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{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Anyone know the name of this dystopian novel?.\nOkay so basically about 4-6 years ago I read this book and I would really like to read it again!\nThe scene was that a teenage/young adult girl was in Cuba (I think? Maybe Puerto Rico?) as a mission to help people when the US government colla...
[ { "content": "Safekeeping.\nRadley just wants to get home to her parents in Vermont. While she was volunteering abroad, the American People's Party took power; the new president was assassinated; and the government cracked down on citizens. Travel restrictions are worse than ever, and when her plane finally lan...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000-2018] A book about a girl named hope with neglectful parents in a lower-middle-class family who has purple boots.\nThere is this book from my youth that really struck a chord with me and I can't remember the exact title but I know that it contains the word 'Hope' because the main chara...
[ { "content": "Call Me Hope.\nNow with a new cover! A heartwrenching and poignant novel about a young girl dealing with verbal abuse perfect for fans of Wendy Mass. Hope Elliot is struggling to live under the pressures of her verbally abusive mother. But instead of running away, precocious Hope chooses resilienc...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Children’s Book] Book about a girl who collects photos of dogs..\nA friend of mine was describing this book to me because it was one of her favorites as a kid (I think around 8-12, but I’m just guessing), but she can never remember the name of it. I’d really like to get it for Christmas. \n\nAll ...
[ { "content": "Something Queer at the Library.\nJill's excited about entering her basset hound, Fletcher, in the big dog show, so she and her best friend, Gwen, go to the library to learn about training dogs.But they're puzzled and surprised to find that many pictures are cut out of the special dog books they've...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Need help finding book I read when I was younger.\nI don’t remember much about the book. The cover for the book was a boy on a skateboard (I think). The main character has two friends and they have a weekly tradition of playing board games and eating pizza. The main character also ki...
[ { "content": "Smiles to Go.\nWhat is stargazer, skateboarder, chess champ, pepperoni pizza eater, older brother, sister hater, best friend, first kisser, science geek, control freak Will Tuppence so afraid of in this great big universe?Jerry Spinelli knows.", "label": 1, "id": "2287545", "tokenized_...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000’s] teenage novel about vampires (the classic teenage coming of age/sex related book vibe).\nI remember the cover of mine was purple with fangs in one of lower corners. Not sure if it was lips with fangs or just the plastic looking ones. \n\nThe book i had was paper cover- like 200 p...
[ { "content": "Never Bite a Boy on the First Date.\nI've got a few issues:I'm a vampire now. One of my classmates was found dead, with telltale fang marks. I didn't do it! (really!) Nobody believes me, so ... I'm going to have to find the real killer.I've already got three suspects. (three very cute suspects.) O...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Kids book that goes back and forth between a real and you train..\nThe art style was very 50s. The real train would go through a snowstorm and the toy train would go through pepper shakers and whatnot.", "id": "cadu6j", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1031, 3419, 2102, ...
[ { "content": "Two Little Trains.\nFrom two-time Caldecott Medal-winning artists Leo and Diane Dillon and beloved children’s book author Margaret Wise Brown comes Two Little Trains.With simple, bouncy text and soft, beautiful illustrations, this story is perfect for fans of things that go!“Sure to delight.” (Kir...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Suburban Woman Tricked By Puck into a Changeling Baby Agreement, Baby in Plastic Bags?.\nSo this was a very strange and messed up book that I believe was connected to Shakespeare's *A Midsummer Night's Dream* character's specifically puck and Oberon. it opens with a suburban woman going thr...
[ { "content": "Magic Street.\nOrson Scott Card has the distinction of having swept both the Hugo and Nebula awards in two consecutive years with his amazing novels Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead. For a body of work that ranges from science fiction to nonfiction to plays, Card has been recognized as an aut...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK].\nOk, so I have no idea when I read it but I remember the entire plot... ish. I watched that episode of The Handmaid's Tale with the colonies and that's what reminded me of the book. Don't remember what the cover looked like.\n\nSo it's about these people that do magic or something on I th...
[ { "content": "Pucker.\nThomas Quicksilver, known to his classmates as \"Pucker,\" has always been an outsider. His crazy mother, the secret of his family's strange origins, and above all, the terrible scars on his face from a childhood fire these things have kept Thomas isolated and lonely. But now, at seventee...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][2000s] A YA novel about a girl who finds out she’s a clone.\nThis book was in my elementary school library probably around 04-06ish. The cover was a girl’s face with (I think) a bunch of numbers in the background. It was about a girl who finds out her parents had made her a clone of her sis...
[ { "content": "Double Identity.\nSo my only protection is a kindergarten teacher and a ninety-eight-pound female minister....And they don't even believe I'm in danger. As Bethany approaches her thirteenth birthday, her parents act more oddly than usual. Her mother cries constantly, and her father barely lets B...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][90s] Kids crazy uncle or something brings him along in an effort to visit all the chicken restaurants in the chain for a contest and invents a machine to teleport him around to collect the stamps..\nThis should be an easy one. The machine was called the RemDem tm and the cashiers would alwa...
[ { "content": "Chicken Trek.\nOscar spends the summer with his inventor cousin traveling around the United States in a Picklemobile eating chicken in the bag to win a contest, while being pursued by an angry woman with mystical powers, who is also determined to win the contest.", "label": 1, "id": "41189...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Story about a teenage boy who plays the drums and leukaemia is involved somehow? He gets it, or his little brother (?) gets it, and he meets a girl he likes in a cancer ward I think?.\nI read this book as a teen in the early ‘10s in a single sitting in a public library and have never found ...
[ { "content": "Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie.\nFrom first-time novelist, Jordan Sonnenblick, a brave and beautiful story that will make readers laugh and break their hearts at the same time.Thirteen-year-old Steven has a totally normal life; he plays drums in the All-Star Jazz band, has a crush on the hottest gir...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1990s-2010s] Attempted murder scene - possibly goosebumps?.\nA while back, when goosebumps and R.L. Stine stuff was really popular, I remember one scene in a book that may have been in one of those? It might not have though.\n\nI mainly remember one scene from it:\n\nThere was this girl who...
[ { "content": "First Date.\nFear Street -- where your worst nightmares live... Chelsea is the typical shy girl. Always home on a Saturday night, she would give anything to have her first date. Finally, Chelsea's luck begins to change when two new guys move into town and both ask her out. Too bad that one of Ch...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Book about malicious orphans I read ~9-10 years ago.\nSorry in advance because my memories of this book are extremely foggy and it's possible I'm confusing some parts with A Serious of Unfortunate Events as there were some stylistically similar elements (except in this case the orphans are ...
[ { "content": "Rare Beasts.\nFire ants. Fraud. Footie pajamas. Twins Edgar and Ellen live alone -- their parents disappeared years ago, and who can blame them? -- in the quaint, little town of Nod's Limbs, in a grim, gray house overlooking the cemetery and the junkyard. They spend their days avoiding Heimertz,...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][2000s-2010s] There's this book where a boy gets put into a foster house after (I'm pretty sure) his dad dies while escaping after a heist. The boy and friends he make throughout the book steal something very expensive at the end..\nThe edition I read had a bluish diamond on the cover and wa...
[ { "content": "Loot.\nOn a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below. It's Alfie McQuinn, the notorious cat burglar, and he's dying. As sirens wail in the distance, Alfie manages to get out two last words to his young son, March: \"Find jewels.\"But March learns that his fath...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Graphic Novel] About Superhero Police in a universe full of super heroes..\nI read this series in a library like ten years ago or so, and the name was a noun and a number.\n\nIt was pretty good and I'm on vacation and want to reread it.", "id": "7ns8a5", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1...
[ { "content": "Top 10, Vol. 1.\nThis is the tale of Neopolis, a modern metropolis with a citizentry made up exclusively of super beings. In a city where everyone is blessed with powers, it takes a unique and powerful police force to protect and serve. In this Eisner Award-winning book, we are introduced to the e...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK].\nI read this children's novel in like the fourth grade about a girl who moves to a new town and befriends a boy with fetal alcohol syndrome. I want to say the title had the word marvelous and either the town was called Gumbo or it was famous for it's gumbo. I read it in like a day so Im as...
[ { "content": "The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous.\nMerilee leads a Very Ordered Existence. V.O.E., for short. Her schedule (which must not be altered) includes, among other entries: School (horrendous) Litter patrol (30 minutes daily) Lunch (PB&J and a pickle) Bottle return (Friday only...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A very wild and convaluted choose your own adventure book with time travel..\nThis was a book i rwad between 5-7 yesrs ago, with it being a choose your own adventure book with a comic book style. It started with a choice between chocolate and vanilla ice cream, and one of the choices ended ...
[ { "content": "Meanwhile.\nChocolate or Vanilla? This simple choice is all it takes to get started with Meanwhile, the wildly inventive creation of comics mastermind Jason Shiga, of whom Scott McCloud said “Crazy + Genius = Shiga.” Jimmy, whose every move is under your control, finds himself in a mad scientist’s...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A book about kids in the afterlife where the ground will start to suck them in unless something died there.\nIt starts with two kids in a crash and when they both wake up they realize they can't change their apperence (the guy can't wipe chocolate off his face) eventually they get to the tw...
[ { "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] A brother and sister are the king's food tasters..\nI picked up this book and read it once when I was in middle school or high school, so it would be no later than 2009 but more likely earlier. I remember almost none of it except the premise, which was that the main characters were a broth...
[ { "content": "The Castle Corona.\nLong ago and far away . . .There was a castle. But not just any castle. This was a castle that glittered and sparkled and rose majestically above the banks of the winding Winono River: the Castle Corona.And in this castle lived a family. But not just any family. This was the fa...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2017ish] Autobiographical (Scandinavian?) novel about a man whose wife dies (while giving birth?) and he raises their child.\nCan't for the life of me remember the name or author of this book. I think it came out sometime around 2017, maybe as early as 2015/2016. Translated into English (I'...
[ { "content": "In Every Moment We Are Still Alive.\nA prize-winning, bestselling debut of love, loss, and family—based on a true story—that’s winning readers around the world.When Tom’s heavily pregnant girlfriend Karin is rushed to the hospital, doctors are able to save the baby. But they are helpless to save K...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Girl wants to buy a gold necklace for mom and needs to win a writing competition.\nI'm pretty sure this is a book, but it could be a short story, it's about a girl who wanted to buy her mom a golden necklace from a store and had to put it on layaway because she didnt have enough money to bu...
[ { "content": "Circle of Gold.\nThe death of Mattie's father throws her entire family into hard times. As Mother's Day approaches, Mattie becomes determined to by her mother a gold pin.", "label": 1, "id": "934872", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 4418, 1997, 2751, 1012, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1990S-2005] Teen romance/fantasy novel set in England.\nWhen I was in my early teens I read this actually really good book. From what I can remember of the plot it's set anytime between 1980 and 1999, the main character is moving from London with her mother to her mother's ancestral home af...
[ { "content": "The China Garden.\nWhen Clare moves with her mother from London to Ravensmere, an historic English estate, she can't shake the feeling that the residents already know her, especially Mark, a maddeningly attractive biker. Clare also feels compelled to take midnight walks in Ravensmere's abandoned C...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2002ish] Story centers around a man who performs as a living mannequin/wax dummy..\nI don't remember too much about the book that I read back in 2002. The main character had a job working as a live decoy in a wax museum. He trained himself to be very still and maintain the same pose. I beli...
[ { "content": "Observatory Mansions.\nOnce the Orme family’s magnificent ancestral estate, Observatory Mansions is now a crumbling apartment complex, home to an eccentric group of misfits. One of them is Francis Orme, who earns his livelihood as a living statue. When not practicing “inner and outer stillness,” F...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] - Sci-fi - Absolute Zero experiment creates path to 4th dimension and children are used to explore it..\nI read it in the 90's, not sure if its a book on its own, though i think it is, or a short story. In the beginning of the story a scientist is working on creating Absolute zero and when...
[ { "content": "The Universe Between.\nGail, the one person able to withstand the terror of being inside a parallel universe, decides that the scientists mustn't risk any more people and she pretends catatonia on returning to our universe. However, her plan is that when she has a child, that child will become mul...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Boy with no name?.\nI read a book the summer going into 6th grade. It was required reading. A boy is born on an island as a part of a tribe and no one likes him and he's pretty much shunned. He ends up taking a boat and sailing away. There might have been something about cannibals. He ends...
[ { "content": "Call It Courage.\nA boy tries to overcome his fear of the sea in this treasured classic and winner of the Newbery Medal.Mafatu was afraid of the sea. It had taken his mother when he was a baby, and it seemed to him that the sea gods sought vengeance at having been cheated of Mafatu. So, though he ...
{ "content": "[tomt][book] I need help remembering the name of a book.\ngenre: fiction\n\nthe plot is that a new family has moved into this new house that was owned by a magic book writer. while checking out the garden they find a wish stone. the older sister wishes for an infinite closet, the second oldest brother w...
[ { "content": "Scare Scape.\nThree wishes go awry in a middle-grade debut as comical as it is spooky.Toxic Vapor Worms. Shark Hounds. King-Crab Spiders. Two-Headed Mutant Rodents.These are just a few of the beasts featured in the pages of Scare Scape, the creepiest comic book around. They are vicious. They are t...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Pig latin and moat eels.\nI remember reading this around maybe 10 or so years ago, I believe I remember that there was a child who wanted to become a knight and saw an ad on a tree directing him to a fort. He became a squire, and the only friend he had was his pig who could speak, albeit on...
[ { "content": "The New Kid at School.\nWhen a traveling minstrel foretells that he is to become a hero, Wiglaf sets out to fulfill his destiny: he signs up at the Dragon Slayers' Academy. But how can he ever hope to be a dragon slayer when he can't even stand the sight of blood?", "label": 1, "id": "3425...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s-10s] Middle school book about grief + a young girl befriending a fairy/guardian angel named Daisy.\n- The book starts with the main character in a tree house. She’s upset about something and throws a daisy out the window, but doesn’t realize it turns into a girl as it falls.\n- the da...
[ { "content": "Philippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister.\nPhilippa Fisher tries & fails to summon a fairy, but is taken aback when Daisy, the new girl at school, announces that she is her fairy godmother - or godsister, since they are the same age. Daisy is not best pleased with Philippa, but she has a mission to fulfi...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Mid-2000’s Children’s fiction novel about kids who go on a Wizard of Oz.\nHi there!! I read a book when I was in fifth grade, roughly 2004-2006, I enjoyed it thoroughly and even passed it around to my friends but I for the life of me cannot remember the name, plot, or any details that would...
[ { "content": "The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls.\nFor seven years, bad luck has followed Ivy around like a dog on a leash. Her father disappeared, her mother is a washed-up beauty-pageant winner, and now Ivy and her mother have moved into a ramshackle house on Gumm Street. Ivy's new neighbors--bookish P...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s?] Fantasy Dystopian book I read in Elementary School.\nI can't remember the title to this book but I was like obsessed with the series\n\nFrom what I can remember is it was set in a Dystopian world where Creativity was banned and like every year a hand full of kids were tested and if ...
[ { "content": "The Unwanteds.\nWhen Alex finds out he is Unwanted, he expects to die. That is the way of the people of Quill. Each year, all the thirteen-year-olds are labeled as Wanted, Necessary, or Unwanted. Wanteds get more schooling and train to join the Quillitary. Necessaries keep the farms running. Unwan...
{ "content": "[TOMT][MANGA][2013-2014] I need help finding a manga(?) Where a woman gets her body replaced by an alien (disembodied being??) And then a second alien also shares her body and then both leave..\nTHIS POST IS SOLVED\n\nSo around my last years of high school (2013-2014) I read an interesting manga(?) From...
[ { "content": "7 Billion Needles, Vol. 1.\nAlways sporting her headphones to try to close out the world around her, Hikaru is clearly a reclusive teen aged girl.  And within her body resides another life-form known as Ciel, a hunter in search of an intergalactic murderer intent on wiping out humanity. In 7 Billi...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][90S] Large Pictures only book depicting a big hotel with monsters in it..\nBook was in my elementary school library in the 90s. It's a huge picture book, where each page shows the progression and eventual destruction of a hotel with various monsters in it. I believe the cover had a big gree...
[ { "content": "Full Moon Soup.\nSomething strange is going on here! Children will really have to keep their eyes open if they want to see all the weird and wacky goings-on at the Hotel Splendide. That’s because the full moon seems to be having a peculiar effect on the hotel’s guests and staff: a portrait is bein...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] Scene where kid with superpower for finding lost things goes crazy because he's in a school where years ago the bad guy shoved a kid's toy soldiers into the cement being mixed for the foundation.\nHe flips out due to the shouting voices he can hear and starts breaking apart the walls with ...
[ { "content": "True Talents.\nIt’s been over a year since fourteen-year-old Eddie “Trash” Thalmeyer and his friends from Edgeview Alternative School found out about their special hidden talents. Trash can move things with his mind, Torchie is a fire-starter, Cheater reads minds, Lucky finds lost objects, Flinch ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book series] Kids/Teen Fantasy Novel.\nBasic Info: This book I believe was part of a trilogy and was released around the 2009 to 2014 for at least one of the books. The name may have begun with a D and possibly sounded something like Dormir, the book is also related to dreams in some ways. The a...
[ { "content": "Dormia.\nIntroducing Alfonso Perplexon, hero of the epic fantasy tale Dormia!Alfonso Perplexon is an unusual sleeper. He climbs trees, raises falcons, even shoots deadly accurate arrows, all in his sleep. No one can figure out why.Then one evening a man arrives at Alfonso’s door, claiming to be Al...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Middle School Book about a Headmaster who ran a home/academy.\nIt was about a reform school/home thing where a woman headmaster who was a total nut had to break the children's fears, for example one of them was afraid of small spaces. One of the kids names was Bartholomew, that's all...
[ { "content": "School of Fear.\nMadeleine Masterson is deathly afraid of bugs, especially spiders. Theodore Bartholomew is petrified of dying. Lulu Punchalower is scared of confined spaces. Garrison Feldman is terrified of deep water. Which is why this may be the scariest summer of their lives. Worse than detent...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][MID 90's?] Young Adult genre, about kids getting kidnapped, fighting aliens and rescuing someone else.\nHey all, \nI remember reading this book a bunch in the late 90s/early 2000s, it was probably published much earlier than that. \nTwo scenes I remember are as such: Two kids (brother and...
[ { "content": "I Spent My Summer Vacation Kidnapped Into Space.\nWhat a way to start the summer!On the last day of sixth grade, Reeann and her best friend Jared (who just happens to be the cutest boy in school) are innocently hunting rocks among the asteroids. Suddenly they meet a very shaggy pair of Torkan alie...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Written by a therapist for a lay audience based on case studies of their patients.\nI vaguely remember reading a review of this book, and recall that it's written by a veteran therapist and consists of case studies of different patients and how their present day difficulties are connected t...
[ { "content": "The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves.\nEchoing Socrates' time-honoured statement that the unexamined life is not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws short, vivid stories from his 25-five-year practice in order to track the collaborative journey of therapist and patient as ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] book about a place where there was a fancy giant city above a dirty one, and where the government invented a spaceship video game thing and made the prize going to the fancy city, but really it was to find mutant children..\nMutant in the sense that they were born with animal parts, like w...
[ { "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][Book] About a boy who accidentally makes a civilization of tiny people on his sock who worship him.\nThe name is on the tip of my tounge but I can't seem to find the book online. The main characer is named Todd iirc and the title is called something like \"All Hail Todd\" or \"Todd is God\".", ...
[ { "content": "By the Grace of Todd.\nPerfect for fans of Andrew Clements, Dan Gutman, and The Borrowers, By the Grace of Todd is the laugh-out-loud answer to what happens if you leave dirty laundry on the floor . . . and don’t follow your mother’s instructions to clean your room.Twelve-year-old Todd has created...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Classroom full of students get superpowers.\nI remember a general idea about this book, as well as two scenes in detail, but neither has been enough to successfully google it. I'm not sure when I read this book, but I remember picturing the design of the school in it as similar to my elemen...
[ { "content": "Sixth Grade Mutants Meet the Slime.\nAfter a science experiment goes awry, seven sixth graders are suddenly endowed with special mutant powers. At first it's scary, but then the kids realize that they can use the powers to their advantage. Being a mutant comes in handy, especially when there's a s...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][2000ish] Physics story books for preteens..\nThere are a few books that use subjects in quantum physics in stories about a girl and her uncle (i think) who is a professor. The ones i rememeber they went to space and found out what hapens to light and time close to a black hole and also some...
[ { "content": "The Time and Space of Uncle Albert.\nAn alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Uncle Albert, the famous scientist, has got stuck. To unlock the deep mysteries of space and time someone must agree to be beamed up into the unknown world of the thought bubble. His brave niece, Gada...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Book about boats and moral consequences.\nThe book's about a ship that sinks, and then people rush to the life boats, the boats can only carry something like 30 people, if they carry 1 extra person, the boat sinks. Most boats sink, except for like 2, because each time someone tries to get ...
[ { "content": "The Lifeboat.\nIn the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying Grace Winter and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to li...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] An anthology series that I can’t remember..\nIt was a nerdy anthology book with pixel sprites on the cover. I can remember one story was about a girl who got caught doodling her crush’s tattoo and compares herself to a T-Rex when she gets revenge. There’s another one with a girl who shares...
[ { "content": "Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd.\nAcclaimed authors Holly Black (Ironside) and Cecil Castellucci (Boy Proof) have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best selling and most promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, John Green,...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][90s?].\nThe book had a deaf mute thief named Cat that lived on an icy world. I think he lost his ability to hear and speak due to a plague the imperials tried to use to wipe out the planet's population. The imperials can't attack the world directly so they sneak in an extremely powerful tel...
[ { "content": "Deathstalker War.\nOwen Deathstalker's rebellion continues to strike out against Imperial tyranny, taking the battle straight to the Empire's heart on the planet of Golgotha, but the cunning Empress isn't about to surrender without a fight...", "label": 1, "id": "604600", "tokenized_co...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s] A bullying book about a boy who kills another kid with a lock..\nI remember reading this book in the 2010s, but I think it was published in 2007-08. It was a book where a kid gets bullied and his bullies end up taking nude photos of him and posting them. And eventually after this, ...
[ { "content": "Burn.\nWith thought-provoking prose, the author of Chloe Doe challenges the perception of victimization as she explores the psyche of Cameron, a bullied freshman who ultimately does the unthinkable: he kills another student.", "label": 1, "id": "3722070", "tokenized_content": [ 1...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][EARLY-MID 2000’s] Teen Horror Novel.\nThe book I’m thinking of may have been part of a series like Goosebumps but it’s completely possible that it was it’s own thing, either way, it was a horror book for younger audiences about a group of teens who were invited to a party, and one by one th...
[ { "content": "Halloween Party.\nWelcome to Fear Street.Don’t listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn’t you rather explore it yourself…and see if its dark terror and unexplained mysteries are true? You’re not afraid, are you?Invitation to TerrorThe invitation arrived in a black-bordered env...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK].\nIt was a kids book I had in the 90s but it might have been older than that. It didn't have very many words and felt like a poem. It started in a forest and followed a tree that was cut down, turned into a violin and return to be played in the forest. \n\nI'm sorry if that's a bad descript...
[ { "content": "The Heart of the Wood.\nA cumulative tale in which a tree that is home to a singing mockingbird continues to be a source of music after it is fashioned into a fiddle.", "label": 1, "id": "2945008", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1996, 2540, 1997, 1996, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] [80s-90s].\nI was required to read a book in the 91-92 school year about a virus that killed anyone over the age of 15 I believe, (may have been 18). There was a girl who was a leader and she took care of several younger kids. I’m pretty sure they took up residency in a local mall. There w...
[ { "content": "The Girl Who Owned a City.\nA killing virus has swept the earth, sparing only children through the age of twelve. There is chaos everywhere, even in formely prosperous mid-America. Gangs and fierce armies of children begin to form almost immediately. It would be the same for the children on Grand ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Teenage Superpower YA Novel.\nI remember this book was about a group of kids who all had this rag-tag superhero group, and they all had powers that worked best in crowds (a blind girl who could see through the eyes of others and a guy who was “forgotten” by people especially in crowds are ...
[ { "content": "Zeroes.\nDon’t call them heroes.But these six Californian teens have powers that set them apart. They can do stuff ordinary people can’t.Take Ethan, a.k.a. Scam. He’s got a voice inside him that’ll say whatever you want to hear, whether it’s true or not. Which is handy, except when it isn’t—like w...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Dragons vs. Sea Serpents.\nMy brother’s birthday is tomorrow and I’m hoping to gift him with the name of a book he’s been looking for.\n\nHere is what he told me. “When I was young I read what I think was an older fantasy book in which there were dragons and sea serpents and sea serpents w...
[ { "content": "The Dragon at War.\nJim Eckert is \"The Dragon Knight\". A 20th-century professor transported to an alternate medieval England, he gains the ability to transform himself into a dragon. In a land where magic is the rule, not the exception, the Dragon Knight must battle powerful sea serpents.", ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] YA dystopian novel where children are hunted for sport.\nThere is a camp of all boys where the children are being raised to be hunted for sport, but they don’t know that they think they’ll be working in the army or something like that. Then one day a boy not from the camp turns up injured a...
[ { "content": "The Prey.\nA hot debut trilogy and a riveting story of survival, courage, and romance in a future where creating a master civilization is the only thing prized, no matter the method. After the Omega (the end of the end), 16 year old guys known as LTs discover their overseers are raising them not t...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] Dark YA book where a meteorite hits a farm and brings a boy's 3 creepy childhood toys to life.\nThis is a book most likely from the past 10 years that I checked out from my high school library. Everything I remember about it: The (probably teenage) boy lives in a rural area with his father...
[ { "content": "Scowler.\nImagine your father is a monster. Would that mean there are monsters inside you, too?Nineteen-year-old Ry Burke, his mother, and little sister scrape by for a living on their dying family farm. Ry wishes for anything to distract him from the grim memories of his father's physical and emo...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Thriller about an orange grower from Florida(?) who gets mugged and lost in Chicago or New York..\nFirst time poster. I read this book back in the mid-90s, so it could have been written any time before then.\n\nBasic plot: A guy who is an orange grower from FLA flies to a large, snowy city,...
[ { "content": "Downtown.\nEd McBain, author of the bestselling 87th Precinct series, takes us \"Downtown\" in a bold departure of a novel that will have listeners cheering for a lone out-of-towner running for his life in New York City.Meet Michael Barnes, a Florida orange grower who finds himself in a Manhattan ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][Cant remember the exact year, maybe 80s-90s] About an european or north american woman that goes to work as a clerk in a company in japan and she goes through a lot of problems there.\nthe protagonist is young, 24 or 25 years old maybe, she's kinda a simple clerk in this company and is cons...
[ { "content": "Fear and Trembling.\nAccording to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amélie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumim...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] A book with a bunch of made up aliens with drawings and descriptions of them.\nThere were loads of creatures that had no purpose or that just looked weird, there is a meme format from the book i think where it says something like \"does absolutsly nothing and dies\" with a pic of a g...
[ { "content": "Flanimals.\nWhat is Glonk's favorite pastime? If a Puddloflaj's eyes pop out why can't it pick them up? The Plamglotis only eats two things in its entire life. What are they? Why don't you know the answers? What's wrong with you? Anyway. Help is at hand from Ricky Gervais.", "label": 1, "i...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Science Fiction - core idea of Godel number encoding of signal of advanced concepts back to Earth.\n **\\[TOMT\\]\\[Book\\]** Science Fiction, possibly Hard Science Fiction. I read this paperback SciFi book sometime between 1996 and 2002. That is when I had access to an employer's personal ...
[ { "content": "Starburst.\nThe crew of the Constitution--scientists cum astronauts--had been carefully screened for extremely high intelligence and superb physical qualities. They were to be the first explorers sent to another stellar system. There they would explore the planet Alpha-Aleph and then return. They ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] A book I read in elementary school in the early 2000s, in the US, where a young girl is lost or running away and in the wilderness, and is found hiding in a bush by a blind man/soldier (?) who rescues her, and drives (?) her away, and gives her a sandwich and Big Red..\nThe murky det...
[ { "content": "Bud, Not Buddy.\nIt's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:He has his own suitcase full of special things.He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making...
{ "content": "[TOMT][STORY] A story about a speaking cat and a dinner party.\nI remember reading a story in school in which the narrater hosts a dinner party and tells the guests about his cat which can speak. I think the name of the cat was Talbot but I am not sure. I seem to remember that the cat was sitting on the...
[ { "content": "Tobermory.\nTobermory is one of Saki’s (H. H. Munro) best known short stories. Toby is a cat that learns to speak human to everyone's amazement.", "label": 1, "id": "2182367", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 2000, 5677, 5302, 2854, 1012, 2000, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Children’s/tween book.\nI remember very little about this book, and the details I do have I’m unsure of. I think it was about a teenage girl who finds out she’s a medium. Her mom has some connection to the craft — either she’s dead or she is a medium of some kind? The girl finds out becaus...
[ { "content": "Shadowland.\nSuze is a mediator -- a liaison between the living and the dead. In other words, she sees dead people. And they won't leave her alone until she helps them resolve their unfinished business with the living. But Jesse, the hot ghost haunting her bedroom, doesn't seem to need her help. W...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Science fiction book.\nIn the beginning the main character somehow steps into a portal that randomly appeared. He thinks hes on some other planet for a bit until he finds a coke bottle and realizes hes on Earth in the future. Other hijinks occurred too", "id": "bvo6zq", "tokenized_conte...
[ { "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][YA NOVEL] Written from the prospective of a dead 18 year old boy.\nOkay so I read this book sometime between 2013-2014 and the things I remember is that the boy is a twin and I think his twins name was like Craig or something and Craig (maybe?) was like a popular captain of the football team type...
[ { "content": "Deadline.\nBen Wolf has big things planned for his senior year. Had big things planned. Now what he has is some very bad news and only one year left to make his mark on the world.How can a pint-sized, smart-ass seventeen-year-old do anything significant in the nowheresville of Trout, Idaho?First, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][mid 2000s] cover had the image of a drowning girl's face.\nLong shot here boys:\n\nI remember vague details about this novel. Like, there was a girl who was on vacation with her family, I know 100% her mother was there. There was a big to do in the novel about her staying at an old cottage ...
[ { "content": "Deep and Dark and Dangerous (A Ghost Story).\nJust before summer begins, 13-year-old Ali finds an odd photograph in the attic. She knows the two children in it are her mother, Claire, and her aunt Dulcie. But who’s the third person, the one who’s been torn out of the picture?Ali figures she’ll fin...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Chapter Book (I think it’s a children’s book or young adult book) with occasional illustrations about a family after their son and brother fell out a window and died?.\nThe front cover showed an illustrated boy with either red or brown hair wearing a dress shirt and tie (I think?) mid-fall...
[ { "content": "The Fall of Fergal: The First Unlikely Exploit.\nThe very last words young Fergal McNally heard in his life were: \"Don't lean out of that window!\" The very last sounds were probably the air whistling past his sticky-out ears as he fell the fourteen stories, the honk of traffic horns below (getti...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] It's a book about a bunch of teens exploring a castle during snow.\nA bunch of teens (two guys and one girl I think) go to a castle in their town when it's snowed in and it goes from exploring to having sleepovers in the castle. The book's first few pages includes a drawing of the ca...
[ { "content": "The Last Siege.\nA chance encounter on the snowy slopes of a castle moat throws together three lonely teenagers: Emily, Simon, and the highly enigmatic Marcus, who is the catalyst for all that follows. At first the castle`s ruins are merely the backdrop to a day in the snow. But when the three bre...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A book about Catholic philosophy where Socrates guides the narrator though the choices..\nThe format was that the duo would reach a crossroads where each path had a famous philosopher argue for the rightness of the path. Half way though Socrates is replaced by Moses and then eventually the ...
[ { "content": "The Journey: A Spiritual Roadmap for Modern Pilgrims.\nOpen this book and begin an epic human journey--the journey toward truth. Enjoy a delightful and imaginative allegory of timeless wisdom as you travel along the road of true knowledge. Socrates, the thoroughly reasonable and wise philosopher o...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] I'm looking for a book I read when I was younger. I'm fairly sure it came out between 2005-2009. Book is a YA novel that was set up as a guidebook to various fictional monsters, but had a narrative where two kids were trying to find their father..\nPossibly a Scholastic book but not ...
[ { "content": "The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless.\nBeware! Only those who are McFearlessly brave may read from the pages of these monstrous memoirs. Crack open the “creature-skin” cover—if you dare—and enter the monsterminating world of 11-year-old Minerva McFearless, her brother Max, and their myster...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book/Short Story].\nIt might have been a fever dream, but I remember a story about two kids (I think) going camping and one of the kids, the older sister (again, I think) was kidnapped by trolls or some other mythical creature. I dont remember the middle part, but I think they turn out to be bene...
[ { "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...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A BOOK I READ IN HIGHSCHOOL.\nA book i read in high school its abouy a girl wjo attempted suicide in a plane but then it crash landed and then she meet some guy and they had tried to survive in the blistering cold", "id": "abojju", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1031, 3419, ...
[ { "content": "Survive.\nHatchet meets Lost in this modern-day adventure tale of one girl's reawakeningJane is on a plane on her way home to Montclair, New Jersey, from a mental hospital. She is about to kill herself. Just before she can swallow a lethal dose of pills, the plane hits turbulence and everything go...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Fiction book about a hopeless guy turning his sexual fantasy into a successful business.\nI'm looking for a book that I read a couple years ago. It was an ebook, but I'm pretty sure it got an physical release, too. Author wasn't that unkown either I think, so it's extra frustrating I can't ...
[ { "content": "Lightning Rods.\n“All I want is to be a success. That’s all I ask.” Joe fails to sell a single set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in six months. Then fails to sell a single Electrolux and must eat 126 pieces of homemade pie, served up by his would-be customers who feel sorry for him. Holed up in h...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [early-mid 2000's] A young adult book about a girl who attends other people's funerals and it's a murder mystery..\nIt's been so long since I read this book I'm starting to think it was just a fever dream. I found it in my middle school library, read it, put it back on the shelf and didn't...
[ { "content": "My Life and Death by Alexandra Canarsie.\nEverything in fourteen-year-old Allie Canarsie's life has gone wrong until she finds meaning investigating the circumstances behind a young boy's unexpected death. The new town, Nickel Park, where Allie has moved with her mother is a big disappointment. Th...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] a book where 2 sisters journey across the US.\nso i coulda sworn ive asked this here before but i cant find it anywhere in my post history or by searching the subreddit, so here we are. basically the book starts with 2 sisters, i think the little sisters name was liberty? not sure though. ...
[ { "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].\nit’s a book about a dog and it would follow an older guy and the man’s wagon and the dog was taught not to eat food from the ground, it would only accept food that was in a dish. the dog’s old owner taught it not to eat food from the ground by making it super spicy so the dog would be tra...
[ { "content": "Lassie Come-Home.\nA beloved classic gets a beautiful new look.Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. But when Joe's father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner, and three times she returns home to Joe, until finally she is taken to the remot...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] I remember reading a book in primary school about a young girl who got burned somehow, and she became a swimmer. I’ve even been back to my old school to find it with no luck..\nI don’t know if this was an Australian book or not, but I distinctly remember reading it in Year 5, so about 10 y...
[ { "content": "Butterflies.\nCoping with severe burns, the hospital and doctors is not easy when all you want to do is be a teenage girl. Katherine was severely burnt in an accident when she was two years old. Now 17, she lives with her mother and 22 year-old sister. their father left the family when they were v...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1980s-2000s] A book about a kid who goes on vacation for Easter near his friend and gets caught up in some crazy mystery..\nI read this book in about 2010 so the year must be before that. The kid is on Easter break I think and goes to a log cabin near his friend’s house. His friend’s house ...
[ { "content": "Trapped in Death Cave.\nA CURSED TREASURE! Everybody thinks Gary's grampa died in a fishing accident. But from a note Grampa left, Gary suspects he was murdered. The note tells of a million dollars in gold hidden in a cave and an old Indian curse promising that anyone who touches it will die! Gar...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] I need help finding it..\nSo this book was a YA (young adult) part 1 in a book series, so basically it starts of with this girl and her whole village stuck in the middle of the mist, she lives with her grandma, the grandma dies and she sets off into the woods with her will they wont they ma...
[ { "content": "Hidden.\nAlternate Cover Edition can be found here. The mystery enshrouding Hutton’s Bridge is as impenetrable as the fog that descended at its borders eighty years ago. Each year, three villagers enter the mist searching for answers. No one ever returns.Then a dragon falls from the sky to the tow...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Young adult book set in World War 2. There was a girl that turned out to be a nazi spy and a possessed teddy bear..\nI remember reading this 20 or so years ago but couldn’t tell you how old the book was. I’m sure the girl who was a spy was one of the main characters and the revelation came ...
[ { "content": "The Woven Path.\nThe Woven Path is the first book in the compelling Wyrd Museum trilogy. All readers will be drawn in by the gripping storytelling of Robin Jarvis, where the fantastical elements combine with the seriously chilling. In a grimy alley in the East End of London stands the Wyrd Museum,...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [YA] [Late 00's or early 10's] Magic and different districts and an abduction on Halloween. I cant remember any character names, but yeah..\nLooking to find a book series thats about a boy that got captured by a group on Halloween with a group of friends that was looking for people on the ...
[ { "content": "Sky Raiders.\nOn Halloween below a haunted house, Cole Randolph wanted to have fun (and maybe get to know Jenna Hunt a little better). But he dives after friends whisked away to The Outskirts.The five kingdoms lie in between - wakefulness and dreaming, reality and imagination, life and death. Some...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Post-Singularity interstellar exploration, \"soda can\" sized ship.\nI\"m trying to remember a book regarding a group of post-singularity intelligences on a trip to another star. They were originally human, but had uploaded themselves. They were traveling in a ship the size of a soda can t...
[ { "content": "Accelerando.\nThe Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterres...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Children’s Book] Group of dogs and a goat..\nWhen I was in primary school, I read this book. It was about a group of dogs who were all friends, and this one goat. I remember the dog who lived with the goat thought she was a goat too and checked herself for horns in the mirror. I think they were s...
[ { "content": "Dog Tales.\nThe Dolan Street dogs are Max 1, Max 2, Barney, Scruffy, Gina and Mavis. Mavis is actually a goat, but she didn't know this and none of the others liked to tell her. Life for the Dolan Street dogs is not all lying around watching Dog Hospital, it can be very exciting. There's the day t...
{ "content": "[TOMT][book] A collection of scary stories for kids.\nThis would probably be from the 90’s or earlier, and I am fairly certain it was NOT ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’. \n\nThe one story I remember was with people in a rooftop swimming pool in an apartment building and something happens (an explos...
[ { "content": "Darkness Creeping: Twenty Twisted Tales.\nImagine being trapped forever in someone else’s nightmare, with no means of escape. Or caught on one of the most terrifying roller coasters of all time, when suddenly the tracks ahead just disappear. Enter the world of Darkness Creeping, where hollow-eyed ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [YA NOVEL] girl and her brother visit a female family member at the beach for the summer.\nI’ve posted this before, but it’s still driving me crazy. I remember reading this book in middle school, so this must’ve been 7 or 8 years ago & it’s a YA novel. I don’t remember much, but I will try to ela...
[ { "content": "Sand Dollar Summer.\nTwelve-year-old Lise watches her safe world fall apart when her strong, self-reliant mom is injured in a car accident. To recuperate, Mom takes Lise and her bright little brother to live in a rattletrap house on the beach in Maine for the summer. Although her mother grew up th...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A Book about a scarecrow.\nI'm looking for a book a read in elementary school but only vaguely remember. It's a chapter book\n\nThere's a scarecrow that gets struck by lightning and come to life. He goes on adventures with a boy. In one chapter there are people marching and one falls in th...
[ { "content": "The Scarecrow and His Servant.\nOne night there was a thunderstorm. A tattered scarecrow stood in the wind and rain, taking no notice . . . until a bolt of lightning struck his turnip head. The scarecrow blinked with surprise and came to life.So begins the story of the Scarecrow, a courteous but p...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Fiction novel about a boy who invents flying machines in medieval times?.\nHi I’m looking for a fictitious story about a boy who lives in a kingdom that is trying to make a flying machine for some reason. Things I remember from the book are:\n\nA scene with a diving bell\n\nThe colors of th...
[ { "content": "Airman.\nIn the 1890s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king’s daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy’s idyllic life changes forever the day he disc...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] I got the answer years ago and cant remember.\nIt's an older book. Not archaic by any means.\n\nThe plot is a kid wakes up and there are platforms all around him with stairs leading all over. Eventually he finds other kids there and they have to perform an action to get food. Eventually th...
[ { "content": "House of Stairs.\nOne by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere, except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the mac...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Maybe teen fiction book where high schoolers undergo some experiment that puts them in a simulation of what their future high school reunion would be??.\nI remember reading this book when I was a kid, which was around early to mid 2000’s, but the book seemed older. It was about this group ...
[ { "content": "The Night Room.\nIs seeing your future a dream come true-- or a nightmare?High school junior Ira is intrigued when he is chosen to participate in the Argus project-- a computer program that will simulate his tenth high school reunion. Six other classmates will participate, including Sandra, on who...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A character with a spherical head that looks like the world..\nI'm trying to remember a book I read years ago, I remember almost nothing about it aside from the fact that there was this one guy whose head was completely round and tattooed blue and green so that it looked like the world.\n",...
[ { "content": "Ark Angel.\nThe sniper’s bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive . . . just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has to stop him. But the boy he saves is no...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] [1990s-early 2000s.].\nI read this back in elementary school. It's a book about a high school kid who is in a car wreck that kills a girl he was driving with. Her sister shows up after the fact and she is crazy but he doesn't know she was related to the girl who died. At the end of the boo...
[ { "content": "Blind Date.\nKerry's had a very bad year. But now his luck has finally changed.He's got a blind date with a girl who sounds really hot.He can't wait. He knows this girl is going to be really different.Kerry's right.Because his blind date really is the girl of his dreams.Or maybe his worst nightmar...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Young Adult Novel About A Girl that lives in a world where a disease killed children and the children that survived had powers. 2010s I believe is when it came out. I read it 2016.\nShe had a power that allowed her to create illusions by pulling strings. Joined an underground group of peopl...
[ { "content": "The Darkest Minds.\nWhen Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the m...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] kids book about ants who refer to humans as 'hoomins' and have to climb through drains to find (something) but its dangerous because of the hoomins.\nI loved this book as a kid and it would have been late 90s/early 2000s that I was reading it \nUnfortunately I have memory issues so I can't...
[ { "content": "Harry the Poisonous Centipede: A Story to Make You Squirm.\nFree Delivery if order value from the seller is greater than 399. Used Book in good condition. No missing/ torn pages. No stains. Note: The above used product classification has been solely undertaken by the seller. Amazon shall neither b...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] book about rich family taking in an African refugee family..\nI can’t remember the title of the this book I’ve read before it was about this rich family taking in African refugees and the daughter of the African family couldn’t talk, and the boy had diamonds with him.", "id": "elfamt", ...
[ { "content": "Diamonds in the Shadow.\nTHE FINCH FAMILY did not know that five refugees landed from Africa on the day they went to the airport to welcome the family sponsored by their church. The Finch family only knew about the four refugees they were meeting - Andre, Celestine, Mattu, and Alake - mother, fath...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [1990-2000’s].\nI’m trying to remember a picture book read to us when I was in primary school. The main character was a young boy, distinguishable by a large tuft of hair. I’m 80% sure the characters name was ‘Tuft’ but I can’t seem to find anything about it. All I remember from the book i...
[ { "content": "The Snow Dragon.\nWhen the power-crazy Most Royal of Fire Dragons decides he wants to rule not only his own hot southern kingdom but also the icy wastes of the Snow Dragons' northern territory, catastrophe occurs. The Fire Dragon ignores the warning from the powerful Book that Twolegs will eventua...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Story/novel I read for school in the early 2000s that takes place in Soviet-Era Russia. Follows a child who’s parents are abducted by the KGB and he becomes homeless in Moscow..\nThe novel could very well be older, but I read it in the early 2000s in school. It’s also possible this s...
[ { "content": "The Wild Children.\nLeft behind when his family is arrested by soldiers during the dark days following the Bolshevik Revolution, twelve-year-old Alex falls in with a gang of other desperate homeless children, but never loses his hope for a better life.", "label": 1, "id": "1024629", "t...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK].\nWhen I was in high school I had a very eccentric English teacher. He was so bizarre and particular.\n\nI remember he read a book to us. The cover looked very 70s/80s.\n\nIt was a book about this weird society. Some people had certain powers I think. And something to so with a place calle...
[ { "content": "Rebirth.\nA few thousand years in the future post-apocalypse rural Labrador has become a warmer, more hospitable place. The inhabitants have vague historical recollections of \"The Old People\", a technologically advanced civilization which existed long ago which they believe was destroyed when go...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Children's/YA novel about boy sent to a school for spies and the main enemy being cherubs..\nThis is a children's/YA novel I read a while back before 2016 at least. The plot involved a boy Danny/Daniel (I think that was his name) being taken to a school for spies/assassins. The main enemy w...
[ { "content": "The Ring of Five.\nHere's the first book in a brilliant new trilogy by the author of The Navigator. The Ring of Five, set at a school for spies, is full of surprises as well as fascinating questions about loyalty, destiny, and what it means to be a spy. Danny Caulfield doesn't know how he ended up...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][relatively new] A book released in the last couple of years about life, death, and how a lot of the things we do to prevent or delay our own death doesn’t matter as proven by science and other examples.\nIt had a yellow cover from what i remember, and was essentially a book that took a nonc...
[ { "content": "Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer.\nBestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of ou...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][90s-2000s]Book about Utopian society read during high school.\nI'm trying to remember the name of a book I read (was forced to read) during high school. It is about a Utopian (or Dystopian maybe) society in the future, where everyone is a designer-baby and the government supplies recreation...
[ { "content": "Brave New World.\nHuxley's bleak future prophesized in Brave New World was a capitalist civilization which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Satirical and disturbin...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] YA novel about a teenage girl solving a mystery or crime, the words “wanted” or “hunted” possibly in the title.\nI read this book around 2009 at school. The cover was mostly red, It had an image of a girl’s face on it. I don’t remember much about the plot aside from the girl solving ...
[ { "content": "Fake ID.\nOn the night of Chastity's 16th birthday, her mother disappears. Police find blood matching her mother's DNA, but Chass doesn't believe her mother is dead. If Chass can't find her mother in six days, she'll be placed in foster care--or murdered first.", "label": 1, "id": "949440"...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Children's novel about kids living in foster care.\nI had to read a book for school when I was in 5th grade about 2 or 3 kids living in a foster home. One of the kids was a teenage girl who seemed very damaged and loved eating mayonnaise cake. I'm guessing that the book was written in the...
[ { "content": "The Pinballs.\nYou can't always decide where life will take you--especially when you're a kid.Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon as you get settled,...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Young adult novel that I read ~2010 about a boy at a mansion trying to solve the disappearance of another boy who he thinks is interacting with him as a ghost. The title includes a number..\nAt the end, he realizes that the old man who lived in the mansion had chained him to something heavy...
[ { "content": "The Hunt for the Seventh.\nA haunted mansion. Six dead children. A garden of statues.With every step he takes around the carefully manicured grounds of Minerva Hall, Jim is haunted by the ghosts of children, long dead, whom no one else can see. Urging him to \"find the Seventh,\" the children leav...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][EARLY 2000s] I've been trying to find this book for over 10 years..\nEither I dreamed this crap up or it really is a book that I read when I was in elementary school. So it could have possibly been like 1998 or 1999. \n\nBasically what I remember is the story is about a boy who lives in an ...
[ { "content": "Losing Joe's Place.\nJason and his two best friends are about to have the ultimate summer experience, because they've just taken over Jason's cool older brother's apartment for the summer.Now all they have to do is say no: No parents. No rules. No problems.Right?Wrong.And Jason's brother hasn't ev...