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AKA the place to find books that you don't remember the title to.

I remember this book mentioned somewhere on this site or Ye Olden Syte of Yore: Something about a girl who was born to be a doner for her sick older sister or something - by invitro fertilization? I think there was something about a lawsuit against the parents to have the right over her own body or something.

[stargirl]

That would probably be My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picault. It's pretty new, was published maybe 2 years ago.

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That sounds right. I was just told about this book last weekend by a friend. Funny that it popped back up here today.

[nck1001]

Okay, I have one that's now been driving me crazy for quite a while. It's a book I read as a kid, probably around the mid-80s (1984, 85?). Probably written in the sixties or seventies about a boy who is out with a friend playing with firecrackers and he is blinded. He goes to live in a school and gets a guide dog. There are two parts that I clearly remember: the boy's name is Jimmy and his sister is Mitzi, and he learns to eat dinner by positioning the food like a clock (I may be confusing this part with Mary on Little House).
Does anyone remember this book? Or am I crazy?

[squsie]

Aaargh, I can't believe that I know this one. It's Follow My Leader which, according to my Scholastic Books edition, was made into a Disney film.

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Along the same blind theme. There was a book about a girl who was so excited because a kid her age was moving into the house next door. But the kid was blind and she thought they couldn't be friends but then this was one hip cool blind kid and she could do anything normal kids could do and then they both got kidnapped (?) and the blind kid helped them out by feeling for a ladder or something.

[stargirl]

Nobody I know has ever heard of this book. I read it when I was around 10 (late 80's).
The story is set in Germany, probably 30-40 years after WWII. The main character is a girl who finds a diary of an aunt named Kate who died in the war. After reading it, she realizes that her Aunt Sylvia, whom she'd always idolized informed on Kate for feeding starving Russian POWs, resulting in Kate's execution. The cover of the book had a picture of a girl with long brown hair, old fashioned white blouse and long purple skirt, sort of lying on a lounge and looking out a window. This book really intrigued me, so I still remember it, but since I don't know the title or author I can't track it down. Does anyone have an idea what it might be?
(Jensational: I know that book and I'm sure I read it when I was in seventh grade or so, but have no idea what the title was. Was one of the characters named Sheila?)

[Coffeecakes]

This book I purchased from one of those little catalogs that were handed out in Elementary School. Anyway, it was around 1995, and the book was about this kid whose sister had died years before. He ends up thinking that this one chick that moves in next door(I think) is the reincarnation of his sister. She starts appearing at the sister's grave and everything. His neighbor the whole time is really mean to him because apparently he is convinced that this kid was the one that killed his sister. It ends up being that the girl IS the reincarnation of his sister. Apparently, she was very abusive towards him, and one day, she tried to kill him. She killed his dog, and he ended up pushing her(or she fell) against a knife. During the whole book, he has flashbacks of tons of blood on the basement floor, etc. Does anyone know the name of this book? On the cover, it was all grey and it just had a casket with a female hand coming out. Please, I lost this book and want to buy another one, ya'll!

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So this is a (probably) futile attempt to find a very obscure series of books. I don't remember any of the books' titles, but I'm about 90% certain that the series was called "Ford Models." I was about 13 years old when I read them (which would be about 10 years old to give an idea of publication date). Each book was told from the POV of each girl, who were all discovered in different ways, and each was about 16 years old.

Here's what I remember:
- The first book has a girl with curly red hair on the cover
- The girls were enrolled into a performing arts high school so that they could get time off whenever they needed to do shoots
- The 3rd or 4th book was about how one girl didn't want to "just" be a model and she joined, like, every club the high school had and overworked herself and collasped of exhaustion during a shoot near the end of the book
- The head of Ford models was a woman who used to make and serve the girls hot tea whenever they had a meeting with her (Uh, yeah, even at 13 I had a feeling this was supremely unrealistic)
- The girls all lived together with a house mother in an apartment in NYC.

If anyone could give me any leads, I'm feeling nostalgic and I'd love to locate these. I don't think they did very well when they were released. I think I got the first 4 and then they disappeared. I loved them even though I knew they weren't very well written.

I tried looking on Amazon which has helped me locate obscure books in the past, but I got hundreds of results of books about restoring Model-Ts stuff.

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aurorastar said:

So this is a (probably) futile attempt to find a very obscure series of books. I don't remember any of the books' titles...

Not so futile. That would be the Ford Supermodels of the World series.

ABEBooks is great for finding books where you've only got partial information and they're on the obscure side.