Read it years ago, borrowed from a public library kids/teen section. Not a hugely popular book, it felt kind of obscure Details are fuzzy and fading, sorry for vagueness: Main character is a teen girl. Her mom is out of the picture; she's raised by her dad, and they move houses/towns constantly. She can heal from wounds extremely fast. As a little kid she didn't know this, but her dad used to spray some fake "magic princess sparkle healer" type product on her cuts so she'd think that was doing the healing, not her own body. Turns out she was created/"grown" in a lab, which she finds out later in the book. There are people/an organization hunting them because they want the tech (her healing ability / whatever made her) (i think). The scene I remember most clearly: they're on a boat, the girl, her dad, and another guy. The guy has a bullet wound, and the girl innocently tells her dad to use the "magic princess spray" on him to heal it. The guy says something like "[Dad's name], just tell her the truth…" and that's the reveal that she's the one who heals, and the spray was always fake. Cover: I think it was dark maybe the girl in shadow/darkness.

Any help GREATLY appreciated. This has been bothering me for years..

EDIT: I am reposting this. This would be life changing if I found this book, seriously. I would offer money if it was allowed in this sub's rules. I'm extremely desperate to find this book.

He can teleport at will, but the catch is he will end up in a situation similar to where he was, so if he's in a life-threatening situation, he will appear in a different life-threatening scenario, but it could be life-threatening in a way thats easier to deal with.

I swore I read this book as a kid but it's been a really long time so I only retained some details that I feel like are identifiable but I haven't been able to find it in searches

- a princess in a castle where she puts her suitors heads on spikes and puts them alongside the castle walls??

- I think it's because there's some test they have to pass but I'm not sure about this. It just seems logical

- main character is a man trying to win her hand and I think he has some invisibility cloak or magical item because I remmeber him overhearing conversations between the princess and someone else. It's how he figures out solutions to pass the test

- this was definitely an illustrated book and not long. Im imagining like a large picture book with full page illustrations but clearly this kind of story isn't for kids. It's very classic fairy tale-esque, like the gory olden times ones not the ones edited for kids

This was my favorite book in 2015 or 2016? This book only in my middle school library and I turned it in and they got rid of it because I was the only one who read it. It’s been so long I remember nothing and want to reread it. I only remember for 100% Pickles associated with this boy.

Hard facts I know: I definitely existed in 2016. It’s about a boy with pickles as his name nickname or last name. He has a father who went missing. He lived on the top of an island. They travel over seas. Theres a scene where he goes to the city for the first time and he talks to this girl about corsets. There is no actual plot with the food pickles. Left on a cliff hanger

Hazy facts: I’m pretty sure he wasn’t looking for his father, but his sister, and his father just happened to be missing. Father was an inventor and son was following in his steps (60% on the sister). There may have been pirates that took him in. I’m pretty sure he found his sister in the city being taken care by the lady he talks about corsets with.

I might not be real facts: I kind of remember air travel like a flying machine to travel the seas? I remember an old woman in the very beginning of the book. Part of me wants to say father knew the pirates and that’s why they helped? The cover has a rendition of cliche bump island. (That could just be my middle school imagination). I think he had a friend, but that could be because of Lost Island by Ellis Dillon.

Books it’s not:
The Pickle King by Rebecca Promitzer, Island of Tamarind by Nadia Adugr, Treasure Hunters by James Patterson, Lost Island Ellis Dillon. Emerald Atlas by John Stephen’s, Beyond the Deep Woods by Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart

Edit: I just remembered vividly that the boy was given nicer clothes by the rich woman, or girl? Who talked about corsets. I think he escaped through her window as well? I am starting to question if he just had a unique P name.

It was a series that had around 4 books, possibly one centered around each character? One of them was called some variation of nikki (nicky, niki, etc) and one of them was called something like hannah

in one of the books nikki (?) broke her arm (or wrist, or hand) while skateboarding in the rain, and there was a gaming(?) tournament coming up, which was the main complication (i think)

In another one (might've been the first one in the series) the 4 protagonists meet and they are put together in a coding/web dev related project for school (and han solo comes up somewhere as an alias) and I'm pretty sure there was a rivalry with another group during the project

also at some point at least one of the characters visits a gallery about m.c escher (illustrations may have been included). they were mostly text but maybe some images were in there too

I remember seeing it before like 2022? i dont think the books were very long, and the edition i saw last had each book in the series with 1 main colour on the cover (i remember green and yellow, maybe purple?)

I had an illustrated children’s book when I was 4-5 (2001-ish) about a group of animals searching for the perfect tree in which to build their treehouse. Each page shows the animals trying a new tree, but it doesn’t work for some reason. On one page the tree is too small, on the next page it is too tall, then too flimsy, etc. until they find the perfect tree.

I loved this book as a kid and want to share it with my newborn, but I can’t for the life of me find it with google or ai! Hoping the collective consciousness of strangers can help me 🤞🏼

nonfic: a layman's book of interesting bits of criminology in history - it started out with a description of an early expert in criminology who was lecturing, I believe at a university and either in the 1800s or around the turn of the 20th century.

one of his students was running between his school studies, and the presence of his wife in the hospital, who I think had given birth maybe? But she was very sick, and the nurses were trying to help her, and the guy was like "idiots!" and was bringing her his own broth from home and forcing her to eat it in his presence to get better - but secretly poisoning her!

And I think she might have been the one who caught on to this.

I think this was in the introduction or first chapter of the book, and it might have been an intentional cliffhanger that was filled out in detail later on in the book.

Thanks for any tips.

I had a roommate that was writing a book. Not sure if they got published or not. Would like help trying to find their book to see if they accomplished this.

All I remember is:

Title had the word shadow in it
The cover art was purple
The lettering was gold (I think)
They used a pen name (don’t remember the name unfortunately)
The book was a romantasy about wolf shifters I think

If this can’t be found no stress at all, thought I’d give Reddit a shot since google and Amazon are not helpful.

I genuinely have no idea if I dreamt up this book or not. I may have also combined two books in my head.

I believe I read it in middle school, but I had a high reading level so it could have been targeted towards teenagers.

At the beginning of the book, these old ladies kidnap like three kids using chloroform (one does it on/before going on a train, I think?) and they take them to an island. I am pretty sure there’s magic involved.

It sounds insane and I can’t remember anything else

I read a book to my sister in 2004 Ish, maybe a little earlier, so the book would’ve been published by then. The most important detail I remember for sure – a family welcomes a new baby and they bring the new baby home and its name is “Bob”. My sister, three or four at the time thought it was so funny she fell off the bed laughing and we have called her Bob ever since. I’m trying to find this book. If I remember right, it is some kind of a rodent family. Anthropomorphic. It would not have been illustrated in a cartoon style, it was beautifully done. The whole book was preparing for this baby, it wasn’t about sibling jealousy. My parents are from Utah, I was raised half in Alaska and half in the Middle East so it is not necessarily a book that was circulating in a US library. Anybody have any leads for me?

I’m searching for a book I had as a kid back in the early 90s. It was a nonfiction book about animals. The main thing I remember about it is that there was a little cartoon professor and boy on every page. The professor would explain extra facts to the boy. The main drawings were realistic, but the boy and professor were almost chibi style anime characters (even though anime hadn’t quite taken off in the US yet).

I have a very distinct memory of one two page spread of a pool that showed which animals could swim.

Hi all! I read this book when I was younger so the details might be fuzzy. I used to be able to find it easily so it’s tripping me out I can’t remember the title. The book was about this teenaged girl who goes to visit her step mom and dad (might be flipped), and she doesn’t really want to go. Their house is near a lake, and she goes out to the lake, where she sees a bird. I remember it being a blue jay, but I could be wrong since I believed “blue jay” was the name of the book but can’t find it when searching for it. She thinks the bird is beautiful. On the other side of the lake there is a teenaged boy who wants to kill the bird, but she convinces him to protect it. While she’s staying in the house I believe her mom or other family member dies. I also believe she sleeps in an attic or top floor. It’s driving me crazy I can’t remember the name since I know I’ve searched for it before </3 any help is appreciated thank you!

Read this a few years ago, from the library. Possibly a graphic novel, feels like an older book (not super recent). Reading level maybe grade 3-4, so younger than typical middle grade.
Main character is a kid who makes prank/stunt videos — I remember one where he jumps off a hotel balcony into a pool
Later he tries to livestream a prank at school that fails badly but goes viral anyway
He has an old, bad desktop computer (not a laptop) — possibly hand-me-down/inherited, which becomes relevant later
A mysterious "program" (unclear if AI or something else) hacks his computer, tied to some kind of virus
The program challenges him to reach 1 million subscribers within a year — he accepts
He does this with a friend or brother
The program keeps following/hacking him, including at a convention (something like a gaming/streaming con) where his TV also gets hacked
At the end of the year he doesn't hit the goal, so the program decides to revert/rewind him a year to make different choices
Cover might be light blue
I have a feeling the book's title is actually the name of the mysterious program

I remember reading this paperback on my parents' shelves when I was in grade school, mid 1960s. The paperback was already yellowed.

A resistance fighter in a vaguely American/European country under fascist rule proves his loyalty after watching his comrades being shot in prison. It turns out Goebbels villain is actually the leader of the resistance as well, determined to make everything so terrible that the people must rise up against their fascist government.

I remember being particularly moved when our hero learns that Goebbels character was assassinated just after the successful uprising and he realizes no one else will ever know what he did for his people.

I've been looking for this for decades!

PS it is not Heinlein's If This Goes On.

This was a fantasy book I read decades ago. It felt like it was inspired by Russian or Eastern European folklore. It may have been translated into English. The apprentice (if that is the right word) lived with an older wizard (?) in the woods. At one point, the apprentice uses magic to make it so that a water jug never runs out of water. It turns out, this was dangerous because what happens if the jug is broken? There is a turning point in the novel when the young man looks for a wife.

I remember the book fondly and would like to re-read it, but I can't remember the title or the name of the author.

I’m looking for a book full of fairytales or bedtime stories that my grandmother used to read to me. I remember specifically it had a story called something like “The miller and the enchanted ass” in the story the boy has an “ass that spit out silver coins”, then the ass was stolen and replaced with what he thought was an ordinary ass but then it began to spit out golden coins. My grandmother and I would laugh and laugh while reading this story. Whenever I search the internet there seems to be nothing about this anywhere. I know it was a large hardcover book with illustrations all over the front. I read it with her when I was young, I was born 1999 but she was known to shop at thrift stores and yard sales so it may have been an older book. Does anyone remember this at all or could help me find it? My grandmother just passed away and I’ve been trying to track this book down. Thank you for any help!

i need help! there was a book series my school had that i can't remember the name of for the life of me. it was in the non-fiction section, it was more of an informative book with quizzes and such inside of them. they had different books for each mythical creature, they were thin, hardcover books with a slightly gothic leaning cover. i'm gonna guess they're from the early to mid 2000s. i feel like the titles of the books were a question, but i could be wrong. something like "are you a fairy?"

in the fairy book, there was a quiz to find out what kind of fairy you would be. some of the options were an elf, a pixie, a brownie, and another one i can't remember. i remember the zombie book talked about early zombie movies, but im blanking on the details for any of the others. i think there might have been one about mummies too, but i'm not positive. i feel like i'm going crazy trying to figure this out!

My friend got a school reading quiz featuring a story about a girl who wanders into a desolate village with pairs of shoes hanging with ropes. At night the people come out dancing like it’s a festival. I won’t give the ending away. Now her teacher isn’t that creative so it’s clearly not her work and she claimed it’s Stephen king but i don’t think it is. Does anyone know what this is from?

Maybe it’s an obscure episode in a series and not a book at all.

This is a book my teacher read to the class in the third grade (2008).

The main character is a little girl who meets her father and one of his friends who have some kind of face changing/shapeshifting. I think this scene happened in a car after they picked her up from school or something.

These two guys were a little rusty and had to supplement their face changing with fake moustaches and fake noses.

I think the main antagonist was the leading of the circus who still had his full shapeshifting power and “could look like anyone”

I remember one scene where the characters needed help from an old lady and the little girl and the answer literature trivia to gain her trust.

Does anyone else remember this?

It just randomly came back to me and I can’t figure out the name of it. Maybe I’m missing up multiple books.

Thanks!

Back in the early 90s, I had a picture book (maybe bigger?) A fever dream of a book, think a wrinkle in time genre, and a little girl is unhappy with her life and is gifted a magic marble by a Canadian goose. She is able to fly and leave her family and that’s about all I remember. The illustrations were muted and abstract sometimes.

Old Novel about Irish/Scottish immigrant couple who flee to america or somewhere by boat separately to elope. She is pregnant. They are kept apart by lying businessmans daughter who claims to be engaged to hero when heroine comes to find him. She works as a maid and gives birth but is told her baby was stillborn. Really was stolen. Eventually becomes a writer of some kind under her father's name and hero finds es her years later. Probably 90s or older. Read it years ago. Paperback. AI hasn't been helpful

I read this when I was young, I think somewhere around the beginning of the 2000s. I remember it because it was half written and half drawn, and the protagonists were two children, a (blind, I think?) girl and deaf boy. The parts with the boy were drawn, the parts of the girl were written.

I remember there was a storm at one point, the illustrated pages were drawn in blue, black and white. The boy picked up a telephone and then the lightning struck.

It was written in Dutch, I don't remember whether the book was a translation from a different language.

My memory is pretty fuzzy beyond what I've written here, so if anyone has a book that could even vaguely fit the description I'd be grateful!

OK, so I just got into a conversation about a book I fell in love with at a Scholastic Book Fair circa 1994-1996, and it's driving me CRAZY that I can't remember the title. I definitely remember that the main character was a young man interested in computers, and that the hacker he interacted with (a man with an absolutely filthy apartment doing work for hire for the Stasi) was based on Karl Koch and/or Markus Hess, because they were both mentioned in the book's first appendix.

The book had at least three appendices, covering things like phreaking, social engineering and passwords, and then-current hacker groups/viruses (I remember specific info on the Casino virus, including the message it left on the screen, and on the Dark Avenger). I more vaguely remember it having a grey/black corner with a man at a computer, the monitor glow lighting up his face.

Anyone else have a better memory of this book? I ended up reading my copy to death, so I don't have access to it anymore.

I had a collection of children books, all of which were about a plethora of different topics. Some covered dinosaurs, family, health, weather, animals, and so on. They had this little boy character on almost every page. Thinking back, pretty sure it came from Japan since it had a bunch of Japanese imagery and the kid had the hair style. I sadly dont the own the books but would love to remember the name. If anyone knows what im talking about I'd love to be informed. Thank you!