Questions tagged [childrens-novel]
Use this tag when the question specifically relates to a novel targeted at children or young people. Written for those with basic levels of reading comprehension and vocabulary. It should not be used solely because an original work was novelised. If you are referencing elements only in the novelisation of a work use this tag alongside the main work tag.
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A children’s chapter book of a boy becoming a wizard’s apprentice and learning to shapeshift into a red fox
It could be published in the early 2000’s, and is probably in a similar age range to the early-mid Harry Potter novels. I think it may possibly have been set in a town along the coast (I keep thinking ...
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Looking for young adult/childrens books about a boy traveling through a portal to a fantasy land
I read this book as a kid in about 2008-2012 and have been searching for it for years. Here's what I remember:
A boy travels through a portal he found (in a back alley somewhere?). He comes out in a ...
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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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A kids novel with a character named Cassandra and a colourful cover
I'm looking for a kids novel with a character named Cassandra.
The cover was colourful. The girl may have had orange hair. She had an uncle who was a little magical; he invented knitting needles to ...
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Steampunk children's book where a clockwork world in a comic comes to life
I’m trying to remember a children’s book I read over ten years ago. The basic plot is that teenagers read a comic about a clockwork world which comes to life. Clockwork chimera start attacking and at ...
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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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Children's book about a boy travelling in space with a wolverine
Looking for a book about a boy travelling in space with a wolverine. That is all I can remember. Read in the 1960s, so could be written in, I would guess, the 1950s or 1960s. Any help is greatly ...
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Science fiction anthology meant for kids with a boarding school mind control chip and a phone that calls the past
In the early 2000s I read an anthology from my elementary school library. Two stories have stuck with me 20 years later. I'd love to find it and reread it. I distinctly remember two stories, and may ...
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Boy finds giant jumping bean
I encountered this children's story before 1995, probably in the '80s. I remember it being in a paperback book.
The main character was a young boy. I think he was on holiday. The place he was staying ...
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Book: 80's/90's Novel About Animals/Magic Shapes/Dreams
I'm looking for a book I read in the early/mid 1990s.
All I can remember is it focused on a girl who was maybe stuck in a dream? To leave the dream, she had to learn to cast four magical shapes.
Each ...
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1980s Children's Picture Book About an Alien (Martian) Society
I read this is in elementary school (in the US) between 1980-1985. It could have been published 10 or more years earlier. It was a large, rectangular paperback and thin. The book consisted of pages of ...
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Children's' fantasy, 1970s. Grumpy and agressive rock
At school we were read a book in 1975 ish, plus or minus a couple of years, the book may have been older.
Part of a small group (or couple) of children's larger adventure of discovery of their home-...
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Kids'(?) sci-fi book, clowns and robots
I remember only one small part where one of the characters, disguised as a clown, notices a small robot spying on him and throws an object at the robot, destroying it. The robots were the antagonists ...
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Kids funny short book. Involves a troop of boy scouts who go camping and meet an alien
I listened to an eight year old read this kids book to me. He had brought it home from school to read. It had lots of illustrations which the kid loved showing to me. I think the cover may have been ...
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A children's or YA book where the protagonist hasn't had their special power develop; later revealed to be a form of precognition
Okay, this one might be a challenge. I realize that "protagonist is alone in not having magical powers" is a very common trope, but I do remember some other details.
I read this as a child ...
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