This tag represents works that are created to be consumed by Young Adults, usually for story-identification. Young Adult works usually feature a coming-of-age story, and the genre is a little more Fantasy oriented than Sci-Fi. Sometimes the Young Adult works focus more on emotions and less on ...
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Boy wants to go to magic school
In the early 90's, I read a book about a boy who wanted to go to a magic school, but everyone said that he was not good enough. Finally he got in.
There was a test where he had to repeatedly light ...
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Looking for a 90s YA horror anthology
I believe it was a compilation of stories from various authors, and I believe it was a series of multiple books. I am usually a very good Googler but so far have come up empty.
Some stories I ...
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Captured by a giant witch who wants to eat him
Looking for the the title/ author of a book of illustrated "silly" children's horror from around the early 1980's. The book is narrated by an uncle / grandfather to his (children?) about a strange ...
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Time travel book for young adults, available in school libraries in 70s, cape-wearing girl meets Greensleeves-whistling boy
Tyring to identify a 70s book about a teenaged girl in England, alone at boarding school over the holidays, who puts on a cape from the school theatre and time travels. She meets a boy in the woods ...
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Young adult novel with dragons, magic, and ends weirdly
In elementary school, between '92 and '96, I read a young adult fantasy novel that has eluded my internet searches to this day. I don't remember the plot, but I think it had the word 'Rainbow' in the ...
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Looking for a Pre-1975, young adult, sci-fi, colored circle dimension crossing
Looking for the title and or author of a long ago favorite; I have searched the web for it on and off for years.
I read a paperback novel about 40 years ago; it was probably a used book at that time. ...
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Looking for young adult book, possible from the last 10-15 years
I remember this book from my early teen years, although what I remember makes it seem incredibly bizarre, but from what I remember, it was really enjoyable. I'm sure I read it before I read the ...
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Can you help me remember a young adult book about a young girl who I think is kidnapped by fairy people?
I remember very little about this book, but I remember it featured a lot of eerie black and white pencil illustrations. I think it was about a young girl who is kidnapped by people who live under the ...
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Young Adult novel, late 80s: gothic horror, deserted mansion, candle flame turns blue
The public library I visited as a child had a young adult book that scared me half to death. Here's what I remember:
The cover art was in the style of Edward Gorey (black and white line art)
The ...
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'80s book about kids stranded on a planet
A friend and I are trying to remember the title and author of a book we both read as kids in the 80s. It was about a group of students who go on a mission that's supposed to be some sort of survival ...
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Man and woman travelling through parallel universe?
The only things about this book I can remember is there is male and female main characters journeying through an alternate/parallel universe. Along the way they meet various people, though the only ...
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Boy from future comes to the past to take very intelligent young people to the future
I'm looking for a novel I read in the 1990's, probably the mid-90s. In it, a boy comes from the future to take intelligent young people who will be beneficial in their time.
Due to misinformation, a ...
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Looking for title YA Time travel 1970s England to Victorian
I'm looking for the name of a book that I read when I was a kid.
Teenage girl in moden day England ends up going back to 1880's at Christmas time. The most vivid thing I remember is an all blue ...
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Fantasy book about two brothers in the afterlife
I read a great book once about two young brothers who die and go to the afterlife. The afterlife is a fantasy like world where they join the fight to free the world from an evil warlord. In the end, ...
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A young-adult SF book about a boy being saved by good aliens. The bad aliens caused black liquid to come from the nose
I vaguely, very vaguely remember this book. It was part of a series, with different books about different Sci-fi topics.
It involved a boy, his sister, and the good aliens. I remember the bad aliens ...
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A book my brother-in-law read when he was growing-up in the 70's/80's, possibly post-apocalyptic.
It sounds like a post-apocalyptic story from what he told me. The only details he could give me other than that was a character called Kincaid (unsure of spelling) and a group called the Kriss (again ...
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Young Adult book about kids being bred for genetic purity in a world where races no longer exist
I'm looking for a book I read in Junior High (probably) about a world where everyone was basically the same race. One genetically pure male and female teenager of each race still exists. They are ...
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Psychic girl who can read thoughts by touch!
I'm looking for a book, but I only read the first chapter and I don't remember much, but here's what I do remember:
The main character was a girl who recently moved to a new town, I think it was ...
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Looking for a book featuring magic headgear and death by cats
I read a novel, at most ten years ago, that featured a villain of some sort (not the big bad- more of a side quest) who wore a stack of hats. As in, probably upward of one dozen hats on his head ...
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Young Adult book from 80's or 90's: unpopular girl finds a vampire in her attic
I'm trying to remember the name of a book I read as a teenager. It's about an unpopular girl who finds a vampire in her attic. She makes a deal with the vampire to become popular in return for feeding ...
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Teen Book with Two Boys Transported to Future
I am searching for a book I read as a young boy (1980's to early '90s). I don't really recall many key facts other than I think it was either one boy or two brothers, from possibly war time, being ...
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Identify story about a fantasy world threatened by aliens
Children's / YA book, don't remember too much about it.
Main character is a wizard/apprentice?
Prophecy of imminent destruction, quest to prevent it.
Other fantasy races: trolls, living in ...
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Title of a fantasy trilogy where a group of children is transported to different worlds?
In my early teens (in the late 90's) I borrowed a series of fantasy books from the public library. I remember getting annoyed when the next book in the series wasn't in, so this series has at least 3 ...
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Unlikely female heroine, meets floating mages; What was this title?
I read a fantasy book as a youth that I cannot for the life if me remember the title to. It's all rather fuzzy except one particular scene and detail. I'll list what I can remember.
It's a female ...
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Collection of YA horror short stories late 80s early 90s called “Chills” or “Shivers”
I am looking for a series of books from the late 80's early 90's. There were at least 2 books in the series, called "Shivers" or "Chills". They were a collection of horror stories for Young Adults. I ...
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Young Adult novel about a parallel fantasy world accessible at certain phases of the moon
[Update: Found it! It's called "The House on Falling Star Hill" by Michael Molloy.]
I remember the story took place in a fantasy world that could be accessed during certain phases of the moon. The ...
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Looking for 1970's SF novel title where people travel to other planets by transmitting their consciousness to a replica body at the destination
This was a 'young-adult' SF novel I read in the late 1970's, about the same time I was reading Voorloper by Andre Norton, Madeleine L'engle's Wrinkle In Time books and the Dragonfall 5 young adult ...
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Looking for young adult series about a kid who escapes earth and goes starship racing
In the first book the kid escapes Earth and gets to a space station where, they have starship racing. He starts out cleaning up and progresses to racing them. I believe the author was towards the ...
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Trying to remember the title of a zombie novel
In the last year or so I have read quite a few zombie novels (thinly disguised as book selection for work!) There is one I would like to find again, but I cannot remember the title of it. I could ...
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Early 90s YA novel about a kid into special FX who meets an (animatronic, yet possibly alive) dragon
All i can remember are a few specifics, would love to rediscover the title. Haven't been able to Google up anything.
The kid (~13) made special effects models as a hobby (only one i can remember is ...
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Young adult time travel novel where the hero is recruited by a good scientist and tempted by his evil doppelganger
A teenager meets a scientist and his daughter, and discovers that they can travel in time. In the book, time travel into the past can create overlapping branches, potentially leading towards chaos.
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Novel about a young woman, and the doctor who mistakes her for a poltergeist
So, this is super vague and I apologize, but something sparked my memory and it's been bothering me, so here goes...
I'm looking for a young-adult book I read probably in the early 2000's. It was ...
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1970/80s YA novel about dystopian divided country of cities and countryside?
I read this book as a kid in the 80s at school. Its about a dystopian country where the protagonist lives in a dirty city environment (there are no longer book as they are deemed unsanitary because ...
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Young adult novel about time travel
I'm trying to remember the title of a book I read in fifth or sixth grade, meaning it would have to have been published in the mid-90s or earlier. It was a young adult or maybe even children's novel. ...
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In the Circle of Magic Series, what is the nature of Lark and Rosethorn's relationship to one another?
I was reading a list of fantasy novels that included queer protagonists and it was revealed that in later books, Daja is in a same-sex relationship. It also stated that earlier books "feature a ...
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Book about a brother and sister living in a futuristic world
It was 1981-1982 when I read it. My female English teacher told me to read it...not the class. Not sure when it was written? I remember it was written from the sister's perspective. There seemed ...
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Looking for a YA urban fantasy-ish novel with homeless teens and elves or faeries
And that's pretty much all I can remember about it, unfortunately. There was, I'm fairly certain, a human protagonist, and s/he stumbles upon a group of faeries/elves/something similar masquerading as ...
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Looking for trilogy of kids' books about geniuses living on an island
I remember a trilogy of YA books I read as a kid, but I can't remember the name. Here are a few details, maybe they'll strike a chord with someone here.
They were written sometime in the 90s.
It ...
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Novel About a Girl Who Realizes She is a Clone
So I remember reading this book in the early 2000's, and I'm pretty sure it was placed in my classroom, so it was obviously geared toward young adults.
It was about a girl who wakes up one day with a ...
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YA book involving a planet with dragons and double-K in people's names
I remember reading, in the 80s, an English-language teen-SF novel involving two teen protagonists (1 male, 1 female) on a planet (not Earth) that might have had some history of slavery (or inter-caste ...
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Generation starship with kids raised by robots
There's a book I remember reading sometime around 1981 or 1982 about a colony/generation starship where kids were raised by robots who gave them something in their food that kept the kids from ...
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Pre 1996 YA fantasy female cat burglar
I have been trying to remember the title/find this book for over a decade. The main character is an orphan. I think she is slightly psychic? She becomes a thief but hates stealing; at one point she ...
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70s era YA Fantasy involving evil elves
I'm looking for a Young Adult Fantasy book I read in grade school in the mid 1970s that told the story of a modern girl who discovers a cave or tunnel that brings her to a medieval-like place. A ...
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A collection of stories about young monsters and vampires
There are a couple of books I have been trying to find for years. I found and read them in my school library when I was in either intermediate or middle school; somewhere around the late 1980's. I'm ...
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Looking for '70s era Time Traveling Young Adult Novel
I vividly recall this book I read when I was a kid in the '70s.
I thought it was called Saturday the 14th, but I am having no luck with that title.
It's about an adolescent girl having a really bad ...
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Children's book about child on failing generation starship saved by Cygnus The Swan?
In the late 1970s I bought a book at a school book fair (likely published by Scholastic) about a young boy who lived on a generational starship. The ship was failing. I remember some bit about an ...
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Name of a series of children's science fiction books from the 1970s - not set in same universe / not sequels
In a public school in Mississippi around 1977 I came across a series of science fiction juvenile books. When I say "series", I mean that they were by the same publisher and had the same binding...but ...
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What novel was set in a dystopian future and featured a boy searching for his missing father?
I'm hoping someone can identify this young-adult/children's sci-fi book. I read it in 1996-1997, but I remember thinking it was written in the 1980s.
The main character was a boy (maybe in his early ...
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Novel about a dragon lord who has to wear gloves at all times
I read this novel when I was young. It is probably a children's or young adult novel. I think I read it in 1997 or earlier. I remember very much enjoying it, but the title and most of the details are ...
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Story Identification: Young adult novel, horror, teens play a D&D variant, but things start to turn real
To the best of my recollection, they went to a house of some sort for the evening to enhance the role-play aspects of some D&D clone/adaptation, and there was even a stuffed octopus or some such ...
