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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Book involving missing kids.\nBook cover shows a man holding a glowing butterfly behind his back. Most likely has the word \"dust\" in the title. Involves kids being kidnapped. There might have been something about a man with white skin. The kids may have been found in a farm house w... | [
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"content": "Dust.\nSEVEN-YEAR-OLD MATTHEW DISAPPEARS one day on a walk into Horshoe, a dust bowl farm town in Depression-era Saskatchewan. Other children go missing just as a strange man named Abram Harsich appears in town. He dazzles the townspeople with the promises of a rainmaking machine. Only Matthew’s o... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Victorian era book about a man who investigates the supernatural.\nThe man had a strange name, I believe it was Barnaby something. It looked to be one book out of a series, he went around London/similar Victorian English city looking into odd cases. \n\nThis particular one he looked into a... | [
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"content": "Curse of the Night Wolf.\nBarnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and 'high-stacking' around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. In this first adventure, Barnaby is attacked one night by an enormous dog. He kills it - but that's not the end of t... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Diamond mine, hot air balloon, family for each letter of the alphabet.\nI don’t remember when I read this book but I do remember a lot of details from it so hopefully it won’t be too hard.\n\nThe story is told from the point of view of a balloonist. The entire book is pretty much one big di... | [
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"content": "The Twenty-One Balloons.\nProfessor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on the secret island of Krakatoa where he discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions. Winner of the 19... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Story about a pair of young black male twins starting adulthood. The live in a small town in the southern U.S. They smoked weed in their car before their job interview. This is probably why one got the job but the other didn't. The other twin was desperate, he started selling weed..\nIt's i... | [
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"content": "Where the Line Bleeds.\nSet in a rural town on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Where the Line Bleeds tells the story of fraternal twins Joshua and Christophe, who are graduating high school as the novel begins. The two boys both anticipate and dread their lives as adults. Joshua finds a job working as... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2010s] A book I read as a child.\nThere was a book I read as a middle schooler about these 3 kids and their single mother who get on a flight and the children end up in an alternate universe. Some details I remember:\n\n* The mother smelled like oranges\n* One of the children was named Indi... | [
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"content": "No Passengers Beyond This Point.\nSiblings India, Finn, and Mouse are stunned when their mom tells them they are flying that night -- without her -- to their Uncle Red's home in Colorado. But things take an even more dramatic turn when their plane lands in a very unusual place. A mysterious driver... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] [2010's?] Fantasy Book involving a teenage girl and her robot mother/caretaker.\n I read this book a over 3 years ago and I'll tell you what I remember. It was about a teenage girl living in some sort of shelter/hiding place in order to train for living in the wilderness of Earth. Her ... | [
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"content": "The Search for WondLa.\nEva Nine is a curious and sensitive twelve-year-old who has existed only in a subterranean home called Sanctuary, cared for by a robot named Muthr. Eva's great desire is to go aboveground, and her wish comes true, though not as she had imagined. On the surface, Eva goes in ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][Early-mid 2000s].\nI'm looking for a book I read in 2004 or 2005 when I was 11/12, so middle grade fiction. It was about a boy and one of his siblings traveling back in time to save their mother. \n\nIIRC the book started with the boy being shocked that the mother, a workaholic who left hou... | [
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"content": "Paint by Magic.\nSomething is terribly wrong with Connor's mom--she keeps slipping into bizarre trances. Connor suspects that the key to his mom's strange behavior is an old art book filled with paintings of a woman who looks exactly like her. But the artist who created those paintings died before... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] YA/Children’s book where a ghost ship full of pirates are forced to relive their deaths.\nIt was a children’s book about these two kids who lives in some sort of beach town. The book was about this old pirate ship that shows up the the shore but it turns out to be a ghost ship where all th... | [
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"content": "Ghost Ship.\nVicki plans to spend her summer vacation waitressing in her father's famous seaside restaurant. But when the bay goes dry and a 1772 sailing ship appears, Vicki's course is reset. Where the greedy mayor sees dollar signs, and a nosy reporter sees something fishy, Vicki sees ghosts. De... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Graphic novel series about a group of teenagers who get superpowers from animal spirits, but one of them betrays the others.\nRead the first few books of this sometime between 2010-2015 and haven't been able to find it again. I may be mixing up some details with other series, but here's wh... | [
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"content": "Vermonia #1: Quest for the Silver Tiger.\nThe battle for Vermonia begins! Fabulous manga artwork highlights this graphic tale of four friends who hold the fate of three worlds in their hands.On a distant Blue Star, Mel, Jim, Naomi, and Doug — friends obsessed with their garage band — don’t seem th... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A book I read in middle school, not a required book, fantasy..\nThe book was a fantasy book about a honey bee keeper becoming the guardian of a land. She had healing honey, or at least honey with magical properties. I remember a scene where she has to get to a boy, love interest?, across a ... | [
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"content": "Chalice.\nAs the newly appointed Chalice, Mirasol is the most important member of the Master’s Circle. It is her duty to bind the Circle, the land and its people together with their new Master. But the new Master of Willowlands is a Priest of Fire, only drawn back into the human world by the sudde... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A children’s realistic fiction book from the female middle child’s POV..\nThe family is a mom, dad, older brother named Grosso (his real name is Greg, but the main character calls him Grosso), and a younger brother whose name I can’t remember. The only things I remember about this book are ... | [
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"content": "Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush?.\nWho Put That Hair in My Toothbrush? Sibling rivalry at its finest! Whether it's on the hockey ice, at school, or at home, Greg and Megin just can't seem to get along. She calls him Grosso, he calls her Megamouth. They battle with donuts, cockroaches, and hair.... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book About A Man Selling Drugs.\nSo the book has a man telling his life story about how he got caught selling drugs. The book cover is yellow with his face is repeated on the cover. There is a big picture of how he looks currently.",
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"content": "Hole in My Life.\nBecoming a writer the hard wayIn the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish fr... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] [2000s(?)] [Young Adult].\nMy wife has been looking for a young adult book about a fat kid who witnesses a murder. She said it was purposely written oddly in places and included stuff along the lines of \"Eat eat eat, fat fat fat. Everyday is the same\" and he'd describe what he was eating... | [
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"content": "Kissing the Rain.\nFrom the acclaimed author of MARTYN PIG and LUCAS comes another compelling, edgy thriller about love, loss, and pivotal decisions. Now in a dynamic new Kevin Brooks repackaging!Moo Nelson likes to be alone. Overweight and shy, Moo is constantly mocked and bullied by his cruel cl... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][90s-2000s?] Book about person's friend dealing with trauma after dropping baby sister..\nI only know the synopsis of the beginning of the book. The narrator and narrator's friend are school-age, and the narrator describes his friend as a jovial person. There is a babysitter named Vivian tha... | [
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"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... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A young girl is staying with her grandma for the summer, and her grandmother is aging backwards to a baby..\nI think maybe the girl wished for it? Not sure.... thanks for any and all help!",
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"content": "The Summer I Shrank My Grandmother.\nBudding scientist Nelly Brown is thrilled when she discovers an old chemistry set at her grandmother's summer cottage. The set includes everything for mixing up magic formulas, and guarantees that each child using the set can make a wish that will come true.Nel... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Novel] Science fiction story my forth grade teacher read to the class with \"orbs\".\nWhen I was in forth grade my teacher used to read a section of a book every day and I remember loving it. This was around 2001. I remember the book started with some natural disaster and during the brink of sure... | [
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"content": "Journey to Terezor.\nMatt can hardly believe it. One minute, he and his parents are scrambling to safety during a flash flood in Ohio. The next minute, two kids his age are telling him that he's the latest Earthling to be imprisoned by alien robots on an isolated planet. Matt and his friends must ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] I read a book in 6th grade and I can't remember the title of it..\nThe book was about a kid who woke up for school and he fell of of bed. It was kind of like ground hog day where every time he died or fell asleep it restarted the day. At the end it was revealed that it was a video game.",
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"content": "It's the First Day of School...Forever!.\nOn the first day of school, Artie falls out of his bed and hits his head. Hard. He tells his mom he’s dizzy and she says:“You’re just worried about your first day in a new school.” At breakfast, his little brother, Eddie, splashes syrup in his hair, and th... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Book where this it's revealed this guys little sister is a clone.\nI remember he first found out she was a clone at this clothing store where he met another of her clones in different clothes and accuses her of shoplifting, the girl is confused because she doesn't know who he is. Later he ... | [
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"content": "Anna to the Infinite Power.\nA 12-year-old math whiz accidentally learns the startling facts about her true identity and her role in an important secret experiment.",
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000-2010s?] Non-fiction book arguing that Renaissance-era polymaths such as Da Vinci, Galileo, etc. were only able to excel in their pursuits due to the offset of chore labor onto women housekeepers..\nI heard about this book in a post on Tumblr within the last three months but was not a... | [
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"content": "Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World.\nMen dominate history because they write it. Women’s vital part in the shaping of the world has been consistently undervalued or ignored. Rosalind Miles now offers a fundamental reappraisal that sets the record straight. Stunning in it... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] A fantasy book about a girl in colonial America who works for her mapmaker uncle, who is kidnapped..\nIn this book a girl living in colonial america that is heavily restricted from outsiders coming in. This land has magical creatures. Her uncle is a mapmaker but maps in this book hold magic... | [
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"content": "The Glass Sentence.\nShe has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous. Boston, 1891. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New World—a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, w... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2010s] Book about a young boy finding out his uncle is a magician?.\nI read a book when I was 12 or so, it's about a boy who finds out his uncle is a magician and has left a bunch of his tricks/illusion props behind. I think the boy visits his house and meets his uncle's female friend/ass... | [
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"content": "Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, a Very Strange Adventure.\nThe exciting launch title of Sterling's middle-grade fiction list:HORTEN'S MIRACULOUS MECHANISMS\n Enter a wonderful world filled with real magic, mystery … and danger.As if being small for his age and also having S. Horte... |
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"content": "[TOMT][book] A French girl reminisces on her childhood schooldays, remembering that her teacher was killed by the groundskeeper who courted her.\nI read a short book years ago whose title I can't remember. It was probably for young adults, and was a modern book in English. \n\nThemes of the book were of... | [
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"content": "The Golden Day.\nWhen their teacher goes missing during an outing, eleven girls grapple with the aftermath in this haunting, exquisitely told psychological mystery.The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of anot... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK][1993-2001] Illustrated children’s book about an ugly stray dog named “Beauty”.\n\nI’m fairly certain her name was Beauty, but it may have been a synonymous word.\n\nThe dog was a smallish, scruffy terrier-looking breed. She may have had yellow fur. I recall she was either blind in one eye ... | [
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"content": "Beauty, Brave And Beautiful.\nJacob and Kate make a fast getaway while their dog Beauty defends them from a vicious bear. When the children return, the bear and the dog are both gone. How Beauty finally finds her way back to Jacob and Kate makes a heartwarming story.",
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Gold hardcover book about generational treasure hunt.\nI got this book a while back and absolutely loved it but can't find it anymore. I don't think it's very popular. Here's what I remember from the plot:\n\nThere were 11 or 12 or 13 teenagers who each possessed a certain set of inhuman sk... | [
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"content": "The Calling.\nTwelve thousand years ago, they came. They descended from the sky amid smoke and fire, and created humanity and gave us rules to live by. They needed gold and they built our earliest civilizations to mine it for them. When they had what they needed, they left. But before they left, t... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][1960's-2000's?].\nHi there! I'm looking for a book I read when I was in grade 6 in 2010. \n\nThe book is a sci-fi, almost dystopian but not quite book. A girl and her family live in some futuristic city, and I believe her dad is arrested for something. As their punishment, they're sent to l... | [
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"content": "The Other Place.\nIn \"The Other Place\", Hughes returns to her most popular setting-- a not-so-distant future world. The Fairweather family, mom, dad, eight-year-old Billy and pre-teen Alison, have just been charged with crimes of subversion against the all-powerful World Government. Now they are... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Looking for a book, but can't remember the title.\nHey guys! I'm looking for a book . It has 'Thousand' in the title. \n\nThe book is basically about how we are viewed differently by different people. For example, the YOU your mom knows is different from the YOU your friend knows and so on... | [
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"content": "One, No One and One Hundred Thousand.\nThe great Pirandello's (1867-1936) 1926 novel, previously published here in 1933 in another translation, synthesizes the themes and personalities that illuminate such dramas as Six Characters in Search of an Author.Vitangelo Moscarda ``loses his reality'' whe... |
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"content": "[TOMT][CHILDREN’S BOOK] A foster girl and her friend? Foster brother? Bake a blue cake for a homeless man..\nI read this book circa 2003-2005. It was a chapter book for older kids but not quite YA. The only part I remember is baking the very blue cake for the homeless man using a lot of blue food colori... | [
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"content": "Anna Casey's Place in the World.\nHow do you face life without a place to call home?Anna Casey is learning to deal with the loss of her family and adjust to living in a foster home with Miss Dupree. Feeling abandoned and alone, Anna turns to her closest companion, her explorer journal filled with ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A collection of \"horror stories\", but it was all told by this woman who wanted a boy to fall asleep on a train. Everyone around him was sleeping and he was struggling to stay awake. Each story the woman told made him sleepier. It has a very Tim burton like art style..\nI can remember som... | [
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"content": "Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth.\nThe third installment of the spine-tingling trilogy Robert Harper is going back to school, and it is the first railway journey he has ever made alone. And it is not a very usual sort of railway journey. The train stops at the mouth of a tunnel, and in orde... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Two siblings in dystopia with powers.\nokay, i just remembered a book series i read about 4 years ago. Heres all i can remember, please help me find the name.\n\nThese two siblings, boy and girl, live in this town and they do something in school and get sent into the area beneath the town, ... | [
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"content": "The Wind on Fire Trilogy: The Wind Singer/Slaves of the Mastery/Firesong.\nTwins Bowman and Kestrel have saved their family and the rest of the Manth people from slavery and helped bring about the downfall of the cruel city-state of the Mastery. Now, led by their mother, a prophetess, they are fre... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][?] Til now trustworthy, employee of sm shop plots to rob bank across street, alibi incl a # of toilet flushes, but doesn't go through w/ plan. He tips off FBI(?) via payphone that boss/shop owner is illegal immigrant (Italy?), boss deported, & employee->new owner. Son wins essay....\ncontes... | [
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"content": "The Winter of Our Discontent.\nEthan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantali... |
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"content": "[TOMT][book][2015?] small Christian town folks get calls from their loved ones from heaven.\nI was going through this phase where I went into the adults section to get books at the city library, I don’t remember how I got the book, it’s a mystery. This was about 4-5 years ago when my dad would drop me o... | [
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"content": "The First Phone Call from Heaven.\nThe First Phone Call from Heaven tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken si... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Children's Book where the animals were made of fruits and vegetables.\nAll I remember was the title was two words combined into one with the second half being animals and the first having something to do with the fact that they're made out of fruits and veggies. The only one I really recal... | [
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"content": "Scranimals.\nWe're sailing to Scranimal Island,It doesn't appear on most maps....Scranimal Island is where you will find the fragrant Rhinocerose, the cunning Broccolions, and if you are really, really lucky and very, very quiet, you will spot the gentle, shy Pandaffodil. (You may even hear it yaw... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][2000s] Little girl loves big words, befriends neighbor who tells stories about time as youth in India with sisters.\nI’m looking for a children’s (or possibly ya) novel that was likely published in the early 2000’s. I remember reading it around 2007. The novel is about a young girl who love... | [
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"content": "Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters.\nEleven-year-old Cornelia is the daughter of two world-famous pianists—a legacy that should feel fabulous, but instead feels just plain lonely. She surrounds herself with dictionaries and other books to isolate herself from the outside ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Greek mythology fictional book about a maid for Penelope/Odysseus/Telemachus that takes place during the Odyssey.\nSo this is kind vague and I’m sorry. I’m not sure when it was written (I probably read it ~2010 and it definitely wasn’t a new book then). Anyway, as the title says, it was a b... | [
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"content": "Ithaka.\nMany years have passed since the end of the Trojan War, and Penelope is still waiting for her husband, Odysseus, to return home. The city of Ithaka is overrun with uncouth suitors from the surrounding islands who are vying to win Penelope's hand in marriage, thereby gaining control of the... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] 60s or 70s tween or teen oriented book about a girl who joins a group that gives her anything (maybe only food?) that she asks for, however her family ends up replaced by plastic robots..\nEventually, a virus or bacteria that eats plastic is used by a group fighting against whomever is re... | [
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"content": "Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters.\nA BIOLOGICAL TIME BOMB? \"In the shaft leading to the [ventilation] grille a mindless, groping mass of malodorous corruption was thrusting its way silently towards the surface. Buoyed up by bubbling foam it steadily rose. Single units in an obscene abrogation of nor... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1980s-90s]A book I read with my grandfather when I was a kid..\nI read the book around 15 years ago, but the book was older than that, perhaps written in the 90's or late 80's.\n\nI seem to remember the title being about Whispers and Night, but searching google for variations of those terms... | [
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"content": "Voices after Midnight.\nWhy is Chad so uneasy when his California family rents a town house in New York City? Once there he hears voices late at night, after midnight in this strange house that's at least one hundred years old.Then he finds that his younger brother, Luke, hears them, too, and even... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK].\ni remember really loving this book when i was in 3rd-5th grade so roughly 2008-2011ish. i remember the cover was a black cat standing in front of a moon i think and the book was about a little girl who found this ugly little black cat but decided to take care of it. she lived in an apart... | [
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"content": "The Witches of Worm.\nCats. Jessica has never liked them. Especially not the skinny, ugly kitten that looks like a worm.\nWorm. Jessica wishes she'd never brought Worm home with her, because now he's making her do terrible things. She's sure she isn't imagining the evil voice coming from the cat, ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][CHILDRENS BOOK][ 2003-2009ish] children’s book about monsters living in a kids house..\nI don’t remember much about the book except that in the book the kid did normal things like sleeping and taking out trash while on each page there would be a monster somewhere looking at the kid or causing tro... | [
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"content": "There Are Monsters Everywhere.\nWhat kid doesn't suspect that there are monsters lurking under the bed, behind the shower curtain, in the basement, and even outside by the garbage cans? Mercer Mayer brilliantly and hilariously captures this classic childhood fear—and conquers it! Kids will cheer a... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] The Something Messenger.\nHey guys! I've been searching for this book for a while. I remember reading it in elementary, and loving it quite a bit. There were aliens and shit in it, and some boy was the messenger between the aliens and the humans if I'm remembering it correctly. (It's been o... | [
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"content": "The Antrian Messenger.\nA high school freshman knows that he is different, from his strange dreams, his precognition, his scientific understandings; yet in the space of a week his once ordinary life changes when the truth about himself is revealed.",
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"content": "[TOMT][Novel][2000's] Sci-fi novel about dystopian future where employees death race each other for promotions..\nI remember reading this book around the mid 2000's. I remember a ton of the plot but google hasn't helped. It was about some douche in the future where everything has gone to crap. A rich ar... | [
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"content": "Market Forces.\nA coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. For the men and women of Shorn Associates, opportunity is calling. In the superheated global village of the near future, big money is made by finding the right little war and supporting one side against the other–in exchange for a share of the... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][90s-00s]. Children’s book about a small village somewhere in Eastern Asia, a small mirror is found and hidden but no one really knows how it works. More below.\nAs said above, a small round mirror comes into the village somehow. The village is made up of small connected rooms. Honestly wh... | [
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"content": "The Chinese Mirror.\nA retelling of a traditional Korean tale in which a mirror brought from China causes confusion within a family as each member looks in it and sees a different stranger.",
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book where some friends make a bet if one breaks a bone he kisses a girl..\nSo I read this book a long time ago around elementary, what really stuck with me was the plot. So the main character lives next door to this hot girl who like to lounge by the pool. He has a history of breaking some... | [
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"content": "The Biggest Klutz in Fifth Grade.\nNeal Moffet had called me \"Fat Pat Berry, the Twinkletoes Fairy\" one time too many. And when he started going on about what a klutz I was just because a flying tackle got me stuck under a chain-link fence...well, something snapped. So when he bet me I couldn't ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [00’s-10’s] Teenage brother and sister slowly start revealing their parents are spies/secret agents..\nThey find a skeleton key that opens any lock by rotating a ridge on the edge of they key. There is also a quote about how to spy on people, like if a light is on behind you you are easy s... | [
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"content": "The Code.\nIn this thrilling mystery series, 12-year-old twins Andrew and Evie navigate through a maze of intrigue and espionage as they try to uncover the truth about their mother's disappearance.Leaving only a cryptic note, Andrew and Evie's mother vanishes on their eleventh birthday. Now, almos... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] help me find a really old book I read a long time ago.\nSo, this kid has like, some kind of model or like a dollhouse in his attic, and he is also really flexible. Idk, this was a big part of the story later because he was somehow transported into the world of his book, and a knight gave hi... | [
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"content": "The Castle in the Attic.\nOne of the classic fantastical adventures of all time!William has just received the best present of his life—an old, real-looking stone and wooden model of a castle, with a drawbridge, a moat, and a fingerhigh knight to guard the gates. It’s the mysterious castle his hous... |
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"content": "[TOMT][YA book][1990-2008] Title something like \"Princess(es) of D-\" something something.\nI'm looking to get this one YA novel for my niece that I remember liking as a kid. I just can't remember the name. The cover had two Princesses, sisters, on the front. One was blonde with closed eyes and an uptu... | [
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"content": "The Two Princesses of Bamarre.\nTwelve-year-old Addie admires her older sister Meryl, who aspires to rid the kingdom of Bamarre of gryphons, specters, and ogres. Addie, on the other hand, is fearful even of spiders and depends on Meryl for courage and protection. Waving her sword Bloodbiter, the o... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [1990S] Childrens book about abandoned cat.\nTrying to remember the title of a book I read as a kid. It was about an abandoned cat who lived off of sunflower seeds (or bird seed maybe?) and a leaky (tub?) faucet. This was in the mid-late-90s. \n\nSounds morbid as I'm typing it out now but ... | [
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"content": "Jasmine.\nJasmine's true story always brings a tear - but as all our stories tell of courage and kind people, you just know she's going to be rescued. Abandoned in a locked apartment. Jasmine survives on a big bag of birdseed and a leaky faucet.",
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2010s] Book about odd child with reclusive author mother and an unknown father.\nHelp me out here, internet!\n\nI'm trying to remember the title of a book I very much loved. It was about a girl who recently got a job as a receptionist at a publishing agency. She gets assigned to go be a n... | [
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"content": "Be Frank With Me.\nReclusive literary legend M. M. “Mimi” Banning has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years, but now she’s writing her first book in decades and to ensure timely completion her publisher sends an assistant to monitor her progress. Mimi reluctantly complies—with a few stipu... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book about a girl named Lily who gets scammed?.\nA children’s / teenager book about a girl (possibly named Lily?) who befriends some family members at a wedding who claim to be rich, and end up trashing her house and suing her family? I remember reading this as a kid, but I absolutely canno... | [
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"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 ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] A book about a young boy about 10-13 years old who befriends an old woman in the middle of summer. She later died and leaves him an expensive stamp..\nI read this book around 2008-2010 and it went missing shortly after. It was the first book to make me cry and I would love the chance... | [
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"content": "Dog Days.\nWillie strategizes his way out of problems with amazing inventions and hilarious results but learns God has the best answers.",
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"content": "[TOMT] [book] Possible Goosebumps book from the 1990s – child locks teacher in cupboard, gets ill and dies, teacher starves, ghost communicates with present day child.\nHey guys, wondered if you could help me with this. I've been wondering about this book for a long time, Google not helping, and have re... | [
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"content": "Ghost Writer.\nTake a boy with a reading problem, a protective mother, and a village grade school set in its original 19th century buildings and there are all the ingredients for a perfect modern ghost story. Frankie likes his school even though his bullying teacher thinks that dyslexic is another... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][2000-2010] A novel series (likely YA) about a boy that was part of a \"wolf tribe\" and bonded with a wolf.\nThe first book in the series had a cover with a bunch of long dark trees against a backdrop of a night sky, with black outlines of a boy and wolf running in front of them. It was set... | [
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"content": "Wolf Brother.\nSix thousand years ago. Evil stalks the land. Only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion can defeat it. Their journey together takes them through deep forests, across giant glaciers, and into dangers they never imagined. In this page-turning, original, and spectacularly t... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] I think that the main story was about love between a man and an ill woman, but the thing I remember the most is a story which that man tells about how he got his guitar from his grandfather..\nHis grandfather was captured by Germans in a war and one general's son befriended him and gave him... | [
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"content": "The Final Note.\nIn this brand-new novel from bestselling author Kevin Milne, readers will be inspired yet again by the themes of love, loss, and renewal. Ethan met and fell in love with Anna while studying music abroad in college. He married her, and fully expected to grow old with her. After all... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Children’s fantasy book about a boy who jumps into paintings to win a class war centered on fancy clothes?.\nOkay, this might be multiple books that I’m conflating, but I don’t think it is. I read this as a kid and I’m 22, FWIW.\n\nSo The context for the society in which this book takes pla... | [
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"content": "Mirrorscape.\nPrepare to enter the Mirrorscape–a world where the bizarre is commonplace and logic makes no sense.Melkin Womper is thrilled to escape his dull future as a village weaver and develop his artistic talent when he’s apprenticed to Ambrosius Blenk, one of Vlam’s most famous masters. Mel ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Children’s book] [90s].\nI cannot find this, but I had a book I was obsessed with as a kid. It was an illustrated nonfiction book in which each chapter focused on a different rescue that had occurred. I remember that one of them was the rescue of Baby Jessica from the well. The book would have b... | [
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"content": "Amazing Rescues.\nIllus. in full color. \"A skydiving collision and rescue in midair; a girl snatched from the jaws of an alligator; a toddler saved after falling down an abandoned well: the three exciting true rescue stories in this title are told with realistic detail and suspense that will make... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Biography of a socially inept mathematician who lived with his mother until she died and died a virgin.\nI can't remember the book title or the mathematicians name but I remember an entertaining read about this brilliant mathematician who was probably on the autism spectrum. Couldn't talk ... | [
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"content": "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth.\nBased on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul Erdos is both a vivid portrait of an eccentric genius and a layman's guide to some of this century's ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A girl commits suicide and becomes War in the 4 horsemen of apocalypse and Death is Kurt Cobain.\nThis story is straight wild. It feels like the whole thing is a 13 year old’s fanfic. So this girl who is on a soccer team or whatever cuts herself a lot and eventually kills herself, I think ... | [
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"content": "Rage.\nMissy didn’t mean to cut so deep. But after the party where she was humiliated in front of practically everyone in school, who could blame her for wanting some comfort? Sure, most people don’t find comfort in the touch of a razor blade, but Missy always was . . . different.That’s why she wa... |
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"content": "[Tomt][Books][2000s].\nIt's a kids fantasy book series, I loved it as a kid but all I can remember is there where two types.of people, people with magic and people without magic. The main character is a boy without magic, he has these gold bracelets that he's had his whole life, later in the series the ... | [
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"content": "The Demon King.\nTimes are hard in the mountain city of Fellsmarch. Reformed thief Han Alister will do almost anything to eke out a living for his family. The only thing of value he has is something he can't sell—the thick silver cuffs he's worn since birth. They're clearly magicked—as he grows, t... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book].\nWhen I was in fifth grade or so (let’s just say from 2012-2014 just to be safe) I read this book that I absolutely LOVED. It was a historical fiction type book, and the plot was about a girl whose family was moving somewhere I think? They could’ve just been going on a trip. Anyway, the b... | [
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"content": "Journey to Nowhere.\nIn the spring of 1815, Remembrance \"Mem\" Nye and her family set off in a covered wagon from their farm in Connecticut to the western New York wilderness. Mem and her mother see it as a journey to nowhere since there won't be any houses or neighbors, just endless forest. Thei... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Similar to Toy Story but sadder.\ni remember reading a book in 3rd grade about toys that come to life. I only remember two characters, a ball and a washing machine. I think there was a beach part, but I'm not sure.",
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"content": "Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic.\nLumphy is a stuffed buffalo. StingRay is a stuffed stingray. And Plastic... well, Plastic isn't quite sure what she is. They all belong to the Little Girl who lives on the high bed ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] A book about nuclear arms testing on the atolls.\n\nI read a book a couple years ago about a group of islanders whose island was going to be tested on with nuclear weapons (based on the testing from the 40’s-50’s). I remember a few specific scenes such as the main character and one of his ... | [
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"content": "The Bomb.\nShortly after the first atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, World War II came to and, and the terrible reality of the atomic age began . . .Sixteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu has lived on the Bikini Atoll in the western Pacific all his life. Now the United States government wants to use his ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A young girl’s parents separated due to her father’s infidelity. She visits her father in Egypt and meets his colleagues, one of whom is a perfume maker. He makes a custom perfume for her made of sandalwood and other scents..\nUnfortunately have no idea when this book was published. I’m no... | [
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"content": "Gazelle.\nAs mesmerizing as a tale from the lips of Sheherazade, Gazelle traces the story of Elizabeth, a thirteen-year-old American girl whose adolescent passion is awakened in the exotic climate of 1950s Cairo. While her mother–whose beauty and sexual prowess both frighten and fascinate Elizabet... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Taught in middle school around 2009-2010, about a young African American boy who goes on the run from an abusive foster home?.\nHere are all the details I remember:\n\nHe is taken in by a foster family and the foster brother is beating him up all the time cuz he’s so scrawny - I remember on... | [
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"content": "Bud, Not Buddy.\nIt's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:He has his own suitcase full of special things.He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1990s][A BOOK ABOUT A LADY WHO BECAME LIKE A LIVING BEEHIVE AND COULD USE THE BEES FOR EVIL, BUT THEY KINDA POSSESSED HER?].\nAll I remember is that this was an audiobook on cassette tape I listened to as a kid. It was like horror/science fiction thriller paperback of the 90s. But this lady... | [
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"content": "The Homing.\nAfter years of living in Los Angeles, pretty young widow Karen Spellman and her two daughters are returning to the lush, verdant countryside of Karen's childhood, where she plans to marry her high-school sweetheart. But something sinister awaits the Spellmans. Something so hideous it ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Book about a homeless girl?.\nI remember reading a book in school about a girl whose father left her, her mother, and her younger brother so they ended up getting kicked out and forced to live in a van. At one point in the book the mother found a rundown, abandoned home for them and her kid... | [
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"content": "How to Steal a Dog.\n\"Half of me was thinking,\" Georgina, don't do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. \"The other half of me was thinking,\" Georgina, you're in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out of it.Georgina Hayes is desperate. Ever since her father left ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2010s?] Children live in a dystopian orphanage and manage to escape by sending their tears to the public..\nI remember reading this book in about 2012 I think, a middle school level book. Where there is a girls-only orphanage where they are continuously abused. I believe they don't refer ... | [
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"content": "Fearless.\nThe smartly painted exterior of the City Community Faith School hides a disturbing secret. Behind its walls, 1000 girls are forced to labour in the city's laundry, separated from their families and deprived of their freedom. One of these girls is Little Fearless who never gives up hope ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Book Series About Kid Ghosts.\nA pal of mine was telling me about a book series that I'm pretty curious about, but couldn't figure out what it was. I'll paste what they've told me and see if anyone knows what it might be. My friend says it was probably young adult.\n\nThanks to anyone who ... | [
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"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... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A book about a girl.\nSo I have been trying to find the name of a book I read when I was 14. \n\nIt was about a girl who lived in an old town back in the ‘little house on the prairie’ days. She ends up finding a weird ‘exit’ and leaves the town. It turns out she and her family were actuall... | [
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"content": "Running Out of Time.\nJessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie's mother sends her on a dangerous mission to bring back help. But beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a worl... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Middle School Level Book about racist family.\nHi everyone,\n\nThis is torturing me and I need proof it wasn’t a fever dream. When I was younger I read this book series about a girl who had an older brother. At some point of the series the girl’s older brother goes to college. One of the b... | [
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"content": "Alice in the Know.\nIt's the summer before junior year, and Alice is looking forward to three months of excitement, passion, and drama. But what does she find? A summer working in a local department store, trying to stop shoplifters, and more \"real life\" problems than she could have ever imagine... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Short stories about an african-american no more than 8 year-old kid and his family?.\nI remember reading a book. Its cover was an african-american kid that must be younger than 8. It had short stories about this kid and his family. In one of them, him and his dad are cooking food and the bo... | [
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"content": "The Stories Julian Tells.\nJulian is a quick fibber and a wishful thinker. And he is great at telling stories. He can make people—especially his younger brother, Huey—believe just about anything. Like the story about the cats that come in the mail. Or the fig leaves that make you grow tall if you ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [late 2000’s to early 2010’s].\nA dystopian novel about a world completely controlled by social media. Everyone has their social media “wall” and the number of follows directly effects how well off you do in life. Some houses or parties are for high profile people only and you have to have... | [
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"content": "Kompars (Oškliví, #4).\nFame\nIt's a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. Without those strict roles and rules, the world is in a complete cultural renaissance. \"Tech-heads\" flaunt their latest gadgets, \"kickers\" spread gossip and trends, and \"... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Book about a boy looking for his pet fox.\nThere's a book about a boy who was (forced?) to abandon his pet fox (iirc, it's because the family couldn't care for him because of a war.) He threw the fox's favorite toy, probably a soldier, into the forest and while he was looking for it, the fa... | [
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"content": "Pax.\nPax was only a kit when his family was killed, and “his boy” Peter rescued him from abandonment and certain death. Now the war front approaches, and when Peter’s father enlists, Peter has to move in with his grandpa. Far worse than being forced to leave home is the fact that Pax can’t go. Pe... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000's] What book is this??.\nI read this book as a kid and absolutely can't remember it- it had a pale yellow cover with a photo of a girl on the front, and the story was about a young girl in foster care who would take magazine clippings and glue them into a notebook to create her ideal h... | [
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"content": "Where I'd Like to Be.\nA ghost saved twelve-year-old Maddie's life when she was an infant, her Granny Lane claims, so Maddie must always remember that she is special. But it's hard to feel special when you've spent your life being shuttled from one foster home to another. And now that she's at the... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1990s/2000s] Collection of Zen Parables.\nI checked this book out of my university (American) library this past summer. It was an old book, probably around 20 years; the cover was a tan/faded yellow with some chinese characters featured. The book itself was a collection of stories/anecdotes... | [
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"content": "Zen Antics.\nThroughout Zen history, stories and anecdotes of Zen masters and their students have been used as teaching devices to exemplify the enlightened spirit. Unlike many of the baffling dialogues between Zen masters preserved in the koan literature, the stories retold here are penetratingly... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] teal cover with wood farris wheel.\nOr something similar? Probably be assumed at like 6-10 grade reading level, the cover was teal and had a little twig farris wheel type thing on it (I think). My best memory says it was about a bit who friends a girl in his grade, she seemed maybe malnouri... | [
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"content": "Afternoon of the Elves.\nHillary doesn't believe all the mean things she hears about Sara-Kate. Sure, she wears weird clothes and she lives in a dumpy house, but if Sara-Kate's as bad as everyone says, how could she take such good care of the elf village in her backyard? She and Hillary spend hour... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Children's Book] Large format picture book about a travelling toad/frog that went on adventures..\nI distinctly remember that he splashed water in the Sun's face, and poked the Moon in the eye. Very dreamy 60's/70's artwork.",
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"content": "I'm Taggarty Toad.\nA reissue of the classic Australian picture book which follows the mischievous Taggarty Toad on his adventures.The mischievous and clever Taggarty Toad has been on many adventure and has countless fearless stories to tell. He’s battled giants, sailed the Seven Seas and even ben... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A boy who uses a old videogame to start a revolution.\nI remember that i read a book around 2012 (i live in Brazil, so maybe the release in other parts of the globe was earlier than here) about a teenager who receveid a free edition of some videogame (almost sure that they used the Xbox nam... | [
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"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... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] Christian romance adventure novel set in Africa about a white woman who gets kidnapped by desert nomads and given a special amulet. They think she knows where their ancient treasure is hidden. She is rescued by a reporter/adventurer, and they fall in love. The treasure is shells..\nI read ... | [
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"content": "A Kiss of Adventure.\nDesperate and on the run, Tillie Thornton finds herself in an uneasy partnership with Graeme McLeod, a daring adventurer who comes out of nowhere to thwart the plot of Tillie’s would-be kidnappers. Now these two must join forces against their common enemies, as well as the ch... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][PRE-TEEN OR YA][80S/90S].\nHi! \n\nI am searching for a book I checked out from the library in the 80s or 90s in the Pre-Teen or YA section.\n\nIt was a story about two siblings who went exploring, and stumbled upon what they thought was an abandoned neighborhood. While going through the... | [
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"content": "Gone-Away Lake.\nSummer has a magic all its own.When Portia sets out for a visit with her cousin Julian, she expects fun and adventure, but of the usual kind: exploring in the woods near Julian's house, collecting stones and bugs, playing games throughout the long, lazy days.But this summer is dif... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000’s] A book targeted towards female preteens/early teens. Stereotypical story of two completely opposite friends. One of the girls was named Aphrodite but went by a nickname.\nI remember that the one girl was feminine and popular and the other was really smart. The smart one’s name was A... | [
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"content": "The Clueless Girl's Guide to Being a Genius.\nAphrodite Wigglesmith is a thirteen-year-old prodigy. After a fast track through Harvard, she's back at her old middle school to teach remedial math and prove a bold theory: anyone can be a genius with the right instruction. Enter Mindy, a ditzy baton ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1900s] What book is this?.\n \n\nI've been searching for this book for the last 5 months and I've tried everything. Literally, searching the ENTIRE Library of Congress and Google books site is no joke, and that's just the beginning. It has this green cover and it's about this poor family wi... | [
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"content": "The Family From One End Street.\nThe story of everyday life in the big, happy Ruggles family who live in the small town of Otwell. Father is a dustman and Mother a washerwoman. Then there's all the children - practical Lily Rose, clever Kate, mischievous twins James and John, followed by Jo, who l... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Distopian Sci-Fi.\nOk so I read this in late elemntary or early middle school, which was like 8 years ago.\n\nIt was dystopian sci-fi set in the future, and it starts out with the main character(teenage girl) I think avoiding the police of a big totalitarian government like the one in Hunge... | [
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"content": "Under the Never Sky.\nWORLDS KEPT THEM APART.DESTINY BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER.Aria has lived her whole life in the protected dome of Reverie. Her entire world confined to its spaces, she's never thought to dream of what lies beyond its doors. So when her mother goes missing, Aria knows her chances of... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] [2010s] YA book where main character is into photography and her best friend is into dance..\n(Warning: Sexual Assault)\n\nThere was this YA book I read a year or two ago where the main character and her friend were seniors in high school. Main character was a gifted photographer and her f... | [
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"content": "Exposed.\nIn the dim light of the darkroom, I'm alone, but not for long.As white turns to gray, Kate is with me.The background of the dance studio blurred, so the focus is all on herlegs extended in a perfect soaring split.The straight line to my squiggle,my forever-best friend.Sixteen-year-old Li... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] YA Short Story Book.\nIt was a short story book probably for kids ages 10-14. The cover was mostly black/dark and I think it was either a hallway or stairs. The title was a word for weird/odd/unexpected.\n\nI remember a few of the stories. There was one where a girl’s parents go missing an... | [
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"content": "Unexpected: 11 Mysterious Stories.\nAn Introduction by the editor and 11 stories. An eerie house filled with forgotten treasures... A young detective from the future...A miniature village that feels like home... A momabducted by trolls... These are just a few of the eleven mysterious encounters co... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] book I read as a kid.\nBook I read as a kid, main plot point is the kid being sucked into an underground cave. He gets sucked under an undercut rock in a river. There was a dead miner in the cave, I think he learned to fish with a net he found there too. The only other detail I can remember... | [
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"content": "Leepike Ridge.\nBefore he wrote the bestselling 100 Cupboards trilogy and Ashtown Burials series, N. D. Wilson delighted readers with his first unforgettable action-adventure story of survival. . . . Thomas Hammond has always lived next to Leepike Ridge, but he never imagined he might end up lost... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Man wakes to find plants growing in his shins.\nI read this for a class in college, it was either the beginning of a book or a short story and I think translated from an Asian author. A man awakes to find small plants, I think they were turnips, are growing out of his shins. ",
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"content": "Kangaroo Notebook.\nIn the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan's most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. The narrator of Kangaroo Notebook wakes on morning to discover that his ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [YA Novel] Book about a couple of kids who hide out in a museum. Title was something like “From the Strange Files of Mrs S”.\nThere were 2 kids, I think siblings, who decided to spend the night in a museum, and they collected coins from the fountain and slept in a bed exhibit. The title was eithe... | [
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"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... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [early 2000’s] YA Detective series.\nI remember checking this series out at my school library back in 2004/2005. There were three books minimum, I think four total. I’m pretty sure the title had something to do with the word “skeleton”. Skeleton keys, or the skeleton detective, something a... | [
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"content": "Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man.\nAfter the skeleton plows them over, Sammy and her friends look to see what he was running from. That’s when they find Frankenstein tied to a chair. Someone’s taking “trick-or-treat” way too far!When Sammy starts to dig into what really happened Halloween night, s... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000S] Young adult novel with protagonist named Nel.\nI read this book somewhere between 2003-2007, but it may have been published earlier than that. The main character was a teenage girl named Eleanor who shortened it to Nel (definitely with one L.) She was a quirky hippie type who lived n... | [
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"content": "Juggling Lessons.\nLearning to juggle isn't easy...Nel is a laid-back, unconventional fourteen-year-old hippy, living with her mum in Cornwall. She loves juggling and swimming in the sea, and she longs for a passionate, mysterious romance.Eleanor is a quiet ordinary fourteen-year-old girl, who liv... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Western style book where boy is kidnapped on a birthday.\nI remember reading a book in primary school and from what i remember it was set in America during the western times.\n\nIt’s someone’s birthday and the boy who is young is kidnapped by a group of Indians, he begins to learn more abou... | [
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"content": "Mr. Tucket.\nIt is 1848 and 14-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail. When he lags behind to practice shooting his new rifle, he is captured by Pawnees. It will take wild horses, hostile tribes, and a mysterious one-armed man to help Francis come of age and survive the gritty... |
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"content": "[TOMT][book] Two kids find a community of mutants that steal body parts..\nI read this book around the early 2000’s but have no idea when it was published. It was about two siblings, a boy and a girl, who move to a rural home and find a tunnel to an underground community of mutants who kidnap people and... | [
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"content": "The Beasties.\nThe master of suspense delivers a hard-core horror story to thrill and chill. Fans will get more than goose bumps from this terrifying tour de force by William Sleator. The nightmare begins when Doug's family moves to the desolate northern woods; soon he and his little sister, Colet... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] A kid trying to stop a criminal from releasing computers containing a virus that turns out to be a biological virus..\nThe bad guy had taken over a computer factory I believe.\nThe idea was once people bought this computer it would release the virus and kill them. \nThere was an underwater... | [
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"content": "Stormbreaker (Alex Rider, #1).\nThey told him his uncle died in an accident. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt, they said. But when fourteen-year-old Alex finds his uncle's windshield riddled with bullet holes, he knows it was no accident. What he doesn't know yet is that his uncle was killed while o... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][Story]Either a book or a story where this guy wakes up and everyone’s gone in his neighborhood..\nAnd he walks around thinking maybe there was some kind of overnight evacuation or something. I vividly remember him thinking how funny it would be for everyone in town to be in a trance while i... | [
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"content": "The Vanished.\nWhere is everybody?The alarm clock goes off. You wake up and get ready for school, just like every other day. So what's the big deal? Well, what if one morning you suddenly discovered that you were one of the last surviving people on Earth? That's right, everyone else has disappeare... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] a collection of fictional short stories looking at interactions between humans and aliens, and how fucking weird humans are.\nSo I have a pretty good memory of this book, but I can’t remember the title for the life of me. It was a collection of short stories, maybe 9 or 10, about interactio... | [
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"content": "Humans Wanted.\nHumans are tough. Humans can last days without food. Humans will walk for days on broken bones to get to safety. Humans will literally cut off bits of themselves if trapped by a disaster. You would be amazed what humans will do to survive. Or to ensure the survival of others they f... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A Teenage Boy Runs Away From Home to Live in the Wilderness and Meets a Girl.\nI remember a book I read in highschool, grade 11, about a boy who ran away from home to live in the wilderness in his car at first, but then he meets a girl and they survive together and they loot Hunter's Cabins... | [
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"content": "Crabbe.\nOne night, just before final exams, 18-year-old Franklin Crabbe - smart, rich, yet unhappy and semi-alcoholic - packs his gear and drives away into the woods to disappear completely. Totally unprepared for bush life, Crabbe nearly perishes until he meets someone else who has her reasons t... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [GRAPHIC NOVEL] Comic about a dead girl in a vrmmo. Kimmy88?.\nThe story took place in a world where brain nanomachines let everyone play vrmmos while asleep. Main character was a middle or highschooler, who played primarily in the 'fantasy' realm. Her best friend was another player called kimmy8... | [
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"content": "Kimmie66.\nWritten and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich Navigate the neon-lit corridors of an online VR lair in this high-velocity, dangerous quest to locate the world's first digital girl, written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich (Serenity Rose, TV's Invader Zim and Avatar: The Last Airbender)! T... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A scary children’s book about two boys (friends/brothers) who have to look after/are looked after by their granny, but they know there is something wrong with her. They use a technique called “right eyes” which sends her crazy..\nI read it around 2006. The “right eyes” technique is where th... | [
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"content": "Grinny.\nGreat Aunt Emma is no ordinary old lady. But why is she so strange? For a start, she just appeared, grinning, on the doorstep, as if from nowhere. Why have Mum and Dad never mentioned her before—after all, she is supposed to be Granny's sister, isn't she?Soon Tim and Beth start noticing m... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][2000’s].\nI’ve been trying to think of a children’s/middle schooler book I read a while ago so hopefully you all can help out. \n\nI probably read the book in the early 2000’s as a young kid. The general plot of the book is a kid(?) sailing on a ship that gets shipwrecked onto an island. Th... | [
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"content": "The Wreckers.\nThere was once a village bred by evil. On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore. They fed and clothed themselves with the loot salvaged from the wrecka... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] 3 minature magic cat statues?.\nWhen I was a little girl growing up in australia, I read this book about a girl with 3 magic cats. They were 3 minature statues that linked up with each other as 3 cats forming a heart with their tails. A tabby cat, a like black purpulish, and i think a white... | [
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"content": "Paw Power.\nWhen Maddy first wakes up to find a tiny, living, breathing cat on her pillow, she can't believe her luck. Greykin tells her that he and the other ceramic cats have bonded with her and will now come to life whenever she needs help helping others. In Paw Power, Maddy and Greykin have a... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] middle school level book.\nSo, I read this book in like 7th grade (2015ish, though I imagine the book’s from early 2000s). It had something to do with time travel and the main character really liked the book A Wrinkle in Time. She carries it around and always calls it ‘my’ (her) book. It a... | [
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"content": "When You Reach Me.\nMiranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody who knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. Until the final not... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000-2010’s].\nSorry in advance that I have almost no recollection of this story. But from what I do remember, it’s a teenage coming-of-age story where a girl just moved to a private/charter school and made friends with the popular girls. Around her sixteenth birthday, she goes to her new f... | [
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"content": "Bittersweet Sixteen.\nBalloons and streamers? Carvel cake? Those might be standard fair for your average birthday party, but Whitney Blake and Sophie Mitchum are anything but average.I'm Laura Finnegan – thrift store junkie and scholarship student at Tate, our posh all–girls high school in Manhatt... |
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