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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Childhood counting book about a boy who goes to miniature worlds based on the numbers 1 to 10
Children's counting book. Both counting forward and backward to 10. Late 80's/early 90's
It had a child (male) going on an adventure in the woods behind his home? his grandparent's home? I don't ...
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Children's book about intelligent bears or maybe cats
I read this as a child, as a library book, so this would have been mid-late 1970s - the book could be older of course.
The setting was a post-human earth, where a society of intelligent bears (?) ...
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What is the name of the book about a boy dressed in layers of clothes who is actually a mouse?
A boy in a classroom wearing layers of clothing is asked to take off his clothing and is revealed not to be a boy but a mouse. I believe it might have been a scholastic book
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Book about a small ship that rises out of the water when a flute or musical instrument is played
About 45 years ago, I read a book in the elementary library about a small ship that would rise from the water when a musical instrument/flute was played.
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Children's ish book about a crash landed spaceship, only (some of the) children survive, something about a mining revolt?
I read this in the 90s but it was already old then I think. The main character is a girl. Her parents die on impact or something on the planet. She describes them as splats on the wall or something ...
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Children's sci-fi book about a boy who finds an alien woman with a special stone that shows him her world while she regenerates
So there was a children's book I picked up from Dodworth Library in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK, somewhere in the years 2002-2007. The book definitely won't be newer than 2008 and I doubt would be ...
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80s/90s sci fi children's novel about a future TV star on Earth who is visited by a space woman
So when I was about 9 or 10(this would have been 2014 or 2015) I found a sci fi book in obe of my classrooms. I didn't read it(wasn't much of a reader back than), but I did flip through the pages, and ...
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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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Kids. Humorous SF/ fantasy book. A boy has fireworks spring from his head every time he gets his hair cut
It was a thin paperback kids book for maybe 8-10 year olds. I read it about 1979 in the UK.
The boy protagonist may have been called Danny. It is possibly a Danny Dunn book, I read some others at the ...
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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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Children’s story about siblings who travel to an alternate universe where time runs slower
Ok so I remember reading this story in the early 2000’s, but it probably came out before then. Basically what I can recall is that it focuses on a brother and sister who found the entrance to another ...
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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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Book about siblings in a magical world?
Okay so the I read the story ages ago, so I barely remember any details but I'd really like to read it again.
Anyway, the story revolves around two siblings, their parents aren't present for whatever ...
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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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Boy goes on a space mission with an anthropomorphic dog/wolf partner and encounters a lizard planet
This book was part of a series. It was aimed towards children or young adults. Nothing violent or gory. My assumption is that it was written somewhere around 2010 as it is not an old book. It's ...
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kids book about dinosaurs and time travel
A boy travels back in time to see this girl who looks after dinosaurs. I believe her name was Fern and she has ginger curly hair. I can't really remember anything else about the book, but I know he ...
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Children’s fantasy book about triplet sisters: one speaks to animals, one can turn into an animal and the last harnesses water
Read this book back in the 2000s. I remember bits and pieces of it:
Triplet sisters (Hendersons I think), one has the ability to speak to animals, one can turn into an animal, panther or something, ...
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Book about a baby dragon that was left on a family’s doorstep
I need help finding a book about a child and a dragon. Unfortunately my memory of the book is very very fuzzy, but I remember that it was published in the late 90’s to early 2000’s and set in the real ...
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Kids' story about a Christmas tree that was sad because no one would buy it
There was a Christmas tree for sale but no one bought it because it had a twisted trunk. It was very sad because no one would buy it. Eventually it was thrown out with the rubbish. A woodcutter/...
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1980s sci-fi childrens' book series which taught programming in BASIC
When I was a kid, I had this book about a group of people in a spaceship, looking for a material called "magnetite", as I recall. The cover had a generic sci-fi image of said vessel, which ...
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Book about an orphan girl with orange curly hair
The book cover is dark green with gold details of leafy vines, within the vines are small drawings of things that were in the book like a crow, teddy bear and knife from what I remember
I think in the ...
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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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Story ID: Collection of short stories about fantasy and possibly mythological beings and places?
I read a collection of short stories as an elementary school student in Canada around 2008 to 2010. This is a book.
I believe that there was a story associated with each letter of the alphabet from A ...
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Outcast Girl, power to kill and/or set people on fire with a glance, world is extremely hot, kind of scary, might include dragons
This is a book that impacted and scared me a lot as a kid, but I only have the vaguest memories except a few points that stick out. I'm also a little suspicious I might be conflating two books I read ...
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Children's fantasy story with dragons and St George
I read this when I was in primary school, which means it was written before the very early 1980s. I suspect it was written by a Brit.
England is experiencing a long, hot, dry summer; it's hot enough ...
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70s illustrated children's book about a witch who lives in the attic of an old house purchased by a single mother
The plot as I remember it: A young boy and his mother move into an old house in the country (this could be set in England, not sure). I am unsure about the boy's name, but I believe his name is "...
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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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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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Kids story - a character grows red wings, has them cut off and replaced
While thinking about some old kids stories by Edith Nesbit and Enid Blyton, I half-recalled a fragment of a story where a character had some ointment that made them grow red wings. At one point, an ...
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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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Sci-fi children's book with an alien football mascot named Mookiee?
I remember when I was EXTREMELY young, I read a very non-descript children's book with an alien character named Mookiee who served as the mascot of a middle-school football team on Earth. I can't ...
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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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Looking for a mid 2000's children's fantasy book
I read a book in 2007-2009 in my primary school library in Australia. I remember it being a children's fantasy series, but it's possible it was one book or meant for older audiences.
It started with a ...
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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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A children's novel featuring a race of spider-like aliens
Some 30 years ago when I was in the 6th grade, I remember reading an excerpt from a sci-fi novel in my English class.
I don’t remember much of the story, but it did feature a race of intelligent ...
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