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openHelping a friend Literature
A friend's trying to track down a series she remembered as a kid; apparently it was advertised pretty heavily at the school book fairs she attended (she was living in the Philippines at the time). Here's the infor I got from her:
"I remember a book/comic book series that they were advertising because us kids liked it and it was this girl who was basically really smart and a sort of unwill [sic] detective her outfit vibe was like, emo or punk, just generally darker and "gloomier" colours and her sister and dad were sunshines"
"smart girl helps people and she has a male sidekick/friend who I think is brunette and is the reason she's helping in the first pplace [sic] she's a recluse and very smart from what I vaguely remember"
"I remember there being a goldfish at the end of one of the comics? the comics were the size of magazines btw dont [sic] know if that matters she has like black-blue hair"
openBook i heard on audible Literature
Characters i remember: luca a little boy A talking dog A pilot who sells tacos
Brent foster a news reporter, his wife and child (disappeared)
A serial killer A pregnant young lady
A mom and her daughter and their neighbors
Ok so i head this series on audible years ago. everyone wakes up to no power and many people have disappeared. There are many story lines. spoiler the dead people are floating down the river. Some flah happened at like 3am and there is like a little group of people who knew it would happen As some of the story line connect i know luca all the sudden grows up like 10 years or something. There are.demon like monster i think they suck the sole outta people
open[SOLVED] Old Book Where Protagonist Girl is Really Her Sister Literature
I read about it on this wiki and here's what I can remember: Old book, maybe 1800s or early 1900s? Protagonist is a young girl maybe 7-9 who is confined to a house or a chair and is kept in an infant-ish state. She had an older sister with the exact same name and possibly the same appearance. Sister was attacked (raped?) and died (suicide?) later on. Big twist is that the sister doesn't exist and what happened to the sister actually happened to the protagonist. Also, everyone in the story sucks and aren't helping the protagonist all that much.
Edited by ISS600opencomic picture book about inanimate objects going into people's dreams using a house (solved) Literature
the objects are three sheep plushes at the beginning, a blanket that becomes a bear, an ink quill that becomes a bird who only communicates through writing, and a sock monkey. the three latter objects are added through the story, with one sheep plush leaving for each new object that comes in.
the story is that the objects are in some kind of magic house that goes into a kid's nightmare and fixes said nightmare. there's one nightmare where a kid is in his underwear at school and he has to present something to the class. unfortunately that's all i remember
Edited by pingastroperopenA short scifi story where a girl takes a test Literature
I remember a lot about the story, but not the title.
The premise of the story is that many people (and pets as well) have become processing units for various things, and the protagonist is a young girl taking a test to determine her aptitude.
In the beginning it mentions that her mom "mainly stays in the living room, but she always extended her CPU to the dining room for dinner because family time was important" (paraphrased). Besides her mom, one of her older brothers and her pet dog have also becomes processing units.
When she gets to the testing area, she meets two other children, a boy and a girl, and kind of becomes friends with them. The girl clogs up a sink in the bathroom with her sweater. She mentions this to her parents at dinner later, and they're uneasy about it. Onto the test, it's a little vague, but I remember it mentioning that one section was about determining note pitches and she didn't like it.
After she goes to bed, she stays up and eavesdrops on her parents. They talk about how the other two kids she met during the test likely won't pass it. They then talk about her oldest brother, who was artistically gifted and didn't pass it either.
She goes online, and visits her dog, who's busy controlling a traffic light. She visits her other brother, who doesn't recognize her. Somehow, she comes across a supercomputer-like figure and talks to him about her two new friends. He looks up their test scores and decides to pass them both, saying that they're needed.
That's where the story ends, I believe.
openMiddle-grade/YA(?) novel where a teenager pretends to be a dad to win a ticket to space (FOUND) Literature
The main character is a tall teenager with a beard who looks far older than he is. Once, the staff at his high school mistook him for the new teacher. He joins some sort of game show where dads compete with their children... IN SPACE! One of his friends pretends to be his daughter. There's one scene where the game show's on-site doctor checks the main character and says he has the metabolism of a sixteen-year-old. He nervously says something along the lines of "what a miracle!"
Edited by Serrafewopen[solved]Girl who daydreams a lot novel Literature
Novel about a girl named Victory or Victoria who daydreams about things like being an ice skater, becoming class president, being a spy, etc.
Edited by WalkinshadowsopenIllustrated Kid's book about a pig and friends Literature
This was a series of books involving Funny Animals - the pig owned a house, stood on his hind legs and wore a coat, and was friends with a rabbit/hare who might've been named something like Rosemary. The only further details I remember is one time the rabbit/hare went to the beach, and one time the narrative mentions the pig is friends with the birds flying south during the fall.
openLooking for Podcasts episodes of two creepy pastas. Literature
I’m looking for professional recording of a reading two creepy pastas. I’m looking for “Willow creek” and “Razor Games”. I found the no audio stories no problem with some digging, however the audio ones seem to out of reach. Please help. :) thanks in advance.
openTristan and Isolde with a happy ending Literature
I read a version of Tristan and Isolde in which a kind of time share agreement was worked out in which Isolde would be with one man while trees had leaves and with the other when the leaves fell. Tristan's rival picked the time leaves would be off suce winter nights are longer. Isolde then revealed that Morrois forest only had three kinds of tree, none of which lose their leaves.
Does anyone know where I can find that version of the story?
openKids book about girl falling into other world Literature
Okay so this book was about a girl who falls into another world by staring at her schedule for too long, and then she has to save the world she fell into. Some things that I remember from it are the main characters mom over scheduling her life, one character almost literally getting bored to death, the main character meeting an old woman stuck in an some other dimension or something, and people running out of time because of an evil clock tower. Some of these might be wrong I only read this once in middle school.
openA book about Jesse James and timetravel Literature
Maybe the author is Canadian. Also the book is not the Time Train and in it was someone named John.
What I remember: a Canadian guy wants to find the treasure hidden by Jesse James in one cave but! The guy somehow travels back in time and meets a teen-aged Jesse, who is 13 or 14 and not yet riding with Quantrill. Jesse is very much pissed-off and considered as adult by his mother. Also both Jesse and his mother dislike that Canadian guy for his meekness That cave with treasure is fake, had been dug in the 1900 after Jesse James died.
Thanks in advance!
openhorror anthology book Literature
when i was a kid in the 2000s, there was a book of horror stories in my local library. i remember the cover had a face on the front, but it was made of various items, like those paintings of people's heads, but made of fruit or vegetables, but it was random items. the cover was black, but the face was mostly red, i think
one story was about a girl who had anorexia or bulimia, and eventually she started to literally fade away, like turn transparent, until she disappeared.
another one ended with somebody being eaten by a big lobster, but i don't really remember how it got to that ending.
the last one i remember was about 2 guys and a girl who went out to some old lighthouse. both the guys were into the girl, and they were subtly competing to impress her. at the end, the girl slips off the edge of the lighthouse, and dies. she might come back as a ghost to haunt the narrator, but i might be wrong. maybe it's more that he's metaphorically haunted.
openattempting to identify a story with an automated amusement park full of robotic fair folk Literature
Setting is an entirely automated amusement park with a sort of Land Of Faerie theme. All park character robots are controlled by A.I.s made partially from uploaded human consciousnesses but only the protagonist, the leader of the Wild Hunt really understands this and remembers fragments of their human life. The park was abandoned a long time ago and apparently the civilization which built it deteriorated enough that centuries later when humans moved in, nobody interrupted either to stop the trespassing or protect the squatters from rampaging haywire robo-fair folk. A pack of vicious mechanical hellhounds the size of bears were involved. The story also had a "dog toy" consisting of a transparent plastic ball with a holographic projector displaying the moving illusion of a sort of tiny winged fairy inside it which was used to destroy the park's controlling supercomputer by tossing it at it and having a bear-sized robotic dog stomp through the delicate vacuum tubes to 'fetch'.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I remember reading it in an anthology of short stories a couple decades ago but forgot the author and title.
openA book containing this quote Literature
A book containing the below quote (not an exact match, but an approximation based on what I remember): "There are three kinds of people in the world: The honest type, who would go to the police and hand over any money they find on the roadside even if it's just a penny; the crooked type, who would lie even if it benefits them little, and if you sleep with your mouth open, they'll try to pry off your gold tooth and sell it. One of my relatives is such a person. But most of us are in-between: People who might lie when it conveniences us, and people who tell white lies to ease the awkwardness."
P.S. It's not Stephen King's "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," although there's a similar dialogue that happens between Andy and Red.
openFantasy YA Novel? (RESOLVED) Literature
Read a fantasy novel a few years ago where the premise was basically "survive dangerous Hogwarts". Getting a room close to the classrooms was very important because there were so many monsters breaking through the wards; shunting a classmate into the void to get their room is mentioned as being uncommon only because the practice is considered unpleasant. There's a scene in the library where I think the protagonist (a girl, I think) and some other students fight a blob monster. The final exam is getting out of the building and there are lots of monsters on the lower levels.
Edited by AltrisopenFantasy trilogy I read in school Literature
I'm pretty sure there were three books. Every chapter title was some hilarious statement. In part 3, I think, someone mistook "subtley" for "suddenly".
One of the villains in book 1 was a 10-year-old king who rose to power by murdering his entire family.
The series was a parody of fairy tales, with like four or so different prince Charmings. I'm pretty sure they all had different names.
I hope I can figure out what this series was called, because it's been bugging me for weeks.
openUnknown Literature
A man from the victorian age is in a giant world labyrinth with a ragtag group of misfits. A giant telepathic spider woman, a cyborg on a revenge quest, and his own descendent, a girl with a built in computer. They are trying to escape the labyrinth and get back to their own space/time. Also, our hero may have an evil twin.
Any ideas? I read this in the late 90's, and have never found it again. It seemed to be part of a series.
openWhich Sherlock Holmes Story? Literature
Which Sherlock Holmes story featured him borrowing a creosote-loving dog to sniff out a criminal who had stepped in creosote? The dog got to a crossroads in the scent trail and detoured to find a barrel of creosote, so Sherlock Holmes led the dog back to where he'd lost the criminal's trail to try again.

I vaguely remember from school a children's story - structured like a fairy tale, although I don't think there were any fantastical elements - about an iceman who keeps trying to get a household to buy ice, even though they keep telling him they have no use for it. Eventually an old man dies, and the iceman refuses to sell to them. I think we were supposed to be on the iceman's side for some reason? Not sure why.