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resolved The New Girl published 2002 maybe 2006 Literature
Title is The New Girl and I forgot the author. The new girl is a glamorous teacher going to a small-town high school, and the big twist revealed at the end is that she hid away teaching at a high school because she had an affair with her colleague's husband at university, so that colleague told everyone that the teacher plagiarized a paper from her, so whether anybody knew the truth of the affair or believed the face-saving lie her career was over. There's a student who dyed her hair to imitate this teacher she admired and she wanders the streets laughing like she lost her mind at the end. She had two friends at the co-ed high school both girls, and there was a mean boy in their class who had a lisp and wanted to do a book report on Jonathan Livingston Seagull for the easy passing grade.
resolved Green Aesop Book Literature
A boy sees a girl with a tree sapling and makes fun of it. Then he is taken through some trippy future sequence things involving various sorts of pollution. What I remember most is a factory that produces smoke that makes you cough and gives you watery eyes. An employee from the factory sells the exact treatment for these two symptoms.
Afterward, the boy changes his mind and does not make fun of people for planting trees.
resolved Fantasy adventure story from a textbook Literature
i keep remembering this one story (or was it a scriptplay?) that was featured in one of my school's ELA textbooks, but the name of it is on the tip of my tongue and it's driving me nuts.
the important details i remember:
- the protagonist is a young boy, 10-13 years old i think. the story starts with him in his bedroom, complaining about being bored.
- the boy then encounters a clock-faced dog, who (along with another gentleman character who's shown with them) go on a long sprawling adventure
- the fantasy world conflict is about a rift between the kingdoms of Mathematics and Literature(? it's probably not named Literature but the kingdom name was distinctly reading based).
- aside from the two kingdoms there's also the Doldrums, a land so concentratedly standstill and boring that its citizens nap after every small activity (like taking a single step) and everyone there is described as always sleepy and lazy
- the people in the kingdoms actually feast on numbers and words, the protagonists get invited to a royal event that serves them all kinds of word/number food (words were described as bread/pastry like, while the numbers were glittering and basically rare delicacies)
i'm probably missing so many other important plot beats, but this is everything i can still remember about a book i read in my middle school English textbook.
resolved Agatha Christie novel that has a golf ball on one of its cover Literature
I read this Agatha Christie novel forever ago and I can't remember much about it, but what I can remember consists of:
- It had a golf ball on the cover of the copy I read (I believe that there was some blood on said ball).
- One of the characters is named Frankie (nickname for Frances).
- At some point, Frankie faked a car accident which involved staying in a car near a garage.
- Someone might've fell off a cliff and died, but I'm not too sure about it.
- Not sure if Detective Poirot appeared in the novel or not.
resolved [Solved] Short story (possibly by Edgar Poe) Christmas(?) dinner with host's skeleton Literature
I'm looking for a story which I think I found in an Edgar Poe anthology. A rich man had died, and had written in his will that every Christmas (I think) he would host a dinner for like the ten poorest people. His skeleton was always put in the presiding seat of the table.
One of the guests happens to be a rich businessman, but he's considered the poorest of all once it's explained he's utterly unable to feel any emotion.
Edited by Medinocresolved Book with a phone number Literature
I remember watching a video on youtube about a book with a working phone number, the book itself was a sort of ARG-thing styled after some girl's journal, anyone got any clue as to what I'm remembering?
resolved pop up book thats like weirdly grim Literature
it was like a pop up book with a lot of purple and black and there was like a brother and a sister and there was one page with a really really tall house. anyone know this?
resolved [FOUND!!] children's fantasy book with magic? Literature
I've been trying to find this one book series I read when I was younger, can anyone help me out? From what I remember in the first book, there were two main girl characters. The first one meets some kind of fairy/magic queen-like lady who introduces her to the second character, who wields a baton (it had a specific name) that's meant to be used for dancing (she gets scolded for trying to point it as if it was a weapon for this reason). I think the second character had a sister(s), but this is either elaborated on in the same book or a different one. Anyways after they meet this fairy, they are given a quest, and to complete it they have to follow a map, and there's a third girl whose main purpose is to make maps like these for quests and is the main character of a different book in the same series. I read it sometime in the early 2000's-2010, if that helps. This is a vague description, but I'd appreciate any help in finding out what series this is!
Edited by StrayShardresolved Short story about a cat and a dysfunctional couple (SOLVED) Literature
I am trying to remember this short story I read in English class some years ago. It was about a man and a woman (I can't remember their names) who found a kitten. The man hates the cat but the woman likes it, so he agrees to let her keep it if she can name it. If she can't decide on a name before the deadline, he will kill the cat. So she spends the story dithering over potential names and reminiscing on her messy relationship with the man. The story ends with the man returning, the implication being that he will kill the cat and also possibly abuse the woman.
Edited by Gravity-Warriorresolved I remember very little (solved!) Literature
I remember a book from elementary school. All I remember is that it’s about a girl who lives in a rough neighborhood. The other thing I remember is that one of the chapters is called “Under Punishment.” She gets in trouble for going to the library. Sorry it’s so vague. Edit: I found it. Its "The Gift Giver" by Joyce Hansen.
Edited by Gamergirl101resolved Young adult novel "Who Killed [name]?" [SOLVED] Literature
There was a book on my Freshman year (2011) recommended reading list titled Who Killed [some name]? The story was that a nerdy boy asked out the title character, who was the most popular girl at their high school. She rejected him and then he read a note she wrote to her friend mocking him, prompting him to kill himself. The boy's brother comes into town for the funeral and buries her alive, leaving an air hole so he can talk to her.
Edited by rjd1922resolved Kid's book about dragons featuring a greek myth Literature
I remember my grandson taking a book from library about various dragon myths. One was from Ancient Greece, the gist of which dude saves baby dragon from something, and when both are adults dragon save him fron bandits. Anyone know what the book's called, or the myth?
resolved [FOUND!!!] a novel from the pov of a blind narrator? Literature
I'm trying to find a novel I read a while back. It might be by an Indian/South Asian author? It's a collection of stories that a blind narrator is told by a series of strangers who sit opposite to him at a restaurant. Some of the stories in the book are about the following characters, from what I can remember:
1. A heir to a kingdom who is a known womanizer until he falls in love with a woman who isn't royalty (she's introduced as being friends with the woman the guy was initially dating at the start of the story) and ends up forfeiting his place to the throne to his younger brother after his parents disown him for marrying this girl. They go to a hotel for their honeymoon and he, attempting to impress her, dives into the pool. He never resurfaces, as red rises to the surface and the girl screams. When the scene cuts back the guy is in a wheelchair, telling his story to the narrator with his wife accompanying him.
2. A kinda dumb guy falls in love with this girl, who cons him into tricking a jeweler to steal a very specific diamond as a proposal ring for her. It's implied that she's done this several times in the past with other unlucky guys that fell for her.
3. A lady who was beautiful but never made it in Hollywood becomes a nurse instead. While caring for a bedridden elderly man whose wife is long-dead and has two kids (son and daughter), she tricks him into rewriting his will so that she could get a cane and a photo of him to keep in remembrance of him, but rewords it such that these items go to his kids and that she gets most of his inheritance. The old man’s lawyer had tried to warn him, but he had been so taken with the fraud that he brushed him off, saying something along the lines of: ‘all she wants are a cane and photo, there’s no need to be so stringent’. But! She also included a clause in the rewritten will to provide large donations from it to several big hospitals and charities. So if the old man's kids were to contest this will they would be hounded relentlessly by these institutions who benefitted from the old man’s inheritance. So they were forced to accept the outcome.
Can anyone please help me with this? It's been driving me insane and I need to know that this book exists instead of being a wild fever dream. Thank you!
Edited by StrayShardresolved Book about rats Literature
It was a book from the perspective of a rat being tested on in a lab with a bunch of other rats. Not anything graphic like injections or anything, just like mazes and stuff. The scientists taugnt them to read by showing them the letters and the sounds they make. I think the first word they learned was "RATS". Eventually they either were released or escaped from the lab and they found out where they were by reading signs and stuff. I don't remember what happened afterwards
resolved White fog Y.A. Novel *solved* Literature
Im trying to remember a book i read when i was around 13. It centered on this white fog that settled over an area i believe in australia or new zeland. The big twist of the book was that the fog, and the humanoids in the fog were part of the human immune system (not dissimilar to Monster Pulse but its def not that), and had been unleashed by a genetics lab in the center of the fog. There was also a major plot beat about using Morse code to decipher a pulsar into coordinates for the main characters. The book ended with the main characters using some kind of satellite array to send the same message back thru the pulsar i think?
Edited by gert10resolved (Solved) Kids book about school for kids with powers Literature
A childrens book series I read like 5 years ago about a school where every student had a magic power. The main character had a power called fluxing which is basically shapeshifting but i forgot what she could turn into. Her friend was a boy named Bax or Box who also had flux powers but could only turn into a rock. In her class there was a boy who was always floating and had to be weighed down with bricks, a boy who could see sound waves and had to wear a blindfold, a girl who could make rain clouds, and more that i can't remember. I think one of the books had a baby dragon on the cover even though there weren't even any dragons in the story but i might just be misremembering.
Edited by moefoxesresolved (SOLVED) A book (part of a series?) about dogs fighting alien cats Literature
About more than decade ago, I read a book (likely part of a series) that combined Heroic Canines, Villainous Felines and Alien Animals: a group of heroic dogs fight evil alien cats. The prologue explains the premise; all cats on Earth are evil aliens hiding in plain sight plotting to conquer the planet, and some dogs (of either a self-titled or larger group, maybe called WOOF? Or maybe that was the name of their ship's Mission Control voice command...) that fights against them.
The main group of dogs has a male leader, a female sort-of co-captain, and one male (maybe a pug since he drools often) who's the Gadgeteer Genius. They reside in a pound and can teleport to their spaceship from inside each of their kennels. The book introduces an insecure Great Dane who keeps getting sent back from being adopted to back to the pound, likely since he's too big to take care of. He's whisked along their latest adventure, in which they find a notorious cat's spaceship stuck in space as it's out of power. A hairless cat lackey winds the key outside the ship (which is shaped like a toy mouse). The dogs lure the ship into their cargo hold with a cheese magnet, but the cat causes their ship to crash-land onto a pink planet, ruled by the said cat's sister.
Details of the rest of the book are a bit fuzzy. But the sister wants their sibling in exchange for something. The dogs instead opt to disguise the hairless cat as its superior by shaving the latter's fur to stick on the former. The dogs make their move, but get ambushed by ninja cats. In their absence, the actual superior cat and the Great Dane are taken from the dogs' ship.
The main 3 find the planet's ruler with the Great Dane beside her throne in riding gear, before she (I think it was her) starts riding the large dog around, and stating intent "to keep as my own personal pony". A "Eureka!" Moment occurs, the smell from the pound coming off the last folks seeing the Great Dane smelt of horses, that get plenty of space for running like a large Great Dane would. With that, the male dog leader encourages the Great Dane to find his courage, and he bucks the cat off and runs with the others back to the dogs' ship. He's offered to officially join the heroic dogs, but gets adopted not long after his return.
I remember most of this book except for the title, I even remember the book cover art, the cartoony Great Dane's worried face to the front (likely in a space helmet) with a navy blue space backdrop behind him. None of the result so far for "dogs fight alien cats" or "book about dogs fighting alien cats" seem to ring any bells. I don't think it's Klawde, which also features an evil alien cat.
Edited by BlackFaithStarresolved Bee/wasp novel Literature
I'm looking for a novel about I think either mind-controlling bees or wasps that were using teenage girls as hives or something. The only thing I'm really clear on is an Entomologist killing someone with scorpions he was keeping for some reason and planning to blame it on local harmless scorpions
resolved (solved) Space boy from the past can't age because he's a tv show character Literature
this was a book about a space boy who was from an in-universe tv show from the fifties (the book is modern as of The New '10s as far as i can tell) probably he goes to space is alegeric to some cave plant while being held hostage so promises not to scream in exchange for not having his mouth taped so he can breath he has some intant water just add water also the teleporter that was used to send him there broke so his mom has to find a way to follow him to the place that is 15 light years away and gets some help from aliens who have a ship that travels at three times the speed of light but it would take 5 years to get there and also at the end one of his female friends finds out she is also a fictional chacter who can't age
Edited by Wild-Starfish

An orc decides to retire from adventuring so she can open up a coffee/pastry shop. She hires a succubus and a rat-man. An awkward bard tries to busk in her shop. A humongous cat wanders in and out, fortunately not bothering the rat-man. The orc takes a long time to figure out that she's falling in love with the succubus. In the meantime, there's somebody trying to sabotage her coffee shop. Somebody else, the local mafia boss, tries to extort money out of the coffee shop, but then changes her mind and decides to be content with sampling the produce.
Edited by Miss_Desperado