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openKid's book about a scientist girl Literature
This was a book series I'd frequently check out at the library years and years ago, the title was a pun on the name Frankenstein, it was a young girl who did weird experiments, one was your basic clone plot, I think there was one involving shrinking and going into a body, y'know, basic kid's sci-fi book stuff. That's honestly all I have for concrete info, the rest of the memories have been conflated with The Loud House which I want to say has a similar art style.
openFantasy Book with Multiple Kingdoms Literature
This is a book I remember the start of, but can't remember actually finishing, but maybe I've just forgotten all the details. What I remember is two noble-blooded characters from the ruling country making their way across the border where they ran into a poor family, and I think the asshole one of the duo killed the brother or something like that? And I think the girl was about to be married to someone?
resolved Plantation owner's son tries to free obsequious slave to impress abolitionist girl Literature
I read this short story for an African-American literature class several years ago. The protagonist's crush tells him that she'd marry any man who helped a slave escape, so the protagonist tells his father that he's going on vacation to Canada and wants a slave to accompany him. To his chagrin, the only slave his father is willing to send is a boot-licking Uncle Tom who's terrified of abolitionists. In Canada, the protagonist tries various schemes to lose the slave before finally arranging for him to be kidnapped and then going back to the plantation alone. However, on his and the abolitionist's wedding day, the slave suddenly shows up, having traveled hundreds of miles to get back to the plantation. In the end, it turns out the slave's subservient behavior was all an act. He just wanted to get back to the plantation to carry out his plan to escape with his whole family. Eventually they all make it safely to Canada. I seem to remember the author being called the "black O. Henry," but Googling that phrase doesn't turn anything up.
Edited by Madison14resolved Canterbury Tales In Space (Solved) Literature
A book where a group are making a pilgrimage either on, or to, a giant tree that is also a spaceship.
One of the travelers was a girl suffering from Benjamin Button syndrome. Her aging had been reversed.
Another was a formerly wealthy poet, who became famous after having a stroke due to bad cryo-sleep, and only being able to communicate with 9 vulgar words. He fell from grace after recovering.
Edited by TylendalopenRandom trivia + statistics book [Solved] Literature
This is a shot in the dark but it's 1AM and this is driving me nuts.
This was a book I read as a kid (mid-to-late 2000s) that was one of those encyclopedias of assorted trivia and statistics. I remember it was a pretty thick book, and the cover was a bright yellowish-green. I THINK there were dots on the cover as well.
I remember the topics were all over the place; I distinctly remember reading about the history of ABBA, urban legends, and there being a section explaining how much various things would have to cost to literally be worth their weight in gold. Some sections were also illustrated with cartoons, like one that had a cartoon of a rock concert with bubbles containing text explaining various aspects of how it worked.
Does anyone remember this book? I'm sure I'd recognize the cover if I saw it, but the title has completely slipped my mind.
EDIT: Found it on Thrift Books, it was Take Me to Your Leader by Ian Harrison.
Edited by AdelePotteropenWerecat book Literature
Ok, so i remember a book where a girl is part of a family of werecats but doesn't know it till she finally turns into one herself as a teen. In this setting normal cats are the natural enemies of werecats, so her mom/dad/bro despise cats while she loves them until she turns into a werecat and instinctively starts hating cats too. Her older brother used to be just like her, loving cats and not understanding why their mom/dad didn't, and then suddenly he changed and joined their side and didn't tell her why (he started turning into a werecat himself).
Edited by cellyangiechowskiopenChildren's story book about a big cat going to meet his fiance Literature
I'm trying to remember the title of a storybook my parents used to read me.
The premise is a big cat (I think a jaguar or something) travelling with his friends (various animals) to meet his fiance.
They keep running into various obstacles which one of the friends can't pass, so they have to spend time dealing with them. This culminates in waiting for a log to rot so the tortoise can get past.
When they reach his fiance's home town, she tells him he's an idiot (waiting for the log to rot was a deal breaker), and he's chased away by the man (cat?) she's already married.
Basically a Hard Truth Aesop about Honour Before Reason.
Edited by Bisected8openA book from childhood Literature
Recently I've been revisiting books I read in my childhood, and found out that I enjoy them at least as much as then and in many cases even more. So I found out a lot of such books, but there's one the I remember clearly veeery few details from, because I didn't even read it normally, but skipped sections and maybe even from end to start? Idk, it's been so long.
So, the details I remember is that there are characters named Drake and Elliott, and Drake gets tied up and tortured at one point. Until they had to separate, they were traversing some sort of caves or tunnels or smth like that. Simple google search returned nothing of interest. Additional detail is that there's machete fight at the end (with someone's uncle probably). And another unimportant one because it could happen in like 20% of books, is that there was a conversation with some character's father at the beginning, but I might be misremembering. Sorry for such minute amount of details, but as I said, I didn't read it properly and I "read" it when I was maybe 10? (I'm almost 22 now).
Edited by EksekkopenYA Novel/series with Fun Gun Names Literature
I remember reading a book or maybe a series when I was in middle school about a teenage assassin(?). The most defining detail I remember was that guns in this world were all named after birds- I don’t remember exactly, but things like a Shrike pistol or Swan sniper rifle or Owl sub machine gun.
He also had a motorcycle that had built-in speakers that could project “negative noise” or something- basically, the opposite of whatever noise the bike made, so it could be completely silent.
openUnknown novel Literature
Hi everyone, I hope you can help me identify a book I saw long ago. I do not think it was part of any established series. I do not remember the title or the story just the cover art. I think the book was written before 1985. The cover was predominantly beige or gold or tan color. It showed a man with a terrified look on his face, longer hair, who is holding a sword. The sword was very wide, and I believe there were trees in the background. The man's eyes were very intense and the cover had almost a feeling of horror to it. The title might have sword in it, but I'm not exactly sure. I am sure that the book was written before 1985. Any thoughts on what book this is?
openWhite book of fairy tales and legends Literature
I expect this to be a bit obscure, but I figured I'd give it a shot.
This was an older series of books with legends and fairy tales. They were wrapped in what felt like leather of some kind of foam substitute, as the covers had a bit of give.
The front border and back were white, and within the border was printed a copy of a hand painted image. I belive one of the books had two children on the cover, and another had a stand of trees.
I believe the series was generically titled, and were listed as "volume x". There were pictures printed on some of the pages.
Each of the volumes had stories set around a particular theme.
openKids book series Literature
I'm looking for a kids book series about a girl who stops evil fairies? by making them do the opposite of what they stand for. I remember a book where one turned people into fish. One book had a guy who didn't want to work and just play. They defeated him by tricking him into fixing the seesaw. The final book has them defeat the wizard to prevent him from becoming mayor.
openGirl's house becomes haunted due to her keeping mum about breaking a necklace Literature
It's a children's book, in which a young girl's mother owns a necklace which she doesn't allow her daughter to try on, but which she sometimes does anyway in secret.
One day, she breaks it, but hides the broken necklace and keeps it a secret. Then, a ghost shows up and keeps repeating, "I broke your necklace!", calling itself the Ghost of Secrets. Then, a second ghost shows up, who repeats, "I hid your necklace" and then more ghosts show up, each repeating a different secret.
Eventually, the girl is pestered by these ghosts too much, so she tells the secrets (starting with "I broke your necklace") and they vanish.
openMurdered cat turns into human for revenge (solved!) Literature
This would be a very old Gothic novel—I remember it having one of those great painted covers of a woman in a flowing white gown in front of a big spooky house—probably from between 1940s and 1960s. The premise is that, for whatever reason, one of the villain's particularly cruel acts is killing a cat by dropping it down a well. Then a mysterious, beautiful woman with green catlike eyes shows up and starts systematically ruining the villain's whole life and exposing every terrible thing he's ever done, with the strong implication that the woman is in fact the cat, come back for revenge. The title of the book may have been the woman's or the cat's name.
Edited by Bergamotopen(SOLVED) Novel or film: Kid plays VR videogame, makes his abusive dad the bad guy Literature
Something I remember reading in the 90s (or maybe very early 2000s), it was in print form but illustrated with photos, so it might have been adapted from a movie.
It was about a boy playing a Virtual Reality videogame for escapism, and getting lost in it to the point that back in real life he'd believe he's still in the game.
The game could be customized to put photos of people on the head of NPCs and enemies; he put his abusive father's face on the game's Big Bad, which made his real-life relapse particularly bad: The kid ends up trying to kill his father with a sword.
The videogame's Big Bad was named Zoltan, but that was in French, so if this media came out in another language the name might have been changed.
Edit: I think I've found it: A 1996 French Made-for-TV Movie called Génération Vidéo
(so as I suspected the text
◊ was a novelization thereof).
Edit 2: I've even found a review in English
! As you can see, the New Media Are Evil and You Can Panic Now are strong with this one.
openWeird Book/Book Series With Objectshifting (Possibly a RIPOFF of Animorphs) Literature
So, I was browsing online and I saw this comment on a Youtube video about 'Super-Brikke': "i don't recall the book specifically, but it sounds like something i read as a kid. there was this weird book in the library near the animorphs series. it was literally just kids turning into shit like a bed lamp or a bathtub. i can't remember many details and this could be a false memory, but maybe it was a series of picture books? i don't know" I want to know what the commenter was talking about, because I'm the kind of person generally known as a "weirdo". (EDIT: WOW did not realize the implications of that. Whoops)
Edited by sRAMrelevratopen(SOLVED: Summer Retreat) What is the name of this short story? Literature
So, I was browsing when I came across this: "One short story was about the Copses, a family of weretrees. They turned into trees to sleep for the winter... after murdering their neighbors and burying them in the yard for fertilizer." Does anyone know the name of that short story?
Edited by sRAMrelevratopenSeveral Different Works Literature
So, I was browsing online and I found a bunch of comments of people talking about books they couldn't remember the names of. Here are the ones that really intrigued me:
1. "...a book about a boy turning into a yellow bus. The cover really disturbed me as a kid"
2. Edit: They probably meant a book. "...a story where a girl drank petrol and turned herself into a car."
3.“Some kid discovered a "new letter" for the alphabet. The letter was this white-skinned, living and sentient creature. For some reason the kid has to keep the letter away from people who are searching for it. At the end, I'm pretty sure the letter is taken away or killed”
4. EDIT: Removed for being too vague.
5. "children's book... a kid or teenager who was always on their cellphone being transformed into a cellphone with human features at the end." (Edit: I am not the only person searching for this https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=89671&type=ykts
)
Does anyone know what these are?
Edit: One more. "I definitely remember, in a similar fashion, a Kafkaesque version of 'I'm a Little Teapot' which has a child grotesquely morphing into a teapot and having relinquished all that made him human by the final illustration...which is just a dainty teapot sitting on a table surrounded by teacups, saucers, and dishes of lemon slices and sugar cubes."
2nd Edit: I found another one "Reminds me of a story of a boy becoming a tree and gets cut down and turned into a cabinet iirc. Gave me nightmares and got paranoid about the furniture watching me." [The second sentence implies that the story said the boy was still aware as a cabinet]
3rd Edit: "An older cousin had a book about a private school and each poem was about a kid enrolled and how they were actually awful (and how they met their end). This sounds like it could have been one of the chapters... But what I'm seeing in the comments is that there were a lot of books like that, apparently. (The poems I remember were about a kid getting eaten by a living arcade machine with a terrifying illustration and an end line something like "BURP! Pac-Man had an early lunch" and a kid who would torment a dog every day, until one day the dog was loose, unbeknownst to them." I only care about the arcade machine one, and NO, it isn't "Cabinet Man"
Edited by sRAMrelevratopenBook series about a boy and his annoying brother Literature
There were at least two-three books in the series, with a spin-off book about a side character.
The first book (and the only one I really remember) was about the main character, the boy, getting a pet turtle, and how he then has to deal with his annoying younger brother. At the end of the story, the younger brother eats the turtle, however the boy is then given a pet dog as a replacement pet, who he then names “turtle”
The boy lives in a small apartment, and his dad worked for a juice company whose products taste really bad.

A children's book, it looked relatively modern but the art style was sort of old-fashioned (similar to the illustrations in the original Winnie-the-Pooh books).
There was this anthropomorphic, or at least semi-anthropomorphic, mouse boy named... I don't remember; something with a "W". I think William.
He was very squirmy, but I can't remember if it was a Potty Dance, or if it was just a Character Tic that onlookers just mistook for a potty dance.
At one point, there was a conversation that went something like this: