A girl goes to stay with her grandmother who tells her that she has free reign of the house just dont go in the basement. The grandmother goes to the store and the girl hears a nouse coning from the basement. She opens the door and a monster of some sort comes out and wants to play tag. It is her cousin Herman. The grandmother comes in and says ( Read more... )

Hi, I am having alot of trouble remembering a story I once read and I was wondering if it might sound familiar to anyone. The story is about a mailman who moves to a new city for a new job. This particular town has had three mailmen in as many months. No one knew what happened to the missing mailmen. The new mailman soon encounters a house on his ( Read more... )

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The school's National English Honor Society has grown so large that we are getting nerdy and going the route of Harry Potter and splitting into houses every other meeting. I am in charge of the "Current Trends" house for the kiddos and my group will be focusing on what is currently popular in Literature and Publishing ( Read more... )

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One of my friends told me about a book that sounds interesting! This is all she has for details: "It was about two kids, a boy and a girl, about aged 10 in 1940ish. The cover was yellow. At some point the boy gets polio. It's summer, but the pools get shut down because of the polio. That's all I recall!"

A student of mine is interested in writing a sci/fi or fantasy book with the following ideas: sword fighting, technology, futuristic fantasy aspects. He asked me if I knew of any books already like that but science fiction and fantasy are simply not my genre ( Read more... )

Hi! My mother's birthday is coming up and I'd love to be able to find a copy of one or two of her old favorites that she lost years ago. But it's been so long that I don't know the titles or authors, only some disjointed facts. I'm really hoping someone can help me ( Read more... )

A Mexican girl is hired by a white family to be a nanny. The girl (Chiquita?) has an interesting time adjusting to upper middle class white people life. She has an accident with a pressure cooker and is severely injured, after which the family has to pay her alot of money. Despite this, she decides to go back to work as a nanny, but for a different ( Read more... )

Hi there, I read this YA book about 5 years ago. It was a new-ish series with only two or three books out. It was about a boy who was training in a buddhist-ish temple (only it's a fantasy novel so it wasn't actually buddhist) and there was a garden with a god in it or something. I remember that for his training he was put in an isolation room and ( Read more... )