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This was a YA book, probably written in the early to mid-1980s. The cover had a dark blue border and a picture of two kids looking frightened and hiding behind a bush, crouched down low. The kids were wearing backpacks and had identical or very similar haircuts, something between a bowl cut and that "curtains" style that was popular in the '90s. I believe one of them was wearing a purple and green striped rugby shirt. A dark figure in the background seemed to be looking for the kids.

I remember very little about the plot. The children were brother and sister (the sister was a little older) and had run away from home together, perhaps because their parents were getting divorced and they didn't want to be split up. I remember them packing supplies in their backpacks, and I think they were planning to live in a public park for a while. The girl may have cut her hair like her brother's, in hopes that anyone looking for them would mistake her for a boy.

If anyone has any idea what book this is, please let me know! Thanks!

Edit: FOUND! The book I was looking for is At the Sound of the Beep, by Marilyn Sachs. The kids are hiding behind a tree, not in a bush, and I don't know where I got that idea about the rugby shirt, but this is definitely the right book. Thanks for your help!

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mirado

Hi, friends!

I'm searching for a book that I believe I read sometime around 2002/2003.
The MC is a young girl (maybe 10 years old? Possibly younger...Wish I remembered more!) with a younger baby brother and a mentally ill mother. The MC is always looking out for her brother and taking abuse from the mother in attempts to shield the little boy.

At some point the MC goes to the house of one of the mother's ex-boyfriends, she feels somewhat safe there. The mother's ex is sympathetic, and I think he tries to help/protect/support the kids. Legally, he has no power to help.

One scene that stands out in my memory: The mother is driving with the girl in the front seat and the baby boy asleep in the backseat. The mother intentionally drives in the wrong lane, heading for oncoming traffic and refuses to go back into her lane. She demands that the MC first say "I love you." The MC does to protect her brother.

The kids are separated later in the story. The mother takes the baby and leaves the girl (maybe with an aunt? Or the mother's ex). There is an effort to find the mother and baby boy, and I think the two ended up hiding in a boatyard with the mother's sketchy new boyfriend.

I will be so grateful if anyone can help me!
Thank you!

mzi

I don’t remember much but I do remember it being on cassettes and a brother and sister who wrote and illustrated awful stories that their parents hated, they use the bedroom wall as paper and their parents send them to a school for troubled children that has tornados around it so they have to wear cement shoes when they walk around the school
Please if anyone knows it, please let me know! It’s been driving me crazy for years

scifigrl0

I read this book about 15-20 years ago.In the book the present is about two guys and a girl who are suppose to be long lost siblings.The two guys where left with there dad by there mom who had the girl years after that.I don't remember much about why they where meeting or what happens execept that the guys start to have feelings towards the girl and her for one of them.which is a result of a family curse placed in the past.

Which the book shows is about a girl who I think was a gypse.Who fell for the son of a family she was staying with. And became pregnant. She was already suppose to marry someone from her people and when they found out they tried to kill her but she killed him.The guy she was in love with came to get her and took the blame and was put to death and the girl went and had her baby with his family after being cursed by her people.She also had a cat that I belive was on the cover of the book.I thought the title was something to do with cat eyes but I have not been able to find anything with that name like what I'm looking for.

faz_rach_92

I read a book a couple of years ago (2016-ish) and cant remember the title for the life of me.

It was about a girl whose younger brother goes missing during her childhood. He was a bright boy and a bit strange, always drawing something (I think it was a map or a maze)
The book follows her through several stages of her life, from the 1970s/80s in her childhood to an imagined near future when she is a grandmother.

I cant remember any characters names or even much of the plot but a few scenes and details stick out.

She runs away from home and gets a job picking fruit at a farm. There's a boy on a bike who she has a romantic link with, they sleep in a barn one night.

There's a moment where she sees a woman fishing on a dock by a canal and she draws something in the dust, it becomes significant much later in the book when some time travel elements come into play.

She witnesses a horrible double murder but gets her memory wiped.

There's a secret society that was involved in the vanishing of her brother. I think her actual brother died very early on and one of its members came to use his body.

she gets married to bike boy and they have children who have children.

In the closing chapters she's raising her grandchildren in a dystopian Ireland where Global resources are running out and society has regressed. the secret society save the children but the whole think is pretty bleak.

I read it in Australia but I think it's set in the UK. I always thought it was Labyrinth by Kate Mosse but having recently got that book and read it i realised its completely different and I'm now very confused.
Please Help.

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marleybear

I read this book in about 2013, though I’m not sure what year it was released or the publisher. All I remember is that the cover was white and grey, like monochrome, and all you saw was a road, a blurred out figure and sort of mist/fog/blur.
The premise of it was that this teenage boy (16-18) goes out to find his missing/dead sister. He also had a brother who I believe had something to do with her disappearance. There’s a part in the story where the boy gets into a fight with two older men, and I believe that when the brother shows up? Those are about all the details I can remember, but I do remember I loved this book, and have wanted to find it with no luck for months! Any help is super appreciated!! <3

trbpc

I read this book when I was in elementary school in the US in California. I think it was required reading.
It was about two siblings sold/given by their parents to slavers, sec trafficking, etc. Not sure if it was a sister and brother or two sisters. Possibly set in Vietnam or other early 1900s run down country. Was told from older siblings point of view.
I can't remember really solid details about it so hopefully someone knows it. Thanks!

elizabeth_downey

Help me, please!

I read this book in the mid-early 2000's and cannot remember the title or author. I remember that it was about a teenager who moves and lives in a little bungalow/shack over the water and there is a surfer who sleeps on her roof because he is homeless. They are pretty close in age. They befriend each other and later they realize that he is her long-lost brother who was kidnapped when they were young. It mentions a red ball from their childhood, which is one of his only childhood memories. This girl also dates a super wealthy boy from across the pier and one of her friends struggles with anorexia.

I know that all makes no sense, which is why I can't find it.

Help me figure this out PLEASE!

weber_dubois22

I originally posted this question on the

whatwasthatbook community, but, assuming this is a carry over of that com, it doesn't look like any of the original posts were imported here, so I'll re-post it here. I'm not certain I ever got an answer there.

A long time ago there was this picture book I read as a kid that for some reason remains stuck in my head. It's about an older sister who has to deal with who I think is her newborn sister and her worn out parents. There's a side-story about her desire to become a grown up and wanting a pair of shoes from the shoe store she can't quite fit into yet because her feet are too small and she hasn't had a growth spurt.

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ramos4

Hi all,

I'm looking for an ebook I read many years back (~2009-2011) about a tycoon/billionaire/successful type-A man whose fiance/wife has gone missing (I think she left him or ran away for reasons I can't remember). He's looking for her but finds her lookalike half-sister (not twin) instead and I don't think he believes her at first when she's trying to tell him that she's not his fiance/wife.

He takes her for revenge and sees there's chemistry and passion between them. The wrong woman (the half-sister) is innocent and a contrast to her sister, who only got together with the male protagonist for money. We find out the other woman would stay with the half-sister whilst she was getting abortions, but there was no children between the couple. The male protagonist eventually believes the woman is the half-sister and reveals he first saw the half-sister first and fell in love/lust but got together with the other woman because he thought they were the same person. The male protagonist and half-sister get together in the end.

I remember a part of the book where the protagonists go to a party together where people mistake the woman for her half-sister, and maybe it's here the two sisters have a confrontation.

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

peter_j_m

So I read this book a while ago back it 7th or 8th grade, it was about this demonic carnival that they got sucked into. The book starts with these group of teenagers at the local carnival and I remember the main character has a younger brother who had a hat that had the middle finger and the younger brother loved the hat. The only other major part of the book I remember is while in the demonic carnival the main character finds himself in this mirror maze, where if you walk into a mirror you actually walk through it and the mirror changes you and if you walk through too many you bring to turn into a hideous monster. Which that what happens to his girlfriend. That's really all I can remember besides I think the book was call Thrill Ride, but I can't find anything like it online. Hope someone can help me out!

sketchpadnc

I'm looking for help with the name of a book I read in the late 80's. The main characters were a brother and sister that discovered the often used "this could change everything" thing. Gene mods were a large part of the book as many characters were adapted to life in space... The brother had three arms but I dont recall the sisters.

I do recall that the brother played guitar. There was one point where he was playing a jam session and the lead singer was ripping up his throat trying to sing "half cord" or "off cord". That's about all I recall and I know its not much but any help will be appreciated. It's driving me crazy that I cant recall the name.

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Entries tagged with cat: siblings

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