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openchapter book about kid's dental work picking up alien invasion Literature
When I was a kid in the 90s, there was a book in the library about a kid who got braces or fillings picking up radio transmissions and having plenty of fun with that until his friend suggests that he try biting a chain link fence and overhears an alien invasion force. I remember he could turn it on and off and maybe change frequencies when he "put his tongue on his tooth".
Edited by TParadoxopenBook With Record Player Needle on Jeans Literature
I'm trying to remember the title of a book I borrowed from one of my second cousins forever ago... It was about a kid who, if I'm remembering correctly, learned about how records play sounds because of the grooves in them (or something) and tries running a record player needle on his jeans, only to discover that someone recorded a plea for help in his jeans. I really don't remember how he went to save people or whatever, but I do remember a moment where he was in a jam and managed to find a solution by running the needle over his fingerprint.
openYA book series with black and gold cover, about a trial/tournament? Literature
i remember seeing this book back in 2015/2016. the book was a gold foil hardcover with black and white text. i don't remember the description but the book seemed to be about a tournament or contest of some kind and there was a central number, i think it was 13? the book also had a sequel with a red foil hardcover and silver text. this is all i remember unfortunately.
openTwo teenagers and piggy bank Literature
In eighth grade, my class read a book about two teenagers who befriended a man after they prank call him. The man has a room in his house full of piggy banks, I think. The teenagers throw a party at his home and that results in the man having a heart attack.
openMan Loses Immortality While Rest of World Becomes Immortal (solved!) Literature
I had this on my Kindle, but I cannot find it. I do not recall it being a short story, but it might have been. I read this only about three or four years ago, but it was probably older than that. If I remember correctly, it involved a dystopian atmosphere, but I could be entirely wrong with that. Unfortunately, I do not remember much about the book, but all I remember is a man grows up, but cannot die, I cannot remember why. However, he gave up his immortality, so the rest of the world could be immortal, or something of that extent. The last part of the book had his daughter visiting the hospital to see him and he died happily. I think his name was Ralph, but as I said, it was a few years ago, probably quite hazy on the details. I think "time" was somewhere in the title, or had to do with the plot. I know this is not much to go on, but can anyone please help? Any help would truly be appreciated, thank you. I know some of my queries have been difficult to answer lately, but please, I want to know the title of this story.
Edited: I know I have been ignored much by other users here for being "impatient" with my queries, but I come here for help and I know judging from some of the replies others receive, posters are at their best helpful here. The queries might be perhaps more bumps than guesses or direct answers, but sometimes from what I notice anyway the queries are answered, or at least in an effort to be. I cannot make anyone answer, but I would appreciate any answer, even if it is merely a guess. I deserve help here too, and again, if I did not think well of this site, I would not post here. My queries might also be vague, but I think I provide more useful information than not. Look, for any past behavior, I truly apologize, but I know at least some of you are least quite knowledgeable with the queries. Just had to put this out there, and yes, I am still looking for the title.
Edited by thestormtrooperopenAbout a bar Literature
I'm trying to remember a book I once heard about with a wizard who's a bartender. I think it's urban fantasy.
openweird sci-fi book about the "it's all a simulation" theory Literature
it was about these two or three kids who were gonna perform a magic act for a talent show in their town, but when they do it, they black out. after they wake up, they find everyone is gone. everyone is found doing a multitude of strange things, like throwing out all their furniture, and having weird robotic "tentacles or tubes" sprout from parts of their bodies. only a select few others aren't being affected, and the other citizens don't seem to notice the kids.
it was revealed that the whole world is a simulation, and they recently updated humanity while the kids were out, but they didn't update. this has happened throughout history, leaving others unable to communicate or even be perceived by the other people that did update. the entities running the sim offer the kids a way to update if they so wish to rejoin their other friends and family, or stay as is and live in the world as if they don't exist anymore.
openSome children's book Literature
So in elementary school, there was this library book about these colorful and cat-like creatures (i think they were called emots or something but when I try to Google search can't find anything) and they each represent sort of an emoji or different personality something like that, and then there is this hovering robot character that has a face shaped like theirs. anyone know this
Edited by EmeraldDigimonopenFairy Tale academy (Solved) Literature
I'm trying to find a book series I read a while ago so I can share it with my sister. The basic premise of the story was that normal girl Aurora "Rory" Langdon stumbles onto a school for training fairy tale characters because the stories themselves are cycles that constantly repeat. She befriends Chase(?) and (Jacke)Lena and the first book revolves around Lena's version of Jack and the Beanstalk. The Big Bad of the series is The Snow Queen. I always thought there was a lot of Wangst because they were (allegedly) Not So Different
Edited by BobtheBoldoreopen[SOLVED] Fantasy novel set in a city Literature
I got briefly recommended a fantasy novel in Goodreads and wasn't smart enough to save the book to any of my shelves. It was set in a fantasy city (though, not a modern day city, I think) and it was implied that there were three protagonists: a ghoul, a thieving orphan and some other character who has some sort of curse/sickness (it is possible that that last one is, in fact, a characteristic of one of the other two characters). If I remember correctly, they are not immediately part of the same group, but they are then drawn together as they start to uncover some sort of conspiracy inside the city (though that is a very common sort of plot, so it is not impossible that I just pasted it on top of the book's description).
Edited by bowlfishresolved A girl runs away to an island in Canada (I think) Literature
I read this one in fifth grade. A teenage girl runs away in the wake of her older sister Jam's death. She had an eight-step disappearance plan that involved changing her clothes in an airport bathroom and flushing stuff that could identify her down the toilet, and it ends with her on an uninhabited island that I think was in Canada. She lives there for months, possibly a year. Once a guy comes to the island to look for her, but he doesn't do a very good job - he just wanders around calling her name. When she decides to leave the island, he's the first person she meets. He doesn't recognize her because her time in the wilderness has changed her so much.
openBook about people who could speak to mythical animals [SOLVED] Literature
There was a girl who could speak to every kind of animal, a boy who could speak to pegisi (winged horses) and a minor character who was major in one book... I think the girl's aunt who she lived with for a while who could speak to dryads... In one of the books, there was a Battle in the Centre of the Mind, where an annoying person who originally thought the girl couldn't speak to any of the mythical creature/animal kept getting targeted by her mind because she didn't like him. Both the boy and the girl also had heterochromia and it was Lampshaded as a Mark of the Supernatural
Edited by dolphinleoopenTitle of this anecdotal short story Literature
I've listened to this story at a seminar when I was in college years ago.
It's about an illiterate business tycoon who started his business by starting to sell apples instead of reading books at a brothel.
openSeagull raised by cat Literature
So, there's this book about a cat who has to raise a seagull after her mother dies due to petroleum issues and leaves the egg to the cat. A bunch of issues about cats eating birds happen when the seagull grows up. Anyone have any idea?
openDragons sports Literature
I don't remember much, but I read this, I want to estimate ten years ago? It was juvenile fiction or young adult, not sure, but definitely closer to juvenile. There were dragons and people rode them. I think it was knights? But the book had a moderney vibe - like, there wasn't technology, but from the tone, I would have expected some. The main character was a dragon rider and was expected to preform in some kind of games? Like, a sports thing. There was something more going on, I think. Like people didn't really know how humans and dragons were supposed to bond (I might be getting this bit confused with Pegasus, though), and I think there was some kind of doomsday prophecy. I think the main character ended up camping in the woods and meeting a witch? And there might have been a spell put on her when she was born (but I might be getting that confused with the Chrysalis Queen Quartet). So, yeah. Dragons, sports, and a modern vibe to what wanted to be a more traditional fantasy.
openBook about time traveling dragon Literature
I read a book back in fifth grade about a girl who's father is an archeologist and who wants to join a club about dragon trading cards. She lives in Cambridge Mass around 2004, and there's a pregnant dragon who time travels to near her. The dragon eats a bunch of chocolate coffee ice cream right before giving birth and the baby can't go back in time because it refuses to drink milk without chocolate and the mother dragon is from England in the 1000s or something. There's a magician who follows the dragon, and the dragon-trading-card club is made up of snobs.
openBook series about fighting fae Literature
My mom listens to audiobooks a lot and one of them is a series about a woman who is fighting fae. The reason why she gets caught up in fighting the fae is because her sister was killed. I don’t know how to spell the sister’s name, but it sounds like “Alina.” The narrator at some point allies herself with someone named Jericho Barons. (Approximate spelling based on the sound of the name.) Barons knows about the fae because he is one. The reason why the fae are appearing is connected to a book that’s called the She-Sedue. The narrator herself is called a she-seer. The book itself is capable of playing tricks on the narrator’s mind, such as seeing illusions of her dead sister. The narrator eats the flesh of dead fae in order to get some kind of benefit, but it has side-effects that Barons disapproves of.
open[SOLVED] "Snowball" Literature
A pretty old short story that involves a girl wanting a pet, and after numerous failed tries, she finally gets a hamster she names "Snowball". But one day, the hamster gets lost inside the house and so when the dad drill holes around the entire house eventually collapses, and the hamster turns out to be outside and fine the whole time.
The author's name escapes me...
EDIT: Never mind, the authors are Arnot Mc Callum and Eleanor Rindlisbacher!
Edited by Monolaf317openUnknow Book Literature
So bit of an odd one thats been driving me nuts, the book from what i remember was in a city that was in a kingdom that was slowly failing to invaders. The main characters were a pair of inventors who were trying to invent a cannon, with a friend in the city guard. They were broke and almost arrested when their patron died owing a lot of money. Without any other option they threw themselves at an old wealth house to get a new patron, which turned out to be the patriarchs grand-daughter (maybe daughter) holding the family together since the patriarch was money/noble oriented. They traded a toy steam ball on the promise they could make one that would power a ship against the wind. While siphoning as much money as the could to the cannon project
The two eventually hit on the idea of using a bellfounder to cast the cannon. And equipped a ship with a proto steam engine. One of thier helpers turned out to be a relative to a pirate family/clan and escaped the cities sacking with the ship while they escaped with the bronze case cannon/thier notes and the patrons daughter
They went on to found a secret science community while pretending to be priests.
For the life of me i cant recall the title or author of the series

When I was in elementary school in the 90s there was a chapter book they read to us about a couple of boys finding a kind of Swiss Army alien tech that through mysterious means would do just about anything and could improve the performance of anything someone who didn't understand how it worked could wire it into. I have a strong memory of it being titled "The Gizmo", but the only book that comes up by that name, by Paul Jennings, doesn't look like what we read and I can't get enough info to confirm.