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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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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Fantasy children's story where they suspect someone is a vampire [migrated]
I'm 38 and read this probably between 1993-1997.... when I was between 8-12 years old. I don't think it was a new book at that time.
I am trying to track down a book I read as a child. It was about a ...
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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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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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Looking for 1970s children's book of scary stories - person hung in their jail cell and placed a curse
In the late 1970s my sister had a children's book of scary/ghost stories. My memory is vague so some of the things I state may not be factual.
The book had a soft cover and included black and white ...
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Children’s book about the child of a single parent who travels back in time and meets another child of a single parent
I’m looking for the name of a children’s book that would have been written before the 1970’s, 50’s or 60’s or possibly even earlier.
It’s about a child and a single parent who move into an old ...
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Looking for Children's Sci Fi Novel about a Kid Whose Family Is Able to Create Planets
I'm trying to find the title of a book I read in middle school, around 2015.
I read about the first 20-30 pages, so I only remember a few details from it.
I think the plot was something like the main ...
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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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Western isekai novel; boy and girl receive fantastic items for a legend-like quest
I just started wondering about the name of a novel I read in elementary school, in Finland in the 90s. It might have been the first fantasy novel I ever read, so my recollection of the elements of the ...
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1980s YA/Childrens book: valley surrounded by mountains, bunch of misfit gnome-like people repel invaders
I read this some time in the 1980s in the UK in a school library for 11-and-unders. (But that might not mean much. They had Assassins of Gor as well!) I remember it as being rather strange, and darker ...
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'80s–'90s science fiction children's book about a gold monkey robot stuck on a planet like a junkyard
Okay this one is bugging me. I remember reading this book as a kid.
It was about a robot — pretty sure it also looked like a gold monkey — who was stuck on a planet like a junkyard. I remember that on ...
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1980s children's storybook about a boy's journey from Earth to Mars
I’m looking for a children's storybook from the '80s about a boy who moves from Earth to Mars. The book came with a cassette with the boy narrating. I recall the intro man's voice saying, "this ...
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Kids’ picture book involving a friendly robot taking kids around the galaxy
I recall reading a book frequently in the late-80s or early-90s, but cannot remember the name and would love to find the book for my son.
In the book, a group of kids are taken around the galaxy by a ...
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Children's book series in which a device is used to view images
The first book in the series has the main character's parents travel back in time with him at which point they get trapped and he makes it back leaving him without his parents and unsure of where they ...
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70’s children’s book about a boy with a magic can of paint
This was a book I read as small child. A little boy has a magic can of paint. When he first paints with it the colors are terrible. Then when the sun rises the next morning it is beautiful.
A king ...
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Book about a girl who enters a fantasy land with a blue queen who stole her dog
I'm looking for a book I read as a kid. I remember there being a queen on the cover in a blue dress.
It was a about a girl who gets sucked into another book to get her dog back. I remember that she ...
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Looking for a children's book about a tiger who travelled the world [closed]
I owned this book in the 1980s in the UK, though I don't recall it being new then. It was a smaller format hardback, maybe 10cm high or so. My recollection of the cover (which could be wrong) is of ...
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Book where aliens come to a school and save it
they have bananas wrapped in ham & covered in cheese for lunch one day. The aliens save the school with electricity somehow.
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Children's SF: young pilot flies spaceship into meteor storm, patches damage to ship (spoilers of another book)
Reposting a search I have going on Goodreads, in search of more suggestions:
Age group: children (upper primary / elementary school - maybe 10-12yos).
Genre: SF
Date: 1950s to 80s (read it late 80s / ...
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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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Illustrated children's book series from the 80s about petrol drinking aliens
As far as I recall the book was about some sort of monster on earth. It seems he was loosely based on Blondies song Rapture as he was either eating cars or at least drinking petrol/gasoline. There may ...
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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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60's/70's children/YA book involving magic circles, magicians with numerical ranks, and perhaps a train
As a child in the mid-to-late 70s I was read a novel by a beloved teacher in grade school. I have only the vaguest recollection now of story elements to identify it:
It's a fantasy book, but I seem to ...
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1980s Floral Punk (?) Violent Cottage Core Children's Book
I remember distinctly this children's book in my church library growing up, this is late 80s early 90s that had this floral punk aesthetic. Periscopes made to mimic crocuses and lilies in burrows ...
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Illustrated children's book series with Greek Mythology references
I'm trying to find a book series. I remember there were lot of Greek Mythology references including
Medea in one of the books
someone called Nico (or potentially that's Nico from Pharesee)
the ...
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Children's / YA book involving demon summoning and a sorcerer's apprentice
I'm trying to identify a book. The things that I'm certain of are:
The main character is male and a sorcerer's apprentice or something. Probably a child / young adult.
There's demon summoning, ...
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Sci fi story about fruit that gave its consumers power
I once read a children's scifi story. I think it maybe came out in the '80s. It was about a farmer whose fruit garden got mysteriously imbued with some sort of strange substance. This led to people ...
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Kids book where boy and girl find laptop from space [duplicate]
I remember reading this kids book around 2008-2012 (probably on the earlier side). The book couldn't have been too old at the time as it made reference to laptops, CD games and joysticks so likely ...
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Book involving the discovery and enslavement of a new species of humanoids living underground
I read this book when I was a child in late '70s/'80s.
My memory of the story is a bit hazy but this is what I remember.
Set on contemporary Earth, an underground humanoid species was discovered when ...
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Looking for a children's book I remember from the late 70's/early 80's
I'm looking for a children's science fiction book I vaguely remember from around the late 70's in the UK.
From what I remember it features a boy onboard an alien spacecraft where the aliens appear ...
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Book where sea-level change has caused an apocalypse and people use steamships to scavenge flotsam
I remember reading this book in about 2018, but it could be a little older.
The book focused on the crew of a steamship which made their living scavenging flotsam and burning driftwood to keep ...
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Looking for a childrens book with siblings and only one could see the fantasy world (not spiderwick)
I read a book or maybe series when I was a kid that had 3 siblings that visit another world, or see more of this world.
One can see this world
One can with one eye but not the other
One can't see the ...
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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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Children's book where people are brainwashed by starlight
I'm guessing I read this sometime in the late 1980s so my recollection is vague to say the least - I'd like to think I didn't imagine it though.
In essence the plot revolves around people being ...
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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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Book about kids who leave their isolated dome on another planet
I am trying to find the name of a book I read in 2007/2008, when I was in grade 5. It was about a family of four, two adults and two children, that lived in a dome and were isolated from the outside ...
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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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Middle Grade Fantasy Novel Boy and Girl Travel to Two Worlds, Snow Kingdom and Ice Dragon?
Been looking for this book for ages. It was a middle grade novel I probably read between 2008 and 2011. I remember two protagonists with split POV's, a boy and a girl, magically transported to two ...
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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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80s Childrens book with accompanying cassette tape
I am looking for a children’s picture book from the late 1970s, early 1980s. The book was on natural/beige paper with brown line drawings.
The story was a fantasy where a young boy lives in a small ...
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Book about a kid who plays a space flight simulator at an arcade for a prize
So the book's cover has red and yellow caution tape around the edges and red for the rest of the cover; it's a short single word title. It's not The Road, Ender's Game, or Armada.
The book follows a ...
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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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Book involving a witch who placed bread in front of a stone circle
I know this isn't a lot to go on, but I'm wondering if anyone remembers a book or story with a witch placing bread in a stone circle / henge to hide their numbers. I think there was a chase through ...
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Children's book, alien abduction, "crystals of amnesia"
I'm not sure about any of the following.
Children's book, possibly a collection of stories.
Aliens take a girl to their spaceship or their planet.
The aliens are agitated and show her a corridor lined ...
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Children's book with a boy, who has a putty-like translation device, and a dinosaur-like alien
I'm looking for a children's sci-fi book I read as a kid, 20ish years ago. I vaguely remember it having a kid and a reptilian or dinosaur looking alien. The most vivid thing I remember is that ...
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Sci-Fi Book With Cover Of A Person Driving A Ship Saying "Look Ma, No Hands!"
I remember reading this book when I was a kid. I think it was book 2, so a lot didn't make sense to me at the time. I suddenly remembered it recently and really wanted to know what it was.
The first ...
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Looking for a story about a teacher who meets a ghost
Can anyone help me locate this book:
It is about a woman, maybe a school teacher, who one night, as she was staying late in the school after hours, encounters a ghost from a couple hundred years ago. ...
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Sci-fi book: a girl lives on a pink sea world and colonists arrive
This was a library book I read as a child, and I can't remember what it was called. It was the late 80s/early 90s? It had a pink cover, I think. Paperback. A girl is on an alien planet totally covered ...
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