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If no one minds, here’s another one that I’ve been completely unable to find over the last few months; this one particularly annoys me because I thought it would have been an easy question! :)

Here’s what I wrote:

“I'm sure this is an easy one, but I don't exactly have many leads, so…

“I remember reading (at Borders!--how I miss those stores) a Goosebumps-like book—possibly also by R.L. Stine—in which a young boy, the narrator, is transported to an alternate universe that is exactly like ours except for a few minor alterations (e.g., he takes karate lessons in the alternate world--I'm fairly sure I remember that), so he doesn't realize that it's an alternate world at first.

“At the end, he has to confront his own alternate-universe counterpart, and (here's the requisite Goosebumps-style twist) he finds out that he can't actually leave the universe, or something like that. Cue horror for the narrator. I know for a fact it's not Stine's Don't Go to Sleep!, which also involves alternate universes, and I don't think it's a Goosebumps book, merely something similar.

“Thanks!”

Now, for all I know, it could have been a Goosebumps book and I was just misremembering, as I’ve been utterly unable to find it. Thank you all very much.

findmethisbook

I once read a book 4-6 years ago. It was not new at the time, however I do not know how old it was, either. It wasn't too large, maybe a centimeter and a half thick. It wasn't all that hard either, you could just get through it easily. But I found myself liking the book. However, I have no idea what it was called nor who the author was.
Firstly, I can describe how the book's cover looked. It had the three siblings in the front. One in the middle and two on each side of him. Two boys and one girl. A boy in the middle, who I assume to be the eldest of the three, had blonde hair and a red scarf that covered his mouth. I do not know how the other two children looked(they were all ages 10-14 or something, I think). The background before them was mixes between light grey and dark grey. There were probably designs of trees in the back, but I really do not know.
The plot is something I can hardly grasp. I'll explain it the best I can, though. I know that the three siblings had lost their mother and I think lived with their single father. The eldest son lost his ability to speak at age 8, when their mother died. Also, I don't know if the mother died or disappeared. I think she died, though.Then, the brothers and sister went on adventures??? For a reason I cannot recall??? And then something about a middle-eastern prince or princess. Maybe they were middle-eastern. I don't remember, really.
Please, I would really appreciate it if someone were to help me with what this book is called! I would be extremely thankful. Thanks for reading this, if you did.

pond888

3 different protags (1 for each book). The first book followed a teenage boy in our world who then woke up in a different universe. He woke up to hugging a dragon's claw. From then on, it expanded on the universe, which included the kingdom being ruled by King ____ who was worshipped as a god. This king was not a physical person apparently. He kinda was a god. People who believed in the King had blue eyes. This kingdom was in conflict with another force in a different part of the land, whose people believed in someone else. Their eyes were the color red. The "someone else" used to be a devout follower of the King ____, but ended up betraying the King (Lucifer-style) and was cast out of the kingdom couple hundred years prior to the story. For some reason, there are 7 white fountains, except one of them was burnt and black. Anywaaaay, the story continues on and the protag ended up saving his friends by sticking fireflies onto these bulls' head, causing the enemy to mistake the glowing light for an army that was carrying torches in the night.

I remember that there was a distinct line that was something like, "Everybody is born with a twin." The two worlds, ours and the fantasy world, each had the same person, but a different side to them. When the main protag from the first book arrived in the fantasy universe, the fantasy universe's twin disappeared to our world because...I don't really know. They never meet each other.

The last book featured a war, and the "bad" or red side ended up invading the kingdom. So around the end of the book, everyone died at the hand of the person who betrayed the King, but the protags who died were reborn again into the afterlife. The "everybody has a twin" aspect of the book comes back again and shows that in the afterlife, they were "merged" into the same person.

Some other details:

the first book was published in blue/purple ink, the second book was published in green ink, and the last in red ink

I think the author was male

the people in the book who didn't pick a side had green eyes

I think the duo-protagonist (she never got her own book, but was there with the boy in the first book) was named Gwennifer or Gwenevieve.

I'm sorry that it's missing all the important parts that are needed to find the books. I hope that someone here knows the books I'm talking about. I tried googling, reddit search, amazon. Nada. I can't believe I remember everything else about the series, but not the titles, names, or the name of the kingdom even.

devildog2901

Although I read this book in my elementary school, I believe its demographic was that of teenagers. The details that I am about to list are very vague and I apologize for that but its been 7 years since I read this book and my memory of subject is very hazy.

The genre as listed in the subject is Fantasy
I read it around 2011, but the publish date was most likely well before then

details that are still lingering in my memory are that i believe it was about 3-5 teens or young adults on a "quest" in search of magical "artifacts" or items. I don't remember if these items had any sentimental value of the characters or played a part in the history of the characters. With searching for magic items, enemies are usually in pursuit and this is no different, for the duration of their journey they are followed by not so friendly people and attacked by pirates when on a bout at some point in the story.

At least one character was a male and 1 female, the other characters i am unsure.

At the time of me reading the story, it was a hard back book.

Thick chapter book from what I can remember.

Rectangular shape

the cover, if i'm not mistaken had circles on the front of it with the gems or magical items they were looking for.

Four gems possibly red, blue, green, and yellow or some other final color.

I apologize again for providing very little detail and quite vague details of the ones provided. I have been stuck searching for this book for a long time so if anyone can help find this book I would really appreciate it. Thanks to anyone willing to help.

nalkarj

Hi, everyone—

New here. I’ve been trying to find this story for a while, to no avail; I wonder if anyone here would be interested.

(I previously found another children’s spooky story, Janni Lee Simner’s “Drawing the Moon,” with the help of one of these communities, but unfortunately this one has been more difficult.)

This story might have been in one of those Bruce Coville collections [in which I had previously found “Drawing the Moon”], but I'm not completely sure; the tone doesn't seem like the stories collected in one of those. I really hated this story as a child and probably would not want to read it even now—it's absurdly mean-spirited, to say the least, for a children's story—but I'd just like to know what it is to assuage the memory.

The plot (SPOILERS) is like this: the protagonist is a young girl—I have no idea what her name was, but let's say it was something like “Janie.”

Well, one day Janie discovers there is a community of fairies that live in the woods near her house. She enters the fairyland--plays and dances and dines with the fairies, all the sort of thing mythology advises not to do, etc.

Now, Janie has read mythology and fairy tales and regrets consuming fairy-food, for she knows she'll be forced to stay in fairyland. At the last moment, though, she manages to escape, coming to a realization that it is better to stay with parents who love her.

This is where we would expect the story to end, but Janie rushes back home and is so happy to see her mom and dad. That night, she goes to bed, but she wakes up in the middle of the night, thirsty, and goes downstairs to get a drink of water. On the stairs, she hears her parents saying something like this:

"Boy, Janie's really boring, isn't she?"

"Oh, yeah. I wish we'd never had her. What a brat."

Janie rushes out of the house, crying, and goes back to rejoin the fairies.

Yes, this was a remarkably mean-spirited children's story that bothered me--as you can tell from "Drawing the Moon," my library had the most unusual collections of children's stories, some of which were probably inappropriate for the age group.

OK, so does anyone know this story?

Thanks in advance!

rrenaud

Main character is a boy.
Fantasy novel.
The boy is forced to leave his home for some reason and goes to the forest. There is a druid/wizard character there that might take him on as an apprentice. There are a few others there doing the same thing. They are all give challenges (none of which I remember) in order to weed out those not suited/worthy. At one point the boy might get stuck in a grave. Anyway, the end of the story is the boy figuring out the last challenge. It’s a riddle carved on a tree. There’s a picture in the novel and it looks like Celtic tree script. The solution is to read it upside down. He wins and gets to study magic.

There’s only one book, it’s not a series as far as I know.

I read the book in the earlier 2000s.

The cover I think had a silhouette running across it

ben_kar

I read a review on that book about 2 years ago. I remember that it was compared to "The house of leaves" by Danilievsky. The book was written in English. I don't know much about its plot, but it's a mysterious story about a village in Japan where old people disappear with no traces. This book was highly praised.

That's not much information but I hope I could find this story.

Thank you in advance!

tsukishima_shizuku

I read this book in elementary school in the mid-90s in USA and I believe it was fairly newly published at the time. It was a middle-grade chapter book with a blue cover.

I don't remember a lot about it but parts of it were told from the point of view of a dolphin (or some type of cetacean) undergoing intelligence testing. Then at some point the dolphin might have escaped from captivity. That's all I remember...

littlestclouds

I've been trying to remember the title of this old book but I can't think of it, for the life of me. It had illustrations of clothing/accessories/etc. from ancient dress (the illustrations of Egyptian fashion were done to resemble hieroglyphics) up to the "current" time period of the latest edition I remember reading (I want to say at least the '50s, possibly '60s-'70s and it may have been updated since). I've looked on Amazon but none of the books I looked at quite ping my memory. It might have had "encyclopedia" somewhere in the title.

Current Mood: curious

shadowstep25

It’s set in another world on a farm or ranch where they raise dragons. When a group of dragons was about to hatch the main protagonist, a young boy steal one of the eggs and hides it then makes a mini farm with some type of firegrass that dragons eat but if humans touch directly it burns them. Later in the story it’s found out that he stole the dragon, and I think some other child was introduced as well, they were then hunted by the people who owned the ranch. The dragon got injured but they got away. However the nights on that planet are extremely cold so the dragon which was dying made a choice a cut open it’s stomach so the children cold hide from the cold. The book ends with the children coming out of the stomach and finding out that the dragons blood changed them.

This is all I can remember about the book. If you know or can find out the name of the book or author then I thank you deeply for the help.

tokyoghoul504

So i'm trying to find a book about a prince(i think) and he was and secretly in love with his sister. So his dad tells him later on that he isn't actually her brother and i think he thinks that the dad actually knows that he loves her and i'm pretty sure the dad doesn't like him or the other way around. He confess his love to her later on in her bedroom but she rejects him and i think he heads off to war after that or something. Also i think it is set in like a mediveal time. That's all i could remember from that book but if anybody can tell me thank you in advance.

tokyoghoul504

So these merchant people find a girl and she has snake skin on her stomach and so they cut it off or use magic to get rid of it. In the book she is like 18 and she can taste the air just like a snake. She is also about ti inherit some kind of merchant caravan or something. There is also these snake people who sacrifice people to this huge monster or huge serpent in a huge dark hole. I think the girl gets kidnapped later on by them. There is also a character who is i think a witch or something but nobody can remember unless she wants them to or shows herself but i think the girl can remember her or can always find her but i'm not entirely sure about that. I read this book maybe 4 years ago maybe more and i think on the cover she is on it with a forest behind her but im also not entirely sure about that either.

mcsquid

Hello,

I remember reading this book about a teenage boy who is an assassin but doesn't know it until some major event happens at his house which causes him to go on the run from the organization that trained him. Most significant things i remember is that he could heal quickly, at one point in the book he breaks back into his house i think and gets a large shard of glass in his arm; but when he removes it there's not blood, he just notices that underneath his skin in this layer of gray skin. He's a good fighter, i believe later in the series he has a hideout near a train station with a female accomplice? I know that there are other assassins that are like him who are brought into the series, one of those are brought in to kill him and is equal to the hero, thus being his "evil counterpart." I believe they end up fighting and the hero throws the counterpart into a shredder or something at a farm i think? It takes place in modern times, pretty sure Europe? maybe the UK, pretty populated area, he runs through a park at some point while being chased.

Sorry if the details aren't the best, its been awhile. But any help would be AWESOME, Thank you!

sschoenthaler

Hi All. Funny how the brain works. Randomly thought of this book when my fiance and I were talking about cool books we read in high school!

So what I CAN tell you about this book.

• It was made between 2007-2010 (I read in HS)
• It had to be young adult.
• Fantasy book.
• They could shape shift, into big cats.
• I DON'T recall it being a series....however I could very well be wrong.

Where it gets wishy-washy with my memory:

I believe the story had a plot similar to a girl can shape shift into a large cat of some sort. So can an "attractive guy" that could also shape shift. I believe he either asked her or captured her to live with him in a huge house (or castle). I vaguely remember this place having a large garden and they spent some time bonding and getting to know each other in the garden. I remember the guy being some what of a jerk but kind of a soft guy at the same time.

As all young adult books go - I'm sure there was some type of love triangle going on. I sort of remember there being something like that in this book.

ANYTHING in the right direction would be GREATLY appreciated. As I'm pretty sure I'm wearing out google by searching everything I can think of.... LOL

Current Mood: exhausted

k_j

Hi, I have been trying to find a book I read maybe 10-12 years ago. I loved it and have been wanting to reread it, but can not remember the name and can't find it at all. It was about a magician or illusionist who is grieving his girlfriend who died. But then one day he sees her alive at a train station (I think it was a train station) and the story takes off from there. I don't remember a lot of details, just the basic plot and that I really enjoyed it. This was an adult fiction novel. Thanks in advance for any help with this! So hoping to finally find it.

sharkgirl7

I read this series in the 90s. The lead character is a girl. She's "seduced" I guess by some creature, not sure if he is a vampire. She discovers he's interested in her because she was born on the 12th stroke of midnight. She has a birth Mark or some such thing on her hand or wrist that tingles when he wants her to visit him. I'm not sure if there's caverns or something below her house but I remember she feels weak down there and he's strong. There's at least three books.

nasnan

So I read this book, or maybe short story when I was in elementary school I believe - so early 90's.

So what I remember is the main character talking to two ghosts about how they died. One is a man who was in a war (revolutionary I think?). He was a message carrier, so he walked with a white flag and wasn't shot at bc of this. He gets a pebble in his shoe and puts the flag down to take it out, and as he does this one of the soldiers from the other side attacks him and cuts his head off with a bayonette. There was also an illustration of his head sitting on the table the first time the character meets him.

The second ghost is a young girl who drowned. She is described by the main character as wearing a long necklace at first glance, but upon further inspection she is soaking wet and has waterlilles tangled around her neck. She was on a boat going down a river, imagining that a handsome man would come out on the deck and speak to her. She says the thought is so romantic that she leaned back against the railing to look up at the stars. When she's telling this part of the story she hesitates, and the headless ghost chuckles at her and says "go on, (female ghosts name I can't remember - Ellie? Bessie?") tell him." She then stamps her foot and tells how the railing had been taken down for repair earlier in the day and not put back up, so she fell into the river. Then and she says something like "I didn't know how to swim back then - no real lady did - so all those skirts soaked up the water and I drowned."

Other than this scene, I have no idea what the rest of the book was about. Why is this kid meeting ghosts? Why are the ghosts in the same place? It's driving me bonkers and any help would be appreciated!!

pinkalienfred

I am trying to find a book I read when I was a young teen, that I found in the teen section of my local library. This would have been 1999-2005 era, though the book may have been published before that. It was a fantasy novel taking place in another world, and the societies involved were more of a desert tribal people. There were a male and female protagonist, and it was a love story. In my recollections, I am not sure how much this was actually appropriate for a young reader, as I recall their being some very dark and near death scenes. There was magic, but not a flashy spell casting kind, and their was a romance between the protagonists (who were either older teens or young adults). I want to say one of them was cursed, and there were scenes where they separated due to misunderstandings (some cultural) and they definitely had to overcome societal/magical/warring clans to come together. I of course remember no ones name, nor the title...

can anyone help??

vanzimme

i started reading a book but only got a few pages in but now i can't find/remeber the book.
the first few pages are basically as follows.

A rich man finds that his two best friends have lied/cheated behind his back and he has been living in a delusion of his life for some time. He thus decides on the spur of the moment to go to his family's personal island since it will be empty. he is very morose duringt his time. the book has him sitting on the beach just taring out. he thinks the island is deserted except for him but then there is a woman who is watching him from the grass a ways of.

this all is within the first 1-3 chapters i believe. Hope someone can help as this is eating my mind that i cannot figure out what book this is.
thanks

snaregirl

I read this book a couple of years ago and I think it's YA. It's about a teenage girl who tries to steal gold from a building with the help from her techy guy friend. I remember that she had to coat herself in something cold so she wouldn't be detected by the security cameras. At the end, the gold was at the top of the building. I think "heist" was in the title, but I'm not too sure. Thanks

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