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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] A book where a girl gets revenge on everyone in her life.\nI feel like I feverdreamed this book up. The cover was hot pink or lime green, there was a girl drawn on the cover leaning on the title letters that ran down the side, and it was like \"Just (Name)\" or \"Only (Name)\" Someth... | [
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"content": "I Will Survive.\nA sassy, sexy revenge comedy about finding out who your true friends are...and who your true self is.Poor Ellen. Her boyfriend is cheating on her ... with her best friend. Her other (male) best friend is in love with her when he really shouldn't be. Her beauty queen sister is on a... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][70s-00s] Story told from the perspective of a younger sister as her older sister develops schizophrenia..\nNot sure when the book came out. I read it at my school library in primary school. Most books they had were from the 80s, although there were some new ones from the early 00s.\n\nAt th... | [
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"content": "Memories of Summer.\nNewbery Honor Winner Ruth White gives readers an unforgettable story of one girl’s experience growing up with a sister that develops schizophrenia. \nIt’s 1955 when 13-year-old Lyric moves with her father and older sister, Summer, from a small Virginia town to the big industri... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000’s].\nI read it as a kid and it was about these kids who toured a candy factory? (No it wasn’t Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lol) I remember one girl being a ‘secret agent’ and in disguise as a blonde and being really good at pulling taffy??",
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"content": "The Candymakers.\nFour children have been chosen to compete in a national competition to find the tastiest confection in the country. Who will invent a candy more delicious than the Oozing Crunchorama or the Neon Lightning Chew? Logan, the Candymaker's son, who can detect the color of chocolate by... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A book series I read in elementary school.\nI think it’s about two kids, a brother and sister, who move to a new neighborhood/city and their new house has something in it that leads them to another “world” (I can’t remember if it’s actually another world, or an underground city or time trav... | [
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"content": "The Door to Time.\nEleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia have just moved from London to an old mansion on the English coast. Their new home is filled with twisting tunnels and strange artifacts from around the world, and the twins can't wait to discover all its secrets. Before long, Jason, Julia, ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] In fifth grade my teacher started reading a book to us then just stopped after the first chapter..\nI got super into it then she never read it to us again for some reason. I believe it’s written in third person. Two boys go swimming in a pond and one kid makes it back and can’t find his fr... | [
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"content": "On My Honor.\nJoel dares his best friend, Tony, to a swimming race in a dangerous river. Both boys jump in, but when Joel reaches the sandbar, he finds Tony has vanished. How can he face their parents and the terrible truth?",
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] A novel about a boy who is living during the construction of piramides..\nAt some point boy(he is about 10 years old, or less) helps his mother, who works at painting walls inside of piramides, and making walls ready to write hieroglyphs.\nI read it in early childhood, this is pretty much I... | [
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"content": "Boy of the Pyramids: A Mystery of Ancient Egypt.\nAt any time and in any place, when there is a mystery to be solved, a ten-year-old boy will want to have a hand in it. So it was with Kaffe, an Egyptian boy of long ago. With his friend Sari, a slave-girl, Kaffe had many adventures—the harvest feas... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] Teen Novel about Kids in a Walled City with a Flight Simulator.\nTrying to find a teen/young adult novel I read that came out around 4-8 years ago.\n\nIt was about teens in a dystopian city which was walled off from the outside, and most people lived in poor homes. In the center of town wa... | [
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"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... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Children's Book]. Picture book that was on Reading Rainbow.\nI do remember this book being on Reading Rainbow, back in the 90's. I am going to say I would have seen the episode between 1992-1994.\n\nI remember the book was about a dog and cat, who lived with their owner. Their owner ran a cafe, b... | [
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"content": "Animal Cafe.\nOld Max never suspects the true source of his shop's financial success.",
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] about a society that time travels for leisure.\nI think this was a book aimed at young adults and has been out for at least 12-15 years. The premise of it was that in the future everyone time travels for fun. They are able to use remote like devices to go back in time and observe history b... | [
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"content": "Rule #1: Don't Touch Anything.\nThe first and only rule of time travel in the year fifteen billion and seventy-three is simple enough: DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING. Theodore Pine Four is perfectly willing to follow this rule when he wins a contest for the latest TimeMaster JumpMan. If all goes according t... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][1990's] Rabbit Warrior Holding Spear Medieval armor.\nI am looking for a book from my childhood. I have scoured the internet trying to find it but with no luck it was not a picture book but It had a kinda creepy Rabbit on the Cover in medieval armor holding a spear with scary eyes. That's a... | [
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"content": "Perloo the Bold.\nNewbery Medalist Avi presents a most unlikely hero in this compelling fantasy. Now repackaged with a great new look.A scholarly, shy member of the rabbit-like Montmers, Perloo is content sipping myrtle tea and reading his history books in his warm burrow. Until the day Perloo's q... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [children’s book] [90s] looking for a picture book about an alien ufo who goes trick or treating with kids..\nI read this book all the time as a kid. It was a large flat book like a coffee table book. The cover was black with yellow stars and had an image of the main character who was a small yel... | [
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"content": "Space Case.\nWhen the thing from outer space visits earth, it is taken first for a trick-or-treater and then for a robot.",
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][1980s?]Teenager & Child Siblings Ditched At Delaware(?) Rest Area.\nWe read this one in Jr High in the 80's. It was about these kids mom who ditched them at a rest area in Delaware I think. They sat in the car all day into night and their mom never came back. They then met up with these ... | [
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"content": "Homecoming.\nIt's still true...That's the first thing James Tillerman says to his sister Dicey every morning. It's still true that their mother has abandoned the four Tillerman children somewhere in the middle of Connecticut. It's still true they have to find their way, somehow, to Great-aunt Cill... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2010s] Looking for one of those unofficial Minecraft books you’d see everywhere in bookstores for a couple years..\nThrowaway because I feel embarrassed about how serious I am about finding a Minecraft book.\n\nA friend and I were discussing some old Minecraft books we used to read (you k... | [
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"content": "Cubeworld.\nSomething’s strange about the world Marco unexpectedly finds himself in, without memory of who he is and how he got here. It takes him a moment to realize what‘s wrong: Everything around him is made of cubes.Haunted by skeletons, zombies, and killer cucumbers, he must find an exit from... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Fantasy book from my childhood with a kid and a sentient toothpick?.\nI remember this book and I remember liking it. All I remember is one scene: There's a main boy and it's a fantasy novel. There's a talking toothpick that was once a tree and it fell on the floor and someone stepped... | [
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"content": "Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo.\nWELCOME TO FOO.Fourteen-year-old Leven Thumps (a.k.a. \"Lev\") lives a wretched life in Burnt Culvert, Oklahoma. But his life is about to change and his destiny be fulfilled as he learns about a secret gateway that bridges two worlds -- the real world and Foo,... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] In the future, specially chosen kids manipulate a beam of light to fight wars in a virtual simulation.\nEach country’s player would start with 100 troops and had to move them towards an objective (might have been on a hill?) avoiding bombardments and other dangers by moving their fingers ... | [
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"content": "Virtual War.\nImagine a life of virtual reality -- a childhood contained in a controlled environment, with no human contact or experiences outside of the world of computer-generated images.Corgan has been genetically engineered by the Federation for quick reflexes, high intelligence, and physical ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][Late '80s-Early '90s] Paperback book. Cover was mainly sky blue, with a car probably on the road. It's about four friends - all men, I believe - who go on a road trip. I'm guessing they're in their 40s but could be late 30s or early 50s. One of them might've been black but not sure..\nIt's ... | [
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"content": "All Summer Long.\nThe long-awaited first novel by one of America's most popular and celebrated columnists. Three former classmates meet again at their 25th high school reunion, realize that the most cherished times of their lives happened in their youth, and decide to give themselves something pri... |
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"content": "[tomt][book] two brothers stuck in the middle of the desert.\nMy teacher in fourth grade read us this book. It's about two brothers, the older one being the main character. Pretty sure this book was featured in Arizona. What happened was they were sitting in their mom's car at a gas station, when some c... | [
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"content": "Danger in the Desert.\nKidnapped during a botched car-jacking and left in the desert with no food or water, Scott and Robbie must use the contents of their mother's station wagon for survival.",
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] children's book about 5 (or 4?) girls, one moves away, possibly a series?.\nAlright, these details might be a bit sketchy because I haven't thought about this in... probably over a decade, but y'all are miracle workers sometimes. I don't know why this came to me but god damn is it ever bugg... | [
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"content": "Good-Bye, Grace?.\nThe English Roses promised to be friends for life, but now something could be coming between them. Grace's mom is acting funny, always cleaning the house, and tidying up. Something is up, and the Roses suspect the worst: Grace's mom is getting ready for a move. Could Grace be mo... |
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"content": "[TOMT][NOVEL][FANTASY] Girl in coma living as a red fox..\nThe story was about a young girl who was in a coma, in her coma she was living as a fox. She felt free and happy as a red fox, and her grandparents sat by her bedside every day. I don't remember anything else. I just remember the girl was hap... | [
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"content": "Hunted.\nTwo lives run in parallel: The life of a girl, Karen, as she lies in coma in hospital, and the life of a fox in an ancient and dark world. A brilliant fantasy for ages 10 and up.",
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] Remembering a scene from a book.\nI remember reading this book as a kid (I am 21 years old, so around 10 years ago - 2000s), I thought it was A Series Of Unfortunate Events but it wasn’t but it could be similar to those series of books.\n\nThe scene involves a model of a town on a table in... | [
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"content": "Measle and the Wrathmonk.\nColossal Adventures in a miniature worldMeasle Stubbs lives with Basil Tramplebone, his dreary, horrible guardian. His life is miserable, and gets worse when Measle finds himself on the wrong end of one of Basil's evil spells. Now he's half an inch tall and trapped in a ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1700-1900] An old author who wrote scattered plots.\nNeed help remembering a famous author\n\nHe was 19th or 18th century, maybe a little sooner. \n\nHe was known for writing loosely connected plots that had absurdly inconsequential transitions between them (I heard it described that you mi... | [
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"content": "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.\nThis new edition of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanis the first book published by Visual Editions: a new London-based book publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction who make use of what they call \"visual writing.\" They believe bo... |
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"content": "[TOMT][YA book][90s?] Angsty YA novel about a young teen girl whose older sister is admitted to a psychiatric hospital.\nThe chapters vary in length (some might be poems?). I vividly remember an extra-short one that I think was called \"Hug\": big sister calmly explains that she doesn't mind straightjac... | [
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"content": "Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy.\nContinuously in print for nearly two decades, this groundbreaking and profoundly moving story told in verse, from award-winning author Sonya Sones, has been repackaged with a striking new cover and bonus content.When her beloved older ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2012-13] book about summer love and pasta making??.\nI read this one book in the summer in 2012 or 2013 and it was about this girl who really liked this one guy. He rode a motorcycle/some kind of electric scooter/bike and he made pasta with her as a summer job. But then she meets this oth... | [
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"content": "The Summer I Learned to Fly.\nDrew's a bit of a loner. She has a pet rat, her dead dad's Book of Lists, an encyclopedic knowledge of cheese from working at her mom's cheese shop, and a crush on Nick, the surf bum who works behind the counter. It's the summer before eighth grade and Drew's days see... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][2000's] Book I read back in middle school..\nBack in middle school I read this book it can't for the life of me remember the title of it. Here's what I remember.\n\n* In the book a pair of siblings discover a group of monsters (goblins?) living underground in the woods. And they try and he... | [
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"content": "The Beasties.\nThe master of suspense delivers a hard-core horror story to thrill and chill. Fans will get more than goose bumps from this terrifying tour de force by William Sleator. The nightmare begins when Doug's family moves to the desolate northern woods; soon he and his little sister, Colet... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [book] [2000s?] YA novel about a boy who went to the moon with sign language chimps, heard the voice of god.\nHe got to take part in some sort of NASA program for teenagers, and during it, these monkeys also were being trained to go, and he talked to them in sign language. At one point one of the... | [
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"content": "One Small Step.\nIt's 1969, and thirteen-year-old Scott is doing all the things that normal boys do -- and also flying airplanes with his Air Force flight instructor father. When Scott successfully crash-lands a training plane, NASA takes notice. They hope to recruit him for their top-secret space... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][2000s] book about a high schooler with powers.\nI only remember some details about this book series, but its about a high school boy that scores well on some standardized test and is tagged by a school for the gifted. Around the same time he father is being pursued by some government agency... | [
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"content": "The Paladin Prophecy.\nWill West is careful to live life under the radar. At his parents' insistence, he's made sure to get mediocre grades and to stay in the middle of the pack on his cross-country team. Then Will slips up, accidentally scoring off the charts on a nationwide exam.Now Will is bein... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [book] Children's fantasy novel about a wizard..\nSorry I don't have much info to go on but if anyone can help me I will be so grateful because this is driving me crazy. I'm trying to remember the name of a book I loved as a kid. It was young adult fantasy releases in the late 90s or early 00s an... | [
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"content": "The Secret of Platform 13.\nA forgotten door on an abandoned railway platform is the entrance to a magical kingdom--an island where humans live happily with feys, mermaids, ogres, and other wonderful creatures. Carefully hidden from the world, the Island is only accessible when the door opens for ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] at least 15 years old, vaguely recall a road trip, maybe a dead mother???.\nOkay so this is going to be the vaguest of vague descriptions but it’s been eating at me like no other. \n\nWaaaay back in the day, a solid 15 years ago I read a book that I believe was called “walk a mile” or “a m... | [
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"content": "Walk Two Moons.\nIn her own singularly beautiful style, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion.Thirteen-year-old Salamanc... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Everyone turns into zombies from energy water, girl and (autistic?) brother live alone with rehabilitated half zombie mother.\nTheres a part their neighbor jerry breaks the window and tries to get them. Theres an agency that rehabilitates zombies, to try and make them as normal as possible... | [
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"content": "Contaminated.\nAfter the Contamination—an epidemic caused by the super-trendy diet drink ThinPro that turned ordinary citizens into violent, uncontrollable creatures—the government rounded up the \"Connies\" to protect the remaining population. Now, two years later, the rehabilitated are being all... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOKS] Young adult novel about a boy that goes to school as a girl upon transferring.\nI read this around 2011, but the book itself seemed older, like from the lates 90s or something, or whatever era Hidden Talents by David Lubar was from. Then again, it's a possibility I'm just associating those... | [
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"content": "Boy2Girl.\nIs he a girl? Is she a boy?Matthew's American cousin, Sam, has come to London to live with the family. Sam is a charismatic, funny kid, but can he be trusted to be a reliable friend? Matthew and his \"mates\" decide that Sam must undertake a challenge in order to prove himself: he must ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s] Video Game Book.\nHey guys so years ago (maybe like 2014-15) I read this book at the library about a video game and ever since I have tried to find it again and I never have!\n\nSo pretty much all I remember is that the book was about these school kids that were living kinda a doub... | [
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"content": "Rush.\nSo what's the game now? This, or the life I used to know? Miki Jones's carefully controlled life spins into chaos after she's run down in the street, left broken and bloody. She wakes up fully healed in a place called the lobby - pulled from her life, through time and space into some kind o... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] [2015?] Book about a girl plagued by fairies that can be actually mean?.\nI genuinely don’t know how I would google this without getting every fairy book or non.\n\nI read this roughly 2015. The protagonist is plagued by fairies and the opening scene is of them hanging her upside down and ... | [
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"content": "13 Treasures.\nNo one else can see the evil fairies that rouse Tanya from her sleep, torturing her at the slightest mention of their existence, but they are as real to the 13-year-old as anything she's ever known. She cannot rid herself of them, nor can she ignore them. But it is her insistence on... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] A book about how a specific play caused World War One.\nHalf a year ago, I struck up a conversation with this guy and he reccomended me this book about a play that caused WW1. If I recall correctly, the author wasn't really going out of his way to prove the thesis, but using it as more of a... | [
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"content": "Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age.\nA rare and remarkable cultural history of World War I that unearths the roots of modernism\n Dazzling in its originality, Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I, from the premiere of Stravinsky's ba... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Help me find this book's title.\nI was in the end of my highschool years when i read this book (2018) \n\n\nThe book i'm seeking for is a fantastic novel. I can't remember the title or even the author. Everything i know is that his name is \"Connelly\" \"Connolly\" (Something like that) i... | [
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"content": "The Book of Lost Things.\nHigh in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Fictional novel in which brothers live out their individual fairy tale and the main villain tries to ruin their story..\nI read this around 2012-15.\n\nThe book is about 4 or five brothers(forgot how many bothers there were) and they live with their mother. Their job involves 'creating' a n... | [
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"content": "The Secret History of Tom Trueheart.\nTom's six older brothers are adventurers who go on dangerous quests in the Land of Stories. When his brothers fail to return in time to celebrate Tom's 12th birthday, a letter arrives from the Story Bureau addressed to Tom. It's up to Tom to find out why his b... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] YA novel about a kid who, along with his father and others, experience an extra day.\nThe kid doesn't start experiencing this until he's older, young teen? On one day every week he wakes up and almost no humans are around except his dad and a few other people, maybe those people don't appe... | [
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"content": "The Eighth Day.\nWhen Jax wakes up to a world without any people in it, he assumes it's the zombie apocalypse. But when he runs into his eighteen-year-old guardian, Riley Pendare, he learns that he's really in the eighth day—an extra day sandwiched between Wednesday and Thursday. Some people—like ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Older fantasy book about a trio that sets out to kill a dragon and end of fighting an evil sorceress.\n \n\nI read this book around two thousand nine. Its pages had yellowed and looked like it came from the eighties. The plot centered around a young prince, a minor lord of a backwater, and... | [
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"content": "Dragonsbane.\nWhen the Black Dragon seized the Deep of Ylferdun, young Gareth braved the far Winterlands to find John Aversin, Dragonsbane -- the only living man ever to slay a dragon. In return for the promise of the King to send help to the Winterlands, Aversin agreed to attempt the nearly impos... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [CHILDREN'S BOOK] [90's OR EARLIER]. Book about a depressed puppet who thinks he isn't special enough..\nI remember a teacher way back in kindergarten reading a book to the class about a puppet who feels inadequate to all the other puppets because his paint is chipped and he doesn't have any spec... | [
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"content": "You Are Special.\nMax was interested in helping children understand their value - not from the world's perspective, but from God's. Wemmicksville is a land created by Eli, the \"God\" figure of the story. He creates each Wemmick in Wemmicksville uniquely, each with its own look and personality. Ea... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Looking for a teen romance book either given to me by a teacher/counselor or recommended, something along that line..\nSo back when I was in middle school, or elementary school but I don't think a responsible adult would give an elementary school student that kind of book, I started ... | [
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"content": "Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before.\nIf Albert Kim has learned one thing in his tragic adolescence, it's that God (probably a sadistic teenaged alien) does not want him to succeed at Bern High. By the end of sophomore year, Al is so tired of humiliation that he's chosen to just forget girls a... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][~1990s] picture book in which miniature hippos and rhinos wage war with each other.\nIt was quite elaborate in illustration of scenes of battles with Renaissance’s armour, marching around trees, acorns as cannonballs etc. can’t remember the story at all though. ",
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"content": "Trouble for Trumpets.\nJust as the Trumpets, summer creatures who live in a world of warmth and sunshine, prepare to hibernate, the Grumpets, winter creatures who live in the dark, frozen mountains of the north, prepare to take over their land.",
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][AUDIOBOOK] I cannot for the life of me remember the author or title or I wouldn’t be here, I vaguely remember the plot and it’s been bothering me for awhile now..\nWhen I was younger around 7-9 (think around 2010s) my grandma would take me to the local library and check out an audio book. I... | [
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"content": "The Snow Spider.\nJenny Nimmo's award-winning SNOW SPIDER TRILOGY is back as an exciting Orchard Books fantasy series! On Gwyn's 9th birthday, his grandmother tells him he may be a magician, like his Welsh ancestors. She gives him five gifts to help him--a brooch, a piece of dried seaweed, a tin w... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Teen novel about a mirror image of a kid haunts him.\nLooking for the name of a book, no idea who authored it but pretty sure it was male. It is set during the Spanish Flu or maybe a couple years after. A teenage boy is being falsely accused of crimes and it turns out its his own mirror ima... | [
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"content": "The Empty Mirror.\nNick is an orphan who has grown up in his uncle Jack's care on the wild, wooded coast of New England. His parents died when he was a baby during a terrible influenza epidemic that swept the region not long after World War I. Nick first realizes something is wrong when he notices... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Australian girl who lives on a boat beta tests a virtual reality game.\nI read this young adult/children’s novel in middle school around 2010. The girl is hired by a shady organization to test a virtual reality game, but every time she logs on the world is weirdly empty. It is revealed that... | [
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"content": "New World.\nMiriam is delighted when she is asked to test a new virtual reality game. She's not so thrilled with Stuart, her partner in the test, but once they're inside the game she forgets their differences and the outside world completely.Then things start to go wrong. Something - or someone - ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Australian Actress/Singer with a British Pianist.\nI read this book some time in 2018, it was a YA romantic fiction kinda thing, it was set in Australia, a British man that plays the piano at a bar comes across a really pretty detective-show actress which sings to his music at a bar, but he... | [
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"content": "The Best of Adam Sharp.\nFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect, an unforgettable new novel about lost love and second chancesOn the cusp of turning fifty, Adam Sharp likes his life. He’s happy with his partner Claire, he excels in music trivia at quiz night at th... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][2000s] Book about ship wreck/ shark attack/ finding dog on an island.\nI read this book when I was in about 3rd grade (USA, so age 8-9ish) and it was about this family in Australia that took their boat out and got in a ship wreck (maybe caused by a legendary shark???). They end up stranded ... | [
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"content": "Shadow Shark.\nTwo fourteen-year-old cousins join a group of fishermen in pursuit of a massive shark off the coast of Southern Australia.",
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2010s] A girl who can see ghosts and a girl who is ignored by her family meet.\nread this book around 2010 - i think it was pretty new then. It was a really big book (like the invention of hugo cabret size). \n\nOne girl lived almost by herself and could see ghosts. She was very quiet and i... | [
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"content": "The Swallow: A Ghost Story.\nIn 1960s Toronto, two girls retreat to their attics to escape the loneliness and isolation of their lives. Polly lives in a house bursting at the seams with people, while Rose is often left alone by her busy parents. Polly is a down-to-earth dreamer with a wild imagina... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] fantasy book about if he signs of the zodiac.\nIt's about a kid who gets lost on a field trip and he gains special powers. he gets the powers of the tiger. It's either children's or young adult. They then go and try and recruit the other people who have powers.",
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"content": "The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence.\nWhen twelve magical superpowers are unleashed on the world, a Chinese-America teenager named Steven will be thrown into the middle of an epic global chase. He'll have to master strange powers, outrun super-powered mercenaries, and unlock the mysterious powers of th... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Books][90s] A series of young adult books that featured killer insects..\nEach book was about new characters and new killer insect threat, mostly swarms of a common insect like spiders, bees, fire ants except they were especially deadly. I think there was even a book about an airline flight under... | [
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"content": "The Bug Files 1: Squirmsters!.\nKelly Wade can't wait to get to Winterpark. She's been looking forward to this vacation forever, and finally she's on a plane heading north. But she'll soon wish she wasn't. For beneath her feet in the baggage compartment of the tiny twin-engine plane lie the squirm... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][~2000] Oversized graphical choose-your-own-adventure book: a boy and a girl visit their relative's mansion, and it turns out to be a crazy laboratory full of ghosts and monsters..\nI remember this being an oversized book, say A4, which followed a boy and a girl looking for their uncle (?) i... | [
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"content": "Haunted Castle.\nReaders are in for the fright of the night when they help Jodie and Johnny search for their Uncle Barnaby in the monster-filled halls of Grizzlemyst Castle. The reader chooses an optional path and gets drawn into an adventure where shrieking ghouls, brain-dead drudges, mutants, an... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Kid who plays arcade game competitively in a post-apocalyptic world..\nI must have read this book back in middle school. The main character lives in a impoverished part of his town/city/area. He goes to school with other kids and they have to go on the mile run and stuff like that. I think ... | [
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"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... |
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"content": "[TOMT][PICTURE BOOK][1990s-2000s?] Kids book that was for teaching kids French, and I think the story was set in a castle.\nAs a kid (born in 1998, but read around 2002-2008, and it was in amazing condition from what I remember, so it could have been made any time around then) I used to read this book. ... | [
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"content": "Chateau-Mystere Mystery Castle: A French Puzzle Story (First Bilingual Reader Series).\n\"French Puzzle Readers\" is a bilingual series aimed at readers aged seven and upwards. The main narrative is bilingual throughout, and there is a French puzzle to solve on every double-page, for which all the... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000-2007] Greek Mythology published for Young Adults.\nI'm trying to remember a book I read sometime in the early 2000's. I believe it was about how the Gods interfered with a small city. It focused on a couple of human teens. I believe the main plot was Aphrodite convincing a young girl w... | [
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"content": "Troy.\nThe Siege of Troy has lasted almost ten years. Inside the walled city food is (Malacca). and death is common. From the heights of Mount Olympus The Gods keep watch. But Aphrodite. Goddess of Love. is bored with the endless. dreary war. Aided by Eros's bow. the goddess sends two sisters down... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Book where man's house is to be destroyed to build a road and he goes mad..\nSo a plot from a book I read years ago just popped into my head and I'd very much appreciate some help finding the name. All I remember is as follows:\n\n- The guy's house is to be taken from him because a construc... | [
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"content": "Roadwork.\nBarton Dawes’ unremarkable but comfortable existence suddenly takes a turn for the worst. Highway construction puts him out of work and simultaneously forces him out of his home. Dawes isn’t the sort of man who will take an insult of this magnitude lying down. His single-minded determin... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [YA Novel] Main character hangs out with a crush and her uncle (?), who turns out to be a nazi war criminal.\nSo the main character is a middle/lower class boy who meets this girl who he finds cute, and she ends up taking him to see her uncle (or he's her grandfather or another older relative), w... | [
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"content": "Gentlehands.\nBuddy Boyle lives year-round with his family in unfashionable Seaville, New York, in a cramped little house on the bay. Skye Pennington spends the summers nearby on lavish estate complete with ocean view and a butler named Peacock. But Skye and Buddy fall in love anyway. And every on... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Young adult novel about a sniper school or a shooting competition in Maine.\nI think it was a thriller novel and I’m pretty sure the main character is a guy. He has a love interest and I think there’s like evil government guys involved? I also think the cover was either green or red and ha... | [
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"content": "First Shot.\nTwo years ago, David Crandall's mother was murdered and with little evidence, no witnesses, and no motive, the crime was left unsolved. Now a high school senior, David is unable to shake the sense that someone knows more than they're letting on. His suspicion deepens as he uncovers cl... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] The first chapter has two kids tobogganing down a hill, they hit a tree and the kid in front has his face peeled off onto the bark..\nI remember reading this book in the 5th grade, around 2002. I had grabbed the book from a stack of age appropriate reading material in my classroom, so it w... | [
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"content": "The Perfect Date.\nFear Street -- Where Your Worst Nightmares Live... After his girlfriend's gruesome death one year ago, Brady is finally ready to get on with his life. He's met Rosha and he's fallen hard. But he's also fallen into trouble. Terrible accidents seem to happen whenever Rosha's ar... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s-2010s] I read a book in the early 2010s about a boy who accidentally causes two classmates to drown and feels really guilty about it..\nAt around the beginning, I remember the boy is alone swimming in a river, watching two classmates make out on a ledge/rock, who aren't aware the boy ... | [
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"content": "Blackwater.\nThirteen-year-old Brodie Lynch is ready for the perfect summer along the Blackwater River. But then his troubled cousin Alex comes to visit. A harmless prank goes too far, and in the end one teen is drowned and another is missing. Will Brodie face the truth of these tragic events, or ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [YA 2000s].\nI’m looking for a book I read in the mid 2000s however the book may have been written in the 90s. I don’t remember very much apart from the following: There was a young girl who was either orphaned, a runaway or was pregnant as a teenager and was sent away or ran away to a hou... | [
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"content": "Roxy's Baby.\n'Roxy was shaking with fear. She drew in a deep breath. She would not let her fear take over. She couldn't. She had too much to lose. She had to be strong, to be brave. For once in her life she had to think of someone other than herself.' Roxy is wild, uncontrollable. She hates her p... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Can anyone tell me what this book is called.\nI remember my teacher reading my class this book when I was younger, I think it enfolded some strange and mysterious machine and I think the main character was a girl. The clear seat part of the story I can remember is this. The main cast is tr... | [
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"content": "Gustav Gloom and the People Taker.\nEnter an exciting new world of shadows from Hugo Award nominee Adam-Troy Castro. Meet Gustav Gloom.Fernie What finds herself lost in the Gloom mansion after her cat appears to have been chased there by its own shadow. Fernie discovers a library full of every boo... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [90'S/00'S] Kids/teen book about a young girl who was sciency and loved rocks and geology and I'm pretty sure her family went on a trip to the Grand Canyon. She had an older sister that wore her hair in \"spiky buns/spiky cinnamon buns\" but always refused to show her how to do them..\nI r... | [
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"content": "Samantha Hansen Has Rocks in Her Head.\nTen-year-old Samantha Hansen is a mad scientist. But not the crazy kind—she doesn’t blow stuff up or mix potions or dissect bugs. She just loves science—especially rocks—and figuring out how the world around her works. But there are some things there just is... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Old timey book with a female main character.\ni’m remembering this book we had to read in middle school where this girl dropped her aunts(?) wine i think and she replaced it with some other non alcohol drink when she wasn’t looking and it was like a placebo effect bc the aunt still acted v... | [
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"content": "Belle Prater's Boy.\nAn alternate cover edition can be found here. When Belle Prater disappears, Belle’s boy, Woodrow, comes to live with his grandparents in Coal Station, Virginia. Woodrow’s cousin Gypsy is the town beauty, but she has hidden sorrows and secrets of her own. She wonders how Woodro... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][YA FICTION][90s].\nI’ve been searching for a YA fiction book I read years ago. I can’t recall the title or author but it was about a hotel that had once been a boarding school where a student had died. \n\nHer ghost haunts the hotel and becomes friends with the hotel owner’s niece? Granddau... | [
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"content": "The Ghost in the Attic.\nDee Forest, 13, has barely recovered from her mother's accidental death when her grief-stricken father sends her to live, temporarily, with Aunt Winnifred. Dee hates leaving her familiar surroundings for the quaint inn her aunt runs on a New England island, but Winnifred's... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][2010s] Young Adult book about four girls in a band.\nI stumbled across this book last year (2018) at the library but I didn't check it out as the summer was nearing the end and I don't have time to read during the school year. It had four girls who I think were all in a band. I can't rememb... | [
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"content": "Screaming Divas.\nAs seen on MTV.com At sixteen, Trudy Baxter is tired of her debutante mom, her deadbeat dad, and her standing reservation at the juvenile detention center. Changing her name to Trudy Sin, she cranks up her major chops as a singer and starts a band, gathering around other girls il... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] [2000s].\nA book I read in middle school English class. There was a picture of a smiley face keychain on the cover. It was about a group of boys who were close friends. One of the boys older brother had an apartment and let them live in it for the summer. They keys he gave them had a smil... | [
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"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... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][FICTION] A city with the people divided into coloured “tiers” radiating out from the centre. In the centre is a large instrument missing its “voice box”. The main character sets out to retrieve it from a sleeping lady..\nThey venture through the city’s underground where people live in the s... | [
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"content": "The Wind Singer.\nThe first in a trilogy, The Wind Singer is a mesmerizing and remarkably realized fantasy novel full of adventure, suspense, humor and warmth.In the city of Aramanth, the mantra is, \"Better today than yesterday. Better tomorrow than today.\" Harder work means the citizens of Aram... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [book] Children's picture book with an environmentalist message that I read in the early '90s.\nA boy has some kind of dream where he flies through an environmentally ravaged world. He chokes on black smoke coming out of enormous smokestacks. At the end, he experiences a vision of a healthy world... | [
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"content": "Just a Dream.\nWhen it comes to the environment, young Walter is not an enlightened individual. He's a litterbug who believes sorting trash is a big waste of time. What's more, he thinks his friend's birthday present, a tree, is the most ridiculous gift he's ever seen.Walter believes the future is... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s]Children/Young adult horror book about children who are trapped at a summer camp.\nI remember vaguely a book I once started when I was about 12/13. It was a stereotypical horror story about a summer camp that goes wrong and the children become trapped. I never actually finished it as ... | [
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"content": "The Trap.\nWhen 15-year-old Luke Sheldon is offered a place at an American summer camp for smart kids, he thinks he's in for the trip of a lifetime. Surrounded by forests and built above a labyrinth of underground tunnels, there is more to Camp Hope than meets the eye. Are the rumours true that th... |
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"content": "[TOMT][book] Middle reader book about cryogenic freezing.\nI read this book sometime after 2010 I think, and it was published at least after 2000. It was about a kid from the modern day finding two kids from the 50s (or close to that) that were cryogenically frozen and waking them up. The people who wer... | [
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"content": "Frozen in Time.\nBen and Rachel Corder are sure they're in for the longest, dullest summer ever, until they discover an underground vault at the bottom of their garden with an amazing secret inside - two children from the 1950s who have been asleep for decades.But waking up Freddy and Polly Emerso... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A children's short story about a group of animals trying to steal the sun.\nHello! This has been killing me for years. When I was perhaps 10-12 (around 2010) I read a short story about a group of animals who wanted to steal the sun. I'm in the US, and my school was located in the bible bel... | [
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"content": "Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun: A Cherokee Story.\nThis wonderful story by a renowned storyteller explains how light was brought to the dark side of the world.",
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][mid-late 1990s] Kids/young adult fiction about a kid who plays a cursed PC game about a mummy in ancient Egypt and gets sucked into the game.\nThe kid gets some sort of magic or cursed PC game that whenever he plays it his consciousness enters the game world, and each time he goes into the ... | [
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"content": "The Mummy Monster Game.\nJosh, Amy and Harry play a computer game, set in ancient Egypt, that unleashes apparently real dangers into their lives. By the author of TTomb Travellers' and TPyramid Voyagers'.",
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Book about a Chinese boy with a pet pig in WW2.\nI remember a book(It was called something like \"1 boy, 1000 Fathers\") I read in 3rd grade about a boy who lived in a village in China during WW2. He left the village for a while, and when he returned, it was abandoned, in burning ruins, at... | [
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"content": "The House of Sixty Fathers.\nTien Pao and piglet he names \"Glory-of-the-Republic\" after baby sister \"Beauty-of-the-Republic\" drift free in storm downriver back to Japanese territory. Following tiny mountain trails back to parents, he meets American aviator. Guerillas sneak them free. Based on ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] a non fiction book about a westerners experience acting as a middleman between western companies and chinese manufacturers.\nhe talks about core issues of chinese culture that makes cheating so prevalent there in a way thats very respectful and from a place of love. he mentions how he would... | [
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"content": "Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game.\nPraise for Poorly Made in China \"This fast-paced travelogue through the world of Chinese manufacturing is scary, fascinating, and very funny. Midler is not only a knowledgeable guide to the invisible underb... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] Relatively recent novel, possibly dystopian sci-fi. Memories only last for one day for normal people, but two days for \"gifted\" people?.\nI saw this in a book store a few months ago and I think it only came out in the past year or two. The name has something to do with memory or forgetti... | [
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"content": "Yesterday.\nHow do you solve a murder when you only remember yesterday?Imagine a world in which classes are divided not by wealth or religion but by how much each group can remember. Monos, the majority, have only one day’s worth of memory; elite Duos have two. In this stratified society, where Mo... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [book] [2017 ish] A space sci fi book from a couple years ago with a blue cover.\nHello,\nI’m Trying to remember a sci fi book I read about 2 years ago in America, sadly I remember a lot of the plot but not the name. It’s along the veins of an old mans war. can remember most of the plot but not t... | [
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"content": "Forsaken Skies.\nFrom the dark, cold void came an unknown force. Their target a remote planet, the home for a group of people distancing themselves from mankind and pursuing a path of piety and peace. If they have any chance at survival a disparate group of pilots must come together to fight back ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Story] A teacher takes an apple.\nThere was a story I read in Elementary School wherein a student saw a teacher take an apple from outside a store and thought the teacher stole it. The student told the whole town. It turned out that the teacher didn't steal it, but rather payed for it in the morn... | [
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"content": "Mr. Peabody's Apples.\nInspired by a story about the damage than can be caused by spreading rumours about what one sees rather than by seeking truth, credited to Baal Shem Tov - \"Master of the Good Name.\"",
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] YA novel about teenage girl who writes book, gets published, and moves to New York. Plot of her book revealed throughout story.\nI’ve been trying to remember the title or author or anything about this book for weeks now. I read it sometime between 2012 and 2017. The book didn’t seem very o... | [
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"content": "Afterworlds.\nBELIEVING IS DANGEROUS...Darcy Patel is afraid to believe all the hype. But it's really happening - her teen novel is getting published. Instead of heading to college, she's living in New York City, where she's welcomed into the dazzling world of YA publishing. That means book tours,... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A book about a train that swap souls around..\nThe book follows the male main character on a train. This train, in its lifetime, had crashed in a ravine(?) in the 1900’s. As the train goes over the ravine(?) again, it crashes like before. Now the main’s character’s brother has had his soul... | [
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"content": "City of the Dead.\nCould the road to the afterlife be a two-way street? Derek Stone just turned fourteen. He's lived in the heart of New Orleans with his dad and older brother, Ronny, his whole life. He's a little overweight. He can't hear well out of his left ear. Oh, and he's on the run from the... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s-2010s] A book I remember reading when I was in Elementary School about a War.\nThere was a book I remember reading that was about the US Revolutionary War (Pretty sure) where a young boy enlisted into a military unit and was taken prisoner by 3 Dutch soldiers (No idea if it was actu... | [
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"content": "The Fighting Ground.\nApril 3, 1778: He may be just thirteen, but Jonathan knows he's ready to go to the war against the British. He can handle a gun. He yearns to battle for glory, just like his brother and cousin.So when Jonathan hears the tavern bell toll, calling men to fight, he runs to join ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book I read in middle school.\nThis book just popped into my head after I had completely forgot about it. It was about these kids that made some machine that I think could cause things to happen like they’d type something in and it would happen the next day, like at the beginning they type ... | [
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"content": "The Homework Machine.\nDOING HOMEWORK BECOMES A THING OF THE PAST The unlikely foursome made up of a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker -- Brenton, Sam \"Snick,\", Judy and Kelsey, respectively, -- are bound together by one very big secret: the homework machine. Because the machi... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Something I read as a preteen but now escapes me.\nThe story revolved around two childeren, a girl and her brother. They also have a baby sister. I don't remember much but the in the society they exist in, economic/ social classes were designated via sash color for the family. In the book t... | [
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"content": "The Wind Singer.\nThe first in a trilogy, The Wind Singer is a mesmerizing and remarkably realized fantasy novel full of adventure, suspense, humor and warmth.In the city of Aramanth, the mantra is, \"Better today than yesterday. Better tomorrow than today.\" Harder work means the citizens of Aram... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A book about a family that moves to Alcatraz. For the life of me, I can't remember the name of it at all..\nPlot: A family decides to and goes to Love on Alcatraz (the island surrounding the main prison), either because it was cheapest, or it was the most suitable for their daughter. She w... | [
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"content": "Al Capone Does My Shirts.\n1935I want to be on Alcatraz like I want poison oak on my private parts. But apparently nobody cares, because now I’m Moose Flanagan, Alcatraz Island Boy–all so my sister can go to the Esther P. Marinoff School, where kids wear their clothes inside out and there isn’t a ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Kid with Superpowers.\nIt was a book with the title being a single word, the main character is from a family which have weird powers, the main character boy is expecting to get fast running powers but instead gets chaos powers and starts breaking stuff(?) He goes to a farm (?) Where he meet... | [
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"content": "Scumble.\nNine years after Mibs's Savvy journey, her cousin Ledge has just turned thirteen . . . But Ledger Kale's savvy is a total dud-all he does is make little things fall apart. So his parents decide it's safe to head to Wyoming, where it's soon revealed that Ledge's savvy is much more powerfu... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] young adult book about dating twin brothers.\nHey!\n\nMy friend sent me this message:\n\n“Hey me and my sister were talking about books today and i tried to tell her about that crazy book you got me to read back in school. Lol. It was about a girl dating twin brothers. I remember one was n... | [
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"content": "Pleasure.\nWhat happens when a woman realises that her 'perfect on paper' boyfriend can't meet all her sexual and emotional needs? She leaves him, that's what. When a chance meeting with a sexy, single stranger excites her, she's tempted to find out if he can fulfil her most basic desires.",
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [Pre-2010s] Book about a boy who gets kidnapped to aid in a treasure hunt?.\nI read this book sometime in the late 2000s, although I have no idea when it was actually published.\n\nThe main character was a kid who “had two birthdays” because he was born at midnight. His mother/aunt/legal g... | [
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"content": "The Ghost in the Noonday Sun.\nBorn with the ability to see ghosts, Oliver Finch is kidnapped by pirates who want to thwart the ghosts guarding buried treasure.",
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][90s/2000s] A YA scifi book about a young man who hears the word 'khartoum' in a dream, travels there to find dried up alien entities that reanimate, heralding the end of the world.\nThere's these dried out leather kidney things that rehydrate and become malicious blobs... I think there's an... | [
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"content": "The Eclipse of the Century.\nKeith has a near death experience and finds himself at the end of a long tunnel. He thinks at first he must be in heaven, but he is greeted by strangers who tell him he is in Qantoum and they will meet him there again \"under a black sun at the end of a thousand years\... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][00-10’s] Teen/Young Adult novel about winning the lottery?.\nI read this book in school probably 2011/12, I think it was Australian, it was from the point of view of a teen girl whose parents won the lottery and moved to a really nice big house and how everything changed and she was suddenl... | [
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"content": "Changing Emma.\nThe day Emma Green's GCSE results came through was the day her parents won the lottery. She'll never need a job. She doesn't need her friends either. But as Emma spends wildly, she finally gets her comeuppance.",
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] Geared for older children but about a magical candy land, maybe siblings traveling on a quest.\nAt least from about a decade ago, since I read it in middle school and it didn’t seem like a new book then. I really don’t remember much about it but I think there was a boat and a castle, I rem... | [
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"content": "The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles.\nThe Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles\n was the second children’s novel ever written by Julie Andrews, the beloved star of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Perfect for young readers who love whimsical stories about magic!The Whangdoodle was once ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][2000ish] A boy studies magic at a school that isn’t Harry Potter.\nI remember reading the book roughly around 2000-2003 (I was 10-13 years old and remember thinking the book seemed somewhat “young” for me even then), and I don’t remember too much about it except that the boy tried to study ... | [
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"content": "Wizard's Hall.\nPoor Henry. It’s not enough that his mother has sent him away from home to learn magic. It’s not enough that everyone at his new school calls him Thornmallow because he’s “prickly on the outside, squishy within.” It’s not enough that the only talent he shows at Wizard’s Hall is an ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Sci-fi Book about Female Alien (Nonhuman) Gladiator/Slave.\nMany years ago, it was free-reading time in 5th Grade (Late 90s) but I didn't have a book with me at the time. So I ended up picking a random sci-fi novel. It was generally about a lady-alien who was competing in the gladiator batt... | [
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"content": "The Crimson Claw.\nThe master reptilian Viis beat, sell, and kill at whim the Abiru slaves they rule. But their corruption is destroying them. And Ampris--a slave forced to fight as a gladiator--will powerfully lead the fight for her oppressed people.",
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"content": "[TOMT] [book] vandalizing statues of liberty.\nAbout 8 years ago one of my high school teachers recomended a book to me; one of the characters mentions that there are several replicas of the statue of liberty in America and he wants to blow them all up. My teacher told me about this book after he saw me... | [
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"content": "Leviathan.\nNew York Times bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) opens Leviathan with the tearing of a bomb explosion and the death of one Benjamin Sachs. Ben’s one-time best friend, Peter Aaron, begins to retrospectively investigate the transformation that led Ben from his enviabl... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK]Book with no words about a old camera.\nThis is probably a children's book. It was around in the mid 2010s but could have been made before that. The cover is sky blue and the spine is burgundy or a darker red. I think it might of had silver lettering on the cover. It was about a camera that ... | [
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"content": "Flotsam.\nIn the extraordinary Caldecott Medal–winner and New York Times bestseller by David Wiesner, a beach day is the springboard to a wildly imaginative exploration of fantastical mysteries of the deep—and of human connections through time. A young boy comes to the beach eager to collect and e... |
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"content": "[TOMT][COMIC] Graphic novel about cute alien friends written in an alien language - oddly violent.\nI remember reading some of this book ~11 years ago. It might have been published anywhere from 2004-2009. All the characters were cute little aliens and all the text in the book was in a fictional alien l... | [
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"content": "A.L.I.E.E.E.N.: Archives of Lost Issues and Earthly Editions of Extraterrestrial Novelties.\nBeaten up, tattered, and weather worn, this volume has crossed through space to become the first extra-terrestrial comic book in print on earth. The language and even the alphabet are alien, but as human r... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] It was a historical fiction book we had to read in around fourth grade?.\nIt took place sometime around the mid-nineteenth century about a girl who had been very sick as a young child. Her doctors told her parents that she needed fresh air or something to build up her immune system so inst... | [
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"content": "Caddie Woodlawn.\nCaddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors -- neighbors who, like her mother and sisters, don't understand her at... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] YA novel about a girl who is trying to discover a new plant species with her dad, title was a girl's name and cover may have had her silhouette.\nSpoiler warning I guess?\n\nAt the end the girl manages to find a plant that looks like something that they haven't documented, so she runs back ... | [
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"content": "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate.\nCalpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones.With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2010s] I recently read a dystopian book but I cant find it..\nI recently read a book set in a future America where the government is making laws to micromanage people's lives, it was from the perspective of a High School kid who was horrified by his grandparents doing seemingly normal thing... | [
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"content": "Rash.\n\"Of course, without people like us Marstens, there wouldn't be anybody to do the manual labor that makes this country run. Without penal workers, who would work the production lines, or pick the melons and peaches, or maintain the streets and parks and public lavatories? Our economy depend... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] it was called something similar to mangolia. A book about sky pirates and a girl who's actually a bird. Someone in it has an obession with Pi and her friend wore a dinosaur suit to her funeral.\nThe title says most of it. It was a girl and her friend, they were kinda depressed. She had been... | [
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"content": "Magonia.\n#1 New York Times bestseller Maria Dahvana Headley’s soaring sky fantasy Magonia is now in paperback!Since she was a baby, Aza Ray Boyle has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak—to live. So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][late 90’s-early 2000’s] Nerd gets muscles from working on the roof of his school via community service punishment and has to solve a murder of a girl in his town that is suddenly into him..\nI was trying to find one of my favorite authors growing up by recalling the title of a book I read, ... | [
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"content": "Twisted.\nHigh school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background—average student, average looks, average dysfunctional family. But since he got busted for doing graffiti on the school, and spent the summer doing outdoor work to pay for it, he stands out like you w... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000-2020]-YA Dystopian- A boy wakes up in coffin, in empty house in Washington (used to live in Britain), nobody around, people in vans trying to kill him, finds two other teens, learns about what happened to family..\nI read this book either this year or last year (2019-2020). It's a dyst... | [
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"content": "More Than This.\nA boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies. Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive. How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place?As he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Might this not be the end? Mig... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] YA Novel about boy on trial who refuses to speak.\nSo about 6 years ago, I read a YA novel. The story is told by a young kid, middle school - high school age, who's friend is accused of murdering his infant brother. The kid visits his friend, in jail, but the kid refuses to speak, even to ... | [
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"content": "Silent to the Bone.\nConnor is sure his best friend, Branwell, couldn't have hurt Branwell's baby half sister, Nikki. But Nikki lies in a coma, and Branwell is in a juvenile behavioral center, suspected of a horrible crime and unable to utter the words to tell what really happened. Connor is the o... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][mid-1990s? possibly older] A new Ice Age started suddenly, protagonist's American family moved to Mexico, friend lost a leg in a terrorist attack, protag moved back to the US Midwest with his (I think) aunt & uncle..\nThe book was written on about a jr high to highschool level - if I bought... | [
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"content": "The Dying Sun.\nSet in the future during a new ice age, James and Robert leave the crime-ridden, warm South for a more primitive existence in the North as the two rejoin James' parents on their farm in Missouri and prepare for the approaching winter.",
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