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{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2010s] Humanity lives on a three-tiered floating island, at the top of which is an endless source of clean water. Protagonist is a slave laborer on the second tier, where water is rationed to two cups a day per person..\nAlright, beyond that huge goddamn title, here’s what I remember:\n\n1....
[ { "content": "The House of Power.\nFrom the creator of the Land of Elyon comes a riveting adventure set in an extraordinary satellite world created as a refuge from a dying Earth that begins to collapse and forever change the lives of its inhabitants. Edgar, a gifted climber, is a lonely boy scaling the perilou...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] This book was a magical/fantasy todo/how to.\nHi, i can only offer a vague description and some recipes/part of the book but I'll do my best.\n\nThe book is a squarish purple and orange book that was all about fantasy and magic type to-do's and how to's like invisible ink with lemon ...
[ { "content": "The Book of Wizard Craft: In Which the Apprentice Finds Spells, Potions, Fantastic Tales 50 Enchanting Things to Make.\n“Fans of all that is wizardly will love this one.”—School Library Journal. “Lavishly illustrated throughout...the first of its kind, a fabulous fantasy and a how-to crafts book ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] YA fiction where a boy gets the power to see people as animals from a dragon sleeping underground.\nI have been looking for this book for like a decade I read it when I was around 8, but I think it's a much older book I picked up at a used book sale (so like before 2004 at least). I rememb...
[ { "content": "Buried Fire.\nWhen Michael staggers home red-eyed from an afternoon alone on the hill, his brother and sister, can only guess that he has sunstroke. But as the terrifying truth is uncovered, they realize that powerful forces of evil are at large.", "label": 1, "id": "57688", "tokenized...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] a kid stands on the continental divide and gets transported to some other world?.\nUses rather specific imagery of a pebble or stone being shot out of two forces pushing in on it", "id": "doc49c", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1031, 3419, 2102, 1033, 1031, 233...
[ { "content": "The Divide.\nWhen Felix's parents take him to \"The Divide\"--a spot in Costa Rica where the waters that run down to the Pacific and Atlantic oceans separate--Felix finds himself in a bizarre parallel world where mythical creatures and magic are a reality. There, he meets Betony, a tangle child an...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] missing kids.\nlike 4-6 kids go missing and when they reappear there’s only 3-5 and no one can remember what happened to the missing boy ( I didn’t finish that book so I’m not quite sure) I think he died? Read in high school 2016-2018 the boy who stayed missing has a brother and the POV is...
[ { "content": "The Leaving.\nSix were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been.Eleven years ago, six kindergarteners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to.Until today. Today five of those kids return. They're sixteen, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] 2000s/2010s YA novel (possibly set in NYC) where a Jewish teenage female main character falls for a boy named Luke Christiansen?.\nHi, guys! I vaguely remember a YA novel, but I can't remember the title. \n\nSome details: \n\n* I probably read it before 2016, but it was newish at the time....
[ { "content": "Goy Crazy.\nRachel Lowenstein can't help it--she's got a crush on a goy, Luke Christiansen, the gorgeous star of the basketball team at St. Joseph's Prep. Should she follow her heart and turn her back on her faith, or follow her friends' and family's advice?", "label": 1, "id": "576785", ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Weird book about a hotel competition.\nOk so there was this book that I read as a kid and I really liked it, but I can’t remember the title or author anymore. I do remember some things about the plot though. I remember that there were a bunch of kids who traveled into the jungle with a fam...
[ { "content": "Floors.\nCharlie had his chocolate factory. Stanley Yelnats had his holes. Leo has the wacky, amazing Whippet Hotel.The Whippet Hotel is a strange place full of strange and mysterious people. Each floor has its own quirks and secrets. Leo should know most of them - he is the maintenance man's son,...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1990s] A Christmas book about Santa Claus and an action filled adventure to the North Pole.\nI remember reading this really beautiful children's book when I was a kid. It was one of my absolute favorites.\n\nI'll try to remember key elements of the synopsis.\n\nIt's summer time, and a bunc...
[ { "content": "Santa Calls.\nArt Atchinson Aimesworth -- inventor, crime fighter, and allaround whiz kid-journeys north with his sister, Esther, and his pal, Spaulding, by special invitation from Santa himself. But why did Santa call? Now available in a new hardcover edition, this truly Joyce-ian crusade feature...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A children’s book about a cat that collects items from different animals.\nThe cat is pregnant and she gathers things from different farm animals to make a nest for her kittens. \n\nEvery time the animals ask why she needs the things they’re giving her the cat just says ‘this and that’. \n\...
[ { "content": "This and That.\nCat's making the rounds of the farm, borrowing this and that from each of her barnyard friends. The animals are curious, so they follow her to the stable, where they discover Cat's secret-newborn twin kittens named This and That!", "label": 1, "id": "3258349", "tokenize...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] a book about an Indian girl whose father sold her to be a sex slave.\nI'm sorry if this is disturbing but this has been bothering me for a while. I remember the children were kept in cages and she had a friend in the cage next to hers who was a boy and in high demand. Eventually she was bou...
[ { "content": "Sold.\nLakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black-and-white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp....
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2017 OR LESS].\nOkay so this is a book I just remembered and really want to reread. I read it maybe 2017 or even earlier than that. Its about this girl who works at this doll shop because her mother always wanted to own one, so she created the store even though they don't have much money....
[ { "content": "The Distance Between Us.\nSeventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers studies the rich like her own personal science experiment, and after years of observation she’s pretty sure they’re only good for one thing—spending money on useless stuff, like the porcelain dolls in her mother’s shop.So when Xander Spenc...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A young adult post apocalyptic book. With a green cover. Perspective of a young teenage boy..\nThe boy is surviving with his father who gets injured, he joins a group of survivors and meets a young girl and they fall in love. The group is attacked by bandits", "id": "gha747", "tokenize...
[ { "content": "The Eleventh Plague.\nIn an America devastated by war and plague, the only way to survive is to keep moving.In the aftermath of a war, America’s landscape has been ravaged and two-thirds of the population left dead from a vicious strain of influenza. Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn and his family w...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [Older book, possibly 90's].\nI only remember bits and peices, but basically a girl isnt feeling well, so her parents take her to the doctor, and after some bloodwork they find out she has leukemia. She later shares a room with another girl who collects combs, (I feel like her name was san...
[ { "content": "Six Months to Live.\nThirteen is supposed to be a great age—dances, cheerleading, boys—she never thought it would also include cancer. Dawn Rochelle is about to face the toughest fight of her life—a fight she has to win. Otherwise, she has only six months to live.", "label": 1, "id": "3429...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] REPOST 1 - Children's Book About Man Looking For Dog In A Circus.\nAs the title says, this is a sort of repost of this: [https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/hrorfo/tomtbookearly\\_2000s\\_childrens\\_book\\_about\\_man/](https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/hro...
[ { "content": "Where's Pup?.\nPup is missing and the little clown must search the circus to find him. Is he with Jo or Mo? What about Pierre or Claire? On the ground? Up in the air? This clown is searching everywhere! A perfect charmer for younger readers, this sprightly seek-and-find story features a tuneful r...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [Early 2000s] Horror/Supernatural collection of young adult short stories.\nI remember reading this book in the early 2000s that was a collection of short stories, typically with some kind of supernatural/fantasy twist.\n\nThe one that I’d like to reread in particular went something like t...
[ { "content": "Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares: Tales to Make You Scream.\nHave you ever had a terrifying dream? Woken up in a cold sweat wondering if that horrible thing really happened? Well, get ready to sweat some more--this book will take you through 13 spine-chilling and unexplainable adventures that ca...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] A middle grade book about a world where everyone has superpowers except the main character, adults have trading cards.\nSo there was a book that I read back in middle school that I've really been wanting to read again. This would be anywhere between 2010-2014 when I read it, but I'm not su...
[ { "content": "The Hero Revealed.\nIn Superopolis everyone has a superpower! Well…almost everyone. Meet Ordinary Boy.In a town where everyone is a superhero, what if you were the only person with no superpowers at all?Welcome to the life of Ordinary Boy. He’s...well, he’s pretty much exactly as his name suggests...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1930-2000s] a book about three african american brothers living together. the middle child is the protagonist. the oldest turns down the wrong path in life. the father died (before the book?) of hypothermia when he fell into a pond in winter, possibly trying to rescue a dog..\ni cant rememb...
[ { "content": "Miracle's Boys.\nNothing is like it used to be. If it were, Mama would still be alive. Papa wouldn't have died. Thirteen-year-old Lafayette's older brother, Charlie wouldn't have done time at a correctional facility. And oldest brother Ty'ree would have gone to college instead of having to work fu...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s?] A book about a spy cat.\nHi guys! I vaguely remember loving this book when I was younger and I’m trying to remember the title so I can purchase it for my young nephew. \n\nBasically, it’s about a cat who was owned by a spy in Great Britain (I think). The spy ended up being poisone...
[ { "content": "The Stink Files, Dossier 001: The Postman Always Brings Mice.\nJames Edward Bristlefur has always been a dashing British aristocat, rooting out bad guys with great panache - until something goes horribly wrong; he becomes lost luggage and is adopted by an ordinary New Jersey boy. He is renamed Mr ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOKS][late 90s/early 2000s] SciFi book about human colonization.\nI thought the title would be Dark Water or Deep Water but I can't find that on Google. The story is about human colonists crash landing on a planet. The book takes place years after the crash. Humanity is barely hanging on. There ...
[ { "content": "Dark Water's Embrace.\nIt has been a century since a small group of humans was marooned on a distant planet. Now their descendants struggle with rising infertility, infant mortality, and mysterious birth defects for which no cause--or cure--can be found. Reproduction has become essential, and thos...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Picture Book] a city that slowly, through each new page, grows trees and removes billboards. Meant to teach kids about environmentalism.\nI remember there were a few of these books in my school library back in primary school. They were large picture books, with minimal to no written story. The i...
[ { "content": "Home.\nA family.A house.A neighborhood.A place to play.A place to feel safe.Little by little, baby Tracy grows. She and her neighbors begin to rescue their street. Together, children and adults plant grass and trees and bushes in the empty spaces. They paint murals over old graffiti. They stop the...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Children's book] [Early 2000's] Train station in a house.\nHey guys, I remember this one children's book from when I was in Kindergarden (so early 2000s) that featured a child who would, on occasion, wake up to find his home had a train station inside it. People would get out and just walk right...
[ { "content": "Jonathan Cleaned Up — Then He Heard a Sound: Or Blackberry Subway Jam.\nA subway stops in Jonathan’s apartment, and out pour thousands of commuters and their litter.", "label": 1, "id": "2052472", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 5655, 12176, 2039, 1517, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s-2010s] Book set in and deconstructing Ayn Rand's ideal America.\nThe book I'm thinking of is sort of like Anthem (the novel, not the game), except newer and flipped on its head. Basically, in the future, America's become super objectivist to the point where Atlas Shrugged and The Fo...
[ { "content": "I and You.\nIt is the year 2098. Sara Storm has just come of age in a republic founded upon the objectivist principles of Ayn Rand - selfishness, minimal government, and laissez faire capitalism. It is a society in which the collectivist pronoun \"we\" has been replaced with the ideologically corr...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book about about a kid who moved to some village and had to crack clues to find keys that unlocked stuff inside of an abandoned house.\nFrom what I remember, a kid moved to a village and was, for some reason, trying to get keys to unlock this house and stuff in it. I think the author descri...
[ { "content": "The Last Treasure.\nFor thirteen-year-old Ellsworth, family has always been just him and his dad. That's all Ellsworth thought he wanted. But then the dreams start. Dreams of houses surrounding a beautiful green square. Suddenly a letter arrives, inviting Ellsworth to a home he doesn't remember: t...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Where the main character is kid genius obversing clones and figures out he is one himself?.\nIt's set in a futuristic world where scientist are trying to figure out clones. The main character is a kid who is a genius obversing a family of clones who aren't perfected and keep memories or som...
[ { "content": "A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair.\nIn the twenty-third century, when children have become scarce, an unusually bright boy is sent to live with an experimental family of reborn 1940 Londoners.", "label": 1, "id": "1074549", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1037, 17768, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Young adult fantasy. The main set piece is this bridge that the protagonist must cross.\nMain character I believe is a young girl or boy. I think the author is female. It takes place in a fantasy world where two kingdoms are at war or like one evil kingdom is in charge. There's this huge br...
[ { "content": "The Bridge.\nPrincess Rosalynn is pretty, spoiled, and childish. She gives no thought to the men and women that protect her father's throne. Then one day, invaders from the enormous kingdom across the river storm across the Bridge and conquer the royal castle. Alone and in danger, Rosalynn sets ou...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Horror book from the ‘70’s. Kidnapped babysitter by kids she is watching..\nCollege aged girl sits two kids over the summer. Eldest teenage (?) boy restrains her in bed. Tortures and rapes her. Not sure of ending.", "id": "ijvovh", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1031, 3419, ...
[ { "content": "Let's Go Play at the Adams'.\nSurely, it was only a game. In the orderly, pleasant world Barbara inhabited, nice children -- and they were nice children — didn't hold an adult captive.But what Barbara didn't count on was the heady effect their new-found freedom would have on the children. Their we...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Has vikings with axes. A man loses his arm. There's sailing involved.\nI have a vague memory of this book I read in school. I remember it being a fairly decent book so I'm hoping someone here has read it. The book is set in the distant past and is about vikings. I distinctly remember a scen...
[ { "content": "The Outcasts.\nFrom the author of the global phenomenon Ranger's Apprentice!They are outcasts. Hal, Stig, and the others - they are the boys the others want no part of. Skandians, as any reader of Ranger's Apprentice could tell you, are known for their size and strength. Not these boys. Yet that d...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Fantasy book I can't remember.\nThere was a fantasy novel I read years ago, and I can't remember the title. \n\nI can only remember some of the magic system, and a few details about the main character. The magic system was described like programming, and the main character had trouble with...
[ { "content": "Spellwright.\nFrom Book 1: A highly original and engaging debut set in a fantasy world where language holds extraordinary power, perfect for fans of Robin Hobb and Tad WilliamsNicodemus Weal is a cacographer, unable to reproduce even simple magical texts without 'misspelling' – a mistake which can...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] It's a young adult book with a title along the name \"Human 3.1\".\nIt takes place in a very small town, and during a tiny talent show, one of the kids does a hypnosis trick on 4 kids, and in the middle of it, the world freezes (as in, everything stops moving) Once it unfreezes, people tr...
[ { "content": "Human.4.\nKyle Straker volunteered to be hypnotized at the annual community talent show, expecting the same old lame amateur acts. But when he wakes up, his world will never be the same. Televisions and computers no longer work, but a strange language streams across their screens. Everyone’s behav...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2010s] There was a book I read that had 'Hammer' in the title.\nIt was a fantasy, and I remember the book having a stupidly named setting named Sandhaven, and the main character was named Wulf, really terrible at naming things, I expect it to have low reviews. I read it last year but I cann...
[ { "content": "The Dragon Hammer.\nWULF'S SAGA BEGINSEvil from the dawn of time is on the verge of domination—but Wulf von Dunstig figured none of that mattered to him. What could he do about it? After all, he was basically nobody—the sixteen-year-old third son of a duke destined for an uneventful life as a rang...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][1990s]A book about a boy that time travels when he holds a rod.( not sure about time period).\nHis family move to new house where there is a metal rod (i think) in the back yard when he holds it he can go only to specific time in the past and its in the same place. He finds a friend there w...
[ { "content": "The Ghost Diviners.\nWhen Martin and his sister play with a heavy length of iron, they become caught in the distant and the not-so-distant past and are almost trapped by a long-undiscovered murder.", "label": 1, "id": "3159739", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1996, 5745,...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] horror book about a house full cannibal incest people.\nI’ve been trying to find this book for so long!! A group of teens ends up on the wrong street and runs into an abandoned house only to find it boobytrapped. These cannibals come out and start trying to kill them and I think only of the...
[ { "content": "Urban Gothic.\nWhen their car broke down in a dangerous neighborhood of the inner city, Kerri and her friends thought they would find shelter in the old dark row house. They thought it was abandoned. They thought they would be safe there until morning. They were wrong on all counts. The residents ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] YA Novel About Immortality.\nI have a few hazy memories about a YA novel that has a plot that centers on immorality. Now that I'm thinking about it, it might also be a two-book series or maybe even a trilogy? Published sometime in the 2005-2015 range, though I'd guess closer to 2008 or 2009...
[ { "content": "Origin.\nPia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her ste...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][~1985-1990].\nThere was a small paperback about dolls published by Scholastic. It was the same size as \"The Open Grave\" and \"The Haunted Planet\". I think the author was the same as the author of \"The Open Grave\". I also want to say that was by Carol Beach Yorke, but I'm not sure. \n\n...
[ { "content": "Revenge of the Dolls.\nAlice, Trissy and their cousin Paulie are visitors in the dark old house of Aunt Sarah and faded, middle-aged Cousin Grace. It's a grim house, filled with shadows, and Aunt Sarah matches it -- old, bitter, silent, wrapped up in the crude and ugly dolls she has devoted hersel...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] looking for a fantasy novel likely printed in the 70s or 80s, had the word “Orb” in the title.\nI’m looking for a book I started reading when I was a kid, I got from my school library. It was a fantasy novel, I remember it had the word “orb” in the title and it was about an orphaned boy wh...
[ { "content": "The Crystal Gryphon.\nThe story of Kerovan, whose cloven hooves set him apart from the human folk of the Dales, as he seeks his rights as heir to the throne of Ulm at a time when strange sea invaders are shattering the old kingdoms, and equally enigmatic manifestations of the Old Ones coming to in...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][Early 2000s] Fantasy children's book about a girl with magic.\nThis has bugged me for a while. In the early 2000s, I remember reading an older children's book about a girl and her brother who were transported into some sort of alternate world, where the girl was told she had magic and was a...
[ { "content": "The Doomspell.\nIn a blaze of light, rush of wind and scrabble of claws, Rachel and Eric are ripped through the wall and hurtled on to another world. Like thousands of other children before them, they have been snatched away by the Witch. But this time the Witch has met her match. Rachel discovers...
{ "content": "[TOMT][CHILDRENS BOOK] [1990’s] Children’s book about a haunted house with holographic ghost images.\nCurrently searching for an old children’s book I used to read/play with as a kid. I don’t remember much about the plot but I do remember it was all about ghosts and had holographic photos that shined ra...
[ { "content": "Ghost Train: A Spooky Hologram Book.\nHeadless Hector, the Gray Lady, and the Silver Skeleton are looking for a place to haunt...", "label": 1, "id": "1877285", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 5745, 3345, 1024, 1037, 11867, 14659, 2100, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] LOTS OF GREEN ON THE COVER, MAYBE A HEADSTONE?.\nI think it's a YA novel, possibly historical fiction. Two sisters live in a huge mansion with their father, who hires some kind of tutor for them, maybe a music/art tutor? I think their mother had killed herself by jumping from the second or...
[ { "content": "Set in Stone.\nWhen Samuel Godwin, a young and naive art tutor, accepts a job with the Farrow family at their majestic home, little does he expect to come across a place containing such secrets and lies. His two tutees are as different as can be--younger sister Marianne, full of flightiness and ne...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Sci-fi novel: Person raised in a post-apocalyptic enclave ventures outside, finds out the apocalypse they were told about never happened.\nThe main character (I think it was a girl) grew up in this isolated compound and was told all about how there had been a horrible disaster and the world...
[ { "content": "After the End.\nShe’s searching for answers to her past. They’re hunting her to save their future.World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness. They've survived for the last thirty years by living off the land, being one with nature, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000's?] Fiction Book with multiple main characters narrating the events of the Titanic.\nI read a book a few years ago about a lot of different people on the Titanic. The book narrated a little bit before, during, and a lot of what happened after the Titanic. There were some characters l...
[ { "content": "Women & Children First.\nShe was the most magnificent ship ever built, yet on the eve of 14th April the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, leaving the lucky ones floating in wooden rowing boats, and the rest struggling for their lives in the icy water.The sinking of the Titanic not only steals li...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] possibly published in the 90s about a dragon and a tarot card and some time travel?.\nSOLVED! Thank you ialmostguarnteeit for your quick response. You truly are wonderful! \n\n\n\nMy friends mom lent me the book in third grade and I loved it. Pretty sure Merlin was in it and he was trying t...
[ { "content": "Hatching Magic.\n\"You never know when magic will hatch....\" Poor Theodora Oglethorpe! Her biologist father has gone off to explore the jungles of Laos without her, her best friends are away on vacation, and a long, hot, lonely Boston summer is all she has to look forward to.Poor Gideon! Wycca, h...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [CHILDREN'S BOOK] it's about a dinosaur that finds a cat.\nSo the dinosaur is blue with purple spikes on his back and he finds a big gray cat and takes him home and everything, then he names him Cat. Well he can't get the cat to pee outside because it's snowing.\n\nThe last page is the cat sleepi...
[ { "content": "Dragon's Fat Cat.\nBeginning readers will love this charming story by Dav Pilkey, the award-winning author/illustrator of the Captain Underpants series, featuring his gentle blue Dragon and his pet cat.The endearing blue Dragon is back in bestselling author Dav Pilkey's humorous story about friend...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Half of the story follows a girl in prehistoric times. Her people live/swim in the ocean. The other half of the story takes place in modern times..\nThis was an assigned reading book I had in middle school in 2003. The book switches (probably chapter-to-chapter) between a modern girl and a ...
[ { "content": "A Bone From a Dry Sea.\nIn two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe becomes instrumental in advancing the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in Africa when important fossil remains are discovered.", "label": 1, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [NOVEL] Personified characters (i.e fate, destiny), reincarnation.\nI'm trying to find a novel i read probably 8-12 years ago where the main character is the personification of fate. He has a love/hate relationship with the personification of destiny. Iirc he is stripped of his powers and eventua...
[ { "content": "Fated.\nFrom the acclaimed author of Breathers--an irreverent novel about fate, destiny, and the karmic consequences of getting involved with humans. Over the past few thousand years, Fabio has come to hate his job. As Fate, he's in charge of assigning the fortunes and misfortunes that befall mo...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Teenagers disappear on their (18th?) birthday.\nI remember people kept disappearing however the main character disappears, confronts their “mom” (who’s actually some bad entity that’s trying to steal them). The main character resists the urge to follow his mom and returns to the world. I al...
[ { "content": "Taken.\nThere are no men in Claysoot. There are boys—but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends…and he’s gone.They call it the Heist.Gray Weathersby’s eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he’s prepared...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000's].\nI am trying to remember a young adults novel (maybe christian based not sure) that is set during the crusades. I read it around 2006-20012 so it's contemperary, not a classic. It is mideveal fantasy set in real life so no monsters or magic. The cover had a ring on it and the title...
[ { "content": "The Angel and the Ring.\nIn this first book of \"The Guardian Angel \"series the story's narrator, Pelagius the angel, introduces us to life in 1364 A.D. and to Brin, a teenage gypsy who is despised by his people because his mother died of the plague and his father was a follower of God.This power...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Story about white girl befriending a discriminated black boy set in 1960s(?) America..\nIt was a YA book I think and the black boy's name was Darryl. The protagonist (girl) lived with her mom and Grandma who loved to bake and was known for her fruitcake. \n \nThere is a moment in the boo...
[ { "content": "Belle Teale.\nNewbery Honor author Ann M. Martin's gripping, widely acclaimed novel of a girl confronting the perils of friendship and the conflicts of community.Belle Teal's life isn't easy, but she gets by. She lives with her mother and grandmother far out in the country. They don't have much mo...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [YA Book] A teenage girl tells everyone she has a boyfriend but it turns out he isn’t real. I think she’s delusional?.\nI read this at least 13 years ago so it’s not new. This is all I can seem to remember about the book. There may have also been a scene where the girl gets her head pushed under...
[ { "content": "The Night I Disappeared.\nHELD HOSTAGE BY AN INNER WORLD Something scary is happening to seventeen-year-old Jamie Tessman. Ever since she and her mother arrived in Chicago, she's been plagued by freaky mind-slips and vivid daydreams about her sort-of boyfriend, Webb. When Jamie's inner world star...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] about a box full of tiny crab-like creatures.\nthe cover of the book was a picture of a cardboard box i think, with one of the creatures in front of it. I think there were 2 books in the series? Also i think the box somehow could slow/stop time.", "id": "89w717", "tokenized_content": [...
[ { "content": "The Boxes.\nOrphan Anne Levi tolerates her distant Aunt Ruth, with whom she lives, but adores her mysterious Uncle Marco, who flits in and out of their lives at irregular intervals. When he gives Anne two unusual boxes with strict instructions not to open them, curiosity gets the better of her. Op...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] YA fantasy novel girls father killed by bull in an underpass, giants ribcage, golems..\nI'm looking for the title of a book i read as an early teen. It was a fantasy novel about a girl whose father was killed in an underpass by a bull. the whole point was something about how rare coincidenc...
[ { "content": "Seven Sorcerers.\nNin had never liked Wednesdays, but this one took the biscuit. On this Wednesday she woke up to find that it was raining buckets and that her brother had ceased to exist.", "label": 1, "id": "6448545", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 2698, 23324, 2...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s]Cool dystopia novel I read a few years back.\nHey guys, hopefully y'all can help me with this. I read this sometime between 2010 and the present day, but the book could be older.\nBasically this book was set in the future in some settlement. The main character is this boy and he has t...
[ { "content": "Ship Breaker.\nIn America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite cli...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [YA] Book about a girl moving into a house that had a boy who turned into a rat in it.\nI am at the end of my rope on this one, I can't find anything about it online.\n\nAll I remember about it is:\n\n-The girl protagonist eats her lunch in the bathroom, pepperoni pizza\n\n-The girl's mom ...
[ { "content": "How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found.\nMargaret's mother takes her and her little sister Sophie out to an old abandoned mansion, and puts a for sale sign outside it, refusing to explain anything about it. Gradually the mystery of her family unravels.", "label": 1, "id": "1417393"...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][1980s] Alien invasion series with human survivors in Swiss Alps.\nI read a series of books in the late 80s in Jr. High where the main character was a human survivor after an alien invasion wiped out most of humanity (and possibly enslaved the rest, but I can't recall). The human survivors ...
[ { "content": "The Tripods Trilogy.\nLong ago the Tripods, gigantic three-legged machines, descended upon Earth and took control. They used \"Caps,\" administered ceremoniously near each child's 14th birthday, to control humans' brains and keep them docile. Now there is pleasant life in villages, little technolo...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Cover of the book was a green skinned princess with a pig nose and monsterous features.\nWhen i was younger i read a book which was set in a post apocalyptic world, other than remembering vaguely what the cover looks like, I also rememeber that in Act 3 of the book, there was a mecha...
[ { "content": "Deathscent.\nRobin Jarvis’s latest creation is a world set in an alternate past. This strangely familiar Britain consists of ninety-three individual ‘blessed isles’ floating in the deep darkness and the story begins in December in the Gloriana Kalendar, when Elizabeth Tudor has reigned for one hun...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Looking for a book title/author, read probably around 2005-2007, book for older kids/younger teens maybe, thought it was called \"Monkey,\" but not sure..\nI thought I knew the name of the book but now I'm not so sure. I remember it being called, \"Monkey,\" or, \"Monkey Monkey,\" but ther...
[ { "content": "Monkey.\nTeenager Harry is bullied at school. At home he has to do chores and now his mother wants him to visit the hospital where she works helping a crippled man. This turns out to be a turning point in his life as he undergoes dramatic changes.", "label": 1, "id": "901015", "tokeniz...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] What is this book?.\nThis was a book I read as a child. It’s about a family (dad, daughter and son) moving into an estate where the dad is the caretaker or something. The family who live at the estate is like an old man and his autistic son who is off at boarding school or something. The o...
[ { "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] a family that gets a power on a certain birthday.\nI know for sure that the mom does everything perfectly and one of the older brothers has electricity powers. I just can’t remember the name. Edit: Extra details The Main character is a female who goes on a bus to see her sick father in the...
[ { "content": "Savvy.\nFor generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a \"savvy\" -a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen. Grandpa Bomba moves mountains, her older brothers create hurricanes and spark electricity . . . and now it's the eve of Mibs...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Two separated twins/siblings are reunited by a secret pilot recruitment program..\nThe setting is a walled, 2 level city where the poor live on the bottom and the rich live above. There is a space pilot game cabinet at arcades around the city and the highest scoring players will participate...
[ { "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] [2000s].\nA young adult/fantasy book set in an alternative London circa 1920, where fantastic creatures run wild in one half of the city and a Jack the Ripper character only known by his paper mask prowls the safe part.\n\nNeither *Neverwhere* nor *City of Hate*.", "id": "a68wg0", "tok...
[ { "content": "The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray.\nThaniel, just 17, is a wych-hunter. Together, he and Cathaline track down the fearful creatures that lurk in the Old Quarter of London. It is on one of these hunts that he first meets Alaizabel Cray.", "label": 1, "id": "135197", "tokenized_content": [ ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Children's picture book about a boy who had everything done for him by machines.\nI remember that the pictures where very simple: black lines with little colour, possibly only red. Essentially, from the moment the boy woke, every task, from brushing his teeth, to cooking and eating food, wa...
[ { "content": "Lazy Tommy Pumpkinhead.\nThe first book in the series, LAZY TOMMY PUMPKINHEAD (1966) concerns slothful Tommy Pumpkinhead, who lives in an \"electric house\" that takes care of all his needs. In the morning, Tommy's bed lifts to the ceiling and plunks him into a tub of water. He then slides down a ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] [2018] Girl goes to college and stays on campus during winter break and her best friend visits.\nThe main character's name is Marin and she is staying on campus during winter break in I believe New York but she's originally from California or Hawaii because I remember she loves to surf. He...
[ { "content": "We Are Okay.\nYou go through life thinking there’s so much you need…Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even he...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s] Children's book about a girl who wishes for a bear, then one night one appears in her garden.\nHi everyone, so I am about to start my teacher training and am researching children's books to use within the curriculum. When I was younger I read a lovely book that I would love to inc...
[ { "content": "Jenny's Bear.\nJenny has a lot of pretend bears, but wants a real one. She makes a cosy bear-den in the shed and prepares some tea and bear-food, and after some patient waiting there's a knock on the door.", "label": 1, "id": "3035993", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 8437, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A children's book of fables with distinct characteristics..\nWhen I was growing up (born in the early 90s) my mother bought me a book of child's tales with some distinct characteristics. The front cover had a picture of an orange cat leaning on either a window sill or a table, resting its h...
[ { "content": "Best-Loved Children's Stories.\nContents: The Ant and the Grasshopper The Twelve dancing princesses The Brave little tailor The City mouse and the Country mouse Saint George and the Dragon The Golden Goose Demeter and Persephone George Washington and the Cherry Tree Thumbelina A Brer Rabb...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] Girl and guy leave notes at different points throughout NYC..\nthis was a book set in NYC about a girl and boy who communicate with each other by leaving notes in different places for each other to find and it ends up leading them on basically a scavenger hun through NYC. I believe it was ...
[ { "content": "Dash & Lily's Book of Dares.\n“I’ve left some clues for you.If you want them, turn the page.If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.”So begins the latest whirlwind romance from the bestselling authors of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] man with facial scar answers ad to go back in time where he rides a dinosaur..\nDetails are fuzzy, but from what I can remember, this was a sci-fi or fantasy book or novella from the 80's or early 90's about a modern man with a significant facial scar who responds to an ad to be a body gua...
[ { "content": "Glory Road.\nWhen \"Scar\" Gordon read a personals ad promising \"very high pay, glorious adventure, great danger\", with physical requirements, except for the part about being \"handsome\", that fit him to a T, he answered it, and was interviewed by an Amazon in a lab coat who hired him on the sp...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A crime fiction novel in which tiger hairs were found at a murder scene.\nIt was a detective novel, and I think the murderer was a taxidermist, or had something to do with taxidermy. Can anyone help?", "id": "aghzpx", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1031, 3419, 2102, 10...
[ { "content": "Die Again.\nThe latest enthralling case in Tess Gerritsen's New York Times bestselling Rizzoli & Isles series, the blockbuster books behind the smash hit TNT series.Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli is on the case of a big game hunter found dead in his apartment, alone with the body of a beautiful whi...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Girl decides to no longer speak Spanish, almost gets dog killed.\nThis is a book I read in 1st grade or something so here’s some details:\n1. At the beginning of the book she tells a random food kart guy that she isn’t speaking Spanish and the food kart guy couldn’t understand her\n2. At t...
[ { "content": "Pepita Talks Twice/Pepita Habla DOS Veces.\nPepita, a little girl who can converse in Spanish and English, decides not to speak twice until unanticipated problems cause her to think twice about her decision.", "label": 1, "id": "941254", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 27233, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] - sexy novel of Tristan and Isolde with a Sauna murder found in a middle school library around 2005.\nI checked out a book from my very liberal middle school library between 2004 and 2006 but it may have come out years earlier. The librarian warned me it was for mature kids and it DEFINI...
[ { "content": "Maiden Crown.\nSixteen-year-old Sophie, having left her Russian homeland to marry the Danish king, struggles to preserve a sense of her own value against the court intrigue and double standards of 12th-century Denmark.", "label": 1, "id": "611776", "tokenized_content": [ 101, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book][Probably about 1980-2010] YA book with themes around space and time.\nA book about a young girl who lives with an abusive female relative(?). The relative keeps rabbits as pets who act as her spies.\n\nThe book has a lot to do with time and space and at one point includes the phrase 'tempu...
[ { "content": "Tanglewreck.\nSomething frightening is happening to time. Time tornadoes are ripping people from the present, never to return them, while a woolly mammoth inexplicably appears on banks of the River Thames. Eleven-year-old Silver and her guardian live in a house called Tanglewreck, which is somehow...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Children's Book] [80s?].\nThis was a book I remember reading as a kid in the 80s/90s but it could have been written earlier. It was a simple book about a fat bird who was too fat to fly south with his friends for winter so he walks. Then once he gets there he eats too much and has to walk north....
[ { "content": "Round Robin.\nA young robin eats until he gets so fat he cannot keep up with the southbound flock, gets lost, and is nearly eaten by a wolf.", "label": 1, "id": "611133", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 2461, 5863, 1012, 1037, 2402, 5863, 203...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Boy has photographic memory and is on a train.\nIf I remember correctly, he was on the train with his mom but she disappears at some point. He is really smart and I think is on his way to an academic competition but he doesn’t think he’s smart, he just remembers everything. As I write this...
[ { "content": "The Challenge.\nIn this riveting thriller, 14-year-old Steven \"Steel\" Trapp sets off with his mom and their dog, Cairo, on a 2-day Amtrak journey to compete in the National Science Competition in Washington, DC. Steel is both blessed and cursed with a remarkable photographic memory--just one loo...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book].\nThe cover of the book is red and black and it features a man, back facing us wearing a trenchcoat and looking at an eldritch city. The title has 'London' in it. It's about how London turned into a city that defies the laws of reality and how it changed the people and objects in it. The P...
[ { "content": "Dream London.\nCaptain Jim Wedderburn has looks, style and courage by the bucketful. He's adored by women, respected by men and feared by his enemies. He's the man to find out who has twisted London into this strange new world, and he knows it. But in Dream London the city changes a little every n...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][Possibly early 2000's] Sci-fi book or possibly short story about a guy who has a finite lifespan in a future where most everyone else is immortal..\nSo as the title suggests, this is a book or possibly a short story I read around 2006 or 2007. I can't remember the plot now, but here are a ...
[ { "content": "Outnumbering the Dead.\nSeveral centuries in the future, human society has reached a state of near-utopia. All communicable diseases have been eradicated and people live affluent, fulfilled lives. Lukewarm fusion provides almost limitless energy supplies, making space travel, even travel to far-di...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A book about a Cajun savant who likes rowing that develops an antimatter engine to go to Mars.\nI borrowed this book from a library in Florida years ago and have been trying to remember it since.\n\nTitle is basically the plot, this brilliant yet developmentally disabled guy with a cajun ac...
[ { "content": "Red Thunder.\nSeven suburban misfits are constructing a spaceship out of old tanker cars. The plan is to beat the Chinese to Mars--in under four days at three million miles an hour. It would be history in the making if it didn't sound so insane.", "label": 1, "id": "47625", "tokenized_...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] 90s-00s story about a boy falling off a boat, washing up on an island inhabited by an old Japanese man.\nI read this book between 2007-2010.\n\nThe boy falls off his families boat and ends up on an island. There’s an old Japanese man on the island. I think he’s a deserter from WWII? The boy...
[ { "content": "Kensuke's Kingdom.\nWhen Michael is washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parent's yacht, the Peggy Sue, he struggles to survive on his own. But he soon realises there is someone close by, someone who is watching over him and helping him to stay alive. Following a close-run ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] YA novel about either a European captured by Aztecs/Inca or an Aztecs captured by Europeans.\nI read this in the mid 90s. It was probably set in the 1500s-1600s in Central or South America. The Spanish (or Portuguese) were looking for gold. Again, I don't remember who captured whom, or even...
[ { "content": "By Right of Conquest.\nWhen Roger Hankshaw boards the merchant ship Swan for a perilous journey to the New World, little does the young Englishman know what adventure awaits him. After a shipwreck strands him in Pre-Columbian Mexico, Roger must find a way to avoid becoming one of the many human sa...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Young teenager buys a mirror at a flea market, gets pulled into it back in time, to be \"friends\" with the original owner, another young teen girl..\nShe ends up being a psycho murderer who has been pulling kids through time this way for a while and has a whole backyard cemetery full of th...
[ { "content": "Stranger in the Mirror.\nMirror, mirror on the wall. . .Stacy James is pulled through the mirror into a terrifying nightmare!Now her twin, Tracy, has to pretend to be both sisters, as she desperately tries to get Stacy back.Can the twins figure out the secret to the mirror before time runs out? Or...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book]Saw a post in which someone asked about a dinosaur book, thought I knew it, then realized I had no idea what the title of the book *I* was thinking of is..\nSo in r/books this guy was asking about a sci-fi dinosaur book that actually sounds pretty cool. But anyway. I thought I knew the book ...
[ { "content": "West of Eden.\nSixty-five million years ago, a disastrous cataclysm eliminated three quarters of all life on Earth. Overnight, the age of dinosaurs ended. The age of mammals had begun.But what if history had happened differently? What if the reptiles had survived to evolve intelligent life?In West...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [EARLY 2000S] Sci-Fi Dystopian book where your brain is put in an android.\nI read this book as a pre-teen. It was a Young Adult Sci-Fi dystopian book. \n\nMain character is riding in an auto-piloted car, computer messes up and she is in a brutal car accident. Her parents are wealthy and...
[ { "content": "Skinned.\nThe Download was supposed to change the world. It was supposed to mean the end of aging, the end of death, the birth of a new humanity. But it wasn't supposed to happen to someone like Lia Kahn.And it wasn't supposed to ruin her life.Lia knows she should be grateful she didn't die in the...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] A Children’s novel I read when I was younger..\nI don’t remember much of the book like characters or like a solid plot but I remember bits and pieces. There was (I believe) a 5th grade class and the teacher was teaching them how to make stuffed animals which the protagonist thought was stu...
[ { "content": "Leon and the Spitting Image.\nThis book is about a hotel full of animals. And an evil ice maker. And glass eyeballs -- oh, and really old panty hose and Possibly Fake Hair. But mostly, it's about Leon Zeisel and his epic quest to survive fourth grade, despite his teacher, Miss Hagmeyer, and his ar...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] YA Novel about girl with powers to kill everyone she touches.\nI remember she has a boyfriend who’s the only person who can touch her. The she’s captured and she finds out that her captor can touch her too. She falls for him and finds out that they’re bothers. Both guys are also sons of the...
[ { "content": "Shatter Me.\nI have a curseI have a giftI am a monsterI'm more than humanMy touch is lethalMy touch is powerI am their weaponI will fight backJuliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK].\nThis was a book I read as a kid, probably in the late 2000s. It was about a mouse and was interactive. There was a little cut-out of the mouse in a paper pocket and you would take it out and kind of tell the story yourself by moving it around the pages and under flaps and such. I remembe...
[ { "content": "There's a Mouse about the House.\nActivity books which feature a cardboard character which takes the reader on an exciting adventure as it passes through a slot on each page", "label": 1, "id": "190982", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 2045, 1005, 1055, 1037, ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] It's Kind Of Like Percy Jackson, I Think.\nI read a book when I was 11 or 12 and I have not been able to get it out of my head. \n\nIf I recall correctly, the main character was like a 13 or 14 year old boy whose name I can't remember and his older sister was around 16 and I think her name ...
[ { "content": "Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow.\nWhen a mysterious envelope arrives for Jake Ransom, he and his older sister, Kady, are plunged into a gripping chain of events. An artifact found by their parents—on the expedition from which they never returned—leads Jake and Kady to a strange world inhab...
{ "content": "[TOMT][CHILDREN'S BOOK][1990s] A fish (or other marine animal) tries to convince a land animal (maybe a cat) that islands are connected to the seafloor, instead of floating on the sea like the land animal thinks. The land animal can't swim to the bottom of the ocean, so remains skeptical..\nIt seemed to...
[ { "content": "The Little Island.\nThere is a little island in the ocean—and this book is about how it is on that little island, how the seasons and the storm and the day and night change it, how the lobsters and seals and gulls and everything else live on it, and what the kitten who comes to visit finds out abo...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [book] [90s early 00] a kids/ preteen hockey horror book. The cover had kids on the ice and they sorta looked dead/ zombieish..\nI read it in Canada. Also cover might have been orangish", "id": "gikmll", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 1031, 3419, 2102, 1033, 1031, 233...
[ { "content": "The Tale of the Horrifying Hockey Team.\nIce Scream!When John and Sanjay and the rest of their champion ice-hockey team show up at the frozen pond where they always play, they're startled to find another group of guys already on the ice. The challenge is on: Winning team gets pond rights. But the ...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] It was an Book about truck drivers and shopping cart owners in a big city. Events devolved and the truck drivers and shopping cart people ended up having a conflict..\nIt involved various hijinks between the stall/cart owners and the truck drivers as they tried to gain the upper hand. I don...
[ { "content": "The Pushcart War.\nDO YOU KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE PUSHCART WAR? THE REAL HISTORY? It’s a story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains and good aim, defeated a mighty foe.Not long ago the streets of New York City were smelly, smoggy, sooty, and loud. The...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A book where a town was attacked by rats and monster mash was a plot point.\nI'm trying to remember a book I read years ago about a town that was swarmed by hostile rats. It might have been a childrens or young adult book. I think it started where a worker in the dump would shoot rats with...
[ { "content": "Rats.\nWhen mutant rats threaten to take over Staten Island, which has become a huge landfill, 14-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike try to figure out how to stop them.", "label": 1, "id": "123360", "tokenized_content": [ 101, 11432, 1012, 2043, 1...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] YA Murder mystery novel involving a fossil expedition?.\nI remember reading this book multiple times as a kid in the late 90s. It’s not The Ghost of Fossil Glenn! It’s got a stormy desert scene on the cover with some fossilized eggs I believe. The characters go on a fossil expedition and...
[ { "content": "The Worm Tunnel.\nFinnegan, his uncle Stoppard, and their friend Jared are off to an archeological dig in Aguilar, land of giant cacti, jungles, and dinosaurs. Dead ones, that is. While Finn and his uncle are digging up treasure, the crew is digging up very valuable dinosaur egg. But digging too d...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Non-fiction work about a guy trying to process his wife's death through letters and writing, and figures out a new way to think about \"immortality\".\nI've been looking for this book for a few years, but I can't for the life of me remember the author or title. Here's what I remember:\n\n-...
[ { "content": "Levels of Life.\nJulian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart.\"You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...\" One of the judges who awa...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Childrens Book].\nIn fourth grade we read this book about a boy and his family who lived on a farm (i think). it took place around the 1800s i believe. the boy was terrified of some serial killer that everyone knew about and later on in the story he encounters a man with his tongue cut out. i re...
[ { "content": "Weasel.\nThe name has haunted my sleep and made my awake hours uneasy for as long as I can remember. Other children whisper that he is part man and part animal -- wild and blood-thirsty. But I know Weasel is real: a man, an Indian fighter the government sent to drive off the Indians -- to \"remove...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] Story of a young girl facing restrictive laws in a Middle Eastern country. Her grandmother breaks the law to teach her to read..\nThe narrator is either a pre-teen or teenage girl. May or may not be written in the first person. There is mention of laws such as women not being allowed outsid...
[ { "content": "Time Zero.\nFifteen-year-old Mina Clark lives in a future Manhattan that is ruled by extremists. Girls aren't allowed to get an education, they need permission to speak to boys, and all marriages are negotiated by contract. But Mina's grandmother has secretly been teaching her to read, leading Min...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] Children’s story about two bears named Moe and Charlene..\nI remember an illustrated children’s book about two animal friends (bears, I think) named Moe and Charlene. At some point this story was made into an animated short.\n\nThe story involved both friends trying to make it through a ve...
[ { "content": "Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise.\nWhat do you do when you have a week off in blustery January but you can't afford to go to the beach? If you're Moe the Dog, you bring the beach up north! \"The perfect cure for the winter doldrums, with two expressively rendered characters that kids wouldn't mind...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Horror story in which a family go on vacation in the wilderness and get attacked by ?aliens?.\nThis is a book that I was given as a present when I was probably much too young for it. Here's what I can remember (I think all of this is accurate, though my mind may be fooling me on some things...
[ { "content": "Trapped.\nWhen Keith and Maggie Hunter brought their family to an isolated mountain cottage for the summer they looked forward to weeks of peace and serenity and chance to restore their crumbling marriage. But what started as a vacation in paradise soon became a vacation in hell.", "label": 1,...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Children’s Book].\nAnyone know the name of this children’s book? It’s about where a girl (a princess, I think), is kidnapped in a sweet shop. The kidnapper doesn’t know how to read or write so when he tells her to write the ransom she’s actually telling her family where she is 😂. I remember her...
[ { "content": "Princess Chamomile Gets Her Way.\nThe headstrong heroine of this charming picture book is completely fed up. She's not allowed to wear anything but fussy, frilly princess dresses; she's not allowed to leave the castle grounds; and she's never, never allowed to eat sweets. So Princess Chamomile dec...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] More authentic book than \"Memoirs of a Geisha\". Probably not \"Geisha of Gion\"..\nBecause apparently I suck at googling and I didn't write it down.\n\nOftentimes when Memoirs of a Geisha is mentioned someone will mention a better, more authentic book written by an actual Geisha. I do bel...
[ { "content": "Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West.\nThe critically acclaimed author of On the Narrow and Women of the Pleasure Quarters tells the enthralling true story of the woman who became the most celebrated geisha in Japan and the first to tour the United States and Europe. At twenty-seve...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book about a girl in a small town who participates in a yearly competition to win money planned by anonymous people..\nI read it a few years ago, and I don’t remember how good it was, but I’ve been looking for it. The main girl had been wanting to leave the small town she’s in and mov elsew...
[ { "content": "Panic.\nPanic began as so many things do in Carp, a dead-end town of 12,000 people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do.Heather never thought she would compete in Panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors, where the stakes are high and the pa...
{ "content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] YA Book about a girl who is friends with a mute disabled boy.\nI remember reading a book when I was younger about a girl becoming friends with a disabled boy who was in a wheelchair. He couldn't speak, and had to communicate through a book with pictures and words in it, and point to ...
[ { "content": "Rules.\nThis Newbery Honor Book is a heartfelt and witty story about feeling different and finding acceptance--beyond the rules.Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's s...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [Book] middle school level book with a cover of a 7 story house.\nI read this book in middle school. The cover of it looks like a hand drawn picture of a really tall, slanted house that’s about 7 stories. The house is on the right side of the cover on a cliff with a town below. It was about a gir...
[ { "content": "Bird.\nA girl easily carried off by the wind.An elderly widow whose husband died under strange circumstances.An isolated dwelling that breeds fear.Miranda has no recollection of where she came from—only that years ago, a gust of wind deposited her outside Bourne Manor. The Manor’s sole inhabitant,...
{ "content": "[TOMT][Book] I read this book about 8 years ago (give or take about 3) and in it a kid falls into a cave type system..\nWhile he is in the cave, he sets up a net to catch whatever falls down there and I am like 75% sure it was a cow, like 15% it was a horse and like 10% it was another animal. This is al...
[ { "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...
{ "content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] a fantasy novel about a woman who buys something at an auction and is transported to a fantasy world with centaurs.\nNow this is something that’s been on my mind, it’s a book that I read during my freshman year of high school (6 years ago) but it was a book I had in my collection for some ...
[ { "content": "Divine By Mistake.\nThe most excitement teacher Shannon Parker expected on her summer vacation was a little shopping. But then her latest purchase--a vase with the Celtic goddess Epona on it--somehow switches her into the world of Partholon, where she's treated like a goddess. A very temperamental...