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I remember reading this book to myself, about 2009ish to 2010ish.
The cover has a dog standing in a field alone.
This book is about the tale of a pet dog written from her perspective. The dog never spoke a single time in the story, so it was a normal dog.
She was once with a family, and she was afraid of a fox who would watch her from the bushes. I may be mistaken, but I think the fox's name was Mine, and I think it's a vixen. The fox came out during a thunderstorm and just stood there. The fox eventually dies, and it was most likely by a lightning storm. This character is not a big focus of the book and is only there for a few chapters, but she's the only character I remember the most.
Later, the pup and her brother are dropped onto asphalt in the hands of another family. They have to be taken care of due to the injuries they had received.
Our main dog meets another dog named Moon. She hangs out with the dog ever since.
Yes, that is probably not enough details, but tropers can get anything accomplished if they search hard enough.
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This book is one I picked up at a book fair during the early to mid 2000's. I bought it at a book fair and it was entirely to intelligent for a kid my age. It was about a teacher who took a group of students into her garden for a special graduation ceremony. It was sort of a mystical spirit journey or something along those lines. I particularly remember a butterfly metaphor about a geeky kid coming out of his shell and I also remember that there was at least one kid who didn't go to the graduation. I've been wanting to re-read this for a while now that I am older so if you could help it would be greatly appreciated. Seeing as it was found at a book fair it was probably published by Scholastic Books.
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This may sound weird but as a kid I had this book about math and/or money that claimed there was a such thing as a 20 billion dollar bill and the bill had President Grant on it. Now of course this isn't true but thanks to the book I believed it for a long time. Does anyone else know what this book is and also why they would put such blatantly false information in an educational book? I am thinking maybe I just dreamed it?
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A kids book from The '90s that had some kinds going back in time to Salem and being accused of witchcraft. 2 things I remember really well from it is 1. One character helps a little girl learn to write by writing her name over and over. At the kids' trial they claim this is a spell they were trying to cast on the girl. 2 At the end when they finally escape back to the present they hear something on the news about some group of people burning a bunch of books with green covers since they thought green was the devil's favorite color, suggesting some of the bad guys may have came back with them.
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Okay this is a YA fantasy book that I read as a kid. The basic premise is that a girl is sent by a spymaster of some sort (who I think is her adoptive father figure) to infiltrate a rebellion. The Empire has managed to catch the leader multiple times, but he keeps escaping before they can hang him.
The girl joins up with the group and learns how he manages it- the royalty (or important people?) in this culture has stones in their palms called cabochons. When these stones are fitted into indents on the hilts of their swords, they allow the user to use what is essentially combat magic.
There are also camel/grasshopper hybrids that they ride at one point which have indents in their upper chest area that they are able to fit their arms into- for some important evolutionary reason.
I have no idea what any of the characters were named, but I think there was a sword on the cover of the book. Also I remember some of the plot-twist if that would be helpful for finding it.
Please let me know if you have any idea what I'm talking about?
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Several years ago, I checked out this book that was like an edited autiobiography of someone who was a mercenary in Europe during either the 1600s or 1700s. I want to say that the guy was Irish, but he could have been Scottish or Welsh, and I think he served mainly in Germany. I think the book had rogue or scoundrel in the title or something like that
What's weird is that the basic story sounded a whole lot like the novel Barry Lyndon, except he was a real person.
For some reason, I'm thinking the guy's name was Peter, George, Henry, or Hugh.
Edit- What's weird is that Patrick Gordon sounds like who I'm thinking of, but there isn't a book in English that fits what I'm thinking of.
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I have two books that I remember distinctly but can't find the name of for some reason.
1) This was a YA spy/secret agent thriller. The main character was a normal kid (in middle school I think?) but he shared a name with another kid who was a martial arts master and genius. And their parents had almost the same names too. I remember the kid who was supposed to be the spy lived with a bunch of animals, I think his parents were vets for a zoo. And the plot had to do with stopping a mad scientist who was creating giant monitor lizards. I think it was the first book of a series.
2) This was a YA Bible/Bible study type book. It was done with a series of cartoons. The story was that this group of kids were using some kind of virtual reality device to cram for a Bible test or something? And they ended up trapped in the program until they made it all the way through the entire Bible. When they jumped from story to story I think it was called "blitzing" or something like that. And there was a frog who was their plucky comic relief friend.
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There was a book I read between 2002 and 2008 that I picked up at a library. It was in the Young Adults section. The book was about a group of kids/teens being sent to to an alien planet to survive. On of the kids got torn to shreds by a dog or dog-like creature. And one of the characters, Jack, everyone thought was a guy, turns out is a girl. That is what I can currently remember of the book. I'm not sure if it was a stand alone title, or the start of a series, but either way, I'd love to re-read it.
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Looking for an old sci-fi/fantasy kid's book. The protagonist was named Patrick and he discovered the place where all your things go when you lose them. You know how when you can't find your keys or how only one sock of a pair comes out of the dryer? In this book, random patches of our spacetime are connected to this other place, so that when you put your keys down on just the right space on the counter, they fall through into this other country. In that country the connected places are all together in a huge Wall, out of which random junk from our world is constantly popping. Patrick somehow gets summoned to this country to compete on a popular game show with fabulous prizes. I remember a computer is involved somehow; I think that's how Patrick is contacted and maybe how he's transported. It's from the 90s I think. I have no idea of the title or the author. Anybody know this book?
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What's the name of the book (?), where people discover, that the world is a computer simulation of some sorts and start to hack the shit out of it to save themselves from some enemy?
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I'm looking for a series of 'Choose your own adventure' books. I owned two or three of them about 10 years ago. I believe they might have originally been French, though I don't remember why I got that impression. It was about two teenagers or young adults who worked for a secret agency, which took care of supernatural things. It was a girl and a guy and you could always choose who you wanted to play as. The girl had black shoulder length hair and was very athletic. Each book had drawings of them and also of their secret hideout and all the rules of the agency were listed, it was really quite detailed and well done. I remember the following stories: - something about opera singers having lost their voices, the reveal was that they were somehow being stolen by some supernatural being I think - something with werewolves, maybe also vampires - and, my favourite: They somehow ended up in some kind of fucked up version of the Wonderland (Alice). Not quite as bad as Mc Gee but it was very surreal and kind of evil.
I don't think you could actually die, but there were many possibilities to fail your mission, and being excluded from the agency forever. It was clearly intended for young people but had some violence and dark stuff, kind of a dark and edgy tone. It was also not easy, in one adventure you had to make one entirely optional visit and note down a number of words you found in a book there, and if you didn't, you eventually had no way to defeat the end boss.
I'm pretty sure it was called something with 'Phoenix' - or maybe that was just the name of the agency.. phoenix club, phoenix order, something like that. But I cannot find anything about this.
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Trying to remember the name of a fantasy book I read.
The premise is that a wizard who is some ridiculous age (200+, but this is considered 'young') takes a princess as a wife. There's a lengthy plot incident where she loses her ability to speak and the process of getting her voice back is played for laughs — she gets a wizard medallion first that makes her say everything as Long Lists, but she has to give it back; then a wizard or bard gives her the ability to speak in flowery, complicated verse, and finally she gets a voice with the vocabulary of a toddler, which she has to build back up to adult level on her own. She also takes up the study of magic.
It was a funny book. I'd like to find it again.
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Kids' book I found in a library when I was a kid. I think the cover had a dog on it. It was a chapter book. There was a brother and sister, and I think the brother was older. The part I remember most is that the brother refused to read any book in first person (he called them "I" books). I didn't read much of the book, but I remember thinking for years about how many great books this kid would have missed out on...
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There was a children's book I read back in the early 90s (though it could be much older). A mother tells her daughter she is too old for her toys, and the mother collects the toys and takes them into the basement. As she descends the stairs, however, the mother becomes younger, until she is a child again. In the basement, she finds all her own toys from when she was a child, and they help revive her inner child.
Sadly, as this is a book and not a movie or videogame, I know it will be even harder to find... Naturally, I'm eternally thankful for any suggestions.
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This was a children's or young-adult book I must have read in the mid-2000s. It involved a boy and a girl, possibly brother and sister, who were part of some secret agency, I believe. My memory of it is extremely hazy, but I remember them getting a suitcase full of different scents (one that smelled like rotten eggs), and them infiltrating a base that looked like a pyramid. The last chapter of the book was left intentionally blank, and the author invited you to write your own ending.
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I remember reading a series of horror YA books starting with a kid that discovers that demons killed his family. I think he turns into a demon-hunter or something with his uncle. I remember in one book they're in a role for some demonic movie but the director is evil and the deaths are real.
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I'm looking for a short story. It was some sort of horror story by H.P. Lovecraft or Bram Stoker or someone like that (not Poe, though), and I think it was set in a lighthouse or some other narrow, tall house. I believe the narrator is almost hanged by the end, but he's saved by something (his cat, maybe). Also, I think the color red played some sort of role in the story.
I know this isn't much to go on, but please help?
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Technically this was a book on tape. I remember that this was a single story told from twenty or so different points of view (the story progressed linearly, but each new chapter was told from the point of view of a new character, some of which were inanimate objects). I also remember that each character was voiced by some celebrity, but the only one I can remember was Geena Davis as The Mirror (her first line was, "I am perfect.") Any help?
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This was a young teen book, about a man who discovered an umbrella, which, when it was opened, would transport you into whatever book was nearby. The characters went to a Gilbert and Sullivan universe, and an early draft of the first Sherlock Holmes story, where they encountered Sigerson Holmes, and a proto-Moriarty becomes the antagonist. I believe the story ends in Flatland. Any ideas?
It's a book, I know there's a first one and a sequel. It is a thinly-disguised James Bond series, except he is a cat. He is possibly James Bond's cat, I'm not sure. Here is all I remember about it:
Book 1 Protagonist cat is the cat of a British spy, and is a British Cat Secret Agent in his own right. Protagonist cat is a very large cat with at least some Maine Coon heritage. Protagonist cat is stuck in the USA by mistake, and is adopted by a little boy. The little boy is being bullied, and Protagonist cat helps him somehow. There is a girl cat Protagonist cat likes. The villain is a white polydactyl Persian. There is a climactic scene in a science lab where Protagonist cat and girl cat are trapped in a dissecting tray.
Book 2 Protagonist cat wins a cat-food contest. Protagonist cat and American family take a trip to the UK. Protagonist cat foils some sort of spy plot involving rats.
I can't for the life of me remember character names or the title of the books, but I would like to reread them and see if any more have come out.