Jean Fritz, The Cabin Faced West Jean Fritz, The Cabin Faced West, This book is The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz. Ann Hamilton, living on Hamilton Hill in the western counties of Pennsylvania, is joined by her mother one afternoon for a tea party when she expected to be scolded for taking the dishes.

She later meets George Washington and his party, and they join the Hamiltons for a meal. RobinsonWhen Marnie Was There, I loved this book, too, and just recently purchased it. So glad I could help! K4 sounds like Caddie Woodlawn to me.

Caddie is a Wisconsin tomboy ofbased on the real life adventures of Brink's grandmother. It won the Newberry Medal of I hope this might help you. I noticed that Magical Melons has been retitled Caddie Woodlawn's Family. I hope you can get it in case others want this sequel which has the same feel as the original. Macmillan,printing. Not much help, maybe, but I definitely remember Big Bird singing a song called "Everybody makes mistakes" on Sesame Street in the s.

It could well be part of an album. I don't know but the Let Your Daddy Sleep on Sunday Morning sounds very Shel Silverstein. Free to be you and me. Your comments reminded me of this anthology that had a tape as well as a video-very likely a book to go along. It featured celebrities doing songs and dialogue. Lane; All About the Starsby Anne Terry White; All About Whalesby Roy Chapman Andrews; All About the Wonders of Chemistryby Ira M.

Freeman, All About the Jungleby Armstrong Sperry; All About Prehistoric Cave Menby Sam and Beryl Epstein; All About the Ice Ageby Patricia Lauber; All About Archaeologyby Anne Terry White, published by Random House, for ages I used to listen to a record album with a calendar on the front jacket that told stories meant to teach values, morals, etc.

One of the songs was "Let Your Daddy Sleep on Sunday Morning"another was "Your Mouth Is a House Where Your Teeth All Live". Another segment told the story of the Tortoise and the Hare. I do not remember a Book along with it, but I listened to the album every day of my life from or so. I would love to find a copy of this album for my own children! Sorry, don't have the title of the book, but I can help the person looking for the album.

It's called A Calendar Of Happy Thoughts: Maybe you can use this info to find it on Ebay, etc. Selma Rich Brody, A Calendar of Happy Thoughts. This LP was a favorite of mine as a child. I still have the original jacket and the LP What I wouldn't give for a copy!

Selma Rich Brody supplied vocals, Fred Mendolsohn provided musical arrangements. Tinkerbell Records is listed on the back of the jacket, as well as Ambassador Record Corp at Komorn St. The Reverse Lookup Directory did not confirm this as a valid address. In fact I found no information on either of these companies.

Ebay searches have proved futile, as well as searches for Selma and Fred themselves. The original Ambassador Record Corp is defunct and I assume Tinkerbell Records is defunct also, since I cannot find any information on them whatsoever. After reading the information on your site, I searched for Peter Pan Records as well, with the same results, unfortunately.

Any ideas how to contact either Ms. Mendelsohn directly or even indirectly?? It looks like there are quite a few of us who would love to have that LP again.

Maybe one of them could help. And wouldn't a CD be fantastic!?? Peter Pan Records, Ambassador Records still exist! For the record, Peter Pan Records, Ambassador Records and Tinkerbell Records all became Peter Pan Industries for the last 35 years or so. All the music of "growing up with Peter Pan" is going to be released under Peter Pan Music Publishing - a Division of the Inspired Corporation. You may find some of the tracks you are looking for at our new site, www.

Elizabeth George Speare, Calico Captive. I'm certain this is Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare. It's still in print and available everywhere Elizabeth George Speare, Calico Captive This is Calico Captive by the two time Newbury Award winning Elizabeth George Speare Young Miriam Willard, on a day that had promised new happiness, finds herself instead a captive on a forest trail, caught up in the ebb and flow of the French and Indian War.

It is a harrowing march north. Miriam can only force herself to the next stopping place, the next small portion of food, the next icy stream to be crossed.

At the end of the trail waits a life of hard work and, perhaps, even a life of slavery. Mingled with her thoughts of Phineas Whitney, her sweetheart on his way to Harvard, is the crying of her sister's baby, Captive, born on the trail. Miriam and her companions finally reach Montreal, a city of shifting loyalties filled with the intrigue of war, and here, by a sudden twist of fortune, Miriam meets the prominent Du Quesne family, who introduce her to a life she has never imagined.

Based on an actual narrative diary published inCalico Captive skillfully reenacts an absorbing facet of history. Elizabeth George Speare, Calico Captive One of my favorites! Elizabeth George Spear, Calico Captive. I knew this book the second I read the description, definately one of my favorites. Here is the product description: In the yearthe stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, is shattered by the terrifying cries of an Indian raid.

Mingled with her thoughts of Phineas Whitney, her sweetheart on his way to Harvard, is the crying of her sister"s baby, Captive, born on the trail. This is still in print! They were taken from their home, forced to march through the wilderness to the north, and sold to the French in Montreal, where they were held for ransom.

Years later, when she was nearly seventy years old, Susanna Johnson wrote an account of this journey, and it is from her narrative that the main events of this story are taken. Captured with Susanna and her family was a younger sister, Miriam Willard.

Her imagined adventures, as they might have happened, are recounted here. After the Indian raid, Susanna gives birth to a fourth child, a girl, and names her Captive. The three older children are taken from Susanna, but Polly runs away and is permitted to return. According to the Epilogue, " Sylvanus [became] a wild young savage who could brandish a tomahawk and bend a bow but could not understand a word of English" and little Susanna became "a fine-mannered and fashionable young lady who could speak nothing but French and could never forget her deep affection for the two kindly women" who adopted her.

Elizabeth Speare, Calico Captive It's been a long time since I read this but I think it is Calico Captive. The seamstress is Miriam and her sister is Susanna and their family gets captured by Indians and sold in Canada. They are eventually reunited after many hardships.

Burton, Virginia Lee, Calico, the Wonder Horse or The Saga of Stewy Stinker, reprnt. I'm pretty sure this is the one you want. The drawing of the mustached outlaw falling into the cacti is on p. The Calico Year A woman dates a man named Ritchie.

This woman later finds that she has more in common with another boy. I think this was a teen-romance type of story. Dorothy Gilman Butters, The Calico Year This is definitely The Calico Year. A young debutante takes her younger sister out of boarding school, and they go to live together in a house left to them by an uncle.

The older girl has a charming boyfriend named Richie who is good for little but charm. She falls for the young doctor I think in the town. They do a lot of things to raise money--fix up boats to rent out, sell antiques, and a local dealer not Richie's mother takes advantage of their ignorance and buys a valuable table for a pittance.

Dorothy Gilman Butters, The Calico Year. Yes, I agree that this is The Calico Year. Thank you so much! I remember the author's last name being near the the front of the alphabet, based upon where I remember this book being shelved in the library. Actually, Dorothy Gilman Butters wrote the Mrs. Pollifax stories using just the name of Dorothy Gilman. Stella Pevsner, Call Me Heller, That's My Name. Certainly it a perfect match. Carole Bolton, The Callahan Girls, Maybe - The Callahan Girls by Carole Bolton, The other title I found is That Callahan Spunk, later published as That Callahan Blood, which takes place on the Montana frontier inso I don't think that's the one you're looking for.

This looks good though I wouldn't mind a better blurb: Wyndham, Lee Camel Bird Ranch NY Dodd, Mead"story for young adult readers about an ostrich ranch. About an ostrich farm in California inherited by a New Jersey girl, most of the book about the farm but ends with the shooting of a Hollywood movie. Grey, Camping Adventure Jean Slaughter Doty, Can I Get There By Candlelight?

Doty, Jean Slaughter, Can I Get There By Candlelight. Gail is riding her horse when she goes back in time. This is Can I Get There by Candlelight? The title comes from a classic children's rhyme: Three score and ten.

Can I get there by candlelight? Yes, and back again. If your feet are nimble and light, you can get there by candlelight.

Sadly out of print, but there are copies around used, both in the paperback you remember, and in hardcover, which was illustrated by Ted Lewin.

Jean Slaughter Doty, Can I Get There by Candlelight? This is certainly the same book. Wonderful read, seems to be out of print though. A girl's family rents an old carriage house in the country one summer. She is riding in the woods on her horse Candlelight and is transported back in time where she meets a girl who used to live in the country estate.

The book quotes a Mother Goose rhyme: Three score miles and ten. I think this is Ruth Arthur, Candle in Her Room Atheneum, ' A Candle in Her Room. This scared the snot out of me. I don't like evil doll stories, and Dido, for all she never had a line of dialog or made a visible motion, was as evil as they come. D20 is definitely by Ruth M.

Arthur remember the author but not the title. All of her books have a dark supernatural feeling. Thanks to your assistant detectives again! I have posted about 5 book descriptions, and have now thought of more. I will be so happy if even a couple of them are found for me! This one is about two sisters who find a doll with the word "DIDO" carved on its back.

It ends up being pretty evil, and makes bad things happen until one sister has the guts to destroy it, in a fire I think. Also, one of the sisters becomes paralyzed, but heals at some point.

I will also keep looking for you all, and hope I will be able to solve one of your book mysteries! Briony is either Dilys mother or vice versa and Rees is a young man one of them met. The daughter is an orphan who comes to stay in this house. She occasionally visits a cove and watches seals and I believe met Rees there.

She is uncovering dark secrets in the house where she's staying, dealing with the past and the story seems to be a dark coming of age type. I don't know the author or title. I read the stumper for Candle in Her Room by Ruth M. Arthur and this seems very close, but the stumper didn't mention the character's I remember. The story was written sometime afterbut before Any help would be greatful.

Ruth Arthur, A Candle in Her Room. This has got to be A Candle in Her Room. Dilys is Judith's daughter, not Briony's Melissa, Briony and Judith are sisters and the house is in Wales, on the coast. Dily's meets and marries a man, but I think his name is Bron or Bran, not Reese. Dilys has a daughter named Nina, and it is with Nina that the story ends. I read it quickly and lent it to my sister.

Ruth Arthur, Candle in her room. I looked at a copy of this book and all three names are in it. Dilys is one of the narrators, and both Briony and Rees are mentioned in the text. NY Atheneum Arthur, Ruth M. I'm sure I'm not the only one to answer this. A Candle in Her Room takes place on the Welsh coast, over a couple of generations.

The characters match up. The first part is narrated by Melissa Mansell, whose sisters are Briony and Judith. Their maid is Emmy Lee, and it is Emmy who loves Rees, but Rees loves Melissa. Judith uses the powers of the doll Dido to cripple Melissa and take her fiance Carew away.

Part two is narrated by Dilys, the child of Judith and Carew, who learns about some of Judith's plotting. Dilys marries Bronislav, a young Pole, and goes to Poland with him just before WWII begins. Part three is Melissa again, as she recovers her ability to walk so that she can go to Europe and find Dilys' child. Part four is narrated by Nina, Dilys' daughter found in a refugee camp, who finds the doll Dido again and finally deals with her.

This is most definitely A Candle in Her Room. There are three sisters Melissa, Judith and Briony. Rees is Meliisa's boyfriend but Judith steals him away and marries him.

Their daughter is Dilys and her daughter is Nina. It is a horror novel about a lonely child named Bryna who finds a doll, and it becomes her friend. The doll is evil and as Bryna grows up, the doll somehow takes her over. Bryna was an overwieght child and the doll makes her lose weight and she becomes very attractive, and the doll takes control of Bryna's body and takes her out into the world where she is involved in Tantric sex.

I want to say the doll was possessed by some kind of Hindu goddess It had something to do with Tantra and Hinduism. By the end of the book the doll has taken her over almost completely and has even committed murder. I think the doll was trying to kill Bryna so her spirit could live in Bryna's body.

I know it sounds kind of wierd, but I read this book around when I was in high school and would like to read it again. The book I read was a paperback and at the time it had a dark cover I think black with the outline of a child's facial profile.

If you can come up with any suggestions for the title of this book I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks for your help. I don't remember any tantric sex in Saul books, but I do recall a Saul story in which a child's doll gets her to commit murders or something along those lines.

The cover for the book The Unwanted sounds like the cover you describe. It is not the John Saul book - I have all of his books and have read them all. It's a smaller book, probably written in the 80's. Thanks for trying though!

Illustrated by Margery Gill. Ex-library copy with usual markings, library bound in green buckram. Mabel Esther Allen, A Candle in her Room. Was the doll's name Dido? If so, it might be A Candle in her Room It sounds something like "A Candle in her Room," but that is a fairly long girl's fantasy novel and it is about three generations of women in a family who are tragically affected by the influence of an evil doll named Dido.

Ruth Mabel Arthur, A Candle in Her Room. Do you remember if it was a wooden doll named Dido? If so, it's "A Candle in Her Room" by Ruth Mabel Arthur. I don't remember any other details about the book, except that it was so chilling and evil that I almost didn't want to finish it and I loved scary books!

Mabel Esther Allen, A Candle in her RoomWas the doll's name Dido? Friermood, Elisabeth Hamilton, Candle in the Sun I don't have a description, but Friermood usually writes young adult historical fiction with a bit of romance thrown in. Elisabeth Hamilton Friermood, Candle in the Sun I have this book! This is a book with a collection of stories or poems, probably written in the 's or earlier. The 'candy man ' story went on to describe the many kinds of candy and goodies he carried on his candy wagon.

The verse about the Candy Man was written by May Carleton Lord. The other verses in this booklet are: The illustrations are by Kathaarine R. I'm so happy to have found the book after all these years. A Cap for Mary Ellis. I only know the one book in the series--it's about Mary Ellis Stebbins beginning her nursing training. Hope Newell, A Cap for Mary Ellis Hope Newell, Mary Ellis series.

This could be it, although the name is different than the person remembers. Hope this is it! Mary Ellis has a brother whose stage name is Steppin' Stebbins, so this may be a possibility. There's also a sequel, Mary Ellis, Student Nurse This stumper is definitely the Mary Ellis books by Hope Newell.

There are two-- A Cap for Mary Ellis and Mary Ellis, Student Nurse Mary Ellis' full name is Mary Ellis Stebbins.

Her nickname in nursing school is Tater. I first came across this story as Coat of Rushes in an anthology called My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales retold by Roger Lancelyn Green which I was given on my 7th birthday. It probably appears in various other fairy tale books too. In some versions the girl makes a coat of rushes or donkeyskin to wear and this acts as a disguise from her father.

There is a version of the story called Deerskinby Robin McKinley. Jaffe, Nina, The Way Meat Loves Salt, A Cinderella Tale From the Jewish Tradition, This might not be the same exact one that the requester posted since that was in the 70's and in an anthology, but the story is the same. Perhaps you may find it in an anthology of German Fairytales. There are several fairy tales from different countries that have this theme as a story line.

It would most likely be in an anthology of folk and fairy tales from around the world This sounds like an old children's story that I THINK was called Tattercloak. An updated version of this was releaced years ago, called Mossgown set in a Louisiana Biou. Both versions were the same story. A man has 3 daughters. He askes them how much they love him.

The two oldest name precious things gold etc the youngest daughter told her father she loved him 'more than meat loves salt'! He didn't understand, he drove her away.

Much later, when his poor servant serves him a meal without seasoning esp without salt he realizes what she meant, how much she loved him, and how much she meant to him. She is the servant. She throws off her disguise and reviels herself to him.

They are happily reunited. Taylor, Sydney, A Papa Like Everyone Else A character in this children's novel, set in early twentieth-century Hungary, tells a version of this fairy tale.

This is probably some variation on the fairy tale Cap O'Rushes. Here's a website with versions of the story, including references to King Lear.

A version of this well-known tale search for "love like salt" in any search engine and you'll see how many versions there are! It's a wonderful tale! Although I can't say what textbook the person had in school, the folk tale is "Love Like Salt" or "The Princess Who Loved Her Father Like Salt" and was also published as the individual books SALT IS BETTER THAN GOLD written and illustrated by Stepan Zavreland SALT IS SWEETER THAN GOLD: I saw it listed mostly as a Czechoslovakian tale, but also saw it listed as a tale from Greece.

Ellis, Like Meat Loves Salt. As you mentioned, this is an old folktale, one I've seen as "Like Meat Loves Salt" and "As Meat Loves Salt". There are a few versions out there, I've just given the author of one.

Ignaz and Joseph Zingerle, The Necessity of Salt. Sounds like Cap O'Rusheswhich you might call the missing link between Cinderella and King Lear. Joseph Jacobs' version is here. Also, you can see an analysis of some Cinderella variants here Rushen Coatie not included.

I liked Jacobs' version for its smoothness of language, not to mention Cap O'Rushes' cleverness and independence and the fact that the women's general kindness to her doesn't hurt the story at all. Of course, maybe it came before the Perrault and Grimm versions anyway, so to speak!

I was very annoyed when I. Edmonds took the riddle away from the female character and gave it to a man in Trickster Tales. Or so it seemed. I remember this story, too. Could it be one of the stories from the Arabian Nights? This is a classic story told in many cultures, and is one that has always stuck with me. Many of the different versions of this story and the books from which they are taken are available here.

There are many versions, some of which can be found here. Perhaps if you find the origin version of the folktale Russian, German, etc. I also read this story in a school book. It's a more obscure fairy tale called Cap O'Rushes. The daughter tells the king that she loves him as much as fresh meat needs salt. There are several copies of the story on line. Frank O'Leary, Cappy Cardinal. Cute story about a little gray cardinal named Cappy. After he rescues a dove's babies, Mother Nature rewards him by enveloping him in the red stripe of a rainbow.

When the rainbow vanishes, he is left with a brilliant red coat, as a mark of his courage. It took several weeks for me to recieve a copy of Cappy Cardinal through an inter-library loan from another county. But, now that I have it, I know that the Frank O'Leary tale is absolutely the book I was looking for, the one my grandmother bought secondhand. I had no idea it was published two decades before I read it. Thank you so much for your help!

I wish I would have known to post it long before I did and saved myself all the fruitless searching! SThe book is called Captain Ghost. Unfortunately, I can't remember the author's name. There is a Captain Blood by Thelma Harrington Bellnot sure if it's the same one. Published by Viking,and reprinted at least four or five times up through the sixties. If you have or find a copy, we'd be interested. He used to be a sea captain and has all manner of ship things. Then at the end, something happens and the neighborhood try to make the chilidren tear down their 'ship'.

There were several children involved. I'm thinking that the book may be from the forties or fifties; it may or may not have had a red cover. This is Captain Ghost again, isn't it? But they are constantly aware of being watched from the strange Victorian house where an old recluse lives. Soon they meet "Captain Ghost" who teaches them how to build and man a ship. How they share and finally solve a mystery that surrounded their new friend makes exciting reading.

The book was set somewhere landlocked the prairie? Is it possible that this is Mary Poppins? There is no meadow in Mary Poppins, but a lot of the rest seems to fit. Captain Ghostmids. I remember this book as well! I've also been looking for it for ages.

I think the title was Captain Ghostand the author's last name may have started with a C. The Captain wasn't a ghost, but at first he wouldn't come out to see the kids, so they thought he was.

Eventually, they join him to help build his boat. I think there was a mystery, and the captain's hankerchief figured into it somehow. Actually, it's on the Solved Mysteries page. Thelma Harrington Bell, Captain Ghost, I remembered reading this book myself, sometime in the early 60's, but I couldn't remember many of the details,but I'm sure it's the same book.

Here is a description I found: Gary and Mike, eleven and eight, were boys of course, and Ginger, ten, was a tomboy. Sharing plans and secrets, the three friends were inseparable. How they came to meet the owner of a Victorian house they called him Captain Ghost among themselveslearned how to build and man a ship, met a sinister stranger, and finally solved an old mystery makes for exciting reading. Has to be Captain Kitty, by Godfrey Lynn. Word of caution to the wise: When the Rand McNally Junior Elf books were reissued in paperback as Tiny Elf books, some were the same stories with the same pictures, while others used the original pictures with a different title and author!

The "Captain Kitty" pictures were done over in this way, so if you find a Tiny Elf book where the pictures seem very familiar and the story doesn't really, that's why. The Junior Elf version was also reprinted and is easy to find. Could you possibly be looking for Captain Kitty? It's a tiny book with a black cat standing at the helm wearing nautical garb.

L15 - I am pretty sure that this person is remembering Barbara Sleigh's Carbonel books. Carbonel King of the Cats is one and the other is The Kingdom of Carbonel. They are pretty hard to find. I loved them as a kid and had forgotten all about the apothecary jars until I read this description. This sounds like the first Carbonel book by Barbara Sleigh.

I can't remember the exact title but there are two or three books with the same characters. Carbonel is the cat. I am a bit of a Barbara Sleigh fan too from my childhood. Good answer on the apothecary jar, but that is actually the second book in the series - The Kingdom of Carbonel.

The first book in the series is Carbonel, King of Cats. In this story, Rosemary and John communicate with Carbonel by holding onto the witch's broom - but which is destroyed accidently toward the end of the first book - hence the need for the special liquid in the second book.

The third book, Carbonel and Calidoris by far the hardest to find. I have yet to read it but have finally tracked down a paperback copy in England at an outlandish price, but which should now be enroute to me.

The first book can be obtained as a new paperback from several UK children's bookstores online. Amazon UK and childrensbookcentre. To bad the other two books are not avaliable as paperback reprints.

Theodore Sturgeon, Yesterday Was Monday. Okay, this is a long shot, but Theodore Sturgeon wrote a short story that sounds similar to the description. Most recently, the story was included in Microcosmic God- Volume 2: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon.

This sounds similar to a book my mother bought in the early s, called something like The Secret Club. The members of the "secret club" do the kinds of things you describe for me, the most memorable one was making sure that people don't step in dog poop! After an internet search, I think it's Shh: It's the Secret Club by John Watson. Cooper Edens, Caretakers of Wonder I think it's Caretakers of Wonderwhich exhorts you to open your eyes.

This is illustrated with imagination, the sky and the horizon safety-pinned together, the "ones who light and keep the stars burning" floating off in a hot air balloon full of giant matches, the starry sky folded up like a quilt. I am sure this is the Caretakers of Wonder by Cooper Edens published in by Green Tiger Press.

The imaginative illustrations show "the sky and the horizon" safety-pinned together, the stars being lit by a man in a hot-heart balloon full of giant matches, the sun hoisted up by a pulley, the starry sky folded up like a bolt of cloth on a worker's back, "the ones weaving the meadows and telling the trees where to stand" and more.

Marjories Vetter, Journey for Jennifer, This sounds like it could be the same as C This is a guess - here's the only description I could find: Jennifer could feel her face stiffen as she watched Steve say good-by to the others. Didn't their dates on board the ship to Havana mean anything to him?

Wasn't he going to miss her at all when she was in the hill country? My Bookstumper A was solved by readers input directing me to Marjorie Vetter's hardcover book Cargo for Jennifer. This book was reprinted in as the paperback Journey for Jennifer.

C had similar information and helped me find this book. Caroline and Her Friends. Check out the Most Requested page. Thanks for your help, now I begin the search to find a copy of it. Santi's Collecting Little Golden Books lists an LGB called Cars and Trucks illustrated by Richard Scarry. It was originally published in as LGBand reissued several times. C88 carter is a painter's cap: Okay, I Online typing jobs without investment from home in mumbai there was a typo there runescape members ways to make money, and my vote is for Carter Is a Painter's What is the iraqi dinar trading at todayby Carolyn Sloanillustrated by Fritz Wegner, published Longman30 pages.

Every day his master paints him in a different guise. It must be very tiring, not to mention confusing, especially when he hasn't enough legs or too many tails. But whether emaciated or after Picasso, Carter is beautifully feline and very funny, and so are his more stable friends.

At last Carter has his revenge. Blob himself, in a variety of improbable poses, finally painting him in volume spread analysis on forex bath and leaving him there.

He then painted himself in his holiday gear and was off. Imf forex is an original story, not over-written, and the pictures are hilarious, packed full of ridiculous jokes. T Could this be the John Peterson series? This is probably the Secret Seven series by Enid Blyton. I have researched the two suggestions, and would like to thank you very much for your help. In fact, I am now sure there was also a dog.

It seems to me that Enid Blyton's plots are very similar to the books which I am referring, except the characters' clubhouse was definitely a treehouse. It also seems to me that the style of writing is similar to John Peterson. Could there be a series written a bit later based on these same ideas and style? Please, please, keep the suggestions coming I know we are getting closer!

I came across your site while trying to find a reasonably-priced copy of Mary Ann's Mud Day. I read with interest your "Stump the Bookseller" section, and think that the solution to T may be a short series of books about a group of kids called Отзывы обсуждения about robots for binary options Three Investigators.

They didn't have a treehouse, but a really cool hideout in a junkyard that required all manner of maneuvering to access. William Arden is the author of that series from the late '60's, and I think an annoying tagalong sibling is among the characters.

I'm not positive, but it sounds like The Magic Treehouse series by Mary Pope Osborne. Ufc stock market ticker are over 20 in the series. The main characters are Jack and Annie, and they have a dog named Fluffy. The stories involve traveling back in time to easy way to make money rs f2p problems and have adventures.

My son reads them now and is addicted If I'm wrong the time travel aspect is a biggiesorry! I know these books! They were "easy reader" mysteries, written by Crosby Bonsall. The characters, Wizard, Tubby, Skinny and Snitch, were members of the Private Eyes Club, and had a treehouse clubhouse.

One of them was always eating peanut butter sandwiches I believe it was Tubby. As the original stumper noted, there were several books in the series. Three titles that I remember reading are The Case of the Cat's Meow, The Case of the Scaredy Cats and The Case of the Dumb Bells. There are a few other titles that I didn't read as a child, but also appear to be part of the series The Case of the Hungry Stranger and The Case of the Double Cross.

Bonsall, Crosby Newell, The Case of the Hungry Stranger, I too am convinced the poster is referfing to Crosby Bonsall's books and this one in particular. The hungry stranger centres on the stealing of a blueberry pie from Mrs Meech's?? It fascinated me, as blueberries weren't available here in NZ, and thought of 3-bit binary adder subtractor food that could turn your teeth blue was utterly fantastic.

The Wizard Private eye club investigate and Snitch - Wizard's snaggle toothed option trading adjustment strategies brother tries to tag along, and I think ultimately solves the mystery.

They have a clubhouse no girls allowed! After asking everyone from what is a butterfly option trading strategy mailman to Mrs Meech herself to smile to see if they have blue teeth and thus would have stolen the pie they discover that the old english sheepdog is the culprit I think.

This is another of my lost books - and though I'm happy to see it reprinted, the thought of a full colour version isn't quite the same as my beloved black and white Scholastic copy. Clive King, Me and My Million E, English kids foiling a robbery scheme, possibly one of Nina Bawden's books? Maybe A Handful of Thieves? She wrote lots of wonderful books involving English children getting into and out of!

Try this link to see descriptions of her books. Terrance Dicks, The Baker Street Irregulars in the case of the missing masterpiece, When an early painting by Constable is stolen from a private collector, four English children decide to solve the crime.

An amusing story of a gang of British boys foiling thieves who have stolen a top secret energy source, the silver egg, from the gang leader's father's laboratory by applying popular science experiments like how to develop your own photos, suspend an egg in water, put out a candle, etc.

Desmond Skirrow, The case of the silver egg. Further to my previous posting on this, I've now reread my copy of The Case of the Silver Egg and it is definitely the one. The scene happens as described except that the boy is locked in with his father and the explosive is liquid gelignite.

The boy mixes baking powder with vinegar to create carbon dioxide which he pours down how to do intraday trading in icicidirect shelf liner tube to put out the candle. B Could this be ESCAPE FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN or RETURN TO WITCH MOUNTAIN by Alexander Key?

Jan is running away from bad people but he doesn't know why earn cash back with every purchase lyoness us he has amnesia.

He meets Ginny on the bus. Ginny is blind but she can see in a different way. She takes Jan to her home where he meets her aunt and uncle and little brother who have special ESP powers. Jan and Ginny are kidnapped by the bad guys an evil doctor who has a brainwashing machine named Matilda because they want to control Jan who has the unique ability to teleport. They eventually escape and Ginny's family find out that Jan is the missing family member they have been searching for.

Regarding your solved title, The Case Of The Vanishing Boy, I just wanted to add that this was Alexander Key's last book. He died in and the book was published posthumously by his wife, Alice Towle Key. It was only published in paperback - there's NO hardcover edition.

Casket and the Sword by Norman Daleillustrated by Biro, published Barriepages "Clive and his sister Sally, coming back from abroad to find the family mansion in the hands of unfriendly strangers, determine to restore the fortunes of the house by endeavouring to break in and find the casket and the sword, hidden there by a piratical ancestor in the 17th century.

A curious book, with the author bursting into verse quite good verse on occasion I think this book was set in England and may have involved a boy? There he solved some kind of mystery or found something of great value that was hidden in a dark place--maybe a crypt??? I chf usd exchange rate yahoo this book in 5th or 6th grade and have thought of it hundreds of times since then.

I was completely lost in the story. The Casket and the Sword. Long shot, but this reminds me of Clyde Robert Bulla's The Sword in the Tree Eleanor Jewett, Hidden Treasure of Glaston. This book features 2speced how to make money English boy being sent to a monastery for safekeeping during a 60 minutes binary option strategy bot 2016, and helping to discover the graves of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere.

Arthur's sword is with him in his casket. I'll call them Jim, David, and Sally. Jim is visiting a distant aunt for the summer. While messing around in the backyard, he finds some kind of opening or break in a wall, admitting him to the house next door. While there, Jim meets David and Sally, children of the aforesaid family.

They are living in hiding on their own how to get alot of likes on your igloo on club penguin. They are hiding from the family servants, who have done something illegal -- possibly killing David and Sally's parents. David and Sally are trying to find positive proof of the servants' guilt and wrong-doing. The servants are trying to find David and Sally and silence them so no one will ever find out what they have done.

David and Sally enlist Jim's help. The plot revolves around the three characters' escapades, adventures and final success in bringing the servants to justice.

David used an armbrace sling-shot and steel ball bearings in fighting the servants. Norman Dale, The Casket and the Sword, copyright. I'm pretty sure this is the book you're thinking of.

Jeremy is visiting his Aunt Eleanor to fully recover from measles, and finds Clive and Sally Palfrey, the heirs to the neighboring estate, living in the what happens to stock market when interest rates rise grounds, which have become dangerous since the bad guys groundskeepers in the pay of an old servant who wants the land and a rumored treasure have let the menagerie out of their cages.

The children have to dodge wild animals, escape the keepers, and find their way into the house to locate the treasure that will save their home. They have a friend named Mickey Few, and a long-lost uncle also turns up to help. And yes, Clive uses a metal slingshot in addition to his bow and arrows.

The three children use trumpets and a penny whistle to communicate via a signal tune. Norman Dale, Casket and the Sword, copyright. My brother, Dennis, says this is indeed the book he's been looking for the solution posted on the website. He is delighted to find the title after all these years. Thank you so much. Children's adventure set in country estate called Castle Combe or Coombe. Map of CC in front. Children spending summer holidays in a house next to CC. Sneaked into grounds, sometimes at night.

Watched strange happenings from tree. Eventually went inside building. Green cover Sure it isn't The Mystery of Castle Croome by Hilda Boden, ? But obviously the caretaker make money with flatbed truck want her there.

What secret is he hiding? And who are the mysterious paying guests who roam the castle? Sounds like the Mystery of Castle Croome by Hilda Boden. Norman Dale, The Casket and the Sword, This sounds like the beginning of The Casket and the Sword. There are lots of plot descriptions on the Solved Mysteries page under this title. This is definitely the book I was searching for. Thanks to everyone that helped to dealers cfd and binary options contracts it.

I have now purchased a copy. It brings back so many childhood memories and I am delighted to have the chance to read it again.

C57 Calico-covered town -- Just from the title of this one by Nan Roloff Cassie's Magic Flowers: The listing I have shows it as published by Current inand that may be too recent. A description for the Roloff book: First part of book in black and white with the last half in color. Winterfield, Henry, Castaways in Accessories for marlin xt-22, Australians Peggy, Jim and friend Ralph drift on a rubber raft until they land on an invisible island.

It is populated by Gulliver's lilliputians and the children have several adventures trying to get back home. Including drinking hundreds of buckets of milk and riding on the top of a train. I really think this is Castaways in Lilliput by Henry Winterfeld. It's about three children who wash up on an uncharted island how to get alot of likes on your igloo on club penguin turns out to be Lilliput, and they are the first "giants" to visit there since Gulliver.

Would suggest - Castaways in Lilliput by Henry Winterfeldtranslated from the German by Kyrill Schabert, illustrated by William M. Hutchinson, published by HarcourtWeekly Readerreprinted inpp. But the only signs of life are miniature farms, a toy-sized village and tiny roads. They have to be very careful not to step on something important! It's not as old as the person remembers pub. Thanks for the update.

Actually I have found the book I was looking for. It is The Castle Number Nine by Bemelmens. Beryl Netherclift, Castle Steep aka The Mystery of Castle Steep.

I solved this one myself. It's by the author of another of my most favorite childhood books - Beryl Netherclift,the author of THE SNOWSTORM. The book is about a summer adventure in the English countryside, involving a young girl, her best friend Persephone and her unusual family.

There is a island with some abbey ruins, some caves, some mysterious singing, and a flood that imperils a little chris capre sniper trading system for forex and her nanny in the caves, and a mysterious young boy who helps rescue them. Tennyson's poem THE LADY OF SHALOTT is featured prominently as a plot analogy. I've been interested in the poem ever since. One of the "I Can Read Book" series.

This was my favorite series all binary options broker itm a child since I'm just crazy about cats. Esther Averill wrote and illustrated a number of stories about a small black cat named Jenny Linsky. Jenny Linsky lives in New York City with her master, Captain Tinker, who is a kindly retired old sailor.

Many of the stories revolve around the Cat Club, of which Jenny is a member. The stories about and involving Jenny Linsky and her Cat Club friends are: Pickles was the name of the firecat. One of her brothers was named Checkers and he had a talent of retrieving balls. I can't remember the name of the other brother. There was also a set of twins who were members of the cat club. Esther Averill, Jenny Linsky series.

If it makes a difference, I'll add a second voice to the suggestion that this is likely to be the "Jenny Linsky" series. These books are terribly collectible, and remembered fondly by all sorts of people. They've been reprinted a number of times, but currently aren't in print. Grabo, Carl Henry, Cat in grandfather's house This may be the book the reader remembered as The Clock in Grandfather's House.

The reader did mention a cat, so it might well have been The Cat in Grandfather's House. The date is about right. I have new information. I know it sounds silly, but I didn't want to ask my father the exact name of this book because I wanted to forex gann level indicator him for his 75th birthday. It all became too much for me, though, and I finally called him.

According to him, the name of this book is The Cat in Grandfather's Houseand it was published inthe year of his birth. He lives in San Diego near the famous "Prince and the Pauper" children's bookstore, and some time ago they said they had a waiting list for this book.

I contacted them today and they are looking into it, but of course, any help on your end would be wonderful. I think the request for the ABC book is for a book by Maurice Sendak. Just reading that line, I got a flashback of some illustrations by him. For some strange reason, I think that book had something to do with chicken noodle soup, or am I thinking of something else?

So check it out, I hope I'm right! Well, gee, I have The Nutshell Library sitting right here on my desk. One of the four books including, of course, Chicken Soup forex articles ezine Rice is an alphabet book called Alligators All Around. Your site is marvelous.

Turns out it's neither Sendak nor Alligators All Around. C is for CHIMPS at CHRISTMAS and one of the many chimps is a baby chimp in a CRADLE how to send money order to usaa "CONNIE.

G is GIRLS sliding down a GIRAFFE'S neck. I is an INDIAN girl with braids eating an ICECREAM cone and Y is for a YAK standing in a fenced YARD next to a house.

Does anyone remember this book? It was probably published in the mid to late s. I just discovered your wonderful website yesterday and thought I might be able to help you out with the A1 stumper. I remembered a children's dictionary not just an ABC book with whimsical examples like those given by the people writing to you, first published in the mids when I was very young, and it seemed that it was illustrated by P. As recently as the early s I bought a copy of this book new for my nephew.

I wasn't expecting it would still be in print, but I did indeed find the Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary by P. I'll be eager to find out if this is the book the person was looking for! This sure is fun! The Cat in the Hat Beginner Dictionary. Random House Beginner Books, A well-loved copy, some water damage and hinges taped.

Stolz, Mary, Cat in the MirrorNY Harper Sounds like this one. In many ways, their lives and fears are the same. A cat called Ta-she seems to bind them together. This is certainly the Cat in the Mirror. Erin experiences her previous life, years ago in Egypt, where her name is Irun. There is a boy named Seti both now in New York and then in Egypt. I don't remember any of Pam Service's titles, max idzik forex opinie for Winter of Cramer stocks to buy now Returnwhich is not the one the seeker wants.

But do some paperback research--Loganberry had a few when I left--and she's probably the author of the stumper title. Y11 is Cat in the Mirror by Mary Stolz.

From the front flap: One lives now in New York City, and one forex club ecn forex brokers in ancient Egypt 3, years ago. One is fascinated by things of the past, and the other is haunted by a voice from the future. There are other things that bind the girls -- the same peng joon work from no home system review, their relationships to their parents, woolworths shopping hours easter 2013 a cat called Ta-she.

Perhaps the two girls are in some way the same person after all. I'm sure it's the one - a very good book! From the book jacket -- "This is the story of two girls: One is fascinated by things of the past, and the other haunted by a voice from the future. She is a loner until a young Egyptian boy, Seti, transfers to her school and befriends her. Mary Stolz, Cat in the Mirror. It's about a girl who has trouble fitting in at a new school, and she receives a blow to the head and is transported years back in time to ancient Egypt.

And Y11 - could it be Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander? It is a boy who travels back in time, but he does go to Egypt My copy of the book isn't where I thought it was so I can't check for sure without going through every book in the house to find it--that would take weeks! Mary Stolz, Cat in the Mirror Story about Erin and Irun, one from modern day NYC, and one from ancient Egypt.

There are boys named Seti from both times and cat named Ta-she. Y11 is Mary Stolz's Cat in the Mirror which features two girls, Erin in New York and Irun in ancient Egypt. Madeleine L'Engle, The Sphinx at Dawn: I think this one may have a similar plotline to what you are describing This instantly rang a bell with me. It's not actual time-travel I think. The two girls Erin and Irun are haunting each other across 3, years. Erin, Erun, friend named Seti, time travel? Seems to match description exactly.

Description found on the web: When he makes it into the "in crowd", he doesn't forget her. The story turns to fantasy when she bumps her head on a museum stone artifact and floats back to the days years ago when she is Irun and Seti is still her friend.

She does recover and Seti seems to know where she's been. This is a good tale of friends that stand the test of time and peer pressure. The Cat Sat on the Mat I remember this book from my school library -Early 90s. A girl and her mother? They could only afford bad apples to eat, from the grand house? Then the girl had some magic way of getting other food magic pencils?

Joan Aiken, The Cat Sat on the Mat. This sounds like "The Cat Sat on the Mat" from the collection of stories found in A Necklace of Raindrops. Emma Pippin and her aunt live in a bus, and eat the bad apples from the orchard the aunt works in. Joan Aiken, The Cat Sat on the Mat, I will love the person that solved this for me FOREVER. On a chilly Ktm publicly traded stocks day, this comment warms our hearts!

Jackson, Kathryn and Byron, The Cat Who Went to Sea, and other cat stories. Golden Story Book 16, pgs. Cat Who Went to Sea, Tiger Play Tiger, Little WHite Kitten, Terrible Tomkit, Too Many Cats. The Cat Who Went To Sea. I googled "Terrible Tomkit" and found the following closed alas!

I hope this helps. THERE ARE 5 STORIES IN ALL THE OTHERS ARE, TIGER PLAY TIGER, THE LITTLE WHITE KITTEN, TERRIBLE TOMKIT, AND TOO MANY CATS. THE INSIDE COVER READ ALL THE MATERIAL IN THIS BOOK IS ORIGINAL.

THE BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, IT WAS PUBLISHED BY SIMON AND SCHUSTER IN THE STORIES WERE WRITTEN BY KATHRYN AND BYRON JACKSON. PICTURES BY AURELIUS BATTAGLIA. It contains pages of cat stories and pictures. Stories include The Cat Who Went to Sea, Tiger Play Tiger, The Little White Kitten, Terrible Tomkit, and Too Many Cats. Gryski, Camilla, Cat's Cradle, Owl's Eyes: A Book of String Games, Morrow, This book fits your description.

The diagrams of the hands and string are black with red arrows showing the direction movement of the string.

Also, special notes are in red boxes. However, the only photo is on the cover - it's a headshot of a girl holding up her hands with a string design stretched between them. C [I haven't checked for color of illus. String figures and how to make them; a study of cat's cradle in many landsw an ethnological intro by Alfred C Haddon. Dover [Scribner ]. Camilla Gryski, Cat's Cradle, Owl's Eyes. Could this possibly be the one wanted?

Our copy is hardback, but the illustations are in black and red. Another possibility is Cat's Cradles and Other String Figures beatles remake money It has actual photographs rather than line drawings so that might not be it.

Klutz Press, Cat's Cradle80s. Even if this isn't the one being looked for, it is one of the best on the market. Camilla Gryski, Super String Games This may be too late to be the one you're looking for, but I have it in front of me and it does have black and red illustrations - the hands eve making isk quickly string are black, and the red indicates the movements you do.

One thing that may set this book apart from others is that it gives us dollar china rmb exchange rate history of each design, and presents a story that you can tell as yo''re making them.

The designs how to send money order to usaa for children, but they are quite complex. I was really into string games in the s but I've never seen most of these. Johnson, Siddie Joe, Cathy. Pretty certain this is it: The book is set during WWII. Cathy's father is a pilot and her mother is doing war work at the airplane factory.

The Mexican housekeeper, Rosita, tells her stories of Spanish treasure assistant to trading binary options for beginners ghosts. She learns that the house she and her mother live in near Daddy's training station used to be a farmhouse, and that during the last World War, three children lived there, whose father went away to the army.

Cathy climbs into the attic and finds a blue-painted chest with three names on the drawers - Sarah, Gilbert, recipe chocolate covered almonds Linda. On Valentine's day Cathy opens the desk and finds a bundle of letters and a beginning Feb 14,in Sarah's drawer.

In the diary are old Valentine cards, inspiring Cathy to make a Valentine bouquet for her mother. Gilbert's drawer has a box of marbles and snake rattles, and a school essay on courage, which comfort Cathy when Rosita can't come and she must manage alone in the house.

George, takes her to catch crawfish with his sons. Linda's drawer has a how much money did flappy bird developer make, a tea-set and a copy of a letter to her father.

The letter talks about earning money for thrift stamps by killing "the big green fat worms on the potato vines I think the worms look like green dragons.

With some coaching from Mr. George she learns how to "catch one by the little horn" and pull it off the stem of the plant.

She smashes them between two bricks. She begins her own garden and grows radishes, beans and Swiss chard as well as babysitting Rositas grand-daughter and neighbourhood babies. Then she reads in Sarah's diary that the 3 children's father is missing in France and that Sarah is writing a fairy tale to comfort herself, a fairy tale which mysteriously disappears.

With the help of Rosita's younger daughters, Cathy searches the old barn and finds a little book with a silver clasp, containing the fairy tale The Silver Princess. The story and the diary give her courage when her Daddy is reported missing in action. At the end of the book she meets the grown-up Gilbert, just before her own father comes home. This is definitely the book. All the details seem familiar.

There have been several Oregon Trail stumpers before. Check out the comments and suggestions listed under O9: Oregon Trail story and look on the Solved Mysteries pages by title for Children of the Covered Wagon by Mary Jane Carr, and Oregon at Last! Rutgers van der Loeff.

Dorothy Grunbock Johnston, Cathy and Carl of the Oregon Trail This is likely one of the first two books in the "Cathy and Carl" series published by the very Christian-oriented Scripture Press, about two siblings and their adventures going west on the Oregon Trail and afterward. The second book was also published in and was titled Cathy and Carl Capturedand included the incident with the Whitmans and the two children being captured by Indians.

Later titles in the series include Cathy and Carl Join the Gold RushCathy and Carl Shipwrecked and Cathy and Carl and the Sea Horse Mystery Dorothy Grunbock Johnston, Cathy and Carl of the Oregon Trail, Thank you thank you! I can't believe you found it so quickly. Cal, Carl, well at least I was close! Dorothy Grunbock Johnston, Cathy and Carl of the Covered Wagon I have this book and the actual title of it is Cathy and Carl of the Covered Wagonnot Cathy and Carl of the Oregon Trail.

Maybe Cathy's Secret Kingdomby Nancy W. Faber, illustrated by Howard Simon. Hale and Company, However, she soon finds that her sister is the only one who can help her solve a mystery Cover shows two girls on bikes, one blonde, one dark. I am all weepy with happiness as I write to say THANK YOU for your wonderful site, and for being available for me to finally have the title and author to my second favorite book, S!!! I would love to let that person know how very very grateful I am!!!

If I could find G54, I will hunt down you and the finder and HUG you both It is SO great that you have this site, and I saw your comment about charging. I for one would be delighted to send a fee for the wonderful feeling I had when I realized my search was over for one of my books. C59 cat care manual: Well, it's not Searle's Catsbecause I checked our library's copy and it doesn't match up.

Perhaps Eric Gurney's book How To Live With a Calculating Cat? It was published inreprintedillustrated by cartoony line drawings. There's a sequel, The Calculating Cat Returnspublishedwith text by Nancy Prevo and cartoons by Eric Gurney.

Bronson, Cats I solved my own mystery! I originally posted the query long ago, and I've found the book I was looking for! I have an interlibrary loan copy in my hands right now. I found it by doing a search online in the WorldCat, using the delimiters I could think of But there, the third one down, my little voice told me that was it, and the author's name seemed murkily familiar. On the chance I was right, I ordered it, and well -- a happy ending! Now that I have the right information, I can start searching for a copy of my own - as I said long ago - one that doesn't have to go back to the library.

Harcourt Brace and Company: Anthony Taber, Cat's Eyes I have even located an original and signed-by-the-author copy!!! Thanks so much for you assistance anyways!!!! Illustrated by Una Woodruff. It starts out in a cottage in the woods owned by a homely but happy witch who at one point was a actress who travelled a lot. She has a cat that can think for him self and talks as well. While she the witch learns her lines for a possible job, cat finds the door or window to the other realm their he meets all types of faireies doing all types of things.

The pictures are fabulous, the detail is great but do you think I can find it. W17 Witch actress is, I believe, a book called Catwitch by Una Woodruff well, idea and illustrations are Woodruff's and text is by Lisa Tuttleand its Library of Congress is under Tuttle.

Jules has all kinds of adventures including summoning faeries through the television set, etc. Hope this is it!! This does sound like Catwitch, from the description on the Solved list.

The Cave Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins I love this one best of all the Twins series for the details of their hunting, gathering, cooking and building - plus the humor and suspense. Here's the plot, which takes place in prehistoric southern England.

She wrote at least 26 Twins books. Here's a link for themthough I don't think Perkins was very good at criticizing sexism in societies if that were really her intention, as the link implies.

While Michele Landsberg, in Reading for the Love of Itp. Lucy Fitch Perkins, The Cave Twins Born inI was read to by my mother from an illustrated children's book about a nuclear family of cavemen remember we are speaking of the late 30s, early 40s. I have no idea of the title, author, publisher or date of publication.

The illustrations made the children look like bear cubs with human faces. Any help in locating this book would be greatly appreciated. Sounds like The Cave Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins again. Theodore Taylor, The Cay Theodore Taylor, The Cay Such a quick solution to Caribbean stranded on island setting book, The Cay.

Homer Price by Robert McCloskey The Case of the Sensational Scent, The Case of the Cosmic Comic, The Doughnuts, Mystery Yarn, Nothing New under the Sun hardlyand Wheels of Progress. There's a sequel, so it could be that book too, but I'm not sure. EEver So Much More So: These are Homer Price stories from Homer Price and Centerburg Talesby Robert McCloskey.

The one about the donuts was made into a film, which was shown to our class around the time we had a Homer Price unit in our reading book in fifth grade. Homer Price definitely deals with the doughnut story but I think that Centerburg Tales has the doughnut story as well as the others. Robert McClosky, Centerburg Tales.

I solved my own stumper! Suddenly the name Homer Price popped into my head. My book is the second one McClosky wrote--first one is just called Homer Price. Josh Webster, Ceremonies, approximate. Thank you, thank you!!! Margaret Mahy, The Changeover, '80s.

Laura, Jacko's sister, visits the neighborhood witches one of them a male, just older than she and becomes a witch herself to counter Braque's powers. I'm pretty sure this book is Changeover - the prefect who helps the girl Laura Chant is Sorry - a wonderfully touching angsty romantic hero. Set in New Zealand, not England, btw. Margaret Mahy, The Changeover: Absolutely no doubt about this one.

The book is set in New Zealand, and Laura Chant must become a witch changeover with the help of Sorenson Sorry Carlisle, a young male witch, in order to save her little brother who is the victim of a kind of spiritual vampire. Excellent book, and still I think in print. Juvenile fantasy book about a girl who finds herself hanging out with a loner boy at her school.

Her brother is in danger from some evil force, so she and the boy are trying to save him. A coming of age story as she grapples with the magic powers that are starting to awaken in her, and the responsibilities of engaging in a relationship. Story set in a city, possibly the States, but could be England. Title could have the word "dark" or "omen" in it?

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I read this in the early 90's or late 80's. Not sure when it was pubished, the setting was modern times 's's. I really hope you can find this, I have had no luck! Margaret Mahy, The Changeover This sounds like Margaret Mahy's Carnegie winning book The Changeover. Margaret Mahy, The Changeover. Laura needs to save her younger brother Jacko from an evil man that placed a strange tattoo on his hand that is sapping his life force.

She enlists the help of a classmate Sorenson Sorry who is a male witch and learns to unleash her own witch powers. Romance with Sorenson is a big part of the book. Story about a teenage girl whose little brother is possessed by an evil power that is draining him of life. She saves him by seeking help from a loner boy at her school who has magical powers and helps her to find her own magical powers so she can save her brother. At the same time she gains understanding of adult relationships.

Set in a New Zealand town. A great book which won the Carnegie Medal in It's a great read! I'm almost positive this is it: When her little brother seems to become possessed by an evil spirit, fourteen-year-old Laura seeks the help of the strangely compelling older boy at school who she is convinced has supernatural powers. Its also on the Solved Mystery pages. The setting is New Zealand.

Witch romance saves brother--This sounds like The Changeoverby Margaret Mahy, which is on your "Solved Mysteries" pages. Margaret Mahy, Changeover Sounds just like Changeover! See the Solved Mysteries for more info. That is the book I have been looking for It really resonated with me and has hung on the corners of mind as something I'd like to re-read again. Book Stumpers - you and your internet friends are my super heroes! PETER DICKINSON, THE CHANGES TRILOGY.

This sounds like the changes trilogy - the books are The devils children, Heartsease, The weathermonger. The first is about a girl who is separated from her parents when the change back to a medieval mindset happens -she travels with a group of Sikhs who are not affected, and is able to warn them if anything they do is likely to be seen as 'witchcraft' or evil.

Heartsease is set during the changes and The Weathermonger about how they happened and and how they are ended. I think all the books are in print and also available as a sigle volume M Merlin awaking etc is Peter Dickinson's The Changes trilogy: The Devil's Children, Heartsease, and The Weathermonger. Although there are clues scattered throughout the books about what's happened to the world, Merlin doesn't actually come into it until the very last book.

Three books about Britain, The Devil's Children, Heartsease and The Weathermonger. Merlin appears in the third book as the reason for Britain becoming anti-technological. In a post-nuclear world, Merlin is resurrected. There is also a sequel, TOMORROW'S MAGIC.

Service, Winter of Magic's Return After years of nuclear winter, Britain is coming alive again, and there is evidence that humanity's next cycle may be an age of magic, not technology. Three teenage "misfits," including Merlin in the body of a 14 year old, begin an arduous journey across the countrys desolate wastes in search of King Arthur, who may still be alive.

Along the way they battle dangers and enchantments, finally winning through to an Eden-like Avalon, their task accomplished, and the dawn of magic's dominion at hand.

The action-filled plot and finely drawn characters will hold readers, and while there is no overt anti-war message, the starkness of the bleak landscape, where a sunny day is a cherished event, is a haunting symbol of what might be. There is also a sequel, Tomorrow's Magic. Peter Dickinson, The Weathermonger, Peter Dickinson, The Weathermonger.

Other books in the same series are The Devil's Children and Heartease C S Lewis, That Hideous Strength. Not sure, it's been such a long time since I read it, but is there any chance that Lewis' That Hideous Strength is the book referred to? Merlin is definitely in it, and people do hate and fear the machines. Part of his Sci Fi series, along with Perelandra and Out of the Silent Planet. Pat HutchinsChanges, Changes. Maybe this one, if it's a picture book--still in print and you can view the cover online.

Hutchins, Pat, Changes, Changes. Thank you for your help in finding this lost favorite. Coopersmith, Jerome, A Chanukah Fable for Christmasillus. Jerome Coopersmith, A Chanukah Fable for Christmas. These books were produced by the Advanced Training Institute to support Christian education in homes. You can see a picture of them hereincluding the growling bear on the cover. If that link doesn't work, just go to iblp.

I'm not sure if this is correct or not, but it can't hurt to try. I can't remember all of them, but if you do a search for "House in the Hole in the Side of the Tree" or "Coco's Candy Shop", you should be able to find the whole set. I think there was one book that told more about animals I hope it helps!

How cool to see that cover again after all these years I had no idea there were 2 others in the set! Thank you thank you, once again. Ebay here I come It's a hard one to find, but I have one! I wouldn't have remembered the author myself, but I'm quite a fan of Martha Alexander. Check this out for more on Martha Alexander and a picture of Charles. Illustrated by Martha Alexander. Slightly soiled, otherwise VG.

Sounds like the British book A House for Charley or A Home for Charley which also goes under another name, I think. I can't find any more info about it right now - on the Net at least.

She thinks her aunt doesn't want her and so she goes to live in a field and pretends she can't talk so she won't have to answer questions from strangers in the store. The bugs are earwigs. Her system for staying fed and inconspicuous is as elaborate as E. Konigsberg's for Claudia and Jamie, though the book as a whole hardly compares with Konigsberg's.

OK, I answered before and now I think I know the right answer - Charley by Joan G. Robinson, later titled The Girl Who Ran Away. She's also the author of Dear Teddy Robinson and When Marnie Was Thereabout a foster child and a mysterious companion.

It's about a girl, whose name might be Rowan, who decides to run away for the summer. I don't think she was particularly unhappy at home.

I can't remember the reason, but I think she wanted a little adventure. I think she finds a hedge with a little nook, and she makes her home and sleeps in there. I thought Rowan might be the name of the book, but no searches on that turned up what I was looking for. This might be Charley by Joan Robinson. I think she may have wanted to be called Rowan. Check out solved mysteries under Charley.

I think this may be the book. Rowan is the heroine's real name, but she is usually called by her nickname, Charley. She runs away because her parents are away I can't remember the reasonand she can't get on with the aunt who is looking after the family.

The last straw is when she gets the mistaken idea that another, favourite aunt "doesn't want her".

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Joan Robinson, Charley, It is a British story about a young girl who runs away thinking it would be nice live on her own. Rowan is the girl's real name, and Charley is her nickname.

Charley is British slang for a foolish person. I have another stumper to post though! It was about a girl who ran away and stayed in a field in some sort of old shelter; a wagon or caravan??. I dont remember a lot of the story. I borrowed it from a library in North Royalton Ohio where I lived at the time. Robinson, Joan, Charley Robinson Joan G, Charley Lovely story of Charley, who is sent to stay with relatives in the English countryside.

Believing herself to be not wanted, she sets up camp near her aunt's house. She befriends various people including a gardener at a big house and manages very successfully on her own! Check under Solved Mysteries for the title Charleyaka The Girl Who Ran Away.

Rumer Godden, The Diddakoi. It's not a lot to go on but I wonder if you're thinking of "the Diddakoi" by Rumer Godden? The little girl, Kizzy, is part romany and runs away to try to save herself and her horse, after her grandmother dies. She ends up with a Gypsy caravan of hre own to stay in. If this is the one, it is in print, by MacMillan isbn Might "Charlie" have been one of the characters from there?

I no longer have any of those books, so can't confirm Anyway, thought I'd pass the hunch along Also consider Yellow Cat by Betty Ren Wright. It is a Tell-A-Tale book and a Fuzzy Wuzzy Book, Whitman Publishing Company, It was written by Diane Fox Downsillustrated by Lilian Obligado, and published in In it, Charlie runs away from the alley where he lives in search of the country, where he can play "tiger in the grass.

Twilliger's hat from a tree. C12 Charlie the yellow cat: The suggested Little Golden Book, Charlieby Diane Fox Downsseems like a good match with publisher, title and subject. Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time, approximate. This is, I believe, the final book in the Wrinkle in Time series.

Polly goes back in time to ancient America and meets very early Native Americans. Her boyfriend goes after her and they have several adventures together, but she also grows very attached to one of the Indian men.

She and her boyfriend finally make it back to their own time, but their relationship has drastically changed.

Found the book at second chance bookstore - I was off on the cover - it was a waterfall. C54 is Palmer Brown's Cheerful about the little city church mouse who dreams of living in the country and eventually escapes there by riding in a panoramic Easter egg. Church mice--no luck with librarians, but a bookseller got another bookseller to look at the book, and it seems Cheerful; a picture-storyby Palmer Brown, is the one I want. I'm awaiting the opportunity of an affordable copy and thank the person who sent it in!

This latest stumper deluge caused me to finally break down and go through the "Literature for Children" list in my WORLD BOOK Encyclopedia, which I almost never look at as I usually use the list. I also assume ha that anything famous enough to be on this list would be quickly spotted by one of the experts. Well, YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT BOOK WAS ON THERE! Cheerfulby Palmer Brown, my all-but-impossible-to-solve stumper which was solved ONLY by just ONE PERSON on your site!

I might not have recognized it just by the description, but it did say the story is about a church mouse. Now if only my dognapping book would turn up right under my nose! Interpreting Condition Grades Brown, Palmer. Stain on lower quarter of dust jacket and book cover. You know, in the meantime, I think I figured it out!

It looks like the book is called The Cheery Scarecrow by Johnny Gruelle, who I guess also did Raggedy Ann. Would you have a copy in decent shape? Cheese, Peas and Chocolate Pudding. Here is information both about the story and the storytelling anthology in which it was included: Cheese, Peas and Chocolate Pudding from Caroline Feller Bauer's New handbook for Storytellers: With Stories, Poems, Magic and More.

Chester is a wild horse who wants to be tame. The cover of the book shows Chester running away from the carousel on which he had pretended to be a wooden horse. Thank you for this suggestion, I think it may be the right one. It is the only story that I came across with the horse jumping ON to the carousel rather than escaping from it.

I had looked at Arabella of the Merry Go Round but I dont think it was that one. The Runaway Flying Horse by Paul-Jacques Bonzon, illustrated by William Pene du Boisoriginally published in Kate Seredy, The Chestry Oak.

The boy is Hungarian, but otherwise this sounds like the book. The Chestry Oak features a contrasting set of Hungarian and American characters. Prince Michael, a bright and precocious six-year-old early in the story, shows a mixture of assertiveness and dependence typical of his age, enjoying the protectiveness of his nurse while trying to be more independent. He is eager to show his father how well he can handle a horse, but his father, the old Prince, is preoccupied with the difficult affairs of war and cannot give his son the time and attention he needs.

Young Michael is very proud of his Chestry heritage, and on his seventh birthday, he plans to follow the family tradition of planting an acorn alongside the venerable old Chestry oak on his family's estate.

Kate Seredy, The Chestry Oak Kate Seredy, The Chestry OakKate Seredy, The Chestry Oak I think this is the one you're thinking of. The boy rides dressage on a magnificent horse, his country is occupied by the Germans and his father, the ruler, appears to be a collaborator. Kate Seredy, The Chestry Oak This sounds like one of my favorite books: Michael, Prince of Chestry an yr-old castle in Hungary is a small boy when the war begins, learning to ride his magnificent stallion, Midnight.

Eventually he escapes when the castle is destroyed, lies injured many months, becomes a DP Displaced Personmeets an American soldier, and learns to deal with the loss of his heritage. That is the bare bones of the plot, but the emotional depth of the story is much greater. Michael's relationships with his father and his old nurse are beautifully described, as well as his love for Midnight and the special steps they learned together.

Mahy, Margaret, The chewing-gum rescue and other stories. The two stories the stumper remembers from this collection by the wonderful New Zealand writer Margaret Mahy are "The Devil and the Corner Grocer" and "Midnight on Griffon Hill".

The book is still in print. Here's info on the tape: Cassette tape 3 sound cassettes. Thank you so much for solving my stumper! I ordered the book from [unmentionable] and I just got it in the mail today and it's definitely the one! There is a book by Angus McGill and Dominic Poelsma called Augusta the Greatbut it's a collection of comic strips that were originally published in the newspaper.

It's more likely that the book you're searching for is The Chicken Pox Papers by Susan Terris author and Gail Rockwell illustrator The cover of the paperback shows a red-haired girl holding a pair of scissors and looking at her newly shorn headthere's a heap of red hair on the flat surface in front of her. Unfortunately, I haven't read this book, and the only online description I can find isn't very detailed: It's not my stumper, but having read THE CHICKEN POX PAPERSI can confirm that the other poster was right in suggesting it.

The girl's nickname is Gussie short for Augusta? Manes, Stephen, Chicken Trek: The Third Strange Thing That Happened to Oscar Noodleman, copyright, New York: Oscar spends the summer with his inventor cousin traveling around the United States in a Picklemobile eating chicken in the bag to win a contest, while being pursued by an angry woman with mystical powers, who is also determined to win the contest.

I love this service and will definitely return. The plot involved a contest sponsored by a restaurant or diner that required the contestants to visit every location in the US illustrated on a place mat with a map of the country, as I recall and maybe some kind of scavenger hunt. The diners ranged in quality from barely edible to five star or similar.

There was a group in the contest who were the heros of the story, and some other villainous person or group. There was something about a pickle; maybe the diners had a pickle logo, or maybe the heros had a pickle-shaped car.

There was some kind of time limit on the contest, maybe a year. Thanks for the help! Manes, Stephen, Chicken Trek, I found a reference to this on Goodreads - someone else remembered that it was a chicken eating contest and the main character travels in a picklemobile. Sounds like your book! Manes, Stephen, Chicken Trek.

Hi, you posted an answer to my stumper. I checked it out and I'm sure that's it. I didn't find this on the Chronic Illness books list. Corcoran, Barbara, Child of the Morning, Barbara Girion, A Handful of Stars, I found the answer myself. Betty Chancellor, A Childs Christmas Cookbook I think this might be it. I work in a school library and as soon as I saw the description I immediately thought of this book.

Exactly as described, red, old-fashioned Santa, recipes and anecdotes. The only difference is it is hardcover. Hope this is right. Betty Chancellor, A Child's Christmas Cookbookc. I am the original requester and this one has been SOLVED! Thank you so much to the person that recognized this book from my vague description. This is indeed the book I have been looking for!

I have a few of these. They are Puppet Storybookspublished by Grosset and Dunlap, Inc. They are copyright late 's, early '70's. Also, the covers have a 3-D effect picture, glued onto the book. The books are board books. I posted this question The pages are regular paper.

Thanks for the input though! Not sure if Faith Ringgold was publishing in the '70's. But originally she worked in fabric and quilt media. I47 I doubt if it is this one that I noticed today: Two kittens stitchery by Virginia Tiffany; photo by Xfa-Duesseldorf.

My husband had this from his childhood--the illustrations are all done in needlework. Oh, I know this one. Selections from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stitchery by Virginia Tiffany. A Big Golden Book,