I just love peculiar stories. Anyone have any suggestions? (No Stephen King. I don't like his work).
The book was probably published in the mid-late 1980s (though possibly a bit earlier) and I found it in my elementary school library in the early-mid 1990s. I was probably about 9-10 at the time. Anyway, the central character is a girl in her early teens or so. She's sent to this castle (?) possibly for an arranged marriage or having been orphaned? She goes out on the grounds (may or may not have been trying to run away) and comes to a fence separating the lawn from a dense forest. She's told that the forest is dangerous and forbidden. So, of course, she goes back later to find a way in. She does find a gate and slips through. When she goes to turn back, the gate is either locked or gone entirely. She ends up meeting a resident of the forest- a goblin or troll of some sort- who she joins up with and they travel through the forest getting into and out of various scrapes. There's a battle with a witch near the end, and the main girl does eventually make it back to the castle. I'm pretty sure there was also a fountain in the forest that was fairly important in the story? Does this sound familiar at all? Please tell me someone remembers this book!
So I can't get this book out of my brain. I read this in the late 80s or so but based on the illustrations and the age of the book itself, I would guess it was published in the 60s. It was a pulpy paperback with I think a white cover and I want to say it was illustrated with slightly cartoonish line art (really reminiscent of the Louis Darling illustrations in early Beverly Cleary books, though I'm sure these weren't done by him). The family is on summer vacation and the 11- or 12-year-old daughter, whose name is Trilby or something close to it (her younger brother can't pronounce that so he calls her "Tilly"), gets lost in the woods (mountains?) with her toddler brother Tommy and their dog Mops. Trilby knows that the locals maintain small cabins throughout the woods that can be used as shelter in case someone gets lost, and she finds one of these, where they spend the night. The cellar is stocked with potatoes that they cook for dinner, and Tommy's put out that there's salt but no butter. After they're found the next day, Tommy is suddenly able to speak in sentences about their adventures where he could previously only put a few words together. When he tells the story of how "Mops walked on the water" (the dog was actually swimming) Trilby is really proud of him and realizes he's no longer a baby. Also, one of the men in the search party introduces himself as the owner of the cabin where they stayed, and Trilby thanks him.
The family might have been staying on a houseboat, but then again that might be a detail I got from some other book. All combinations of the above details, plus or minus "houseboat," have turned up nothing on Google. Hopefully someone else read this at some point and retained some additional details.
and sleep besides each other to be warm and there might have been a construction machine at the start of the book.
I think I read this book when I was around 9, and it was one of the best books I had read back then. I can't remember the title at all although I think it was more than one word. The book cover was blue or gray-white, with a photo of a husky and snow I think. Please helpp
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I know this question was asked before about a year ago, but a lot of people answered in terms of the horror part of the game. I’m more interested in other media holding the same sort of coming of age feeling of this game—like Cather in the Rye if that story was more modern. I love the dialogue and interactions of this game...the characters and their arms quite literally make the game.
I already posted this, but I read on this subreddit that if you get no comments or suggestions to repost your query. Around 2012 to 2013, I read a book, that's most likely a YA or middle school book since I found it in my school's "library", about two tenage boys who stumble upon a camp in the middle of the woods and they see a bonfire with a bunch of men men sitting around it. Then the men proceed to tell them a bunch of tales of random teenagers and children and it's a bit dark, but not too gruesome. One of the stories that I remember vividly is of a girl who is sick and lives with her father, a detail I remember is that she would wake up every morning with blood on her pillow. She sees a bunch of paintings and I think that she has dreams about one painting that has a man in it, and her dreams involve them together romantically. Somehow she meets the painter of these paintings and she makes a wish to him, and her wish is that he paints her in the painting so she can live there forever instead of dying. Eventually, her dad agrees to it and she gets painted inside of the painting, and her story ends with her kissing the guy. I vaguely remember another story about these teenagers in a town who would all go party over by all these rocks and hot springs, and how there's this random girl or entity who would lure boys there and hurt them or something? And I think she would leave their shoes behind? And then I also vaguely remember a story about a girl who was stood up at prom night. The story mostly centered around this camp and these teenage boys listening to all these stories. Honestly, I've searched up this story multiple times in detail and I've never found anything. There was an owl on the cover of the book so I even searched that up too, and nothing. So I doubt anyone knows what this is, but maybe people know better ways to find it? I've found and remembered multiple other stories of my past, but I've been looking for this one for years.
This is all I can remember of a book I started to read 20ish years ago. It was more of a fantasy style and there was multiple protagonists but the guy with the wooden sword is the only one I can recall. And this was only the beginning of the book because I don’t think I finished it. Any help would be awesome because I keep thinking about it for some reason.
I was read this book in 1st grade, so around 7 years old. It’s a collection of stories (which function as chapters) featuring a young girl (Silvia or Cynthia) and her mother who live along in a cottage in the woods.
As mentioned, she has a tiny “nature sister” who lives outside. Her first appearance is warning Sylvia “not that one” when she’s about to step on a broken branch.
Each night before going to bed, Silvia says a prayer, in which she hopes the gnomes will draw a picture for her about her day’s adventure (each story ends with her praying and going to sleep).
Her mother tells her a fable in each story. One fable is about a turnip that wouldn’t let itself be pulled out of the ground. Only when a mouse asked it to did the turnip let itself be pulled. Another fable told to Silvia when she doesn’t want her hair brushed (don’t remember the actual fable)
(Yet another fable is about a bear who turns into a prince by stepping into a hollow tree. The bear is spied on by a fox, who follows the bear-prince into heaven, but is unable to enter the “pearly gates” because he can’t beautifully play the lute.)
In another story Saint Nicholas shows up and reads to Cynthia and her friends all the bad things they’ve done from a book he has, then gives them oranges+ in their shoes as presents.
Sorry for how disorganized this post is, I haven’t thought about this book in years :)
As stated this a novel about feral cat society. Probably between 6th and 8th grade reading level.
What I can remember from this book is that a boy lives in a tribe in a canyon terrain and gets convicted of a crime he didn't do, and gets banished from his tribe. He travels to other tribes that he didn't know existed, such as the river tribe, the mountain tribe and the ocean tribe. The book mainly revolves around one tribe where they use stone tools instead of wood so they are much more successful. He is taken as a prisoner and eventually increases his social status and becomes apprentice to the stone maker. He steals their technology and tries to return to his own tribe to share it with them.
A scene I specifically remember is when he is taken on a hunting trip with the stone tribe, and he is fascinating at how easily they take down a mammoth considering it was thought impossible by his home tribe.
A second perspective is from a girl in his home tribe who becomes apprentice to the witch-doctor.
I remember this being a journey/coming of age book. I am pretty sure it was a series.
I was in my teens when reading this book and it was around 2012/2013. It was fairly new when I was reading it. It was made for my age group at the time. If anyone remembers the name of this series, please let me know! Thanks!
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