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resolved 2000s-2010s fantasy series Literature
A book I read in elementary school, the first in a series. The cover shows a girl with a brown braid looking down at a glowing green stone in her hand. I distinctly remember in the book she describes herself as having "knobby knees".
resolved Children's book with a certain tagline Literature
There's a children's book (a series I think) with a Tagline along the lines of "Are they kids? Grownups? The answer is magic!"
I think they were chapter books, but for elementary schoolers (like Magic Tree House or Junie B. Jones)
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 Tetsuo and a Bluebird of Happiness? [FOUND] Literature
Hey guys, I'm trying to find a fiction book that I read years ago. From what I remember, the plot was set in Japan. The main character is a game otaku who is dangerously close to becoming a hikikomori, and his online handle is Tetsuo. He meets a girl in real life and she is trying to find the Bluebird of Happiness. So, the guy and girl try to find the bluebird together and the guy learns to not be online all the time and appreciate the outside world. I also distinctly remember the first line of the book being "I press the A button, and I'm Tetsuo."
Edited by PKLpikachuresolved Vampire book Literature
Book about a Vegetarian Vampire guy who reveals the existence of vampires to the world, and the cover had a yellow smiley face one it with fangs
Edited by Tremmor19resolved [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 A reincarnation novel with a fat crippled Literature
I forgot the name of a novel, if someone can help me please.
The mc transmigrates in a game or novel world. He is in the body of a fat child. Because his father hates him he locked his potential after birth, poison him and even put a gu inside his body so he will die painfully when he turn eighteen. The reason the mc is fat is because of the parasite. Each day the mc had to drink a sort of tea that fed the parasite and made him fat.
Iirc the father did that because a ghost once take possession of his body and the mc body is the child that was make when he was possessed so he doesn't consider him his own and killed his mother, the woman he married when he was possessed.
It's not a a cultivation novel. The power system has mages and knights. If I remember there something called Mage and Mana gates, the original body had the chance to be born with both opened but the father poison him.
At some point the mc explore a place with a treasure and met an assassin sent by his former fiancee, the assassin is a woman who used an artifact to conceal her gender.
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 Short story starts with interrupted suicide because earth uninhabitable, probably asimov Literature
I'm trying to remember a short story, pretty sure by Isaac Asimov (which does NOT reduce the field by that much lol)
- It's set not on earth, but can't remember if it's mars, the moon or some space station
- It's stated that they can see the Earth though
- It opens with a guy attempting to commit cyanide suicide and another interrupts him
- They're on a a small colony with other scientists
- they escaped because (can't remember if implied or outright stated) of nuclear war
- Earth is stated to be uninhabitable anymore
resolved Children's novel Literature
This was a novel I read in elementary school some time in the early- to mid-1990s. It was about a student who had learning challenges, especially in math, and an active imagination when he came home from school.
He had to see the guidance counselor, who helped him, but she got in trouble when she pointed him towards a Buddhist book (something along the lines of "Zen and the Art of Home Construction").
resolved 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 Ancient Structures on Mars Literature
I'm trying to remember a book (I think it's a full novel, but it might be a short story) where an expedition to Mars discovers ancient ruins, but no bodies/graves, at least until one of the members of the expedition falls over and sees slight mounds indicating the graves of the Martians. I recall one of the side stories being that a meteorite hits the surface some distance from the main camp, and biologists are excited to discover microbial life deep inside the crater, and decide to put a dome over the crater as an experiment.
Anybody know what I'm talking about?
resolved 90s Teen Novel About Being Trapped in a Mysterious Town Literature
Hello! I remember reading a novel that was probably aimed at teens in the 90s or very early 2000s. After having some kind of vehicle-related trouble and getting injured, the protagonist got trapped in a mysterious town or village that I think was in a mountainous area. Every time he tried to leave, he couldn’t. It was like there was some kind of supernatural force field around the town, so that even if he walked for a long time, he would just wind up back where he started. He eventually did get out, though.
At one point, characters went swimming, and I think they had a dance or party on another occasion. Characters might have done some kind of traditional healing, though I could be confusing this book with a different one. At the end of the novel, there was an author’s note about how the culture of the townspeople had been inspired by the real-life Melungeons. The cover of the book might have been blue or green with an image of a person and white writing, but I’m not sure. I would really appreciate any assistance in finding the title or author.
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 YA novel Lindquists Literature
I read this some time around 2014, iirc there's a young girl who's father is a geneticist in a nuclear winter Russia. Her father is trying to make creatures that will preserve the genes of all mammals(?) and creates these little fuzzy things that he calls "Lindquists". His goal is to smuggle them out of the country, but he is arrested before he can, and so the girl MC is tasked with caring for them all on her own while trying to keep herself alive and out of the secret policy's custody. A lot of the book is her struggle to feed herself and stay warm in the harsh elements, and angsting over the health of the little Lindquists. (Idk if this helps but the Lindquists were described as small ferret like creatures)
resolved Fantasy novel. Literature
Younger readers. Protagonist sent to another world, lands with two others. The other two might have actually been from other worlds. Each had a unique ability. One seemed to be the power of inference.
Residents were Beast Men. The main one was part man, part orca.
Villain is an evil wizard who sends the heroes all around during the final battle.
Edited by Caswinresolved Domestic Dungeons and Dragons Literature
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_Desperadoresolved 80's-90's book about kids trapped in a videogame Literature
The book was created in the 80's-90's . One of the main characters name was Mario not that Mario . I think he was a bully. Anyway the book was a about of kids who get trapped in a video game where they have to fight for survival against random enemies. I think the mario kid gets turned into an enemy.
Can anyone tell me the name of this book?

I remember an example of And I Must Scream on this site regarding a Lakota mythology story about A boy whose uncles were all kidnapped by a witch and dehydrated. As the vapors entered their bodies, they were restored.
Can any one tell me the name of this myth/story?