luminosa
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Post by luminosa on Apr 9, 2014 11:51:08 GMT -4
This is such a long shot but for some reason I am trying to recall this book I read as a young teen. The main character was a teen girl and she was named after Wallis Simpson. If I am rememering correctly and not confusing two books she someone how sets across the country (on foot!) to get to a relatives house. I can remember the cover. It's her standing outside a house door with a slight grimace on her face. I think she has on a pink sweater and jeans.
I've tried googling whatever I can remember but nothing is coming up and it is driving me crazy.
Anyone who can solve this...you'll get a big virtual hug.
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Queena
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Post by Queena on Apr 15, 2014 11:49:40 GMT -4
This is such a long shot but for some reason I am trying to recall this book I read as a young teen. The main character was a teen girl and she was named after Wallis Simpson. If I am rememering correctly and not confusing two books she someone how sets across the country (on foot!) to get to a relatives house. I can remember the cover. It's her standing outside a house door with a slight grimace on her face. I think she has on a pink sweater and jeans. I've tried googling whatever I can remember but nothing is coming up and it is driving me crazy. Anyone who can solve this...you'll get a big virtual hug. . I'm looking for a book. I've been looking for it for years, maybe someone here can help me out. It's about 4 friends who on the night of their high school graduation, kill a classmate who raped one of their friends. They go on to have different lives, one became a talk show host, one a model, one a perfume/makeup executive, and the one was the leader stayed in their hometown marrying a doctor. Someone starts blackmailing the women claiming that they saw them kill the classmate. The leader kills the person blackmailing them, and they all come home for the funeral. I remember that they grew up in a small town in California. I also remember that one of them moved to Europe. They all had their own problems because of that night. Mostly drugs and promiscuity. Does anyone know which book I'm talking about? It's been killing me all of these years trying to find the title, and failing each time. |
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BinkyBetsy
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Post by BinkyBetsy on May 18, 2014 21:37:26 GMT -4
This is such a long shot but for some reason I am trying to recall this book I read as a young teen. The main character was a teen girl and she was named after Wallis Simpson. If I am rememering correctly and not confusing two books she someone how sets across the country (on foot!) to get to a relatives house. I can remember the cover. It's her standing outside a house door with a slight grimace on her face. I think she has on a pink sweater and jeans. I think you are conflating two different books. Anything For A Friend by Ellen Conford is about a girl named Wallis who is starting the sixth grade in a new school. Her parents are always moving around the country, so she's never been in the same school, or town, for longer than a year. She doesn't go to a relative's house, though: that must be something else. But as soon as you said "Wallis", I knew it had to be that. ETA: Yay! |
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Post by chonies on May 18, 2014 22:12:10 GMT -4
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Post by chiqui on May 19, 2014 11:52:39 GMT -4
Doe anyone remember a YA mystery story for girls from the 1970s, featuring blonde twin girls named Ophelia and Cordelia? Their father was a Shakespeare nut, which is why they were named that. The plot revolves around a stolen doll, or maybe dollhouse. At the book's climax the twins try to get back the doll at an auction and one of them cuts her hair short as a disguise, so they don't look o much alike. I credit this book with sparking an interest in Shakespeare for me (I have a life plan to see all of his plays live)
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Post by mrspickles on May 19, 2014 18:54:38 GMT -4
Doe anyone remember a YA mystery story for girls from the 1970s, featuring blonde twin girls named Ophelia and Cordelia? Their father was a Shakespeare nut, which is why they were named that. The plot revolves around a stolen doll, or maybe dollhouse. At the book's climax the twins try to get back the doll at an auction and one of them cuts her hair short as a disguise, so they don't look o much alike. I credit this book with sparking an interest in Shakespeare for me (I have a life plan to see all of his plays live) Is this it? |
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Post by chiqui on May 20, 2014 13:20:01 GMT -4
Yes! Thanks!
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Post by americanchai on May 20, 2014 14:13:48 GMT -4
This is such a long shot but for some reason I am trying to recall this book I read as a young teen. The main character was a teen girl and she was named after Wallis Simpson. If I am rememering correctly and not confusing two books she someone how sets across the country (on foot!) to get to a relatives house. I can remember the cover. It's her standing outside a house door with a slight grimace on her face. I think she has on a pink sweater and jeans. I think you are conflating two different books. Anything For A Friend by Ellen Conford is about a girl named Wallis who is starting the sixth grade in a new school. Her parents are always moving around the country, so she's never been in the same school, or town, for longer than a year. She doesn't go to a relative's house, though: that must be something else. But as soon as you said "Wallis", I knew it had to be that. ETA: Yay! OMG, thank you thank you thank you for mentioning the name Ellen Conford - I'd been trying to think of "Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood" for a long time, which led me back to "Seven Days to a Brand New Me", and "To All My Fans with Love From Sylvie". Loved these books when I was a pre-teen. |
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BinkyBetsy
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Post by BinkyBetsy on May 22, 2014 23:05:49 GMT -4
Happy to help!
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Post by LAX on May 23, 2014 14:36:10 GMT -4
I read a book last year that had a story of a poor dog tied up in a crappy neighbors yard. One day the dog escapes and we think the dog goes onto better things, but later in the story the dog's remains are found in the woods where her broken chain trapped her around a tree stump and she perished. It's driving me crazy that I can't remember what book this came from.
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