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A kids book, there were 3 or 4 kids being main characters and each had a wand that controls an element
I don't remember much about it. But these 3 or 4 kids get a wand, and when they split the wand, each piece controlled an element. I also remember that an antagonist was a giant with 3 pairs of eyes, 3 ...
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Trying to identify book I read as a child. With hindsight, possibly politically incorrect
I am trying to find the name of a book I read as a child and thought people here might know. I asked this question here before some years ago, but some more details have occurred to me so I thought I ...
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Boy who is also a prankster gets body swapped with his school principal
The story contains a boy, who loves to prank people and in general, just not follow the rules. The former principal, who was much more lenient retires and a new, stricter principal joins whom everyone ...
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Kids book where the main character has metal under his skin
I read a book when I was in school in the UK, probably around year 2000, all I remember is the main character I think is found by a group of kids and they look after him. He gets increasingly unwell ...
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Fantasy book series with a school for magical hero children
I read one book from a book series while I was in primary school over a decade ago.
There was a school of kids in a fantasy world of monsters and a trio of these kids go on a quest to save their ...
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Book written in different colors depending on which narrator or character is "speaking" [closed]
If anyone is able to help with this you are truly amazing because the information I am about to give is barely any and not too reliable.
I think there were at least 4 font colors in the book (green, ...
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Chapter book where a scientist with lung cancer is abducted by aliens
I'm struggling trying to remember a book from my 3rd grade class (1993–94.) I bought it at my school book fair so it was age appropriate for grade school level.
It was a chapter book about a scientist ...
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Kids book where a boy is captured by a witch
Looking for a picture kids book where a farm boy gets captured by a witch. She rolls out dough the length of him to make him into a sandwich. At night her body detaches. Her arms go lay by the fire ...
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Children's/young adult fantasy book about a boy who had an ability to tell what people were like by touching them
I would like to find the title to a book I read a long long time ago about a boy who had an ability to tell what people were like by touching them. Instead of, say, feeling a human hand he would feel ...
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Book about a person who fell from somewhere into San Antonio and developed superpowers
I read a book some years ago. It was about a person who fell from somewhere (not sure where) into San Antonio (maybe he fell, maybe he just walked, I don't really remember.) He then became a person ...
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Big picture book from the late 70s or early 80s about a boy and a goblin
I read this in the very early 80s and it was a fairly new book then. It was one of the tall books for kids that was so popular then.
It was about a boy who moved onto a farm out in the country. His ...
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Story about a wizard on an adventure with two children
In my childhood I read a children's book about a wizard who wakes from a long sleep after he lost to his arch nemesis, an evil wizard. He travels to find his enemy once again to defeat him this time. ...
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Children's book where a girl and her friend turned into cats
I’m looking for a story I read as a child..it was about a girl called “Beans” was short for something..she had a friend with ginger hair and they ended up turning into cats. I’m sure the friend also ...
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English Teenage / Children's Sci-fi series about girl clones, available from the 2000s at most?
It had at least two books, and three clones, the (third?) of which was "The Evil Twin" of the eponymous book / sequel. Could've been "The Evil Clone".
The mother of the first-seen ...
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Trying to find book about monster that hides in dreams
I read a book as a child about these kids that find this guy at the zoo who talks about this mystical almost-extinct animal who was hidden inside a secret place which could only be accessed through ...
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