotations are designed to assist the reader with obscure words and allusions.\n\"Backgrounds\" begins with the ap...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2013-2015] Book about Strange Hotel.\nI read this book in school, the cover was purple i forget what image was on the front. It was about a kid who lived in a hotel one of parents (I forget if it was his mom or dad) worked there and he became friends with a kid who's (dad?) parent also work...
[ { "content": "Floors.\nCharlie had his chocolate factory. Stanley Yelnats had his holes. Leo has the wacky, amazing Whippet Hotel.The Whippet Hotel is a strange place full of strange and mysterious people. Each floor has its own quirks and secrets. Leo should know most of them - he is the maintenance man's son,...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Fantasy two-part book about a princess and her nonhuman baby, and a convent of nuns..\nHey Reddit! Posting on behalf of a friend: she read this book within the last 5 years or so (but it may have been published earlier, but not by much—she’s not entirely sure). This is what she remembers ab...
[ { "content": "Castle Waiting, Vol. 1.\nCastle Waiting graphic novel tells the story of an isolated, abandoned castle, and the eccentric inhabitants who bring it back to life. A fable for modern times, Castle Waiting is a fairy tale that's not about rescuing the princess, saving the kingdom, or fighting the ulti...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s?] Book about high school kids writing poetry.\nI remember reading this book in school when we were studying the Harlem Renaissance, so that might have been a part of the theme. It's a book about a bunch of teenagers in a predominantly black school writing poetry, and how it affects th...
[ { "content": "Bronx Masquerade.\nWhen Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon they're having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are opening up and taking on the risky challenge of self-revelation. ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s?] Children's book about a girl who is sick at home and her brothers and sisters help her create a miniature town out of craft supplies.\nI loved this book when I was a kid (late 90s - early 2000s) but just cannot find it. A little girl was home sick and was bored, so her brothers and ...
[ { "content": "Revenge of the Small Small.\nPatsy Small is the youngest in her family. Her brothers and sisters call her \"the kindergarten baby\" and \"the lowly infant\". Then Patsy discovers a unique way to get respect using the model town she's building. And her brothers and sisters begin to really appreciat...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] [2000s].\nFantasy Young Adult Book series, set in a kind of ye old England setting, with two books as far as I recall, released in the early 2000s most likely. First book is about an apprentice of a skilled Stage Magician, who pretends to just be a skilled illusionist and skilled at sleigh...
[ { "content": "The Book of Dead Days.\nTHE DAYS BETWEEN Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Book about world with 3 \"levels\".\nThere was a book I read in elementary where the protagonist lived on like... a \"structure\" or whatever, where there were 3 levels. The middle one where the protagonist lived was called \"Tabletop\" and they sent up like rabbits and figs to the t...
[ { "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][Book] A book i read whilst in primary about a bellboy at the Savoy hotel.\nI need to know the name of the book about a guy who ends up owning a cat after a rich lady either dies or gives it to him, he's a bellboy at the Savoy hotel, later on in the book the bellboy has to climb onto the top of th...
[ { "content": "Kaspar: Prince of Cats.\nA heart-warming, colour-illustrated novel about Kaspar the Savoy cat, from the award-winning author of Born to Run and The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips.Kaspar the cat first came to the Savoy Hotel in a basket - Johnny Trott knows, because he was the one who carried him i...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000’s] I loved this book series when i was younger and would love to find it!.\nHi all. i read this series in either elementary school or middle school. I wish i could remember the name but i remember the plot. I think it was a series and the cover/title had something to do with a forest. ...
[ { "content": "Everlost (Skinjacker, #1).\nNick and Allie don't survive the car accident...\n...but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the t...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book about an old author, his new house, a boy, a cat, and a ghost.\nThe book is written in forms of letters the characters send each other. An author buys like a new summer home so he can write a new book. But find a boy amd his cat living there and then he like falls in love with a ghost?...
[ { "content": "Dying to Meet You.\nEnter at your own risk: You might just DIE laughing.The best-selling author Ignatius B. Grumply moves into the Victorian mansion at 43 Old Cemetery Road, hoping to find some peace and quiet so that he can crack a wicked case of writer's block. But 43 Old Cemetery Road is alread...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][CHILDREN’S BOOK] Book about a boy who finds a fox and her cubs and tries to protect them and brings them corned beef to eat..\nI read a book when I was in primary school, probably around 2009, I don’t remember the whole plot but I specifically remember that the boy would go to his local cor...
[ { "content": "Little Foxes.\nBullied at school, nagged at home, there's only one place Billy feels really alive and happy—in the wilderness by the canal. There he watches over a family of fox cubs as they grow toward maturity. Then his secret is discovered, and the fox family is decimated. Unwanted, unloved, Bi...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Teen book about girl giving oral sex and her parents finding out.\nIt was a teen book, I remember renting it out from my high school library. The premise of the book was a teen girl went to a party, and ended up in a bedroom with a guy and gave him a blow job and someone snuck a picture of ...
[ { "content": "Good Girls.\nAudrey Porter is a \"good girl\": a good student, a great daughter, an amazing friend. She's also the last person anyone expects to be hanging out with Luke DeSalvio, the hottest guy at Audrey's school. But Luke is a liar, a player, a dream, and Audrey knows it. She dumps him at her f...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Looking for a book from my youth. It’s written like a series of poems about a boy who likes to run..\nI’m not sure how old the book is, I (24) read it when I was a kid (maybe around 8-10 years old). I checked it out from my local library, I THINK from the pre-teen section. I recently came ...
[ { "content": "Heartbeat.\nNewbery Medalist Creech (\"Walk Two Moons\") masterfully weaves this story, told in free verse, about a young girl finding her identity and learning how it fits within the many rhythms of life.Run run run.That's what twelve-year-old Annie loves to do. When she's barefoot and running, s...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][Late 90s/Early 2000s] Young Adult Horror Involving Parallel World.\nMy memories of the book are kind of fuzzy. The book involved a teen falling into a swimming pool while at a party and he surfaces in a parallel world where another version of him/his life exists.\n\nI seem to remember the b...
[ { "content": "Liar Liar.\nThat tall boy walking so confidently into the party is Ross Arthur. This isn't a surprise party, but Ross has a frightening shock in store. You see, standing across the room is Ross's identical twin. The problem? Ross doesn't have a twin. It looks as if tonight this party is being held...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][Early 2000s] Young adult book where a teenager witnesses friends drowning.\nWhen I was in 3rd grade in 2006-2007 I remember reading a book from the library that had a specific scene that kind of stuck with me. \n \nConsidering how uptight the librarian was, and this being an elementary sc...
[ { "content": "Blackwater.\nThirteen-year-old Brodie Lynch is ready for the perfect summer along the Blackwater River. But then his troubled cousin Alex comes to visit. A harmless prank goes too far, and in the end one teen is drowned and another is missing. Will Brodie face the truth of these tragic events, or ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][90s-00s]Novel Title.\nShort novel, maybe 200 pages. Blue cover with a house and guy on it. \n\nYoung ish guy, college age moves into the upstairs apartment of a relatives house. The room was previously occupied by the couples oldest daughter who commit suicide in the bathtub. \n\nThe younge...
[ { "content": "The Killer's Cousin.\nWhen seventeen-year-old David Yaffe moves into the third floor of his aunt and uncle's Cambridge, Massachusetts, triple-decker, he already has a lot going against him, but the antagonism his relatives display increases his troubles.Recently acquitted of the murder of his girl...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] A surrealist picture book featuring alliterative sentences accompanied by intricately detailed illustrations..\nEach page is a different letter of the alphabet with an alliterative sentence featuring that letter. (For laymen that means most words in the sentence start with that letter. ) Th...
[ { "content": "Animalia.\nMore than three million copies of Animaliahave been sold around the world, making Graeme Base's amazing alliterative alphabet book one of the most beloved titles of the past quarter century. To celebrate thirty years, Abrams is proud to publish a special anniversary edition. Animalia'si...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A book about kids who go to a class museum trip, get locked in overnight, and get chased around by angry (stolen) artifact spirits including Mayans (Aztec??) trying to sacrifice them- anyone have a title??.\nI remember that the spirits were angry because the artifacts had been stolen out o...
[ { "content": "Escape from the Haunted Museum.\nA class trip turns terrifying when a group of kids get locked in a museum overnight and discover that the exhibits have a \"life\" of their own.", "label": 1, "id": "13733164", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 4019, 2013, 1996, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] 1980s-1990s? Creepy stories book I cant remember the name of.\nHello, all! I'm trying to remember a book I used to read as a kid. It was hardback, a little bigger than a standard notebook and about an inch thick. I believe the cover may have had a tombstone with the title written on it? I m...
[ { "content": "Truly Scary Stories for Fearless Kids.\nStrange voices in the night. Dead men walking. Unbreakable promises and unbeatable curses. Vampires, spirits, and sinister animals. All of these are to be found in Truly Scary Stories for Fearless Kids. Any kid who likes a good scare - and who doesn't? - wil...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [KIDS BOOK] [2005-2007] BOY TURNED INTO BLACK SMUDGE BY SKELETON.\nYeah really weird story but it was basically like one of the Biff and Chip books like an easy to read story for when I was in Year 1 or 2 (2nd or 3rd grade). \n\nThis was a book that I had to read at primary school. It was about a...
[ { "content": "The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales.\nIn this exclusive 15th anniversary edition, Hamilton tells 24 American Black folktales that kept her ancestor's culture alive during the days of slavery. This edition comes with an audio CD with 12 of these stories narrated by noted actor James Earl...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2010s].\nI recall reading a few pages of a book with an illustration on the front, in various shades of blue. I described how the main character and other members of a small village, would have to tunnel, for days on end, into this massive mountain. I'm not sure that they were looking for...
[ { "content": "A Single Stone.\nEvery girl dreams of being part of the line—the chosen seven who tunnel deep into the mountain to find the harvest. No work is more important.Jena is the leader of the line—strong, respected, reliable. And—as all girls must be—she is small; years of training have seen to that. It ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book].\nI don’t remember much about it but it was this old picture book for kids where there were kids who had their own little ‘houses’ that they made but all of it was rocks on the ground.", "id": "fcqwik", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1031, 3419, 2102, 1033, 1031, ...
[ { "content": "Roxaboxen.\nFrom two-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Barbara Cooney and celebrated children’s book author Alice McLerran comes Roxaboxen, a treasured story about the magic of a child’s imagination. Marian called it Roxaboxen. There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill—nothing bu...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Book where a group of young adults is sent to another planet.\nI read this book probably about 7-10 years ago. I'm not sure how old it was at that point. It is about an overpopulated future where the government struggles to find space and jobs for all the young people. The story begins wit...
[ { "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] American/British infiltrated the Nazi ranks to be a propagandist; is tried as a Nazi despite being undercover? 1980s? 1990s?.\nI would have read this in the early 2000s but it must have only been written a decade or two prior. I think it was American lit.\n\nWhat I remember of the plot is ...
[ { "content": "Mother Night.\nLibrarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant bo...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [1990s-2000s].\nHi there! The book I am thinking about centers around an awkward adolescent boy who likes comedy. At the end of the book he performs a stand up routine. The climax of the routine is when he reveals that he shaved his head. \n\nI wish I could provide more details but I can...
[ { "content": "Dogs Don't Tell Jokes.\nA sidesplitting classic from Newbery Medalist and National Book Award winner Louis Sachar (Holes), with a brand-new cover!   Gary W. Boone knows he was born to be a stand-up comedian. It’s the rest of the kids in his class who think he’s just a goon. Then the Floyd Hicks Ju...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Trying to figure out the title of a book, involving demons in Victorian London..\nBack when I was in secondary school I read this awesome book that was in the school library. But I can't for the life of me remember what it was called, and no amount of googling has helped me find it.\n\nThe ...
[ { "content": "The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray.\nThaniel, just 17, is a wych-hunter. Together, he and Cathaline track down the fearful creatures that lurk in the Old Quarter of London. It is on one of these hunts that he first meets Alaizabel Cray.", "label": 1, "id": "135197", "tokenized_content": [ ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Story of a teenager working at an amusement park in the 20th century.\nHi all, I’m looking for a book about a teenager and his friend working at an amusement park during somewhere between the 30s and 70s, most likely 50s. The story followed two boys and their father who owned the amusement...
[ { "content": "Setting Free the Kites.\nFor Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous--and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan's...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][90s?][Thriller/Suspense].\nI remember reading a book in the 90s about a kid attending a school for the gifted. I don’t remember much of what happened, except that the director of the school was using the students to hook their brains to a computer. He may have even removed their brains? I c...
[ { "content": "Shadows.\nThey call it the Academy. A secluded, cliff-top mansion overlooking the rugged Pacific coast. A school for children gifted -- or cursed -- with extraordinary minds. Children soon to come under the influence of an intelligence even more brilliant than their own -- and unspeakably evil. Fo...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [Time period unknown] A Book Where An Owl Kidnaps a Frog/Toad To Eat Him But Then They Bond And Become Friends.\nThis book was read to me in the second grade (I think) to help my class learn about plot structure, and I can't find any results for it online. I remember the book starts out wi...
[ { "content": "A Toad for Tuesday.\nWarton straps on his skis to visit his Aunt Toolia, who lives on the other side of the woods. But a hungry owl interrupts the tiny toad's journey and vows to eat Warton for his birthday dinner. Can Warton convince the owl to change his mind? Here's a story filled with warmth a...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s].\nI believe it was a YA book. I remember the main character had to participate in a game of hide and seek on Halloween night with like zombies and mummies or something like that. He/she had to survive until dawn without being caught. I’m pretty sure it was a stand alone, but it could...
[ { "content": "Hide and Shriek.\nThe ghosts of Fear Street-- they'll haunt you forever! Do you believe in ghosts? Don't say no until you take a walk down Fear Street. Past the woods-- where no birds sing. Past the lake-- where something lurks beneath the water. Past the cemetery-- where everyone is dying to meet...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Kid’s book about a birthday cat adoption.\nIt’s a kid’s book about a girl who wakes up on her birthday to a whole bunch of cat supplies. Then she goes to the local shelter and sees a bunch of cats, but she bonds with a kitten and takes the kitten home. It had cute illustrations, too. It wa...
[ { "content": "Scruffy.\nThere are lots of different cats for Todd to choose from at the animal shelter. But there's only one Scruffy.", "label": 1, "id": "634622", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 8040, 26919, 2100, 1012, 2045, 2024, 7167, 1997, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Im looking for a book about a kid (I think his name was charlie) that opens portals to some sort of \"hell\" and lets demons in whenever he sleeps.\nAlright so I read this book a while back and it was really interesting, but I have forgotten most of the details and was interested in readin...
[ { "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][2000s?] Novel with a mouse (possibly toy mouse) as the protagonist..\nThis was read to me by my mom when I was younger, so I would assume it’s a early reader or middle grade story. I cannot remember much of the plot whatsoever. \n\nOnly scene that stands is: a toy mouse is attempting to cut...
[ { "content": "The Mouse and His Child.\n\"What are we, Papa?\" the toy mouse child asked his father.\"I don't know,\" the father answered. \"We must wait and see.\"So begins the story of a tin father and son who dance under a Christmas tree until they break the ancient clock-work rules and are themselves broken...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][RECENT].\nThis book is about a boy who is told by his parents to help clean his grandfather’s apartment after he passes away. \n\nWhile there, he finds a coin (that I think had something to do with Germany or Nazis) that leads him on a series of clues where he eventually finds the German WW...
[ { "content": "Click Here to Start.\nWhat if playing video games was prepping you to solve an incredible real-world puzzle and locate a priceless treasure?Twelve-year-old Ted Gerson has spent most of his summer playing video games. So when his great-uncle dies and bequeaths him the all so-called treasure in his ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Teen book where (general plot below).\nA popular jock named Ezra breaks his legs in a car crash, joins the debate club, meets a girl who changes his life", "id": "6fip9c", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1031, 3419, 2102, 1033, 1031, 2338, 1033, 9458, ...
[ { "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] [YA NOVEL] Basically several children were chosen and grew up in a foster home type of place. One uses the ability to stop time to read and learn almost all the languages but has to drink a certain potion to keep from aging. Near the end she has the potion withheld from her and ages to 40ish.\nMy...
[ { "content": "Another Faust.\nA devilish debut by a brother-sister team invites us into the world of the elite Marlowe School, where some gifted students are having a hell of a year.\n\nOne night, in cities all across Europe, five children vanish -- only to appear, years later, at an exclusive New York party wi...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1990's?].\nI'm looking for a picture book I had as a kid. It was about two kids who go visit their Uncle's huge crazy house. I feel like I remember the kids names being Tommy and Esmeralda and the word pelican being in there too (Pelican Manor?). It was sort of a look/activity book with eac...
[ { "content": "A Puzzling Day at Castle MacPelican.\nWelcome to Castle MacPelican, home of the Clan MacPelican. Join young Thomas and Esmerelda on a treasure hunt through its great halls and grand rooms! And while you're hunting, help capture the thief who is sneaking through the castle at this very moment! Find...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][1970s or 80s] Set in the modern world, elves live along side us in underground places..\nMany of the elves are ill with \"smoke sickness\", caused by human pollution. That is literally all I can remember, other than some kind of journey.", "id": "c8fmx2", "tokenized_content": [ 101,...
[ { "content": "The Moon of Gomrath.\nThe Moon of Gomrath is the name of the one night of the year when the Old Magic is at its most powerful. Had Colin and Susan known this, they would have never obeyed the strange compulsion that drove them to light a fire on the Beacon. But now it is too late--the horsemen cal...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] Fiction horror book made to look like journal entries and case files.\nI read this book about 8-9 years ago and it seemed relatively new. It was made to look like a case file with diary entries, newspaper clippings, and psychiatrist notes. It followed a young woman who was hearing voices a...
[ { "content": "Shadows in the Asylum: The Case Files of Dr. Charles Marsh.\nIn September of 2004, Dr. Charles Marsh arrived at the Kriegmoor Psychiatric Institute in Bayfield, Wisconsin, anxious to take on his new duties, eager to distance himself from the scandal that had forced him to resign his previous post....
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][1990s/2000s] Book about a brother who accidentally gets his sister killed but she is reincarnated.\nI am a little foggy on specifics because I read this so long ago but I read this book in the early 2000s, probably written before that though. It was about a brother who accidentally gets his...
[ { "content": "Grave Doubts.\nHaunted by nightmares about the brutal murder of his older sister Penny, Matt Howard is confronted by a mysterious girl who wanders around the local graveyard, claiming that she is Penny and seeking revenge for her death.", "label": 1, "id": "1352872", "tokenized_content...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Artful book with a cat and a fly and a rose from maybe the 90’s?.\n[BOOK] I’m trying to find this book I read as a kid. It was only like 25 pages and “read” may be the wrong word. It was just pictures and it was beautifully drawn. Intricately drawn. Each page followed a fly, I think. And it...
[ { "content": "The Rose in My Garden.\nStart with a single rose. Add hollyhocks and marigold, sunflowers and zinnias. Voilà! A quiet, tranquil, beautiful garden grows before your eyes. But who's that hiding in the corner?This cumulative story by the creators of On Market street, which won a Caldecott Honor Book ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Book that involves different demon and angel characters.\nThere's a book I didn't finish when I was in high school that I would like to give another try. From what I remember, it's not very good, but I'd like to read it nonetheless.\n The story involves different religious characters, bot...
[ { "content": "To Reign in Hell.\nThe time is the Beginning. The place is Heaven. The story is the Revolt of the Angels—a war of magic, corruption and intrigue that could destroy the universe. To Reign in Hell was Stephen Brust's second novel, and it's a thrilling retelling of the revolt of the angels, through t...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A young girl moves to the Amazon and tries to find her way home along the River.\nI read this more than 10 years ago while in school, hazy details, but I seem to remember there was a blue butterfly involved (I think her uncle talked about them). \n\nShe is sent to live in the Amazon and tr...
[ { "content": "Journey to the River Sea.\nSent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, English orphan Maia is excited. She believes she is in for brightly colored macaws, enormous butterflies, and \"curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees.\" ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2006/7-ish] Kids / YA book. A teenage boy realises he can heal wounds much faster than most, goes on the run and there's a part where he gets drunk in a hotel room and dissects himself and he's made of machinery (or similar?).\nI read this book when I was younger, it's a kids / YA book, I p...
[ { "content": "Being.\n\"The Fugitive\" meets \"Blade Runner\" with a Kevin Brooks kick in this heart-stopper about a boy who discovers he's not one hundred percent human.It was just supposed to be a routine exam. But when the doctors snake the fiber-optic tube down Robert Smith's throat, what they discover does...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s] YA novel about suicide, where the narrative POV changes in the end.\nI read this book when I was in highschool (around 2009) and I remember being so blown away by the plot twist when the POV changes in the very end. The cover was brightly colored (mostly yellow, orange, possibly gr...
[ { "content": "I Will Save You.\nKidd is running from his past and his future. No mom, no dad, and there’s nothing for him at the group home but therapy. He doesn’t belong at the beach where he works either, unless he finds a reason to stay.   Olivia is blond hair, blue eyes, rich dad. The prettiest girl in Card...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Book series I read many years ago.\nI read a lot of books as a kid so remembering everything about every book I read is pretty difficult. The one I’m trying to find was a series about I think two orphans, a brother and sister, who get adopted by two adults who turn out to be something like ...
[ { "content": "The Onts.\nNobody wants to adopt the Shluffmuffin twins. Wally's feet stink something awful, and Cheyenne is allergic to everything. Then why are the Mandible sisters so eager to take them home? And what sort of old maids would choose to live in a place called Dripping Fang Forest, where zombies w...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] It's about two Australian Teens.\nThe girl is like 15 and the guy I think is 19 and they work in a grocery store and most of the book is about how she likes him but knows the age difference would be too much. Eventually he goes off to college or something after breaking her heart but teache...
[ { "content": "Good Oil.\nA wonderful, coming-of-age love story from a fresh new voice in YA fiction.'Miss Amelia Hayes, welcome to The Land of Dreams. I am the staff trainer. I will call you grasshopper and you will call me sensei and I will give you the good oil. Right? And just so you know, I'm open to all kin...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] Young adult book where a guy's gf dies of a brain aneurysm in the high school parking lot.\nI read this book in high school sometime around 2006 but it was published earlier than that. The main character went to the gf's funeral and talked to her mom.", "id": "iswjeg", "tokenized_conte...
[ { "content": "Close Enough to Touch.\nA seventeen-year-old boy trying to recover from the loss of his girlfriend meets an unusual girl.", "label": 1, "id": "1142795", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 2485, 2438, 2000, 3543, 1012, 1037, 9171, 1011, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Children’s chapter book read in the early 2000s.\nI remember reading a book about a boy and a girl who used to visit an old lady (maybe one of their grandmas). She ended up passing away and her last words were something like “get me a damn ginger ale” but the kids made up something nicer. ...
[ { "content": "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.\nA 2005 Newbery Honor Book It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine. No one in town will let him forget that he's a minister's son, even if he doesn't act like one. But then he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a smart and...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] I don't know the title of the book I read 2 years ago..\nSo, it was about WW2, a German kid with Russian grandparents who moved to Germany, and the kid can speak German and Russian fluently.\nSo this kid is 15, and gets enlisted early in the military because by the time he gets to that loc...
[ { "content": "Soldier X.\nSixteen-year-old Erik Brandt barely knows what Germany is fighting for when he is drafted into Hitler's army in 1944. Sent to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, he is surrounded by unimaginable sights, more horrific than he ever thought possible. It's kill or be killed, and it se...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] A book about a young girl and her sister who were left outside a gas station.\nThis book was fiction (im pretty sure) and it detailed a young girl and her sister whos mom is dead being left at a gas station in the desert and attempting to get home. I remember that at the gas station, the a...
[ { "content": "Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave.\nAfter their mother's recent death, twelve-year-old Liberty and her eight-year-old sister, Billie, are sent to live with their father, who they haven't seen since they were very young. Things are great at first; the girls are so excited to get to know their...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Fantasy novel from the 70s or 80s where the \"protagonist\" straight up rapes a woman.\nI believe I heard about this in an AskReddit thread about changing cultural norms. Someone describes a sword and sorcery-type fantasy novel from the 1970s or 1980s in which the \"hero\" very casually \"h...
[ { "content": "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever.\nSince its publication in 1977, Stephen Donaldson's award-winning trilogy has become an indisputable fantasy class, hailed by the critics and loved by millions of readers around the world. Now all three books are available in one paperback volume ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A book about clones, purple cover, holographic maybe? 5th grade level.\nIt’s about a girl who finds out she’s a clone, and sets out to find her original?? It might have a whole book series? \nEdit: it might be called The Clone Wars or just The Clone??", "id": "8ekal1", "tokenized_conte...
[ { "content": "The Clone Codes.\nIn the year 2170 an underground abolitionist movement fights for the freedom of cyborgs and clones, who are treated no better than slavesThe Cyborg Wars are over and Earth has peacefully prospered for more than one hundred years. Yet sometimes history must repeat itself until hum...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] about a boy and girl practicing witchcraft???.\nOkay so I remember almost the entire book but I can’t remember the name of it. A girl moves to a new town with her abusive father and mother. She becomes friends with a social outcast at her new school. They end up finding a hidden cottage in...
[ { "content": "Black Creek Crossing.\nThe dark history and dire secrets of a peaceful small town are summoned from the shadows of the past. Unholy forces are stirred from long slumber to monstrous new life. And two young misfits discover the chilling art of turning persecution into retribution. With these eerie ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book].\nBook about a boy who is trying to survive after some apocalyptic event with his 2 sisters, living off bartering items off bodies for food, and one of his sisters dying because she took the elevator at the wrong time when the electricity went out", "id": "a62pcb", "tokenized_content": ...
[ { "content": "The Dead and the Gone.\nSusan Beth Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event--an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] A boy with behavioral problems who keeps causing chaos.\nHe’s in grade school, but he has to attend a special ed program because of his behavioral problems. His mom painted his room pink because she believed it would calm him down. He rides on the bus with a friend with no arms. At one poin...
[ { "content": "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.\nJoey Pigza can't sit still. He can't pay attention, he can't follow the rules, and he can't help it -- especially when his meds aren't working. Joey's had problems ever since he was born, problems just like his dad and grandma have. And whether he's wreaking havoc on...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] The main character guy could see into multiple futures and make decisions to have whichever he chose come to pass..\nThe story revolves around a guy, i think American,who could see multiple futures and i believe one of the first instances of him realising his power was when a bird flew into...
[ { "content": "Blink.\nThe future changes in the BLINK of an eye...or does it?Seth Borders isn't your average graduate student. For starters, he has one of the world's highest IQs. Now he's suddenly struck by an incredible power--the ability to see multiple potential futures.Still reeling from this inexplicable ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2010s?] A young adult book about a teenage girl living on a ship..\n back in middle school i had read a book that i remember thoroughly enjoying. it was about a young girl living on some kind of ship called the maw. on the maw lived a bunch of people. so much so that it was crowded. the a...
[ { "content": "Ice Breaker.\n'Petrel leaned on the rail, watching the ice cave and stamping her feet for warmth. The berg came closer. That's when she saw him. Laid out on the ice like a dead fish, with a scattering of snow covering his face. A boy, where there should have been nothing but the memory of winter. ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A book I read in school in probably the early 2000s. It involved either time or inter-dimensional travel. It was about a younger boy, probably a teen, who traveled in some supernatural way to a desert. In the desert he befriended a native girl?.\nI'm almost 100% sure this actually existed l...
[ { "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] A series of children books where bears rule the world and keep children prisoners..\nThis series is a trilogy as far as I know in which bears rule the world and keep human children as prisoners or something along those lines. The main protagonist is a young ginger boy who's best friend is ...
[ { "content": "The Howling Tower.\nThe first story in a trilogy, \"The Howling Tower\" follows Benjamin Wildfire, the feisty protagonist, who runs away from his cruel bear owner with mad Mops, the girl-next-door. They are determined to find the fabled Hide Park (a place where it's said humans run free) but inste...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] A thriller revenge book that starts off with a murder in a pub set up England..\nA revenge mystery thriller where the story starts off with a murder at a pub and a wrong guy gets framed for it. I vaguely remember the storyline, but the guy gets out of prison and takes his revenge. ", "id...
[ { "content": "A Prisoner of Birth.\nInternational bestseller and master storyteller Jeffrey Archer is at the very top of his game in this story of fate and fortune, redemption and revenge.If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charge...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Book about 3 pigs..\nI have been searching the internet for this all day and it doesn't seem to exist.\n\nIn this illustrated book I remember 3 pigs dressed as businessmen (maybe) coming to the countryside and building houses and other buildings.\n\nTowards the end all the other anim...
[ { "content": "Eco Wolf And The Three Pigs.\nIn this modern twist on the classic story of \"The Three Little Pigs,\" Eco-Wolf and his woodland warriors save the forest and valley from three polluting pigs.", "label": 1, "id": "1296889", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 17338, 4702, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] young adult historical fiction concerning hessians.\nI remember a book we read in grade school set in the revolutionary war about a boy being kidneapped by three or four hessians who take him along with them and they struggle to communicate with him (the book had their lines in German with ...
[ { "content": "The Fighting Ground.\nApril 3, 1778: He may be just thirteen, but Jonathan knows he's ready to go to the war against the British. He can handle a gun. He yearns to battle for glory, just like his brother and cousin.So when Jonathan hears the tavern bell toll, calling men to fight, he runs to join ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] I know the title of, but still can’t find it..\nHi everyone,\n\nAround 15 years ago, I checked out a book from the YA section of my local library. It was titled “Nothing Left To Lose,” but unfortunately, I don’t remember the author; however, I do believe the author was male. The premise of ...
[ { "content": "Nothing to Lose.\nI shouldn't have come back to Miami . . . I've been escaping cops' notice for a year now. I'm no longer Michael Daye, high school athlete with a promising future. Now I look like someone with no future.When Michael saw a chance to leave town with a traveling carnival a year ago, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Comic] I'm trying to find a comic where 2 boys get zapped into another world/parallel universe because the video game/movie they rented was not returned on time, and they try to return to their own world..\nI remember the comic being really random. Like, the two boys meet a girl who lost a painti...
[ { "content": "Pilot & Huxley: The first adventure.\nA perfect blend of silly characters and gross humor that will make kids laugh and yell \"eeeww!!!\" at the same time.Pilot & Huxley get zapped to another dimension by aliens seeking to enslave Earth. Things get weird when they traverse a swamp of bees, battle ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Two kids skip school to go visit a lake.\nThe book was about two kids (Both male) making the decision to skip school in order to go swimming at this lake. They were swimming and things are going well until one of the kids ends up dying (I don't know how) while the other runs home, scared f...
[ { "content": "On My Honor.\nJoel dares his best friend, Tony, to a swimming race in a dangerous river. Both boys jump in, but when Joel reaches the sandbar, he finds Tony has vanished. How can he face their parents and the terrible truth?", "label": 1, "id": "2784815", "tokenized_content": [ 1...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Book about kids at an alternative school with powers.\nI used to love this book when I was like ten about a kid at an alternative school, and he had powers. I don't remember anything except they talked about \"townies\" and someone spilled milk at one point. I know it isn't a lot to ...
[ { "content": "Hidden Talents.\nMartin Anderson and his friends don't like being called losers. But they've been called that for so long even they start to believe it. Until Martin makes an incredible discovery: each of his friends has a special hidden talent.Edgeview Alternative School was supposed to be end of...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][POSSIBLY 2000'S]A book about mice living in a school, learning to read.\nThis was a children's book about a mouse colony who lived in a school. One of them decided they wanted to learn like the children. They end up learning to read. \n\n\nThey are able to read on mouse traps, they read it...
[ { "content": "The School Mouse.\nFlora must convince everyone that reading is tremendously important -- especially after she finds a bag marked POISON!", "label": 1, "id": "1338339", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1996, 2082, 8000, 1012, 10088, 2442, 8054...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Children’s Book] About a Komodo dragon sneaking onto a cruise ship in a tuxedo.\nI have been looking for months now for a book I had when I was a child, so sometime during the early 2000’s. It was about a Komodo dragon who sneaks onto a cruise ship wearing a tuxedo. I remember the book cover to b...
[ { "content": "The Komodo Dragon's Jewels.\nThe island-dwelling Komodo dragon, being mistaken for a lady tourist in a green hat, has a chance to see the \"jewels\" of the mainland at closer range.", "label": 1, "id": "1025946", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1996, 12849, 5302, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s?] Book I read in elementary/middle school.\nThe main character was the youngest of three and had to hide because it was illegal to have more than one kid. The main character ends up seeing another hidden kid through an attic window and they start sneaking out to see each each other. T...
[ { "content": "Among the Hidden.\nSHADOW CHILDRENLuke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend.Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in h...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Book where girl watches boy neighbor dancing, through her window.\nAll I remember is this one scene where a boy is dancing in his room to the song *Walking On Sunshine* in his underwear. He doesn't realize that his blinds are open and that his girl neighbor is watching him, who finds...
[ { "content": "The Future of Us.\nIt's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They've been best friends almost as long—at least, up until last November, when Josh did something that changed everything. Things have been weird between them ever since, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][Circa 1990] Looking for this book for my dad.\nI apologize in advance as this will most likely be vague. My dad has been looking for a book that he read back around 1990 give or take a few years. Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of details, but here’s what my dad was able to remember:\n\nTh...
[ { "content": "Usher's Passing.\nIn this most gothic of Robert McCammon's novels, setting is key: the continuing saga of the Usher family (descended from the brother of Roderick and Madeline of Edgar Poe's \"Fall of the House of Usher\") takes place in the weird and picturesque heart of the North Carolina mounta...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][Probably 2000’s] I’ve been trying to find this YA book for years!.\nI don’t remember much about this book I’m trying to find, except a few hazy memories. In it, everyone has special powers or abilities. Our main character has the ability to always get a good parking spot, which she finds fr...
[ { "content": "How to Ditch Your Fairy.\nWelcome to New Avalon, where everyone has a personal fairy. Though invisible to the naked eye, a personal fairy - like a specialized good luck charm - is vital to a person's success. It might determine whether you make a sports team, pass a class, or find that perfect out...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] a sci fi book about kids in a science/ robot building competition.\nAround 2011 I read a book about these kids who enter a competition. \nThe competition is run by a super famous scientist who is extremely intelligent and he is looking for the smartest kids. The kids need to build something...
[ { "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] [90s] - Kid’s book featuring pepper’s ghost illusion..\nI think it had Pepper in the title, and may have been from earlier and I just read it in the 90s. I remember one scene where the protagonist was walking through dense fog. I hope someone can help me!", "id": "kn3v4a", "tokenized_c...
[ { "content": "The Ghost on Saturday Night.\nA madcap tale of fog and phantomsOpie and Aunt Etta think there's something funny going on when Professor Pepper announces that he's going to raise the ghost of a dead outlaw--live on stage. Can Opie cut through all t he fog to get to the bottom of the professor's pla...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Kid tries on shoes and goes back in time.\nI remember the shoes maybe being in a closet. He tries them on and comes out of the room only to be in Italy in the past, maybe 50 years ago? \n\nI can't remember if I actually read this book, or if I somehow made it up on my own.", "id": ...
[ { "content": "The Orphan of Ellis Island.\nOne day, on a class trip to Ellis Island, Dominic Cantori faces his worst fantsty--a tour guide asks the children about their families. Filled with shame, Dominic flees from his class and hides until the museum is dark and deserted. Now, his only solace is the recorded...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK].\nI'm looking for a book I read in middle school about a girl with a shitty home life who gets assigned as a student counselor at school. The girl she's counseling is a goth girl with a blue(?) Mohawk. She goes to the goth girls house and it's essentially a mansion. She has an olympic sized...
[ { "content": "Define \"Normal\".\nFrom National Book Award Finalist Julie Anne Peters\n\n This thoughtful, wry story is about two girls--a \"punk\" and a \"prep\"--who find themselves facing each other in a peer-counseling program and discover that they have some surprising things in common. A new reading-group...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] German Fantasy book, can't remember more than a scene.\nAs the title says it's a book that I read in German about 10 years ago, so I'm not quite sure if it's even available in English or anything.\n\nI believe I remember the setting a little as well, and the single scene more clearly. \nIt...
[ { "content": "The Cry of the Icemark.\nThis edition has cover artwork by Kinuko Y. Craft. The Icemark is a kingdom in grave danger. Its king has been killed in battle, its enemy lies in wait, and its fate rests on the shoulders of one girl. Thirrin Freer Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, a beautiful princess and ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1990s?] A book about banished tribes/families/clans of people who live on a world without iron, and use teleports to trade bodyparts/materials for iron..\nThe books start with a introduction to the main family/tribe that learned to regrow body parts so they traded mutant limbs for iron. Spo...
[ { "content": "Treason.\nLanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a \"rad\" -- radical regenerative. A freak among people who can regenerate injured flesh... and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. For, on a planet withou...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][2005-2011?].\nThere is a book I read back when I was in middle school around the years above. I don’t remember much about the story, but I’ve been trying to find it for a few years now.\n\nI remember the main character was a girl who I think had just moved to a new school. She fell in love ...
[ { "content": "Detour for Emmy.\nIn the 9th grade, Emmy is an A student, a soccer star, and a lead soprano in the school choir. She won't let her alcoholic mother or her father, long gone, stand in her way. Emmy falls for Art, a junior who is also one of the choir's lead singers. Art is a dream of a boyfriend un...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][Recent-ish] Modern times, teen female protagonist that ends up bouncing around time with her new neighbour.\nI read this book in the last couple years and I think it was relatively new, so it likely came out in the last 5-10 years. The plot starts with a weird family moving in next door to ...
[ { "content": "Weave a Circle Round.\nThe unexpected can move in next doorFreddy wants desperately to not be noticed. She doesn't want to be seen as different or unusual, but her step-brother Roland gets attention because he's deaf, and her little sister Mel thinks she's a private detective. All Freddy wants to ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Horror Short Stories Book.\nIt was a book of maybe 20-30 stories about four pages each. I remember one was called \"The Horse With The Braids\" The paperback cover was Hands over and Ocean Holding the sun in their palms. Other stories were of a dog getting so scared of something it turned ...
[ { "content": "Strangely Enough.\nPhantom ships ... ghostly people ... a vanishing city. Eighty incredible tales to fascinate and intrigue you.", "label": 1, "id": "247074", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 13939, 2438, 1012, 11588, 3719, 1012, 1012, 1...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Book about an African Teenager during the rebellion.\nThis kid goes through a rough time. He gets split up from his brother because the village they were staying in was supposed to be protected by army-men, but when they heard the rebellion was coming they ran away.The kid never sees his br...
[ { "content": "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.\nThe devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and became ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] a guy has a bunch of toy catalogs , and the toys end up being alive.\n2000-2010s maybe ? A guy moves and he keeps getting these toy catalogs, he can’t find out where they come from or get rid of them. He eventually orders a toy and it ends up being alive, so he orders more. When he asks th...
[ { "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][2000s] Children's book about a genius boy who makes inventions out of cardboard.\nI remember reading this book back in elementary school (maybe around 2008?) about this kid who made cool inventions out of cardboard and other everyday materials. One specific invention I remember involved a c...
[ { "content": "Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius.\nSelf-proclaimed genius inventor Alex is convinced that his little brother Jonathan is evil. The kid never shuts up. He's a klutz, and he drools on his pillow when he sleeps. Jonathan's specialty, though, is sticking to Alex like glue -- and sticking his...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] I need help finding the title of a book about King Arthur, a game show, a pickpocket, an insane asylum, and a funny old man..\nI had a paperback book written by two people, a man and a woman. I think it was written in the 90's or 80's. The book read like a movie, if that makes any sense....
[ { "content": "The Forever King (Forever King, #1).\nIn a darkened house not far from the place where Camelot may once have stood, a madman schemes, plotting toward the day when he will wrest the cup that men call the Holy Grail from the boy who is its guardian.\nArthur Blessing is no ordinary ten-year-old. The ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [YA NOVEL] [2000s] Teen girl has a power that she can find anyones location by looking at a photograph of them, she gets picked up by the government and forced to work for them..\nI'm sorry I don't know too many details, I don't even know the characters name, but it's a novel about a young girl d...
[ { "content": "Vanished: When Lightning Strikes / Code Name Cassandra.\nA gift…or a curse? Jessica Mastriani has never liked attention. All she wants is to make it to high school graduation like any ordinary girl. But when Jess is struck by lightning, she becomes anything but ordinary: suddenly she has the abili...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Read a book when I was younger about a boy being taken to a world where it is against the rules to sleep and anytime he needs to sleep he has to hide.\nShot in the dark, but I'll try it. I remember reading a book where a boy was taken to a planet or alternate universe or something wh...
[ { "content": "The Shuteyes.\nA boy is carried off by a giant one-eyed parrot to the planet Alert, where sleeping is a crime and those caught in this activity are contemptuously called \"shuteyes.\"", "label": 1, "id": "3107301", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1996, 3844, 17683, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] book about a family that locks itself into a shelter due to some kind of nuclear explosion, later they realize that there was no explosion and all this was made up by the father.\nI have read this fictional novel a couple of years ago in german, but I think it was translated. As I stated in...
[ { "content": "The Compound.\nEli and his family have lived in the underground Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone, and they've become accustomed to their new life. Accustomed, but not happy.For Eli, no amount of luxury can stifle the dull routine of living in the same place, with only his two si...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book about cat who could travel around the world?.\nI can't remember much about it but I think the cat was magic or could talk and it could travel? It told a few different stories. I think one had to do with a small town with a rat or mouse problem. It was a chapter book and was like modera...
[ { "content": "Time Cat.\nGareth's definitely no ordinary cat. For one thing, he can talk. For another, he's got the power to travel through time. And the instant he tells this to Jason, the two of them are in ancient Egypt, on the first of nine amazing adventures that Jason will never forget.", "label": 1, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][+-2014] I'm looking for the name and a author of a fantasy type book. The protagonist is a young girl she has a treehouse and she works at some factory maybe as metal worker/blacksmith..\nI can't remember the plot but she lives in a town that is surrounded by forest and no one can go into t...
[ { "content": "The Finisher.\nEnter a village imprisoned by its fear of the unknown. Where curiosity is discouraged, and no one has ever left – or wanted to. Until now.Then a mysterious bequest turns one teenage girl’s life upside down. A curious map and a ring which connects Vega to another time lead her to dis...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Novel]Criminals hide in wealthy family's house after botched robbery..\nI am looking for a book I read somewhere around 2005-2009. I believe it was by one of those popular crime/thriller authors who write a large volume of novels.\n\nThe story focuses on several criminals who attempt to rob a gas...
[ { "content": "Hostage.\nWhen a store robbery goes horribly wrong the teenage gang who perpetrated the crime make a run for it. Hotly pursued by the police, they crash into the suburban home of an accountant and take the family hostage. Soon the mafia are on the scene.", "label": 1, "id": "139183", "...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Children's Book] - Missing pets and animals revealed to be because of massive turtle in lake.\nIn the mid-80s, I was in elementary school, and me and my classmates read a short novel (maybe Scholastic?), where pets and animals in the town kept disappearing. The lead character, a middle-school k...
[ { "content": "The Shadow in the Pond.\n\"Munch watched the night swallow up his friend. He shivered, thinking ahead to the day when the water of Shadow POnd would do the same.\"Nobody knows how deep Shadow Pond is, or why the old man would never let kids swim in it. But there's a shadow of something lurking in ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Mid 00’s YA boom about a promiscuous teenager who tries to find herself during preparation for a photography contest.\nI don’t remember a lot of details about most of the book, but a couple of specific scenes:\n\n- The protagonist tries to take a self portrait for the competition and at one...
[ { "content": "Easy.\nEasy. At the ripe young age of fourteen Jessica has discovered that getting the attention she wants is just that—easy. It’s not the attention of a divorced mother who spends all of her time grieving over a broken marriage. Nor is it that of a father with a new girlfriend who’s moving on wit...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] A 30s/40s cultural study of an isolated village in Italy that still practiced very old religious traditions alongside Christianity?.\nBook was written 1930s - 1940s by a guy who was basically exiled by Mussolini to some isolated mountain village. The village had a mix of Christianity and a...
[ { "content": "Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year.\nIt was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi--a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters--was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy's Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war i...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Large amount of carpets made of human hair cover an entire planet.\nThe book consists in varoius stories in diferent parts of the universe.\n\nThere is village where every family has to do a carpet with the hair of its women every year. \n\nA merchant comes to take all the carpets and send ...
[ { "content": "The Carpet Makers.\nSince the time of pre-history, carpetmakers tie intricate knots to form carpets for the court of the Emperor. These carpets are made from the hairs of wives and daughters; they are so detailed and fragile that each carpetmaker finishes only one single carpet in his entire lifet...