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There were two books I read as a kid. This would be in the 80s. Both were ghost stories.
The first dealt with a girl, she and her sister were supposed to stay with I think their grandmother for the summer, but she got sick. So her sister stayed with an Aunt and she stayed with her Uncle, who was not a bad guy, just not someone who really liked kids, in a cottage that he was renting. Anyway there was a little boy ghost who kept appearing to her, and liked the jokes that she found in a bunch of old comics, and this evil ghost, maybe the little boy's stepfather?, who probably was responsible for the little boy's death. The uncle doesn't believe her, and then does, and they wind up fighting off the evil ghost together and become good friends.
The second book was about a girl who's mom remarried a man with his own daughter, a younger girl. The younger girl started hanging out with ghost who messed up the mom and the older girls things, and was trying to get the younger girl killed so that they could be together. I remember that the main girl really liked 'Watership Down'.
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This one is a sci-fi novel I found out about on the wiki of all places. It takes place in a future with...space travel, I think. The main thing I do remember is that all the wildlife is evolved from homo sapiens. They're all adapted for certain environments. They have names like "hunters", "swimmers" "lurkers", etc. Those aren't exact names, I just know they sounded like that.
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When I was younger I read this book that was about these people who seemed to be the last of their race. It was from the perspective of a male, and he had a penpal who was the last female of his race. He found out that everyone around them just used makeup to make themselves look like they were of the same race. He first realized something was amiss when his dog climbed a tree, so he wrote the girl and tried to put it in code (every third word), but when she replied she just told him flatout that they were the last ones. They ended up running away and using the makeup to look like most people, and went to go find the other people who were the last of their race. One thing though, it never actually refers to it as "race" just colour. So he is white, and he goes to find the yellow people. I think they end up on a spaceship or something, but I don't remember. I've wanted to find this book for years. Its from the early '90s or before. I can't think of any other info that would help, but if someone knows what this is, I would be ever so grateful.
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I read a YA fiction book aaaages ago that was about a girls' school on an island in... Australia, I think, but I could be wrong. Anyway, everyone except the headmistress and two students (the main character and her best friend, I think) have gone home for the holidays when... I forget, there's an explosion that severs the bridge to the mainland, and the island takes off into the open sea.
It turns out that the whole island was actually a secret weapons project from WWII that everyone forgot about and they eventually built a school on top of it. There's an old man living in a secret base under the island who never got the message that WWII ended, and all this time he's been waiting for the signal that we're about to lose the war, at which point he's meant to drive the floating island to Japan and blow it up (it's packed with explosives) in some harbor or other. And cutting the bridge counted as the signal, so he set the autopilot for Japan and ... I dunno. Anybody recognize this?
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This is a short story about a family who are mocked/made fun of/thought to be weird because of the things they do/like/wear/etc.
After a time, tired of the teasing, they move away and everything that they did and were mocked for becomes popular. Of course, by that point, the family is into new things. Essentially, the family is just slightly ahead of everyone else as far as trends go.
It’s speculative fiction, but might have been marketed as science fiction or fantasy. It was very likely written and/or published in the late 1950s or during the 1960s. I could be completely wrong about the dates. My mom remembers reading it in an anthology, but can't remember if it was a "year's best" collection, a collection of one author's short stories, or even if it was just in a sci-fi/fantasy magazine.
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I'm looking for an infamous story on the internet. I remember it being some kind of crossover fanfic, and the main character could turn into a wolf and was a God-Mode Sue.
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This was a book where a child's imaginary friends were a light and a furry head that came out of the ground. I never read it, but I saw a filmstrip around 1993 that included a brief dramatization of the book.
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I remember a children's book - or at least, I think it was a lower reading level - where this boy (with a couple others. I think maybe a guy and a girl?) goes to a Magical Land and everyone in the party gets powers. I think. This part is what I'm least sure of, actually.
The boy is an Idiot Hero who gets a book that updates itself with a spell every day. Each spell can only be used once, and in order to cast a spell the boy has to put a finger on the page. The finger glows blue.
The Big Bad was the mysterious Emperor, who turned out to be the (disguised) boy Aiden (Aidan? Something like that), who had been with the party "helping" almost the entire book.
There's a time when the group is in the mountains/travelling and the mage boy gets into a fight with the other members of the party. He might have felt useless/like he was underappreciated? Anyway, he throws a hissy fit and won't help out with ANYTHING for the next ten days, not even using his spellbook. At the very end, there's a monster (or something) and Achilles finally stops sulking in his tent and presses all his fingers on the unused pages and beats the monster with the spells. He only needed nine to defeat the monster, so he uses his tenth spell (one with a title referencing monkeys or bananas) to trip up someone very obnoxious who had witnessed the event. I want to say his principal, perhaps? Adults Are Useless was in full effect.
So, um, yeah. Help remembering the title (and the boy's name) would be very much appreciated.
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A nineties young adult novel about a plane crash in rural New England, I believe, and how the various emergency crews in the area deal with it. Had two locals as protagonists, a wealthy girl whose house was where the plane crashed behind and as such was the first responder and a teenage male who's part of the emergency crews and is very desperate to be a big, strong, macho leader. There were also several passengers we followed through the crash and aftermath, including a little girl named 'Teddy' and a young woman returning home to family, only to die in the crash.
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This is a book that I once read about here in tv tropes. I don't remember the name of the book, but if I remember correctly, It was a sci-fi about humanity living in a part of the galaxy were every other intelligent species turn insane. Humans then expands and find several abandoned or dead planets of the other civilizations than became insane, Including a new agrarian species in the process of killing itself.
When humans finally find some normal, sane, alive aliens, we arrive in the biggest ship in the galaxy, and because the rest of the galaxy is pretty crowded, and we have so much space in our sector from all those dead worlds, we turn to be pretty much the bogeyman of the rest of the galaxy, and humans decide to embrace that notion and play the part to gain an advantage in negotiations.
If anyone knows the name of the book please post it here. I have being dying to remember it.
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Looking for two books:
- The first one was written in the late 90s (I think) and it was set in the early 40s, during WW 2. The text was entirely dialogue, and it was from the point of view of a ten-year-old boy who's father may have been in the war.
- The second was about a girl smuggled out of Mexico. It started out with her in the coyote's truck, describing a box next to her. When she got to America she got a very low-paying job as a seamstress. I think thee girl was 15. She may have been looking for her brother.
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Two requests where I have maddeningly vague memories: 1) Sci-fi story, involves the last member of an alien race saying that a particular child will be a savior of the galaxy. Everyone assumes that this means that he will be able to transcend the teleportation limits (if I recall correctly, they could teleport up to some amount, say 22 kilograms, but the moment they added a gram more, it failed). His father was a former football player and it was referenced a few times that he used a football carry for the baby with the head in one hand and the rest of the body on one forearm. The parents were killed by some sort of extremists and the boy was tested for his teleportation abilities and they found that he couldn't transcend the limit. And... that's about all I remember.
2) Fantasy, released somewhere in the early 2000 timeframe because I remember bringing it up at sci-fi club in college. The main character is a blacksmith who is some minor avatar of the local gods. It makes him slightly stronger and tougher, and unable to die easily. There was a scene where he walked a long distance, wearing out his shoes and then the soles of his feet, but continued to walk for days even leaving a trail of blood. I want to say the title ended with "of the Gods" and that he wielded a hammer on account of being a blacksmith. I also think the paperback cover featured him standing alone on the cover with hammer on his back although I have only a vague mental picture and there may have been variant covers.
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There's this one YA book a classmate told me about. It was about a girl whose mother was an alien. When her parents got killed she gets revenge on the world, apparently by destroying China with nukes and taking over the world. Also, she can only die from old age.
I think it was called The Arctic Flower, but I think that's the wrong title.
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Desperately trying to find this Fanfic that I really liked. It was a Descent:Freespace fanfic, involving an alternate universe, a ship called the Medway and another one called a Kraken Ship Killer. The adversaries were some sort of alien bug race, the alternate universe's equivalent of the Shivans. My hopes aren't high, but I thought I'd ask here regardless.
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Two things: 1) a children's book, I read it at least 10 years ago, and all the characters were animals like guinea pigs or rats ect. It seemed like a kind of van helsing/sherlock holmes parody, with Dracula being a rat. The only scene i remeber is a part where one of the characters fights off Dracula by throwing lots of garlic at him while singing a song about all the ways to eat garlic.
2) I think this was in a short stories book, but I might be wrong- it was all about knights and a King Arthur type setting, I just have this very clear scene where a kight has been in a battle, and he's lying propped up against a tree, but his friends can't take his helmet off because it's been crushed in and if they take it off his brains will fall out.
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I'm looking for two books, both for children, both of which I read in elementary school The first one: I can't remember a lot of it but the two parts i vividly remember were that there was two boys who would communicate by morse code through their windows at night and that they went to pick blueberries or blackberries but the friend died of an allergic reaction to bee stings. The second book: This is pretty vague, but it was about a boy with a model castle in his attic (i think) and he would get transported into a medieval world through it.
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Four books all in one series but I can't remember the names of any of them. YA fantasy. None of the books were direct sequels of any of the others I think they all just took place in the same place at different times. I can only remember the plots of one of them really well. A girl, Rose, is part of an arranged marriage to the mysterious son of some neighbor. The man is some sort of monster that they keep locked up in the house. I think he might be part deer because I remember him having antlers of some sort. The villagers pity her and see her as some sort of sacrifice. Chronologically I think this is the first book in the series and I specifically remember a boy who offers to marry Rose so she won't have to be with the beast being the father of a main character in another book.
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Book set in a post-apocalyptic world with a society based on a pre-apocalypse book/notebook written by a disgruntled cab driver, angry at his ex-wife for getting full custody of their son, or possibly multiple children.
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A children's book, in verse, about this fish mafioso who scams all the other fish into buying real estate on top of toxic waste. Also, the fish protagonist falls in love with a lobster. Also also, the illustrations were freaking gorgeous.

My memory of this one is very vague, especially since I think the book I read was in the middle of a series, so a lot of it didn't make much sense to me. There were two main characters, both of them were aliens I think, except that one was sort of a clone of the other, grown from a body part he lost in the woods and raised by wolves I think. I think their names started with an A and an O but I'm not sure. There was also something about a baby version of them and them having to go rescue it. The only thing I'm really sure of is the clone part because every time they touched, they'd think how complete it made them feel, like each was a missing piece of the other.