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Tagged with young-adult childrens-novel
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A boy and his war machine
A juvenile SF novel from the early 80s, maybe? A non-conformist boy is sent off to an authoritarian school in the middle of nowhere, but forms a partnership with a war robot prototype - there's a ...
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Novel where sick children are transported to a world with three types of machines controlled by the villain
I strongly remember reading this book, including large chunks of the plot and setting, except that I can't remember the author or the title. After fruitlessly wrestling with various book searching ...
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Children's book involving demon summoning and a main character who is secretly an angel
I'm trying to figure out a book series I used to read. I know the plot revolves around a group of 3 teenagers fighting a bunch of sorcerers who draw their power from summoning demons. The group is 2 ...
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Young adult/children's book of adventure and mystery where the bad guys are Illuminati
I read this book when I was young, so the book should be intended for this audience. I don't think it is very old, I would say it was published after the 2000s. I read it in Spanish; I don't know the ...
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YA/children's novel: school student who could either psychically summon images from WWII or project himself & friend back to that time
I read this novel in the early 1990s. It was English-language and set in a contemporary British town (possibly on the coast, but I'm not sure where). The viewpoint character (male -- don't recall his ...
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What's that book about an animal eating cube
I will do my best to describe this. I read this book around 2010~2012, and I lost it during hurricane Sandy so it could not have come out later than Oct 2012.
White cover, minimal illustrations and ...
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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 where a girl discovers that her world is actually just an island and she goes over the cliffs to see what’s beyond
Okay, so this book pops into my mind every once in a while, torments me with vague memories that aren’t enough to identify the book, and then leaves my mind for another couple years.
I read it in ...
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YA/children's Sci-Fi novel with CGI baby head against purple and yellow sky
I am looking for a book I vividly remember seeing in my school library when I was a child. I am assuming the book is a 90s/00s book. All I remember was the cover, and something nagged me that it was ...
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Is the 'Magic Ex Libris' book series by Jim C. Hines suitable for children?
I want to buy new SF books for my daughter (8), who reads a lot and appreciates it. I'm always looking for books she can read.
I'm not worried by the difficulty of the book (she can read some books ...
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Book about boy and animal going to top of world with interesting shape
My girlfriend vaguely remembers reading a book when she was in elementary school about a boy and an animal (she thinks it’s a donkey or a horse) traveling through the layers of an unusually shaped ...
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Fantasy book about walking backwards in a graveyard to an alternate fantasy world
I used to read a series of children's 9-12 or young adult aged books, the last time I read this book was at least 15 years ago when I was about 12 years old.
It was about a group of 4 children (2 boys ...
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YA book, maybe through Scholastic, girl transported to fantasy world to save princesses, helped by dwarf
I know I've found this book before. I read it somewhere in the late 1980s to the early 1990s. It was short, maybe 30 pages or so, and involved a young girl on the bus, on her way to school, who I ...
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ID: kids' novel, alternate universes, suits designed by disappeared father
I'm trying to identify a English-language kids' SF novel, I would have read this as a library hardcover some time before 1980. To the best of my recollection:
Protagonists were subadult brother and ...
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YA/kids' book featuring a kid and an alien whose preferred pronoun is "it" rather than "he" or "she" [duplicate]
There's a book I read in the late '90s that I'm trying to remember. Here's what I remember:
An alien whose preferred pronoun is "it"
The scene I remember very vividly is one of the aliens ...
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