What Is This Book?

[comfortablynumb]

OK. My sister called me about this book, and I knew that y'all would be able to help me! It's a book about a veterinarian (female) and she is working with this guy who is ex-FBI or something like that. Anyway they stumble across an experiment or group of children who have wings and can fly. I don't remember anything else about it, so I'm hoping one of you geniuses will. My nephew wants to read it, and who am I to deny him a book to read.

[thecupcakekid]

I think that is James Patterson's When the Wind Blows.

Eta: Looked it up, that's the one. There was a sequel called Maximum Overdrive.

[comfortablynumb]

thecupcakekid said:

I think that is James Patterson's When the Wind Blows.

Eta: Looked it up, that's the one. There was a sequel called Maximum Overdrive.

A sparkly cupcake for you, The Cupcake Kid! Many thanks.

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This is from a while back:

linared said:

I asked about this book at several boards and haven't had any success. It is a young adult book about a girl (I think 13) who is either an orphan or left by her parents. Its probably set in the lates 70s or 80s. She lives with her uncle and his family who own a horse stable. She is considered fearful and babyish by the family. One night she rides a horse down the highway to prove to herself that she is brave. She is in love with her older cousin but he is dating someone else. At the end of the book she realizes that her uncle loves her a daughter and she finally feels secure in her new family.

If you still haven't found it, it sounds like Some Other Summer by C.S. Adler, which was the sequel to Magic of the Glits.

I'm looking for a kids/young adult book from the mid-1980's about a group who gets stranded in a creepy old house with a broken clock - the hands are frozen at five to midnight or seven to midnight or something. Anyhow, the minute hand starts to creep slowly towards twelve. I never actually got a chance to read the whole thing, so if anyone knows what I'm talking about, I'll be very grateful, so I can cross it off my "things to do before I die list".

[kanding]

I think this is going to be a tough one as it goes a long way back, from my childhood (/shakes cane)! I received the book in 1974-75 as a Christmas present.

It was for young adults and it was a collection a brief biographies of notable women. There must have been about twenty-five or thirty biographies, each about two to four pages apiece. The illustrations were done in charcoal as was the cover art. The background of the cover was grey. I think the title had four words in it. Vague enough for you?

I just remember it as a great book. It talked about women that you never really hear about like Victoria Woodhull.

If you don't remember this book, do any of you have suggestions of where I could go online to find it given my hazy information? Thanks!

[everlynn]

Okay, I'm trying to remember this book I read when I was younger. It had to be in the 90's. It was the first book in what was apparently going to be a series about these girls that were on a yacht or something for school, and then end up shipwrecked on an island.

All I remember specifically is that one of the girls was there with her sister and was upset because she had a green bathing suit, because it went good with her complexion. I don't know there was this big deal about her having an 'olive complexion". That's all I remember.

[chiquita]

kanding said:

I think this is going to be a tough one as it goes a long way back, from my childhood (/shakes cane)! I received the book in 1974-75 as a Christmas present.

It was for young adults and it was a collection a brief biographies of notable women. There must have been about twenty-five or thirty biographies, each about two to four pages apiece. The illustrations were done in charcoal as was the cover art. The background of the cover was grey. I think the title had four words in it. Vague enough for you?

I just remember it as a great book. It talked about women that you never really hear about like Victoria Woodhull.

If you don't remember this book, do any of you have suggestions of where I could go online to find it given my hazy information? Thanks!

Could it be "They Led the Way: 14 American Women"? Fewer people than you remember but the rest of the description sounds like that book. It had Phillis Wheatley, Nellie Bly, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Blackwell among others. I got a copy probably about 1979; I swear it contributed to my feminism. It's listed on Amazon (different cover than in the '70s).

[kanding]

HOLY COW, chiquita! That just may be the book! My memory is hazy, so there very well may have been fewer bios than I remember. Mine was a hardback, but the dates match and it just sounds so familiar! Wow, I really didn't think I'd ever find the book! Thanks!

[chiquita]

kanding said:

HOLY COW, chiquita! That just may be the book! My memory is hazy, so there very well may have been fewer bios than I remember. Mine was a hardback, but the dates match and it just sounds so familiar! Wow, I really didn't think I'd ever find the book! Thanks!

You're most welcome. I loved that book so much, I still have my original copy.

[Beyle]

A friend of mine (back in middle school) lent me a creepy ass book that took place at a funhouse, midway, something to that effect.

I believe it was geared toward teens and featured two sisters. If I'm not mistaken, one of them gets killed. There were clowns too. I think.

I hate clowns.


ETA: I'm not talking about the books Funhouse by Diane Hoh and The Funhouse by Dean Koontz. This book I'm talking about was probably more of an adult book, possibly geared toward high school kids.