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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1990s] Books by the same author. One may have been called Zoo Boy the other might be Ghost Girl.\nI have to think I'm misremembering the names because Google books isnt coming up with anything.\n\nThey are about a therapist or social worker who worked with abused kids. Probably read them ab... | [
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"content": "Murphy's Boy.\nHis name was Kevin but his keepers called him Zoo Boy. He didn't talk. He hid under tables and surrounded himself with a cage of chairs. He hadn't been out of the building in the four years since he'd come in. He was afraid of water and wouldn't take a shower. He was afraid to be na... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] old(?) book.\nSo there was this book, it was about three children who were at a foster home. There were two boys and one girl. One of the children had his legs broken by his dad and at the end of the book he is at a hospital and the other two get him a dog.",
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"content": "The Pinballs.\nYou can't always decide where life will take you--especially when you're a kid.Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon as you get settled,... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Two sibling orphans go to live on farm. They are taken in by an elderly couple. They nearly drown at the end.\nI also think the name of the book was the name of the farm, and it started with R. Thank you",
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"content": "Ruby Holler.\nFrom Sharon Creech, the Newbery Medal winning author of Walk Two Moons, comes a heartwarming adventure about finding family, and a home, when you least expect it.Ruby Holler is a Carnegie Medal-winning novel, and with its quirky protagonists and exciting journey, captures the imagina... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Young adult or children’s book with red birds or flowers on the cover..\nI was obsessed with this book in elementary school about a young girl that possibly lives with her grandparents that falls in love with an older boy that lives down the road. He gives her a puppy at some point and I v... | [
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"content": "Chasing Redbird.\nTo Zinny Taylor, life is like trying to untangle spaghetti - she needs to escape the chaos of her family. So when she finds a long-forgotten trail in the wild woods near her home, she resolves to follow it. It's a journey that leads her to unravel the dark secrets of her aunt's l... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] About a English boy who is trying to win a radio trivia show.\nI’m pretty sure it is set in England. It’s about this boy (14-17) who lives with his mom and little brother and his dad is dead. \n\nHe enters a contest on a radio station using a pay phone in a phone booth and enters under his ... | [
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"content": "Fifteen Days Without a Head.\nFifteen-year-old Laurence Roach just wants a normal life, but it’s not easy when your mum is a depressed alcoholic, and your six-year-old brother thinks he’s a dog. When Mum fails to come home one night, Laurence tells nobody, terrified he and his brother will be take... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [CHILDREN’S BOOK].\nOk so this may be easy for some but this has been killing me for a decade now. \n\nThe book was basically all pink and nothing else. The book was just all shades of pink and no other color for the most part. I remember a little girl found a butterfly that wasn’t pink and she f... | [
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"content": "Priscilla and the Pink Planet.\nPriscilla lives on a planet where everything is pink. ``Pink, pink, pink!'' she cries with fright. ``Pink to the left and pink to the right!'' Priscilla dreams of seeing the world in other colors and ends up teaching the Great Queen of Pink that diversity leads to t... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][20th Century] A book of \"Just so Stories\" or something similarly titled- not the Rudyard Kipling book.\nI remember there was a story about a sofa which ate people who sat on it, as well as one about four musician pigs who ate a lot at a restaurant...?",
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"content": "I Am Papa Snap and These Are My Favorite No Such Stories.\nPapa Snap relates a series of zany, fantastical tales about such colorful characters as Zink Slugg, Mr. and Mrs. Kaboodle, Bunny Buson Brittle, and the four Tremblance brothers--Fester, Fister, Faster, and Foster.",
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2010ish] Teen/Kids book about a kid who turns into a big blue monster.\nI read the synopsis of this book in Indigo when I was around 10 and for some reason, my brain won't let me forget it. This was around the time the Percy Jackson books were in full swing. The basic overview that I can re... | [
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"content": "Stronger: A Super Human Clash.\nThe critically acclaimed Super Human series reaches its shocking conclusionAll Gethin Rao wants is to be like every other boy his age. But normal twelve-year-olds aren't blue. And they certainly aren't thirteen feet tall. That's what happens when his superpowers kic... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Young Adult Fantasy Book Series ft. Young Girl Who Can Talk to Animals and Transform.\nOk so I am having a helluva time figuring out anything about this book series I read as a kid. I don't remember the title or the names, but I do remember that in the first book she doesn't really underst... | [
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"content": "Wild Magic.\nYoung Daine's knack with horses gets her a job helping the royal horsemistress drive a herd of ponies to Tortall. Soon it becomes clear that Daine's talent, as much as she struggles to hide it, is downright magical. Horses and other animals not only obey, but listen to her words. Dain... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2010's] A horror novel where the protagonist wins a contest to meet a horror movie maker by entering her greatest fear. Things go wrong once she gets there. The book is told from multiple perspectives and gives a look into the other winner's fears..\nThe main girl's fear had something to do... | [
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"content": "Welcome to the Dark House.\nWhat’s your worst nightmare?For Ivy Jensen, it’s the eyes of a killer that haunt her nights. For Parker Bradley, it’s bloodthirsty sea serpents that slither in his dreams.And for seven essay contestants, it’s their worst nightmares that win them an exclusive, behind-the... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000's] children/teen book about birthdays and being stuck in a time loop.\ni dont remember a lot but ill put as many details as possible!\n\n\\-the main characters were a boy and a girl and a mysterious old lady\n\n\\-they shared a birthday but they got into a huge fight so they didnt cele... | [
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"content": "11 Birthdays.\nGROUNDHOG DAY meets FLIPPED in this tale of a girl stuck in her birthday.It's Amanda's 11th birthday and she is super excited -- after all, 11 is so different from 10. But from the start, everything goes wrong. The worst part of it all is that she and her best friend, Leo, with whom... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Teen novel I believe.\nWhen I was in high school I read this weird novel that was a suggestion in the library. Any ways it was about this teenaged girl and ever since she hit puberty I believe she would turn into a boy instead of like getting her period. And her parents would lock her boy s... | [
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"content": "Cycler.\nAS FAR AS anyone at her high school knows, Jill McTeague is an average smart girl trying to get her dream date to ask her to the prom.What no one knows, except for Jill?s mom and dad, is that for the four days Jill is out of school each month, she is not Jill at all. She is Jack, a genuin... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1991 or earlier] Sci-fi story about humans meeting a semi-hostile race of anthropomorphic space-faring rabbits.\nIn middle school I happened across a sci-fi novel in my middle school library about an encounter between humans who are spacefaring and a species of rabbitmen who are also spacef... | [
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"content": "Quozl.\nThe sci-fi comedy classic that fans will flip over!From the bestselling author of Jed the Dead--here is the out-of-this-world comedy that introduced \"Flip-A-Mation\" (animated flip art inside each book) and the most lovable aliens in the universe...The Quozl knew they'd love the third pla... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Plot takes place in Germany, man wakes up to find he is the last person on earth. Sets up cameras and finds out he’s doing crazy shot in his sleep..\nI read this book a while back and for the life of me cannot remember the name. Tbh the ending really kinda pissed me off but it made a lastin... | [
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"content": "Night Work.\nThere's nothing moving outside. No cars. No buses. No people. No birds.Nothing. No one. Anywhere.An ordinary man wakes up on an ordinary day to find that he's the only living creature in the entire city. The radio and TV are suddenly filled with white noise, there's no newspaper, the ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] ['00s - '13] Book about kid and old man that travel to another realm/world of faeries?.\nI read this book when I was in middle school and I left the 8th grade in '13 so it can't be anything published past that year. \n\nEither the MC was named Brendan, or it was the old man, or it was the ... | [
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"content": "Faerie Wars.\nWhen Henry Atherton helps Mr. Fogarty clean up around his house, he expects to find a mess and a cranky old man; what he doesn't expect to find is Pyrgus Malvae, crown prince of the Faerie realm, who has escaped the treacherous Faeries of the Night by traveling to the human world thr... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] An English children’s book about three young copper thieves in the 18th century.\nI’m a 19 year old British guy and I read this book some 10 or 11 years ago. It might be a few years older, but I can’t be sure.\n\nBasically, what I remember of the plot is that it’s told from one poor... | [
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"content": "The Copper Treasure.\nFrom the author of the best-selling Smack comes a middle-grade adventure set in the heart of Victorian London. Jamie, Ten Tons, and Davies are mudlarks -- scavengers who eke out a meager existence by retrieving bits of coal, rope, and anything of value from the banks of the T... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] [1980s?].\nThere’s a book I read in (I think) Middle School that is a coming of age novel about a boy in the South Pacific who has to make his way to a small deserted island. He may have brought his dog along. There may have been sharks in the waters surrounding the island. I remember at s... | [
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"content": "Call It Courage.\nA boy tries to overcome his fear of the sea in this treasured classic and winner of the Newbery Medal.Mafatu was afraid of the sea. It had taken his mother when he was a baby, and it seemed to him that the sea gods sought vengeance at having been cheated of Mafatu. So, though he ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A girl finds a body in her apartment's basement and suspects her father is the killer..\nBasically, a tall basketball player girl lives in a kind of run down apartment and ventures down to the basement to find a dead body of a young girl. She also kept a finger. She tells her dad and he act... | [
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"content": "Defender.\nThey call her Tiny, but Tyne Greer is six foot six, a high school basketball star who is hoping the game will be her ticket out of the slum. She lives in a run-down building called The Zoo, where her father is the superintendent. One day she discovers a crack in the wall of an abandoned... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Post Apocalyptic McDonald's.\nIt was a series of parody novels that was kind of like Mad Max, I never actually read them (which is why I've been searching for them) I found them online while jokingly looking at McDonaldsland (the fictional land that Ronald inhabits) fan-fiction around 2016,... | [
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"content": "Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland.\nRoad Warrior Werewolves versus McDonaldland Mutants...post-apocalyptic fiction has never been quite like this. They call themselves the Warriors, their enemies call them the Bitches. They are a gang of man-eating, motorcycle-riding, war-hungry werewolf women, ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Story] short horror story from a kid’s book.\nI thought it was a story from the book Scary Stories to tell in the Dark but apparently not. But it was from a book like that, with short horror stories for kids. \n\nIn the story, the girl was a brat to her grandma (I think her grandma but could’ve ... | [
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"content": "Dare to Be Scared: Thirteen Stories to Chill and Thrill.\nThis illustrated collection by the author of Short and Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales includes ghost tales, “jump” stories, dark fantasy, and science fiction, all set in contemporary situations that will seem hauntingly familiar to young re... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Older Children's Book of Fantasy Short Stories.\nThis was a library book I read in 5th grade. It had short fantasy stories that were a little darker and more substantial than cute and simple stories, so it is probably for older elementary school kids. I remember three of the stories.\nThe ... | [
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"content": "Instead of Three Wishes.\nA leprechaun is sighted in small–town New Hampshire. A city boy becomes a hero in prehistoric Sweden. An elf prince tries to reward a girl who wishes he'd just leave her alone. In these and other delightful stories, magical adventure appears in the most unexpected places!... |
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"content": "[TOMT][book] A book about a post-apocalyptic future where the world is ruled by vampires. Humans are almost extinct and are coveted.\nAbout the vampires I remember that they did not have body hair, they slept hunging from the ceiling and could not swim. They behave civilly until they discover that some... | [
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"content": "The Hunt.\nDon’t sweat. Don’t laugh. Don’t draw attention to yourself. And most of all, whatever you do, do not fall in love with one of them.Gene is different from everyone else around him. He can’t run with lightning speed, sunlight doesn’t hurt him, and he doesn’t have an unquenchable lust for ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Childrens Book] [late 90's-early 00's] Its show and tell at school, one kid is bringing a rhino beetle, the other a bonsai tree..\nThe first kid imagines his friends tree is so big it'll take up the whole classroom. The second kid imagines his friends rhino beetle is so big they'll be able to ri... | [
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"content": "Sparky and Eddie: The First Day of School.\nYoung readers meet Sparky and Eddie, two best friends, in the first book of anew school-based, easy-to-read series. All summer long, Sparky and Eddie haveplayed together in their tree fort. Now it's time for school. What will it belike? Full-color illust... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOKS] [2000’s] Looking for a book I read when I was a kid...(first post here).\nHey everyone! I am desperately searching for a book I read when I was young, so unfortunately I have pretty vague details. The book was about two kids who move with their parents to a marsh town, and when exploring ... | [
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"content": "Gone-Away Lake.\nSummer has a magic all its own.When Portia sets out for a visit with her cousin Julian, she expects fun and adventure, but of the usual kind: exploring in the woods near Julian's house, collecting stones and bugs, playing games throughout the long, lazy days.But this summer is dif... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] \"Hide and seek, hide and seek, you won't find me for a week\".\nSome weird kids book with some bird looking thing that would play hide and seek and say \"\"Hide and seek, hide and seek, you won't find me for a week\"\"",
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"content": "Hide and Sneak.\nInuit author Michael Kusugak (\"A Promise Is A Promise\", \"Baseball Bats For Christmas\") again demonstrates he is a masterful writer. A mythological figure and traditional Inuit practices set the backdrop for this dramatic story. During hide-and-seek, Allashua encouters an Ijira... |
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"content": "[TOMT][NOVEL] Bonobo troop during a Congo war?.\nHey sorry I don’t remember what the time period was but if I had to guess probably the last two decades. This book is probably fictional and it follows the story of a girl who traveled with a troop of bonobos to escape violence during a war in Congo. I th... | [
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"content": "Endangered.\nThe compelling tale of a girl who must save a group of bonobos--and herself--from a violent coup.The Congo is a dangerous place, even for people who are trying to do good.When one girl has to follow her mother to her sanctuary for bonobos, she's not thrilled to be there. It's her moth... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s?] Novel w/ weird dialogue formatting about rich kid who falls into heavy drug use.\nHi,\n\nI think this was like an edgy young adult novel, it featured a kid who I think got kicked out of college(not sure) and came home to rich divorced parents who didn't care about him and got really... | [
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"content": "Exit Here..\nEnter apathy. Travis is back from college for the summer, and he's just starting to settle in to the usual pattern at home: drinking, drugging, watching porn, and hooking up. But Travis isn't settling in like he used to; something isn't right. Maybe it's that deadly debauch in Hawai... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] young adults superhero book.\nI only remember a few scenes in no particular order:\n\n- the main character (I think) a teenage boy saves someone from a bus and discovers his super speed\n\n- some very famous superhero called dalton exists\n\n- some woman who can turn to like diamond finally... | [
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"content": "The Awakening.\nTen years ago in a great battle, superhumans vanished - died or lost powers and blended back into society. But Danny and Colin 13 are changing. Danny moves at the speed of light, Colin is surprisingly strong. Their parents, the lost generation of superhumans, have watched and waite... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [80S] Small demonic creatures in...NYC(?).\nI think it was set in New York City; premise is sort of like a cross between the not-quite-seen creatures in the 70s movie, Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark, and the \"learning how to hunt us\" of Whitley Streiber's The Wolfen. The main character has ... | [
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"content": "Darkfall.\nThey found four corpses in four days. Each more hideously disfigured than the last, the bodies punctured with dozens of tiny wounds.At first they thought it was a savage psychopath. Then they thought it was a vicious gangland war. Then they thought packs of demonic rats were escaping th... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] [came out before 2010].\nHi, I'm looking for a book I read a few years ago. I probably read it in about 2010 so I assume it came out before then, but again, I'm not solid on the date. \n\nAnyway, its about antisemitism as a main theme. The main character is a kid (can't remember if they're... | [
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"content": "Puppet.\nA heartbreaking episode in history, explained through the story of a young servant girl in the late 1800s.The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the ‘blood libel’ — the centuri... |
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