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Looking for SUV under 5k to haul 11 pets amp 4 people in case of wildfire evacuation Alright, I know the title sounds ridiculous, but I live in Southern Oregon and last year a wildfire absolutely devastated our valley. I need a second vehicle in case of another evacuation. I'll be hauling 9 cats, 3 dogs and 4 family members. I'm looking for something reliable under 5k. I can live with a gas guzzler, but if I can find something that's decent on gas and reliable, I might make it my daily driver. Been looking at mostly Toyotas and Fords, but open to all suggestions!

4 door sports car (new used) with a 40k budget. Location Seattle, WA. Requirements 4 doors, can fit some things, doesn't make everyone in the back miserable. Considerations AWS is a nice to have but not required it'd be helpful for driving up snowy mountains on occasions but it's not something I do often (thus, snow tires and chains will typically suffice). I only care about major reliability concerns (e.g. 1000 repairs on important parts like the engine transmission because I can't do those myself. I'm also okay with a stick shift. Cars I've looked at already and can't choose between 1. Golf R 2. Audi S4 3. Dodger Charger SRT (love the exterior, scared about reliability). 4. WRX STI 5. Civic Type R 6. Kia Stinger GT I really like the Civic Type R, but the limited production has been making it such a pain in the butt to find one near me. Currently I have the Kia Stinger and Charger at the top of my list. I think the Charger will be more fun to drive because I most likely won't be tracking much. The Kia Stinger however is such an unknown gem and seems like it will be much more refined on the inside and reliable overall. I think I like the reliability a bit more and won't have people revving at me every time I drive. I also really like having a car with a lot of community and modding, and for this I think the WRX STI wins hands down. It checks all the boxes, but the interior is dated and they haven't done any substantial updates in quite a while. Am I missing any big players here?

Spirited daily(ish) driver with manual, RWD AWD, 4 seats, around 20k Just sold my 04 Volvo S60r and I am car less and hating it. I'm strongly considering splurging on a B7 RS4 (probably around 30k for a decent one) but in the event I don't find one I want to find some alternatives for around 20k. I can stretch it a little but would prefer not to. I know there's a lot of sporty cars around 20k with 4 seats and a manual so I'll try to be as specific as possible if it helps. REQUIREMENTS Manual transmission (seriously, don't want a DSG or auto) No FWD. 4 5 seats (don't care about the number of doors) so I can carry a couple friends when covid is over Sedan coupe wagon hatch No naturally aspirated 4 cylinders. I just don't like how they sound. I'm open to pretty much every other engine configuration but I just don't want to pay 20k and only have a 4 banger like a BRZ. Not insanely unreliable. Don't want something ancient unreliable like an alfa romeo gtv6 lol. I'd like for it to turn on every time I get in. Nice exhaust note. I'm really big on cars that sound good so I don't want a car that has no personality in its sound (Golf R I'm looking at u sorry) Under 120k miles in my budget PREFERENCES I'm a fan of having the "sleeper version" of a car. For example, I prefer the STI hatch to the sedan, the Audi S4 to the Audi S5, and the 535i touring to the 335i or 535i sedans Interesting "cool" colors like purple, blue, green. Don't like red yellow orange. Sporty fast out of the box. I don't want a 5k car with 15k of modifications. I don't mind stiffening up suspension or maybe adding a pulley or tune but I don't want to buy a car and completely overhaul it, I'd rather just buy the faster car. I'm not a fan of getting the slower version of a car. For example. I know I could easily afford a Mustang GT. However, I know (and love) the thought of one day owning a GT350, so I want to save my mustang cherry for that. Cars I'm considering right now B8 8.5 Audi S4 provided I can find one with the sport diff WRX STI Hatch 2004 VW R32 Subary Legacy GT Spec. B BMW 535xit G37 IPL Coupe

Hacking CARMAX Insider Tips to Maximize your Purchase Hey Everyone as you search for the right car for you and evaluate dealerships, private parties, Carvana, CARMAX, etc, I wanted to give you some advice to maximize your ability to find the right vehicle for you when going through CARMAX. To be clear, I overall think CARMAX does a great job, and by sharing tips to 'hack' the process, see this advice as only resulting in bringing them more business while giving you the buyer a few helpful tips. If I'm missing anything or if this seems out of bounds feel free to flag this near as I can tell, none of this is even close to broaching bring illegal nor inappropriate. 1. MULTIPLE TEST DRIVES. CARMAX will only let you schedule to test drive one car at a time, making it harder for you to compare cars from the same dealership. To get past this, simply create an additional account on the site with a new email address, and ideally a new phone number (I'd just get a free google voice account), and I only ever put a last initial. If you get to the point where you're talking to a salesperson, they'll pull up their computer system that shows your name, so it will show duplicates in this regard but I just blew it off as saying I must have signed up twice accidentally. 2. KEEPING APPOINTMENT TIMES. They claim they are 'appointment only' because of COVID, so I felt limited, but played by the rules. Yet when I showed up for my scheduled appointment, I waited over an hour and still wasn't able to be helped... as I walked to the front desk to reschedule the appointment the guy said 'Next time I recommend you get here early.' I thought to myself 'But, isn't the whole point of an appointment to reserve a specific time slot?' Anhow, near as I can tell, their so called 'appointment system' is very loosey goosey. I think people walk in and then 'make an appointment' right when they walk in. In any case, if you want to visit at 11am on a given day, make your appointment for 12pm, then get their at 11, and they shouldn't be too late. 3. TALKING TO AN OPERATOR RIGHT AWAY RESCHEDULING APPOINTMENTS. Painfully, the receptionist can't reschedule appointments when they're running late (like when I waited over an hour) and if you think the in person wait was bad, try listening to their elevator music for 45 minutes.... there's an easy workaround. Make a new appointment (with a new account, if need be). They literally send you a text saying thanks for making an appointment, and they'll call you shortly to make sure everything's good. Boom, talking to a human. Stuck and unable to see the car you were going to see? (Since it's technically 'tied up' with the appointment you had to miss) Pick another vehicle, but then explain your situation when talking to another human, and see the original vehicle is actually still your 1 pick, and you'd love to see it. Boom. Talking to a human in no time with a new and better appointment slot. 4. VEHICLE SIZES. I was interested in some SUV's, and the online pictures made them look huge and awesome. In person, the receptionist told me I could walk the lot in the SUV section to get a feel for other models. Turns out, just like on Tinder, what's online often doesn't match in person. Some SUV's that look good in online pictures are TINY in person, the feel like a big round sedan. If you're in the early stages of your search, I recommend just going to the lot without an appointment and walking around. No one will bug you, you'll get an idea of what's in their inventory, and it'll help you narrow down a few you're most interested. Then follow step 1 and you're off to the races. Source I did all the above during extensive research for SUV's. Ultimately settled for a 4Runner TRD Pro that was amazing. I'm not cynical about the car industry but like any industry, there's Rules, and then there's 'rules'. The very nature of markets is optimization for efficiency, so I think the above advice will serve car seekers as much as it will CARMAX in increasing throughput and sales. Best of luck in your hunt!

Do brand new 2021 Corolla SEs already have tinted windows? Rear windows look a bit darker than the driver passenger ones. Do they come already tinted? Or just colored dyed?

6 cylinder Outback reliability Hey there, live in the NorthEast and go mountain biking, xc skiing, and camping sometimes two out of three at the same time so I need room for gear. I prefer a 4wd awd vehicle for snow, but I grew up in Maine driving RWD junkers. The real reason I "need" a 4wd vehicle is that I use a hitch bike rack and I need the ground clearance and 2" receiver for it. I have had two high mileage Subaru wagons and they have been OK, current one is at 220,000 miles and consuming oil. I'm scared off by the CVT 4 cylinder modern Subarus, so I am looking at 2010 2015 era 6 cylinder models since I think they have a regular planetary gear transmission. I see several in my area around 6 10k at 100k miles. Does anyone have any insight into the long term reliability of the 2010 2015 H6 Subaru engines? I'm looking to find one with 100k miles or less. Would I be better off with a different vehicle? Jeeps, CRV's and Rav4's are a no go with swing gates. I love the 4runner but my wife is against it because its a gas hog. Gas mileage is not a big concern for me because I bicycle to work and this would be a weekend car, but Toyota 4x4's are really pricey. Thanks!

Fuel Efficient Hatchback Saloon for 30k Motorway Miles a Year UK I have a new job that is about 65 miles away from where I live and I am not in a position to move any closer so I am taking on the 130 mile round trip each day and want a car thats comfortable and efficient on the motorway. My budget is reasonably flexible up to about 15,000 since I have some money saved an am eligible for a loan for the rest over 5 years. However the cheaper the better since I'd rather pay the car off sooner because of the high mileage I will doing. I have looked at newer Vauxhall Astra's since I can get a pre reg one for about 14000, however I wondered if an older, used car with higher miles might be better more reliable and wanted the informed opinions of redditors. Another thing to note is that I am in my early twenties and have had a license for 4 years so my insurance is quite high and therefore insurance band less than 25 is the only viable option really. amp x200B Thanks for your help in advance.

Honda Cr V EX L or Mazda CX5 Touring Preferred SV? My wife and I are buying our first car and have narrowed the choices down to these two cars. At such a similar price point and features I'm having a hard time deciding which is worth getting over the other. We have a child on the way if that helps make any decisions and were leaning on the leather leatherette seats for easier cleaning and resale value if we chose to do so down the line. As far as I can tell the Honda seems more well rounded and has some extra sensors whereas the Mazda offers a nicer driver experience and sleeker interior. But overall they are very close to each other. We aren't car people so I'm curious to get other peoples opinions on this, I just look at them as point A to B machines (don't hurt me pls). The idea was to buy outright, seems even if we decided to sell it in lets say 3 5 years that it would equal or come out ahead on a lease, depreciation wise. 3 year lease would put us 12k ish in the hole with no equity in the vehicle vs it depreciates 5k ish in the same time frame if we decided to sell. Thanks internet.

2013 Focus ST w 122k miles I was driving down the road and something caught my eye a private seller is selling a 2013 Focus ST for 9,600 with 122,000 miles. Is it worth it? I have never bought my own car before (19M), and am unsure if it s even worth it with that high of mileage. I didn t get a really good look yet nor have I reached out to the seller, but the exterior appears to be in really good shape.

2012 ram 1500 sport vs 2013 F 150 ecoboost both are quad cabs. the Ram has a shorter bed, which I like. Both have a lot of highway miles and have been well cared for. F 150 has not had timing chain replacement but hasn't had any symptoms. I don't know what to look for in the Ram. I prefer the looks interior of the Ram over the F 150. i believe the ford will get better mileage? I think the Ram is more fun to drive. Asking price Ram 18,500 Ford 15,500. Ford has front bench seat (which i don't like) ram has center console (very much like). This will be my daily driver and will pull 4,000 lb boat. I would add aftermarket rims to the f 150 but ram has them already. Edit both have about 145k miles Edit Ram has 5.7 L hemi. Which one should I buy? what are the pros cons? thanks!

Do you guys think this is a good deal for Honda Civic 2018 1.5Turbo? Hey all. I am about to go test drive this car. I have a max budget of 17ish and this is the best car I could find that I was happy with. I was thinking of negotiating the price to 17k. I know about the oil dilution problem but it does come with 10 year power train warranty.

what mid range sports cars lease the best? having a hard time deciding on my next car so figuring whatever i could get the best deal on may be the way I go. coming from a 2015 m3 which I own. Considering everything in and around its class. m3, c63, rs5, RC F, gt350 etc etc thoughts?

Carvana offered 12k for my car. I'm tempted to sell it. So I have a 2016 fiesta ST that I would say in excellent condition aside from tiny tiny scratches from everyday driving. The paint is immaculate and the drivetrain has not problems and no leaks. I got curious and went to carvana to get it appraised and they valued it at almost 12k. Now I owe about 8k on it. I'm so tempted to sell it to them. Now the reason I'm on this sub I love my car. I love how it drives, I love how fun it is, and it's simply a joy to drive everyday. If I sell it, I might regret buying a new car that won't be as fun and engaging as the fiesta. But 4k is 4k in free money. And the car is SMALL inside. What would you recommend as my next car? I want something fun that won't break the bank, preferably with warranty. I live in San Diego county. PS I'll probably put the 4k as downpayment

Buying a privately owned used car that still has money owed on it. Me and the seller have agreed to meet at his bank and discuss me making the final payment and the title transfer etc. My understanding is that I ll make one payment for the remainder owed and give that to the bank and then another payment for the car itself which I will give to the seller. Is that correct? Is there anything I should know before going through with this? Also, I haven t made an offer on it yet (wanted to speak with his bank and see the car first) but when I do how do I account for the amount he owes? Do I just add it on top...? That wouldn t make sense to me but I don t know how these things work...

Advice Please! 2006 Jaguar XJ 8 or 2007 ScionTc? Soo....I mistakenly put this up on r cars and it was removed (gotta read ALL the rules oops!) So here I go... TL DR Do I take my mom's 2006 XJ 8 or keep my Scion Tc? So I currently own a 2007 Scion Tc with about 195k miles on it. Specs 5 speed stick, aftermarket LCD touchscreen audio (CD, GPS, older ipod connector, bluetooth enabled with hands free microphone mic as well). Everything else standard. Dark grey. She runs fine, but is starting to show a bit of age I think the clutch is going (going into 3rd can grind if not done 'just right'), has a slow oil leak (so i need to top it off add oil between changes), one of the rims might be bent as I get the tire pressure light comes on and I need to top that up every couple of months. My mom just got a 'new to her' car and offered me her old 2006 Jaguar XJ8. Don't have all the specs on hand, but has about 150k?, automatic (do they even make them in manual?), no aftermarket stuff. No known issues and she always took it to the dealer for all maintenance and any work. Interior showing some age since she often let clutter fill it up, but whatever. So do I take the Jag or keep the Scion? My concerns. 1. Cost of ownership The Scion takes regular gas and the Jag takes premium, so added cost there, plus the Jag is going to consume a lot more. Additionally insurance would go up about 70 per 6 months. Most importantly, I imagine any maintenance necessary is going to be substantially more. But overall I have NO idea HOW MUCH more the Jag will cost per year than the Scion and can't find a good comparison site that would tell me this... 2. Convenience amp Comfort. The Scion is smaller and easier to park BUT the Jag is a much smoother ride, quieter interior, and while I much prefer driving a manual, in stop amp go traffic, it can be a slightly more of a pain. Also, I do love the connecting the Bluetooth of my phone to the car for music amp podcasts, can't do that Jag since it doesn't have it (unless I get it added aftermarket...can I do this? is it difficult costly?) Also, shockingly, for a car as huge as the XJ8, the Scion has more trunk space. 3. Style fit. Ok, the most subjective, but...I do care about what it looks like the style and they could not BE more different. The scion in a small completely nondescript hatchback with some dings in the body, but just run of the mill. The XJ8 is a Jag buuuut I sort of feel like it's an "older person" car. Now granted I'm for Reddit I'm older (early 40s) but not THAT old. Am i going to give off an "old man" vibe with this thing OR will it be more subtle class? I know, I know, insecurity and all that, but since I'm asking for advice anyway.... So that's it. Any suggestions or advice? Are there other factors my brain is not considering? Is one clearly superior and I'm an idiot for not seeing that immediately? Tell me what to do and RunMyLife, Reddit!

Very recent or soon ish to be published Fantasy (possibly SciFi) novel set in "precolonial Africa" I recently saw a blurb on Goodreads that sounded interesting it included the phrase precolonial Africa and it was most likely Fantasy or SciFi. When I saw it a few months ago it was going to be published in the near future, though it may have already been published now, though it can't have been that long ago. It might also still be in the near future. Thanks!

SF book or short story about miners in space This is older classic. A young miner goes to space hoping to make his fortune. As long as he lives on the company supplied oxygen, he will soon be rich. But if he needs to buy oxygen, he will go into debt. He eventually joins the older miners in buying oxygen and gives up his dreams of wealth.

Terrible vampire book where the heroine gets mad at the hot vampire guy for having a wife because she thought he liked her two days into meeting him. Edit IT'S TURNED BY MORGAN RICE. I'M SO HAPPY! and apparently it's free on the kindle store. Hey, so I read this awful vampire book a while ago. These are all the details I remember It's set in america, where a rebellious teen girl goes to school with this dude that's nicknamed Barrack Obama because he's half black. I think she's aware of her being a vampire or a half vampire. I think there's something about a murder happening in an opera, or an opera singer getting murdered. She gets chased by some people (either hunters or evil vampires). A hot (shirtless?) vampire dude comes to fly her away to a place and they travel for two days. When they reach their destination, she finds out he has a wife and gets pissed off at him for not telling her because she was convinced he was in love with her. It's awful but I kind of wanna find it again to hate read. I don't think I ever finished it.

Horror or sci fi book set in isolated town All I can remember is people are being killed and the town is very much based on Whittier, Alaska. The only way in is via a tunnel, something happens to close the tunnel off so everyone is trapped there. Like Whittier, they all live in one building. I read this within the last few years, and feel it s probably recent fiction. I remember it as being a bit supernatural, it was a tense and scary read. Thank you!!!

A coming of age ya book that ended with the male lead love interest falls and breaks his neck in a freak accident in the last ten or so pages of the book And the rest of the book was about a young woman taking a class or some thing where at some point the teacher told her to look at herself naked in the mirror to become Comfortable with her body and she describes herself as having chicken skin. I think the boy falls down a hill or rolls down a hill and that s how he breaks his neck but it was really sudden in maybe the last five pages of the book

Dystopian female lead, leaves farming community to find brother elevated to higher caste. The book carries interesting we narrator perspective at points. Main character is pregnant, her boyfriend is abducted by govt. and she leaves fishing community(where she used to be a seaweed diver??) gets hit by a car at one point beyond the walls. Once she makes it to elevated caste she poses at a worker and does find her brother. It was a cool book with a political message that I would like to read again, but can t remember author or tile Maybes white background cover with colors in foreground. Published after 2000.

Fiction book about a girl who lives on an island being a research project with special abilities from a flower or tree sap So I used to read a couple of books in middle school and grade school but I can't remember what one of them was called. It was a fictional young adult book I believe. Around 200 300 pgs and I read it from a school library. It was a paperback and the cover I believe was colorful or had a flower on it. In summary It was a fiction book about a girl, the protagonist, who was on an island. She has special "abilities" "powers" that she received from being born as a 5th generation child. It all corresponded with some flower or tree sap that was only on that island and could be eaten but killed the consumer but was able to transfer "abilities" between generation with the 5th generation being the most advanced. She was studied for her lung capacity being able to breathe underwater for a long time and knew many of the scientists researching her well. She participated in the research too. Eventually, something happened and she escaped or left and met this boy at a village or reunited with him. In the end, she dies but then is brought back to life somehow I think using the flower but I'm unsure and she doesn't have her abilities anymore. I don't think she could die either. If anybody can help thank you!

2010s (maybe little earlier), found in London so maybe British author This book was about a teen young adult that loved rock and roll, was struggling with his sexuality, there are maybe some drugs involved, and the main character was Asian Grateful for any help!

Kids book about boy who uses coins and a magical statue to time travel I probably read it around 2008 2011. Here's what I think I remember A boy (maybe he's a teenager) finds a mysterious statue in a basement. When he places ancient coins on in the statue he travels back in time to the time period they were from. I think he went to ancient Egypt once, and also at one point he loses the coins and gets stuck in another time period for a while. Thanks!

Children s book with around town scenes. NOT Richard Scarry! Children s book with everyday scenes, NOT Richard Scarry. I have tried very hard to find this book and looked up records of books published in the early 90 s but no success. At my grandma s house was a children s book, large and thin ish(shape of, for example, an I spy book). I was born in 1993 and had the book for as long as I can remember until she passed away. So I read this book until I was probably 10. BUT it may have been much older than me and published before the 90 s. It seems a lot like a Richard Scarry book but it s not, I ve looked through them all and I had those books as well as a kid. It wasn t like how I m RS books there are doodles with words next to each thing describing what it was. They were more illustrations of scenes than objects. It was the same in the sense that there were day to day scenes and it was meant to be educational or show the world. I also believe the characters were animals. The colors were bright and vivid, cartoon drawings. I remember a few pages specifically One page was about the supermarket and different sections of the market and there was an illustration of a produce section with lots of apples and such stacked up in a rounded produce display. I also remember a page with all 4 seasons, one season in each quadrant. I think there may have been a beach scene too but I may be getting that confused. Thank you so much I appreciate it.

Australian YA novel, Romeo and Juliet vibe Can only remember random details, protagonist was a boy, possibly studying r j, but also doing a history project, maybe about Indigenous people in the area, uncovers a mystery. Likes a girl who he's working with on the project? They end up in a cave near the ocean, injured.

Michael Rosen poem about bereavement Does anybody know this poem about bereavement it talks about the time we spend with loved ones as like walking beside them along the path then when they die, they leave the path and we walk alongside others in turn? Heard it on the radio it stayed with me but unfortunately, not the title! Can anyone tell me what this poem is? Thanks in advance!

Adventure magic book about dragons This story follows a young man that finds himself living in a house with a mother and daughter that have a bunch of clay dragons and they claim that they re real. The story progresses and they do turn out to be real and he falls in love with a girl and he dies(not the full story and some details are fuzzy)

It's the WOMAN who has to save the Man... I remember seeing the book in passing and thinking to myself "omg, the woman has to save her husband from hell or demons and that's new" and vowing to come back to the store. As ADHD would have it, object permanence kicked in and it wasn't until AT LEAST a year later that I'm trying to remember the book. amp x200B I'm almost positive it's about a woman, who might be pregnant, who has to work her way through hell, or demons or something infernal, to save her husband. There might have been a pact made? Its NOT high fantasy, but is fiction. I THINK it had a red cover? I'm so mad at myself for forgetting it. amp x200B Reddit help?

Suddenly people stopped dying. No one dies from today. I can't remember anything else cause I only read the first chapter.

Old vintage children's storybook collection There was this vintage children's book containing several small stories, a book I used to read when i was younger. I can recall the plots of the individual stories, but not the title of the book or the author. Here are the stories I remember, if that helps. A boy becomes sick so his friend makes him a bird bath for him to look at through his window A young girl goes to the markets to buy milk and butter to make a berry pie, but trips and falls and hurts her knee before coming home. Her mother makes her stay home instead of going out with her friends to look for berries so she packs herself a small picnic and goes under a fence into a field, where she sees a berry bush. She picks the berries and comes home to her mother, where they make a berry pie. (I'm not exactly sure which berry it is, but its between blueberries, mulberries, and blackberries). A young girl can't tell the time very well, so when her mother gets angry at her for not arriving home from the park where she plays with her friend's in time for supper, she makes her carry an alarm clock in her dolly's pram. The little girl gets embarrassed when it rings in front of her friends, but one of her friend's offer to help her tell the time by using the town clock. A wooden rocking horse causes mischief and goes outside when he shouldn't be, but a goat (or a horse?? i don't remember) chews his tail off. The other toys give him a feather duster as a replacement tail in revenge. Two siblings go outside during the night after convincing their father to keep their bonfire burning, only to see fairies, pixies and woodland animals all huddled around the fire. They join them for a bit before being called back inside by their father. A lady bakes pies and leaves them on her windowsill, but an invisible pixie comes along and eats the pie. After it had happened for the second or third time, the lady baked a potion which would make the lips of the pie thief blue. I'm not completely sure this is the accurate plot, though. I am certain these are all part of the same collection of small stories, originating from the same book )

Help please! I read a book about 10 years ago and can hardly remember any details but remember loving it. Adult fiction book male author, i think a bright yellow paperback cover, had the god Pan involved I hope I am not mixing up two books by the same author because I remember reading 2 of his books around the same time. But i have horrible memory ADULT fiction, iirc there were a couple fairly graphic sex scenes, but it was not a romance novel. drugs and alcohol involved in the plot 90 sure male author,I read his books around 2010 ish, i think they were written around then or the books were re released, i remember the cover being bright yellow, minimalist and modern. I remember the greek god pan being involved like as someone the main character would run into occassionally or something?! I wish i remembered more... Despite featuring Pan the story was set in modern times. Ive googled endlessly but so far nothin so if any of this rings a bell i would be so grateful.

A lost Fantasy series of my youth. I only read one book of the series but am looking to re find it and read the series. It was a fantasy book based in the Middle ages with a young boy and his mother living on the edge of town. They were attacked by creatures and his mother gave him a magical sword and sent him away. He escapes and makes friends along the way with dragons and others. I remember a part where he gets attacked in a cave by a slime creature when trying to get to a castle. The castle has a magic spell shielding in and he has to get in. I believe his name started with a D? I'm sorry, it's been about 18 years since I've read the book and this probably won't get very far, but I would appreciate any help with figuring this out. If I remember any other details I'll edit my post and add them in.

Romance thriller young adult book. pre 2010. Main girl is looking for her sister who disappeared. She is helped by this guy who turns out to have been obsessed with her sister and had the sisters name etched into his skin either with a knife or it was a tattoo. As it says in the title this was a romance thriller. The big twist at the end was that this guy she fell in love with was actually why her sister disappeared. I believe the main girl did not realize about the guys mark because it was mirrored and hidden under his shirt. The mark was on the guys chest and was implied to be self inflicted. I think the books title had looking or look in it. In the end the sister and the main girl reunite. There was an implied sex scene but never anything explicit since it s target audience was young adult. I believe the main girl also was traveling the country with this guy looking for her sister and a lot of people believed her sister was dead but main girl didn t accept that. This book definitely came out at least a decade ago I don t remember the specifics but it can t have been after 2010. Thank you in advance

Children saving the world with robot aliens I know that title is kinda generic but basically In the 2000s I remember reading a young adult fiction about a boy whose dad (military?) brought him home something, and it turned out to be a cute little robot. He and it end up going to a cabin in the mountains, so the kid can hack?? To save the world. The robot was actually a communication device for the aliens helping them, and there was a whole group of kids also doing it. I remember him being friends with one of the girls. I think the dad goes missing at one point, possibly taken by the military. Sadly, I can't remember the cover but I do remember it had that silver medallion award on it. We normally bought from scholastic but I can't find anything resembling it.

Children Teens book about kids sent to a zombie school after being infected, female main character, male side character with glasses and or 'glassy eyes', the school is trying to develop a cure I remember reading a book I think I got at the Scholastic Book Fair as a kid. It was about a zombie school where kids who were infected with the zombie virus were being essentially quarantined away from their families so as to not infect more people. Zombie kids were pretty lucid sentient, uhh the dorms they were kept in were especially nice, and the school was out to develop a cure and I think there was some drama with that plotline. The main character was female, the side character was a male character who was infected for longer and had either glasses or glassy eyes, can't remember which. I remember the book being particularly gritty in subject matter for an elementary schooler, as I don't think the zombies could heal from injuries or age, and they all missed their families old lives. I would be very grateful for any leads, thank you lt 3

Looking for a book about another planet...and something about an empress ... A few years ago I used to go to this thing at my local library. Long story short we used to listen to audiobooks sometimes and for some reason this one book has been bugging me. I googled it figuring I would find it immediately and haven t had much luck. The book I m looking for was about this girl who was on some other planet and part of the book is about magic (actually technology that some of the characters don t understand) and some of the people are more developed and some are less and I also remember there being two boys who go talk to her using the magic . I thought the title was something like the empress beyond the stars or something involving an empress. I remember the book having a female narrator and I think a blue cover on the cd case. I found a book called empress of a thousand skies but I m not sure that it came out early enough to have been the right one. So ig I have two questions. 1 has anyone read this book and if so does it sound like what I m looking for? And 2 are there any other books that match my description and or have a similar name? Thx in advance!

Book about a small chicken alone in the world It wasn't a children's book, and I read it during high school in 2015. The chicken lives in the wild, and is trying to bring up a clutch of eggs, but she faces a mongoose or ferret. In the end, the chicken discovers the mongoose ferret's lair and considers killing her unprotected newborn babieswith her sharp feet. The chicken finally decides leaves them alone even though the ferret mongoose killed her own chicks. The author was Asian (possibly Korean), and it translated from its original language.

Ancient Egyptian Kid who is an older twin, comes back to life and helps Archaeologist's daughter to do something I read this as a part of my seventh grade curriculum (around 2004 5). I remember it being set in two time periods to start with. The MCs are tweens or around that age. The first part is set in Ancient Egypt and tells of royal twins who have amulets telling them which was first born with the second born being trained as a priest diplomat (or something). However, when the pharoh dies, the priests tell the supposed second son that he is actually the first born but that a prophecy said that he was to fight great evil so he had to be put in stasis (like die??) so that his twin could actually officially be pharaoh and that he would come back to life to beat this evil in the future. The second part is from a girls perspective set in the modern day (80s 90s?). Her father is a renown egyptian archaeologist and as she travels with him, she has learned a lot of history and ancient languages. When they meet (don't remember how) the ancient boy starts speaking all the languages he has been taught to try to speak with the girl and eventually, she's like, "you speak this language, (insert ancient Egyptian with horrible pronunciation because ancient Egyptians didn't record vowels as they saw no need to)?" And the boy was like yes, of course I do. The story evolves from there but I don't remember anything else.

Desert Survival Fiction (young adult?) with Desert Sheep, Slingshots, Yucca Sandals. This was a fiction book I read sometime in the mid 2000's (2005 maybe) when I was around 13 years old. As I remember it there was an outfitter guiding a dessert sheep hunt in the mountains of Arizona or some other southwestern state. at one point there is a murder and the Protagonist of the book is left for dead. The antagonist heads back to the truck and waits out the protagonist knowing that he will need water. the protagonist travels across the desert to some type of rocky butte outcrop mountain using survival skills such as drinking from stagnant pools of water in the stone and making shoes out of yucca plants. towards the end of the book the protagonist finds a slingshot among the belongings of the murder victim or some sort of cache that has "surgical tubing" for bands (I remember this very clearly as the author described it in detail.) as well as ball bearings for ammo for the slingshot, the protagonist ends up shooting the bad guy with this slingshot to disable him. I think I checked this book out of a middle school library. I was reading a lot of books from Gary Paulsen at that time (Hatchet, tuckets ride, canyons) so i assume It may be by him, but I cannot find it in his works. I cannot remember much about the physical appearance of the book beside that it was paperback and between maybe 200 400 pages.

Mythic travel adventure around island My mother had a paperback book, fiction fantasy. Main character find himself on a mythic island (undoubtedly Britain, but called by another name) and winds up on a great adventure traveling around the island with a Taliesin like guide. He meets all sorts of ancient mythic characters. I want to find it, but can't remember the title or author. I WILL recognize it when I see hear it. Help, please? Such a terrific trip into adventure it was!! Thanks, BookWyrm2727

Wizard Magic book from the early 2000s with a really sarcastic magical being Hello! When I was in high school (between 2003 2007) my best friend recommended a book series to me that was somewhat similar to the Harry Potter series, which I was (and still am) super into. I can t remember the name of the book series! All I can remember is that the protagonist was a young male who makes a sort of pentagram in his room and summons some sort of magical being (like a genie or a ghost or something) and this magical being was really funny and sarcastic. This magical being would often have footnotes at the bottom of the page in which he would insert his thoughts or feelings about something the main protagonist did or said. I didn t finish the series so I don t remember much else about the plot. If anyone has any ideas as to what this book series is called, that would be very helpful! Thank you for reading.

Book in which insane mother frames her son for a crime which leads to having a heart attack so he doesn t leave her. I can t remember the name of a book in which the ending consists of the mother, who murdered her sister as a child, frames her son of a crime he didn t commit which causes him to have a heart attack and become paralysed. She does this so he doesn t leave her alone and start his own life. Everyone believes he committed the crimes. It s one of my favourite books and I can t for the life of me remember it s name.

YA(?) Book that follows a young girl with a narcissistic mother and the tales of abuse she suffers through including being assaulted by a milkman So I read this book approximately 2009 2011 when a friend recommended it and I think about it all the time. I can remember some parts but can not seem to find it anywhere and all my google searches get nothing and I'm starting to wonder if perhaps I dreamed this whole book up. The story begins when the main character is a child, maybe 5, and her mother HATES her. She's abusive and narcissistic, and to escape the mum, the daughter sometimes slept in woods. She was attacked as a child by a milkman or mailman. She was sent to a boarding school, was bullied, and the teachers were awful. She escapes from there and I don't know how much time passes, or in what order it was, but she ends up smuggling diamonds and is assaulted by the man making her smuggle them. Lastly, I think she ends up working in a cafe in France. Yeah, this is my last ditch effort before these memories fade from my mind as well. I don't know if this will be solved, or if I'm lumping in multiple books with on another, but I'm hoping!

YA? Life swap doppelg nger story set in Wales So I read this book as a kid (edited to add this would have been in 2004, 2005 at a push, and I got it from the library the kids section) This girl goes to an Internet caf ? and checks her email. There is an email from another girl that looks exactly like her. I think it s set in Wales because they greet each other with Bore da! . This doppelg nger girl asks to meet, but when they do, they end up trading lives (I can t remember if it was consensual or not). The life our protagonist now has to navigate involves working as household staff (a maid I guess) in this fancy house that feels... out of time. I remember feeling like it was an alternate reality where certain technological advancements hadn t been made yet. At any rate, there are some dodgy goings on in this house. The master and mistress of this house are involved in something nefarious and the other staff are pretty cutthroat as well. Our protagonist is roped into helping the mistress with whatever she s up to and this breeds resentment with other staff, when the poor protagonist wants nothing to do with any of it. The butler? or a footman or similar tries to get this girl to do him sexual favours by blackmailing her?, going so far as to insist she steal and use contraceptive pills. He tries to assault her in his car and she flees. (This sounds horrendous idk how I got my hands on this as a child.) Eventually she manages to escape and return to her own world , but I think her doppelg nger remained at large. If any of you know what this book is called, I d be so grateful! Been hunting for it for years, and I hear you guys are eerily good at this.

A book from possibly the 1960s or 1970s A book about the future where people get regular required injections through a hole in the wall to take away their free thinking and also has population control and climate control. The character telling the story of his life has a grandfather that creates some type of sleeve that the needle can't penetrate.

Help me find this one fantasy book about a girl meeting a guy with "mystical powers" Ok so, it starts out this girl meets this guy right, and they immediately like each other obviously, theres this one part shes like walking alone down a sidewalk then another part they're on or by a merry go round, then another part shes home alone and some weird creatures try to like, ambush her house then the guy ends up telling her all about himself and his sister, His name is Ink and the sister has a similar name, like it's also "ink" but it's spelled differently or it's something related to the word ink, and they've got these abilities that have to do with scribes or just writing in general, like keeping track od history or something like that, also they can be invisible. Anyways they take her to their world, which is like through some portal or secret hidey hole to another realm? And they take her to meet this giant human sized frog guy that wears tuxes and hes like a butler or receptionist or something but then later on the big frog guys gets hurt and I dont remember if he dies or not. It's a series of maybe 3 or 4 books and it had to have been written in the 2000s or 2010s, I read it in high school, 2016 2019. I think it's a middle school or high school level book.

A brother is framed for the murder of his mute sister Read this awhile back for school so memory is fuzzy. It was a controversial book because of a chapter on prison rape. Brother gets release at some point and stays with the cop investigating his case.

Fantasy book about a girl who can t go to heaven or hell I read this book back in elementary school and can t remember the title. ( Basically this girl breaks into this old man s house with her friend and somehow they end up killing him on accident I think. She had stolen something from him and she decided to give it back to him and covered him with a blanket as a surprising show of kindness. Then somehow she dies (cops kill her or something) and she gets sent in this tunnel thing to the afterlife and they say that she is the only other person who has the same amount of points between heaven and hell (the last person to have this was a rockstar from the 70 s). Then I think she gets back to the mortal world, in order to have a chance to make things right. That s all I can remember.

YA book from the early 80 s called something Arrow I think? I read a book in middle school around 1987 about a dad dropping off his boy to live with a hermit mountain man and his dog in a shack because the dad thought the kid was a candy ass. If I remember the dad was a doctor maybe. The kid learns to hunt and cut wood etc. but the hermit falls sick and the boy removes his appendix and saves him. Somewhere in the story the hermit shows the boy a spot where you can watch the sunset behind a Boulder that makes it look like a burning fiery flaming arrow or arrowhead and that is the title of the book

Sci Fi I read in the 80s'. I remember 2 things. An intelligent species that are super careful. If their vehicle crashes the cockpit goes into a time stasis where outside events do not affect the cockpit. Also, there is an intelligent species that are either known as the assassins or some of them become assassins. They are the best at what they do. Every time one of them fires a shot someone dies. I think both of them are in the same book.

YA 90s early 2000s Mystery Novel With a Character that Has "Gemini" in the Email. Title May Have an Gemini or Gemini . It Was Def On the Cover. The Cover Was Green Black Blue I think. SOLVED! I've been trying to find this book for YEARS. I checked it out from the library circa 2003 2004. It dealt with a young guy and young girl, if memory serves, and there are emails in the books. I feel like part of the mystery was not knowing where the emails were coming from? But the cover definitely said gemini or gemini as an email address. The font was green, I believe, on the cover. It was a long title, and I think the part was a subtitle? I swear if this ends up being a Mandela Effect, I'ma lose it I've done extensive Googling and searched on Goodreads, Amazon, B amp N, etc. I think it was in the guy's POV, if that helps.

4 or 5 book adventure series about a brother and sister who go on a family vacation across the U.S. and they almost die a lot (they also visit the largest ball of yarn in the world) I remember reading this series back around 2015 or 2016 when I was in 5th or 6th grade. I only remember the basic idea and some moments, so this might be tough. I remember a brother and sister go on a family trip across the country but some stuff happens like they have to use the Caesar shift to solve code. At one point they visit the worlds largest ball of yarn. At one point, furniture (a big cabinet, I believe) falls out of a window and almost hits one of them. The last book had a scene where the characters are climbing on the Golden Gate Bridge, and the cover art for that one depict the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm pretty sure I remember the titles of the books having longer than usual names. If anyone somehow knows what I'm talking about, any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

book series set in a boarding school, with 6 friends that share a room I remember reading it when I was in secondary school (probably somewhere between 2013 2016). It was pretty chill and modern, iirc, with no magic or crime stuff. I think there were six books in the series as a whole, and each book followed a different character. The main character in the first book was the daughter of a famous set designer, I think? And one of the main issues in that book was that she didn't want people to know that her mum was famous, and wanted to stay low key. There was another character part of the main group of girls that was a princess from an African country(?), and the main character wanted to be friends with her because she saw the two of them as "in the same boat" I remember that that specific phrase was used several times in that book. Another one of the characters I think was called Jade (or the book cover was green, at least), and she had dyslexia, as revealed in the book that followed her. She was also really creative, and in her book, there was some kind of art competition or show, and she made some statues out of wire, and used some crystals from a chandelier as the eyes. The main character from the first book also took place in the competition, and I think that she made a necklace, with a papier m ch bust to display it. One of the characters was kind of like Stella from Winx Club in terms of personality, but her main "thing" was acting instead of fashion. She really loved the book Little Women, and felt really connected to one of the characters in it I think the youngest of the sisters. The boarding school was going to to a stage production of Little Women, and so this character was super hyped for it, but then stuff happened, but I can't remember what. I don't remember if I finished reading that book. Aside from characters, I'm pretty sure that it was set in the UK. I got it from the school library, so I think it was either 9 12 or on the younger side of YA fiction, if that makes sense. I've been looking for a while, but I have no clue about the title or the author, and searching for the details that I remember hasn't really gotten me anywhere, so any help is appreciated!

YA Fantasy Book published in the mid to late 90s with a raven on the cover I remember seening a Young Adult book at a book store with a Raven on the cover. It was in the same vein, I believe, as Harry Potter, so it was fantasy. The raven was carved in stone, if I recall. If I also recall right, the cover was mostly grays and black.

YA mystery? main character ends up on their front door step after being missing and held captive for years, doesn t remember anything at first the book starts off with the character knocking on the door to their house and their family and friends are shocked she s back. but she doesn t remember anything before from that moment, and throughout the book she remembers she was in captivity. i read this book back in 2015, i was like 14 at the time. i m not entirely sure of the publication year, and if i remember correctly the cover had a door on it? i read this at teasley middle school which is in georgia. i know for sure it s YA.

A book formatted in lists!! Back in 2017, I read this book and I don't remember the title (because it was a long title). But I would recognize the title if I saw it. Anyways, an outstanding detail was that the entire book was told in lists For example What I did today 1. Wake up 2. Brush my teeth 3. Forget that I had a history test today The things I did in class today 1. Get yelled at by my teacher 2. Fell asleep in my chair 3. Get yelled at again And basically, the whole book was told like that. It was around 300 pages I think. It was also a romance novel. There was a male main character (around 16) and a girl named zoe(14?). The book was told from the boys pov and he had a crush on Zoe. As for the cover, it had a solid background and it looked a lot like drakes mixtape cover of, 'if you're reading this it's too late,' And it was a male author. It also said on the cover, 'a story told entirely in lists,' And finally, the book ended with the boy and Zoe driving out far away into a field and looking up at the stars. Hope y'all can help me!! Edit it was a hardcover book! I got it in a library and it was 13 (there were some making out scenes). and the language was English.

Circa 2005 2008, instead of white people being in power it is black people. A black woman falls for a white man. I was in middle school and volunteered to see if a book was appropriate for our library, and I remember it was geared more towards high schoolers or adults I thought it was called Power of One, but it turns out it wasn't. Might still have one or power in the title. I don't remember finishing it. It might've been released closer to 2007 8 because that's when I was in 8th grade and I think that's when I volunteered for that program. The book cover might've been primarily black with some white, but I don't remember

YA novel about a group of kids on an adventure, main villain sharpens his teeth into points I read this book in the mid 2000's, I think it may be part of a series. It's about a group of kids on an adventure, maybe trying to solve a mystery. There's one part where they meet this villain who sharpens his teeth into points. He ties them up so that their lower bodies are submerged underwater, and is waiting for the tide to rise high enough that they drown. They escape, but I can't remember much else about the story. I think the book had a red spine, and mechanical style drawings inside. Any help is much appreciated!

Fantasy trilogy (I think) about a man cursed (or blessed?) so his soul conscious takes over the body of his killers The book starts with a soldier, or a boy who eventually becomes a soldier? witnessing a witch or person of power being burned at the stake, as she's dying she curses him (or blesses?), not sure if he is aware of the curse at that time, so that his soul conscious will take over the body of whoever kills him. at some point he is killed by a prostitute in a brothel who is actually an assassin hired to kill him, because at this point he's a popular powerful influential person in the countries military or politics and someone wanted him out of the way. she kills him with poison and he becomes her. realizing that he is now a prostitute assassin he runs. not sure what all happens after this but the king emperor of the country, which includes a large part of the world and is really powerful, is a tyrant (of course) with some kind of really powerful ability? or something that makes him impossible to kill? he is married to or owns or plans to marry a woman who the mc is in love with. I think the emperor was possibly the person responsible for having him killed. I didn't read the entirety of the trilogy, or the entire book if it was just one, but I think it probably went along the lines of a lot of stuff happens leading up to the emperor finally killing the mc himself, which of course causes the mc to jump into his body effectively making the mc the emperor and being able to be with the woman he loves, and make the kingdom right or something along those lines. It was a English paperback that I read in a bookstore sometime in the 2000's probably before 2006.

Comic about a guy from a fantasy who dreams of the modern world and wears a suit. It's a strange one, it's not a manga but a comic, don't remember much about the comic other than him and a friend where running away and they met a knight who let them past and had a really cool one liner

My dead dads favorite book about the Caribbean So I don t know much about it other than it s about the Caribbean and (and I might be a little off) a boy gets stranded on an island or it s just about Caribbean life or something like that. Possibly about his his favorite beach Bonaire. The cover looks like a clear blue sky and has an island with a palm tree on it, don t know who the author is or when it was publish. It s hardcover and my dad has been reading it maybe around since the 70 s or 80 s and I just wanna find this book because he loved it so much and was reading it right before he died and so that book means a lot to me because he loved it. PLEASE HELP ME FIND IT!!!

Sci Fi environmental escape book Science fiction book where young woman battling to survive on overcrowded very hot island eventually takes boat to cross ocean. As cross it gets colder and colder but they near the US Coast and are rescued.

Very intense book about a boy who beat another to death and takes the body to a swamp This book belonged to a high school classmate whom I do not kept contact, and it's been years since I finished high school. I don't remember a title or the author's name. I only read bits of it out of boredom during classes in 2012. I can only remember an intense moment where a boy (13 years old I believe) kills another of the same age. It stuck with me to this day because he did not only kill the other but also smashed all of his teeth and cut off his fingertips for make it impossible to identify the body. Then he stole a car I believe and took to a swamp and threw it in there. I am after this book because it was a very intense reading for me and I would like to know how it ends, what happens to the killer and and also get the story from the beginning. It's probably not as intense as I remember, but I was younger when I read. However I believe these details are accurate and very specific even tho I don't have any other information on it. There's something else but I am not sure if it was in this same book I also remember something about a random guy being kidnapped and tied and left to be eaten alive by rats. So yeah, it was a very intense reading for me, especially at that age.

One off fantasy isekai I read over 20 years with talking snakes and giant Siamese cats and a world with two moons. No idea who the author is, or even a clue as to the title. Pretty sure it was a off book and not part of a series. Pretty sure it's a young adult book. It starts out in a contemporary setting, the MC is a teen aged boy. His sister has pet snakes and like to hide them in his room. He hates snakes. He somehow gets teleported to another world with two moons. The second world is a generic fantasy setting. The MC can speak with animals. Or at least this one snake like creature that joins him. There is a cat described as looking like a Siamese cat, but the size of a panther. Pretty sure it was called something like tomatoy or tamatou. The book cover shows a forested area in the background and depics two moons overhead. In the foreground is a guy riding a white horse, both facing away from the read. The rider is wearing a medieval hood, which is down. Pretty sure it was red with yellow trim. The part of the hood drappes over the shoulders has like square fringe. It's definitely a young adult novel, not a manga.

Girl Escapes Underground Human Experiment Village After Mother Catches Illness I listened to this book as an audiobook years ago, not exactly sure when. A girl is brought up in a small village, no technology, kinda amish. A sickness starts making its way through the community, and eventually her mother, and i think her little sister, catch the disease. She eventually escapes from the facility and finds out that the village was run as an experiment, and the disease was intentionally introduced into the community. I think the cover was a picture of a girls torso, she was wearing a yellow shirt. I have been trying to find this book for years.

YA novel about a girl living in a northern, rural area whose father disappears. They think he drowned but can t recover his body from the frozen lake I read this about ten years ago in middle school. It might have been set in Alaska MC girl s father worked in the logging industry or something similar. When he disappeared people assumed he drowned, but winter had set in and they couldn t search for a body until the lake thawed in the spring. The book was mainly about her life and coming to terms with her father s presumed death, and in spring, they did find his body in the lake. The last scene in the book is the family going to spread his ashes somewhere, and the MC has closure.

teen novel, blue cover, door in the title it had a blue cover. i think the title had something to do with door. i think there s three siblings an older sister, a middle brother, and a young sister. their mom is an alcoholic who never leaves her room, and the eldest tells the siblings that she s just sick. i think they go to a religious private school and they take the bus everyday. the youngest daughter is obsessed with the Chronicles Of Narnia series. There is a teacher that catches on to what is happening with their mom and tries to talk to the kids about it and ends up with the youngest in his office when the eldest was trying to hid her in the school gym for the day. i remember some other parts of the book too if you want to hear those too, but please help me find this book. i found it back in high school library a couple years ago but they got rid of it and i haven t been able to find it since.

Children's Picture Book With Anthro Cats And No Dialogue I remember having this picture book when I was little that I liked a lot, but I'm having trouble recalling the name. And I just can't get it because it's probably packed away in a box somewhere. I remember the illustrations being very similar to something you would see in an old French newspaper. Being mostly black and white (except for the occasional splash page) with cross hatching. The story was about this white angora cat who lived with her two sisters in an old, dilapidated house. She dreams of a better life, but she is mocked by her sisters. So in the middle of the night, she runs away and ends up on a rooftop. She falls asleep and dreams of an angel cat and a devil cat. The angel cat presents an image of her two sisters and the devil cat presents an image of a pile of riches. She chooses the devil cat and awakes to find a rich, gentleman cat standing over her (I remember him being a black and white cat). The gentleman takes her to his home (a mansion) and the two are immediately smitten with one another. The two decide to get married and eventually have a daughter. Though the couple is extremely happy at first, things quickly begin to sour, as the rich cat reveals himself to be a cruel and selfish man ( tom? ). At one point, the unhappy couple (plus the rich cat's kindhearted lawyer friend) attend a show starring a famous foreign singer. The rich cat falls in love with the singer and has an affair with her, much to the angora's despair. Because of this, the angora decides to flee w her daughter in the middle of the night and returns to her old home and her sisters. The lawyer cat finds her and (reluctantly) informs her that her husband has decided to annul their marriage so he could run off with the singer. The angora is obviously distraught by this, the lawyer cat then attempts to propose (bc he's been crushing on her for the entirety of the book) but the angora refuses, for fear of her heart getting broken again. After this, she decides to write out her feelings in a personal memoir. She publishes this memoir, and it becomes a huge success which earns her and her family enough money to move into a better home. The book ends with the angora and her family all living happily in their new home, with the lawyer cat approaching the household with a bouquet of roses. This book was a beloved part of my childhood, so if anyone can remember the name, I would be very thankful!

Husband and wife vampires. They can fly, and the wife is very graceful but the husband is crap at landing so he slams into the ground or the side of a building to stop. At the end, there's a were kangaroo and possibly a cannon. It's a chapter book, hardback and black. Written before 2000 at some point, with occasional excellent pen and ink illustrations. One of the pictures is of the lady wife vampire landing daintily on one pointed toe as her disheveled husband tries to get himself together after crash landing. Thanks, friends!

A Magic House With Kids Getting Sucked Into Books? Basically, a family move to this house. Its magic. The three kids read the books and get sucked in, they have to survive whatever the book throws at them In one of the books its set in Rome at the Colosseum and they have to try survive fighting in it I appreciate all answers and thanks in advance!

A book about a rich businessman on life support whose spirit subconscious can move to living people and changes his mind about what matters in life Ok guys, please help, I've exhausted google. I'm looking for a fiction novel that reminds me of This Present Darkness. It's about a rich businessman who is on life support from either an accident stroke or heart attack I can't remember. He is single, rude, selfish, and doesn't care about anyone else. While on life support his spirit subconscious moves to other people through touch. I think one person is one of his nurses, another is a disabled child. He can speak through these people and they change his mind about what is important in life and make him less selfish. With their help and the man acting through them, they get into his apartment and change his will or something like that so his money will go to good use when he dies. Then God (I think) gives him the choice to save his own life or the life of a dying child and he chooses to save the child. I think it also contains some spiritual warfare but I could be confusing it with another book now. Thank you!

Time Travel to France during French Revolution Girl who plays guitar base has divorced parents. Mom is super depressed since main character s little brother died. Her dad is super rich. She goes to a rich kid highschool and I THINK she time travels to French Revolution.

Fantasy series, mother, son, and daughter. Light magic, medieval peasants, 4(?) books with a solid color scales background. Read like 15 years ago Physical book I remember reading this series at a local library at least 12 years ago, in American high school, in English. The books were hardback, with a metal trinket in the foreground of the cover and a single color scale pattern in the background (I think I remember one was blue, one was green, and one was maroon). I know I read 3 books, I believe there were 4. I remember the books being about an inch thick each. Plot The setting was fairly generic low magic fantasy. The characters were peasants in a small village, and they consisted of a mother and her two children, one male, one female. The daughter is the primary protagonist, but I distinctly remember her brother's point of view as well. The daughter has magical (possibly something mental) powers inherited from her mother. I distinctly remember the brother getting his hands on some pig iron, hiding it, making a sword, and then that sword breaking on him. One of the book's plots ( I think the first) is the mother getting kidnapped or otherwise separated.

Kids book from the early 2000s, a group of kids that were part of a newspaper yearbook(?) club. The characters all had little autobiographies in the beginning. One of the girls turns into a mermaid. I think they might be investigators of some kind? One of the things I remember is that the girl who becomes a mermaid really likes jewelry. She talks about it in her autobiography thing. Unfortunately I don t remember much else. Someone commented on an earlier post and asked if they were in a tree house on the cover, and that does sound very familiar. I used to read this book all the time as a child in the 2000s, I was probably like 6 7. Obviously my memory is kinda terrible but I used to love this book so much and I would really like to find it again )

Fiction YA book, main theme was crows I believe some one died or was trapped in well and it was a small town and occasionally they spoke what I believe to remember is german Book from way back in the day, I think it was called something crow Hill but it featured crows a lot and I remember there being a well and something happened that shook this small town the protagonist (male I think) lived in or recently moved to and he ended up getting involved. Possibly a stand alone book or part of a short series. The German (or foreign language) was often said in dialogue and there was even a translation key at the back for certain words.

Children s Book with a Day Old Pizzaria I originally thought this was a Daniel Pinkwater book, but my Google Fu shows that someone else felt the same, and Pinkwater told them that he hadn t written it. ( Basically, i read this kids middle grade book back in the late 80s early 90s. The kid protagonist, in either NYC or an equivalent, would spend their after school time in a pizzeria. I believe it was because they were in a single parent home, and the remaining parent either worked there, or it was located near where their parent worked. The big thing about this pizzeria was that the owner believed that pizza tastes best the next day. So every day the protagonist would watch as the owner cooked up a whole big mess of delicious pizzas... and then stick them straight into the industrial fridges. To be pulled out and heated up again the next day, when they d be sold to the customers. Aaaaaand... that s all I remember. I don t think the main plot was about the pizzeria, it was just a place the protagonist started out from, or stopped at to rest during their adventures. Any help would be appreciated!

Anyone interested in helping me find this old book about a love triangle? I ve been trying to find this book for years now pls someone help I don t remember the author, title or even what the cover looks like but I remember some of the plot. The book started with a guy and a girl in a summer camp where they were saying goodbye to each other. They had a summer love or whatever. The girl made him promise to always write to her cos they live far away from each other but he never did. Anyway, months later the girl conveniently moved to the guy s town and then she found out that he has a girlfriend ( even when they were in the summer camp together ). That s all I can really remember tbh but like I know that the girl ended up with another guy. I hope this helps ! I read this book when I was like 8 9 years old,,, I m 19 now

Cartoon Biography of Churchill, Alexander the Great and cleopatra I read this book series in 2011 2012. It was a biography history of famous people but was really funny and had cartoons and a different font. It was in English and was really engaging. Not a long book I believe 100 150 pages and there were many in this series. Please help.

Repost Children's Middle Grade Fantasy about a girl who has to go on the quest and has the help of a boy who guides her. She has the ability to shapeshift and the boy is teaching her. They shapeshift multiple times throughout the book. I read this between the years of 2010 2013. The most prominent scene I remember is one where they shift from being fish to being mermaids and the girl notices how much more comfortable it is, despite both forms having tails. The boy tells her that mermaids have mammalian tails that move up and down while fish tails move from side to side. I can't really remember more about the plot, but I'm pretty sure that her powers abilities were inherited from a grandmother or something. I also believe this was a standalone book that was a part of a series where girls went on magical quests.

A boy named Wesley, also two girls named Penelope and Imogen Also his dad marries his dead mom's twin I think? And his mom had crazy red hair. There might've been a cave at some point. No idea on anything else, sorry

Children's fantasy book about a girl who escapes an evil city and travels through a desert I read this book 25 years ago so my memory is a bit fuzzy but I'm fairly sure that The girl lives in an authoritarian city that tells citizens everything outside the walls is terrible, but actually it's the city that is terrible The girl escapes the city (possibly the city captured a boy from outside and she rescued them escaped with them?) She travels with a caravan train through a desert and struggles a lot at first but eventually fits in I think at the end she reaches another very different city? I also think there was a romance between her and a boy and they got together at the end I realise this isn't very much to go on but fingers crossed, this book has bugged me for years!

Book short story with a city on fire and raining ashes Hi, I m looking to find the title of a book or a short story I must have read between 2003 2006. I m not sure how accurate the details I m remembering are, but they seem pretty clear in my head. In the beginning of the story there was a girl who lived in a house on a hill over looking a city. She recounted storms rolling in and seeing the sky change colors, yellow, purple, orange, etc. One day her parents went to the city and a fire or explosion happened and they didn t come home. I remember a part where ashes were falling from the sky. I m also thinking this has to do with stick and poke tattoos that wrapped around her body for some reason? I believe the cover was green. Would anyone be able to help me? Thanks!

YA series, book 2 or 3's cover had a giant plated wurm on it in the snow I remember reading the books when I was in elementary school, around the time Pendragon was popular and Eragon was picking up too (I think the second book had just come out). I don't recall the story much aside from it being the classic YA adventure story, a teenage boy learns he has to travel to some far locations so that he can achieve some goal that should save some people. I think a girl tags along, but I'm unsure. The general story of each book is probably along the lines of "go to new location, deal with enemies (probably on the book cover), learn of next location to reach". If I recall correctly, the cover art looks very similar to this picture but the creature is very white and on a snowy mountain, and I think there's two on the cover.

Fiction. A book about flowers with interesting properties and a mysterious villain This is my first post here, so sorry in advance if I broke any rules The specific book I'm looking for belongs to a series (3 4 books iirc), but I'm only looking for the first book Plot Can't remember much about the plot, only about specific plot devices 1. Essentially the protagonist is just hunting down a villain 2. The world that the story is set in has a lot of plants with unusual properties 3. Book is set in (probably) medieval times (I think horse drawn carts are still a thing in it) Notable characters 1. A young female protagonist, and iirc an apprentice of some sort 2. I vaguely recall a monkey as well 3. A mysterious villain (who eventually turns out to be related to the protagonist, although this fact is revealed later in the series) Physical description of book 1. Hardcover (it's a library book) 2. Inscriptions on the bindings and cover are elaborate and stylized 3. Each book in the series has a main color scheme that is dark (e.g. dark green, dark blue, dark red) 4. One thing I remember is that the first letter of each chapter is large and stylized Other details 1. When did I read it? Honestly not sure, probably about a decade back 2. Where did I get the book? Local library (I live in Singapore) 3. What age range was it for? I think it was under the ages 9 12 category (I was probably also around that age when I read it) 4. One plot device I remember in particular is a flower called Cinquefoil (google says this is class of shrubs or something, so I couldn't get very far googling "Cinquefoil book" sadly Edit Formatting

Modern day Thriller about kids playing PC games and escaping oppressive employers I read this about 8years ago. It follows a kid who plays an MMO PC game. His parents own a cargo ship company. He hitch hikes on one to go to China(?) To help his friends escape their government employers who try to actually kill them. There's a side plot of a finance person who figures out the mathematical formula for "fun". One of the kids name is Tank. They run from the bad guys and sneak back on to a ship to get to America(?) With the help of the first kid.

Holy grail found by a modern era kid his caretaker is murdered but brought back to life by the grail The story is about a modern boy's adventures with the grail The hero of the story finds it, and he realizes it's the grail when someone tries to steal it and fails but kills his...aunt? Sister? but the grail heals her. The story hinges on a very old being who has used the grail to stay alive for millennia, and has lost it briefly at various points throughout history. Jesus has it briefly, and is able to let it go. The being who has stayed alive for so long thinks this makes Jesus contemptible. I vaguely remember this story as having a King Arthur component too. I must have read it for the first time at least 20 years ago, but it wasn't new then either. Maybe it's from the 80's or 90's?

Sci fi Novel Where People Only Wear Body Paint I am trying to find a book my mom mentioned she read in high school where it takes place in a dystopia utopia in which people only wear body paint and no clothes. She says the main character was paralyzed and was taken care of daily by a woman. I want to surprise her with the book for her birthday but my searches have come up short!

Book about sleeping to avoid transformation or staying up and transforming into a monster or celestial being My teacher says he's read this book about 40 years ago. It s about a religion where people can either sleep through the night to avoid transformation (either into celestial beings or monsters) or stay awake to be transformed at their own risk because it can go either way. The main character turns into a monster.

dark(ish?) fantasy graphic novel that had bat winged people or something To start, I remember the main character being a black haired male teen who ends up being the doppelganger replacement of someone very important? (maybe royalty, can't remember) There was also some sort of conflict of some kind, I think it was a war. Just stating again, I think every character possessed black wings of some kind. (like bats wings, so it's not Maximum Ride or anything) I don't think any of them were vampires though, at least I don't remember blood being a big plot point. The main character's main identity gets uncovered from a girl he falls in love with, and she keeps his secret, if I recall correctly. That's the best I can remember, I might have gotten some things wrong, but it'd be a big help if someone could jog my memory.

Middle Grade novel about telepathic and telekinetic abilities This book was about kids (I think at the age of 11) having one specific year where they have extreme potential to learn at accelerated rates through enhanced memory and telepathic, telekinetic, and mental and astral projection abilities. Not all kids had these powers, so recruiters for a special school would go to elementary schools and test kids on whether or not they had them. The MC was a troubled kid and didn t realize he read the mind of the recruiter when he answered a question she never asked. I distinctly remember that the kid got expelled from his school right before the recruiter told his principal he was the one they wanted, rather loudly, so it was a not minor plot point when the recruiter told off the principal and told him the school would not be receiving the promised for having one of the gifted students since the MC was no longer a student. Then, the kids from various places were brought together at this school where they learned through supercomputers. They were also able to enter people s minds and each person's mind was a literal cityscape in which every building was a different brain function. The kids with these powers learned from people that used to have them when they were that age and the kids learned how to go into brains and plant thoughts, access memories, and even access memories that the person themselves forgot about. When someone was in your brain, you could hear a slight buzzing. But the MC was so skilled that didn t happen when he went in and he could do things in a matter of one second when it took minutes for the other kids to do it (such as navigate a person's mind). At the end of the book, he was about to have his birthday when he would lose his powers and he used a mirror to go into his own brain and access lost memories, I believe about his father, where he used his telekinetic abilities to push down the cement that was rising, the cement is what blocked their powers once they were too old. The next morning when he wasn t supposed to have powers anymore, he still did and was very shocked and that was the end of the book. I believe there was a sequel, hence the cliffhanger, if that helps any. I read this book in either 2014 or 2015, it is MG and I found it in my elementary school library. The exact grades it was targeted at are 5th and 6th graders. Sorry for this being so long, and also formatting because I'm on mobile )

Fantasy book, woman plants trees while there is a war going on, tears her dress and gives out threads to the army as protection There is a married prince and he gets another woman pregnant, she plants trees I think for the "old religion" while the prince wages war. She has a magic dress that she tears up so each person in the army can have a thread for protection. She gives birth and gives the child to the prince for him and his wife to raise and disappears into the woods. At the end of the book, she visits the prince and their child in the shape of a deer. Please help me find this book!

Picture book about kidnapped kid in a drum Children s picture book folk tale about little kid in a village who s kidnapped by this evil guy who traps him in a drum and makes him play from the inside or something and in the end his family somehow finds him. Setting an island or some place on the ocean, I think.

Girl with skin condition whose parents run a black market organ donor business Hello everyone, I m trying to remember the name of a book I read two years ago about a girl who has a skin condition that makes her bruise super easily. I remember her parents ran a black market organ donation business and I think she gets kidnapped and the book ends with a twist but that s all I remember. I hope someone knows what I m talking about, thanks!

Old ish children's books with a particular gimmick I read those as a kid like 20 years ago, so the details are very fuzzy. I think they were mystery books but I'm not sure. Their gimmick was that they came with this plastic thing, which was like a filter of sorts with thin, alternating opaque and transparent stripes on it. You held it over the weird looking images in the book to 'decipher' them. It kinda worked like this moir pattern thingy. Those deciphered images contained clues about the mystery or something IIRC. Meant to work like a detective's magnifying glass, I guess. Anyone remember those books? Know their names?

young YA fantasy book series about magical stones Found this at a library in early mid 2000s. First book opened with a class trip to a museum, and the boy (Roger?) got sucked back in time or to a fantasy realm or something. There was a motif of magical stones, each of a different color, and they were pictured on the cover of the books around the title. Each book was from the perspective of a different kid as they each had to acquire a stone. At one point there was someone named Sky or Kite, maybe a bad guy, in a prison. amp x200B EDIT Tales of the Nine Charms by Erica Farber and John R. Sansevere! The boy's name was Walker, not Roger, but pretty close I'd say.

Looking for a book about a young girl who can far see and re invents space travel This is a book i read around 2006 2009. It was an older book though. Paperback. I got it at a library closeout sale or a thrift shop. Geared towards young adults. The cover was a picture of a girl inside of a bubble and i think there were similar bubbles around her. And the background was Space. The book is set in the future where we've figured out how to space travel and people can visit other planets. I think her name was Ai. When she's first introduced she's working as some kind of tour guide talking about her future job. She uses far see (or it may be called seefar) to guide space ships. But she experiences bouts of blindness, which she tried to hide since it would mean the end of her career. At the end of the book it's discovered that this is actually a more advanced ability and it helps her do her job better. She goes on a journey to figure out what is causes her blindness. She thinks it's some emotional or mental issue she needs to fix. During her travels she finds that someone close to her has lost his mind and is living in a comatose state. He was working as some kind of space explorer and while outside the ship something big came along. Everyone made it back safely expect for him. His companion (i think her name is Beaufont) is taking care of his body. She's some kind of alien with changing skin. I used to read this book all the time. I can remember a lot about the general plot but I'm fuzzy on the specifics which makes googling it hard. Hopefully someone here can make sense of all of that.

Steamy romance novel where three best friends each find their partner through a summer of hot sex! Please help me find this book! I am looking for the title of a contemporary romance novel with the following description. Please be aware that since it is a romance novel, there are aspects that may not be appropriate for work, for children etc. There will obviously be spoilers. It is a contemporary romance novel, set somewhere in the USA between 2000 2015. Protagonists Three women that are best friends, type A and career focused. They make a pact that each women will find love, ie. have a crazy summer romance, that year Book separated into three main parts where each part focuses on each women's pursuit Part I forgot the name of the woman. But she works at a vet clinic. She is propositioned by her two bosses, who also happen to be best friends. She has a weekend long love affair with both men (at the same time ). Eventually she realizes she love one of the men named Josh. This leaves the other man sad, but understanding. Part II forgot this woman's name as well. She runs her own interior design company. She has crushed on a man named Randy, the local contractor, since childhood. Since they run in the same circles, they kind of know each other and consider the other exceedingly annoying. The other girlfriends see a flirtation between the two, and encourage part II woman to date Randy. She eventually sets up a date with Randy and they learn that they love each other. They plan to settle down pretty quickly and build a life together. Part III third girlfriend named Callie is a widow. Because she had been in a long term relationship before and her husband died fairly recently, she was the least interested in the summer sex capade. She runs her own coffee shop and met a lawyer named Jack. They go on to have an adventurous romance with exhibitionism, voyeurism and other forms of light BDSM. Because it is an interracial relationship, the lawyer's boss tries to breakup the couple. But, of course Callie and Jack prevail, he decides to start his own firm and she decides to expand her coffee business. Overall, each woman finds the "love of their life" and we assume the three couples live happily ever after. Please, please help me find this book!

A retelling of the Arthurian Legend YA I read this book in middle school, so around 1996 1998 and I believe it was a new release but I can't be certain. The details are a little fuzzy but it started with Arthur as a child or pre teen. It is a series but I only read the first book, because I had forgotten the title and couldn't find the others. I got it from the library and it was on the "adult" floor and not the "children's" floor. It was on a display which makes me think it was relatively new. I also read it as a hardback but being from the library, they are mostly hardback. And I got The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman at the same time. They were both on the same display at the library. And I think the primary color of the cover was yellow. It is not The Once and Future King. I read that in high school. Thank you, everyone! I'm so glad this sub exists. I've been hunting for this book for decades.

YA book about a high school girl who takes care of her brother and paints I read this book in high school, but I dont remember much. She liked to paint and at one point she painted some mountains. She befriends this older man who helps her. I remember them being kow income. I dont remember if she finished school, she might have painted a mural? And maybe native American or not white? Please help