I read this sometime in the 80s. It was a chapter book, just shy of YA. And it's title was something like "The 45th Thing I Love About Amelia" or "The 45th Best Thing I Love About Anastasia" (wrong number, wrong name). Oh, and at the end, the mom opens a closet door and there's a dead dog inside or something.
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posted by hmo
on May 20, 2013 -
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I've been trying on and off for years to remember this YA book. Actually, I think it might be a series, but maybe not. Details within.
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posted by fozzie_bear
on Jan 25, 2013 -
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What was this young adult (or children's) novel I read about a girl growing up in Appalachia or the Ozarks? It might have actually been two different novels.
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posted by lunasol
on Jan 15, 2013 -
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There is some insane YA trilogy that no one can seem to track down. Anyone here have a clue?
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posted by cereselle
on Dec 17, 2012 -
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Please help me remember the name of a supernatural short story about a boy who buys a ship's figurehead at an auction. Plot summary inside.
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posted by homodachi
on Aug 14, 2012 -
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An editor asked for the full manuscript of my young adult novel. The problem? It isn't finished yet. What do I tell her?
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posted by Shoggoth
on Jun 19, 2012 -
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Help me identify a young adult book I read in the late 70s or early 80s about a boy lost in the wilderness.
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posted by Occula
on May 17, 2012 -
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Do you remember this YA book about two girls from different worlds spending a life-changing summer on the beach together? With a small bit involving Tarot cards? It's not Judy Blume's
Summer Sisters or Francesca Lia Block's
The Hanged Man.
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posted by rhiannonstone
on Nov 17, 2011 -
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Yet another forgotten-book-from-my-youth question. Probably in the early/mid-80s I read a book where there was a device of some sort which could either change the contents of a book or erase it completely. I don't remember the mechanism, but I'm pretty sure that when this device was used, it affected all copies of the book it was being used on, everywhere. So you could change the name of a character in your copy of the book, and in all the libraries across the world, that would now be the character's name. I don't remember if it also affected everyone's memory of the book or not, so that the new name would always have been that character's name.
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posted by hades
on Jan 13, 2011 -
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Help me find the title of this YA book I've been searching for for 30 years! Two female friends time travel back to old New York. Published in the late '60's or early '70's in hardcover. That's all I recall, except that I loved it.
Thanks!
posted by kidelo
on May 28, 2010 -
9 answers
BookFilter: Please help me identify a YA sci-fi book I read as a teenager in the 1980s. Full description inside.
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posted by halfguard
on Apr 1, 2010 -
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I want to promote my Young Adult fantasy novel about Morgan le Fay on the web. The biggest audience should be young women and libraries; Wiccans, medieval re-enactors and King Arthur fans would dig it, too (I hope).
How can I best promote the book myself? What sites and blogs should I contact? Are author's tours effective? What should I definitely put my efforts into and what's not worth my time?
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posted by musofire
on Oct 11, 2009 -
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I am trying to recall a book that was published for twelve-year-old girls in the mid-1980s or earlier; a YA book, I suppose. It was about gymnasts who were anorexic and pushed too hard by their coach. On the cover was a painting or drawing of girls in leotards on a chessboard. It was a wonderful book and I cannot remember its title.
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posted by adamfaux
on Jun 21, 2009 -
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In high school, I read a book that I remember being titled "The Island Girl." It seems like it would be easy to find this book since I have a title, unfortunately, I'm not entirely sure that's the title, and even if it were, there are approximately nine million books named "The Island Girl."
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posted by headspace
on Jun 7, 2005 -
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I have always enjoyed reading the summaries that often appear in the Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data (the small type at the beginning of the book that includes the date of publication, etc.) of books for young people. Just because they're amusing, I'll provide an example:
Poinsettia and the Firefighters by Felicia Bond
Summary: Poinsettia the Pig feels lonely and afraid of the dark until she learns that there is someone else awake and keeping watch all night: the fire fighters.
Why are these summaries there? Why don't books for adults have them?
posted by bubukaba
on Feb 3, 2005 -
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