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openNo Title Literature
Looking for a certain superhero book. I remember a lot about it so this should he easy enough. Read it four or five years ago I think, but could've been three. Books about a kid who has the power to fly and has super strength. I remember that him flying was difficult for him because he had to fight against gravity and he had very little control over his strength. Anyway, there were other kids with power in the story too. One girls had th powers of being really sticky. One was a gadgeteer, one had a black hole in their chest, one girl was a shapeshifter, another was a cat girl who had a brother a bit more beast-like than her and then there was a boy with ice powers who the main character assumed was the villain because he was the son of the real villainess, a woman who also had ice powers. The villainess was trying to boost the powers of the kids or something and the hero at the end of the book loses his powers but possibly gains the power to see through walls. What is this book's title?
openNo Title Literature
This sucks, it seems that this site has deleted everything old? So I can't find my old query that someone was so incredibly nice to answer.
1. Young adult or children's book about some siblings or kids stuck in a museum overnight I remember the word "Abode" being used in the book. Crazy stairs, trap doors, etc. On the cover, there are two girls crawling along the floor, and the stairs go in impossible directions. Yellow or orange cover. Possibly called something like "Scared Straight" or "scared Silly".
2. A book about a school — I feel like it's probably Louis Sachar or likewise? Where the kids in the corner make snide remarks all day, but nobody can tell from what person the remarks come.
Thanks for help if you can provide it.
openNo Title Literature
So I remember reading this books a couple years ago. I don't remember much about it but I do remember that the main character was a boy who was left at an aunt's house while his parents went somewhere. He saw a picture of some ancestor and the boy in the picture looked just like him. Something happened and he got sent back in time and switched places with the ancestor boy who had some fatal illness that could be cured in the present. Everyone thought the modern boy was ill since the ancestor boy looked just like the modern one and the parents came home. If I remember correctly, there was something about a storm. There was a scene where the two boys played marbles in the attic. They were both good at marbles and the modern boy was trying to win so that he could switch places with the ancestor boy and go back to his own time. The modern boy won just as his dad was coming up in the attic to get the ancestor boy to put him back in bed. I remember there being a sister of the modern boy who though something along the lines of her brother going crazy from the illness. The modern boy was thought to be the ancestor boy when he was back in time and he had to play along. I know this is confusing, but does anyone have any ideas?
openNo Title Literature
I'm looking for a book I read in the 2000's about a girl who gets kidnapped to find herself on a under construction space station that's big enough to have field in it that the kids have to plow. They wear special thermal clothing. It turns out that when they are through, the bad guys plan to just space them/throw them in the Sun. It's probably a ya or children's chapterbook.
openNo Title Literature
Two books, both childrens' books.
The first was part of a series, it may have taken place in the Victorian Era, though I think it took place in modern times (at least the mid 20th century). It was about a girl and her friend who had the nickname "Rubberboy" or something similar, who couldn't feel pain. There was also a part with a tower of pterodactyls or something like that.
The second book was about a girl and a talking rat (and other rodents) it was revealed that there was something special about rodents in general (that may have been the reason for their sentience), and there was a part where a chinchilla was forced to stamp its paw on cookies for some reason. I remember the cover was orange and black, and it was called something like "Rat".
openNo Title Literature
Reading this page has made me think of several books I read or at least skimmed as a kid. I'll try to keep this from becoming a wall of text like last time.
1.A book about a pair of twin sisters who buy an old doll from an antique store. It turns out that the doll is evil(possibly it was possessed or cursed or something)but only one of the twin's realizes it.
2.A book about a girl whose aunt died in an apartment fire as a kid. The aunt is fondly remembered as a hero because she was the first to discover the fire and ran around the building ringing all the bells which alerted the other residents to the fire and ultimately saved their lives. The aunt also had a weird hobby of collecting things in boxes. The main character and her cousin like to play out these events as a game and one day the girl finds one of her aunt's boxes in her granny's closet. However when she and her cousin are seen playing with pretend jewelry inside the box by the cousin's father he gets upset. The girl later discovers that her aunt wasn't a hero at all, the uncle had been the one to ring the bells and her aunt was a brat who refused to leave the apartment without her boxes(which is what lead to her death).
3.A book about a young witch named(I think) Libby. It may have been part of a series and it was not Sabrina The Teenage Witch or The Worst Witch.
I read all of these during Elementary School, which for me would have been the mid-late 90s.
openTwo books Literature
I have two books I'm looking for: The first is about a brother and a sister who find a parallel world where time moves much more slowly than on Earth, and is accessed by crawling through somewhere. The brother ends up staying in the parallel world to save it (with a giant swing), while his sister stays on earth and grows old.
The second is a part of a series, I believe. The cover had a humanoid dragon on it chained up and kneeling. I don't remember much of the plot, except that the main character was a boy raised on an island, was anti-magic in a world full of magic, and befriended a dragon when dragons were persecuted.
openNo Title Live Action TV
There was a 1990s special on PBS similar to A Hot Dog Program and An Ice Cream Show which focused on diners. From what I've looked up it doesn't seem to have been by the Hot Dog/Ice Cream producer.
openBook about girl from island who goes to school on mainland Literature
I read this book series in Middle school. I cant really remember much, but I know it was written by a woman who had many other books- mostly for tweens, but this was aimed at a slightly older crowd. The main character is a girl who lives on an island, and travels to the mainland to stay with a woman who owns a boarding house, where other kids from the Island also live so they can attend school. I remember a random detail- about a long, twisted staircase that the characters had trouble with, and the woman who they lived trying to make people think that the main character is crazy/ has a weird thing for fire. I've been struggling to find it for years!
openKid's Book about a ghost brother and sister who befriend a girl named... Virginia, I think? Literature
A book I enjoyed when I was about 10 or 11. I read the whole thing in the span of a day.
There was a little brother and a slightly older sister. Both of them lived deep in the woods on their own. Maybe they were preteen age. The sister was a fan of Roy Rogers, an actor from waaaaaaaaay back in the day.
The other main character was a girl who's name started with a V — I think it was "Virginia" — who moved out into an old house in the woods with her father. Her diary entries are scattered throughout the book. My version had them written in italics, just to throw that out there. Pretty sure she was around the age of 12.
The kids befriend Virginia eventually. I remember there was also an evil ghost lady or something that scared the brother and sister away from either going into a house, leaving a house, or leaving the forest. And, of course, towards the end, it's revealed the siblings were ghosts themselves. Neither of them realized it until later, though.
We find out they died hugging each other after being locked in a cellar, and they confront the ghost lady. After seeing glowing apparitions of their parents, they ascend to heaven. I think the ghost lady (who may have accidentally killed them) is allowed to ascend, too. Lovely stuff, really.
One detail I remember was how the ghost girl was musing how the bottoms of her feet were completely black from years of roughing it in the wilderness.
What the heck was this book called?
Edited by JadenRopen5 aline kids on a space ship, one human Live Action TV
air in the late 90s, there was a girl with rainbow hair, she could do a sonic scream. a guy with long blond curly hair that had spirals instead of ear that had really good hearing. a red skinned girl named rosie I believe, who was from a super hot planet and could absorb and release extreme heat. a black haired olive skinned little kid with a two pronged wish bone looking horn on his forehead that could shoot lighting. and a human guy, African-American with short hair.
I think the show start of that they are in space school and the ship they on they're not supposed to be on but being kids they're gonna do what they want, and some how the ship takes off and they get separated from everyone and the rest of the show is them trying to get home and of course date each other.
open90s in Hungary, not sure if air elsewhere Live Action TV
I only saw about 4 episodes, and it was early 90s in Hungary, but it was likely air else where.
the show was about two aliens, who looked like to normal men, who abducted/recruited 4-5 kids ( i don't remember how many exactly, to help fight another group of aliens.
on of the episodes had them active an android of some kind by accident, no one knew what it was, it grabbed a plastic spoon and melted it and then a metal spoon and melted the plastic bowl the spoon was in.
in another one of the alien men asked to keep a sketch one of the girls drew of a tree because it reminded him of a family member, i think he said it was his mother. later the girl was injured and needed a blood transfusion, the aliens watching an old vampire movie suggest that they poor a glass full of blood down her throat.
I think it was kinda of educational, at one point they gave out clues to people in real life where you had to decipher the message to get hints about the next episode.
openSci-fi story with no grasp of science... Literature
Literature
There's a science fiction short story, based on the trope that people can be shrunk to incredibly small sizes, which posits that an arch-criminal has evaded justice by shrinking himself and is lurking in a hide-out on the surface of a single atom. A crack team is shrunk to sub-molecular level and sent into the molecule in question to arrest him. On arrival they discover the system is a perfect macrocosm of a planetary system, with electron "moons" and "stars" in the "sky". Even more bizarrely, they discover that seeds and plant-life from the real world have grown into forests and a whole ecology - on the srface of an atomic nucleus.
this is so wrong on every conceivable level and betrays no awareness of relative dimensions that it deserves a place in No Sense of Mass. And maybe others! But I can't remember the author or the story title.....
openThe show about middle school?
A live-action Gross-Out Show and the opening sequence said something about a middle school full of bullies, insane teachers and gross school lunches?
openTiny characters Western Animation
There was a show I remember watching when I was younger (late 90's, early 2000's) the main characters were small and possibly animals, (I want to say tadpoles but I could easily be wrong about that) and the only part I remember clearly was in one episode they are in the forest, it is raining, and they take cover in an old tin can or shoe or something. Very vague, I know. Please help.
Edited by NiomisueopenUnknown Alien/monster cartoon?
I'm trying to remember a show or skit I watched when I was very young. I'd say it was from the 90s to early 2000s. It was about a green alien/monster who tried to make friends with humans but he scared them away. I also remember he had a blue sort of screw for a nose?
openCartoon with robots and marooned kid
It concerns a young girl trapped on an unidentified world after a spacecraft (aboard which she is seen stowing away in the title sequence) crashes, forcing her to pick a side between the evil droid empire who have full industrial capacity, energy weapons, combat aircraft and walking weapons platforms (Riddlers? Wrigglers? That's as close as I remember the name sounding) and the Robots, a bunch of rag-tag, inconsistent-model robots whose only vehicle for much of the series is a cobbled-together airship which somehow works even though it has two wonky propellers that don't rotate constantly (this bunch of robots promptly dubs the child Girl-Man.) The planet's only other known inhabitant is a humanoid being whose face is always hidden behind a mask painted like the hazard chevrons on an old British diesel shunter. In one episode the Robots manage to get a steam train (dubbed "the Choo-Choo) operational. The Evil Empire's attempts to destroy or steal it fail ridiculously, until the end when the Robots shut down the locomotive, let the fire go out, and return home, when the evil droids' leader (who isn't really leader but is usually left in charge of the forces deployed in the story) thinks he has won, sneaks into the station and tries to steal the train - single-handedly - by trying to pull it away by hand, via a rope tied around the headstock. "Come on, Choo-choo!" It obviously doesn't work. He's not exactly Gundam-sized, this guy.
openOlder TV Show about a boat and some dolphins
When I was in 5th grade my teacher made us watch a show and I would love to watch it again, but I can't remember the name of it. All I can remember is there was a group of people who were on a boat and travelled through storms and had a really rough time and I remember one of the girls was deaf. I also think it had something to do with dolphins, but it's been 7 years so I can't quite remember. I'm sorry that I don't have very much information on it. If anyone knows or has any ideas about what show this could be, please let me know. Thank you! :)
openWant to find an animated show with the protagonist having the power of Invisibilty
I don't remember too much detail about this show since it was in a translated foreign language, but the main thing was that the hero was a young blonde journalist/press photographer, who stumbled upon the work of a Mad Scientist doing experiments for the Big Bad. They spot him and try to kill him, and when they were shooting at him some equipment gets damaged and they get splashed with chemicals and/or blasted with some rays. The hero becomes permanently invisible while the villain gets the ability to shift into a living, tangible shadowy form. The hero contacts a scientist friend of his and he makes a latex mask with the hero's face which he wears while going outside out of his job. In his superhero identity he wears only a trenchcoat and pair of sunglasses which he will ditch when he needs to be fully invisible. There was this super villain woman who could jump into mirrors (taking a fully white form in the process) and hurt people by attacking their reflections. There was also this time when the hero fell into face-first into an unsettled wax casting and a villain figured out his secret identity by casting that piece out. There was also this plot of another one of the villain's scientific experiments going wrong. The hero loses his powers but now everyone in the city has while the villain's powers go out of control. In the end the hero brings everything to a stop by throwing some Applied Phelbotinum down the now gigantic villain's throat,and everybody comes back to normal. He stays normal for few more days before regaining his powers, and his Secret-Keeper friend gives him back his costume and mask
I'm trying to remember two young adult novels from the mid 90s:
1) Book about an American teenage girl and a prince from a fictional European country. They secretly shared a psychic link since birth- once in a while, one of them would go into a trance, and see what was going on through the eyes of the other. Thus, they grew up as best friends and knowledgeable about each other's lives, even though they'd never met. One day, the prince tours America, and they finally meet. However, the prince gets kidnapped, and the girl has to tell her parents and the prince's handlers about their link and use the power to help locate him.
2. A book set 20 Minutes into the Future, about a brother/sister duo who made virtual reality games for a living. Their games are sabotaged to hurt people who play them, and they have to run from the law and prove their innocence. I remember they had to go into their latest (unfinished?) game, a generic horror/fantasy setting, and get to the end, but I can't remember why- maybe the saboteur was in the game? Another part I remember is that the brother and sister had discovered that you could erase a CD with a powerful electric shock, but kept the discovery a secret for some economic reason. The brother used his CD erasing/electric shock device to stun some thugs on the subway.