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alangiaceae
Since: Nov, 2014
8th Dec, 2014 04:10:25 AM
For the first- H M Hoover's Orvis?
rachiebird
Since: May, 2014
18th Dec, 2014 08:16:19 AM
Yes! It was definitely Orvis! I remember the title. Thank you very much.
Hi. I'm looking for two things.
Firstly, a scifi(-ish?) chapter book that I would have read in elementary school (so 7+ years ago)
It took place in the future, at a point when there were people living on other planets. Earth did have a human population, but it wasn't large and generally consisted of people too poor to live anywhere else. There was somewhere between one and three children who were the main characters. (I'm pretty sure it was two, one girl and one boy, but I might be wrong.) The story began with then in a boarding school or orphanage.
There was a garbage dump or orphanage nearby and the children found a robot there. It was either broken down or just old. For some reason, they ended up leaving the school with this robot and traveling. I don't remember the resolution of the book at all.
I'm also looking for a children's illustrated picture book that I would have read around 10-12 years ago. I remember next to nothing about it, but I think the general theme was people starting to live in tree-houses and basically rejoining nature. It felt very rain-forest/jungle-y. Magic seeds may have been involved.