Two more cases for our MDC sleuths - Page 5

[Aliviasmom]

Okay, I read this book in middle school, but can't remember the title or the author, and no one I've asked seems to remember either.

It's about a young teen boy who is somehow in the woods, and finds a hole in a tree. He ends up digging the hole bigger and living in it and off the wilderness. I think it was a chapter book. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!!

[Missy]

http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Door.../dp/0590431307

[Pinoikoi]

Originally Posted by Meg Murry.

Could it be the classic Lord of the Flies? Or the classic Star Trek episode Miri?

The Stand?

[Pinoikoi]

Originally Posted by kennedy444

Okay, I have to jump on the bandwagon and add my In search of.....

I"ve asked so many people and all children's librarians I know.

The book I"m looking for is about tow or three children who are brothers and sisters and they are looking for a new mother. They go someplace and get the choose a mom (like a Mother Store). The first few they pick they don't like and return each one until they finally get the "perfect" mother.

I don't remember more than that. Also, I don't believe that it is a picture book. I think it is more of an easy chapter book.

I've told my kids about it for years but could never come up with the actual book.

Thanks.

A neighbor of mine when I was a kid had a movie with a similar plot line called the electric grandmother.

[vbactivist]

Originally Posted by Aliviasmom

Okay, I read this book in middle school, but can't remember the title or the author, and no one I've asked seems to remember either.

It's about a young teen boy who is somehow in the woods, and finds a hole in a tree. He ends up digging the hole bigger and living in it and off the wilderness. I think it was a chapter book. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!!

My side of the mountain by jean craighead George

AWEDOME book

[daniedb]

Argh, I don't know ANY of these, I feel so dumb. No one still recognizes mine? I'm really, really dying to know, and I've googled out the wazoo...

A young girl (I think her parents died?) is sent to live with a relative (old aunt or uncle) in an old country manor. The house has portraits of some young children (four, I think) and over the course of the novel, the children's ghosts are manifested to her and they become friends...I remember reading it as a young girl, and even though I was super scared of supernatural stories, this book actually gave me the warm fuzzies.

[jayayenay]

Originally Posted by alaskanteach

The Stand?

Waaaaayyyyy shorter than The Stand, and it was just adults who were affected by the disease - only kids were left.

*sigh* This has been driving me nuts for years!

[ASusan]

Originally Posted by sadean

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The third is a book about a little girl who sneaks through her grandmother's things and finds some witches items. She finds a clock that makes her disappear, something that allows her to fly and something else I think. One thing that happens is that she doesn't know the cloak makes her disappear, and she wears in a Thanksgiving play. So, she basically has a floating head on stage. I think it is a Ruth Chew book, but I did not recognize any of the titles on a fan site I found.

There's a Ruth Chew FAN SITE?!? I am there!

I loved, loved, loved her books.

Why are so many of the posts on this thread about witch stories? Is it because witch stories are being triggered by other witch stories? Or, is it because so many of us liked these types of books (in the 70s & early 80s, by the looks of it).

[Pinoikoi]

Originally Posted by daniedb

Argh, I don't know ANY of these, I feel so dumb. No one still recognizes mine? I'm really, really dying to know, and I've googled out the wazoo...

I was thinking that it sort of sounded like a Richard Peck type of storyline.. (he wrote Ghost Belonged to Me and many others) but I haven't run into that specific one I don't think...

and no one has found my ghost story collection either, sigh.

[dakotamidnight]

got another one for y'all -

I remember watching on TV when I was about 10 {late 90's} a movie about an asteroid hitting earth. It was presented in such a manner as to make you believe it was happening - with cnn studio and reporters being the main characters I think. The whole thing was just as if it were actually happening and being reported on cnn.

Anyone?

[absinthe]

I have one I have been trying to find for years. It involves a kid (or kids) who goes to stay at a relatives manor house (in England). the relative has money trouble and is forced to sell off the family heirlooms and is eventually facing losing the house. The kids find an old snowglobe and when they shake it they are transported back in time where they meet a boy, maybe with the last name of Faraday. At the end of the book the kids are led to a vast treasure, maybe in the stable? during a huge blizzard.
I read this book in the late seventies, but I suspect it was quite a bit older. I would be so grateful to find it.

[Fyrestorm]

Originally Posted by FitMama

Does anyone remember a film (actual film, not VHS or DVD) about some kids who visit a witch in her big old house? I think she'd make pancakes for them, and then these funky graphics would fly across the screen (with silly audio as well). We'd watch it on rainy days in elementary school (very early 80s). I don't know the title, the actors, or anything really. Just wondering if anyone else ever watched it and if you remember the title.

Just a guess...night on witch mountain?

[kaspirant]

Originally Posted by jayayenay

Hmm, definitely not either one (although I love Lord of the Flies!). It started out with the disease thing...I don't remember whether the adults were already dead at the beginning or if they were sick. It was set in a city - I think in suburbia, and one of the kids had to learn how to drive a car? I remember some story line about having to drive to the store to get supplies, and how the kids were all worried about the rival gang(s?) and all the looting. The kids the story follows all lived together in a house or a school or something; I don't remember if any of them were related or not.

It sounds a bit like The Kindling, but that's too new.

I didn't finish reading the thread...but how about this one?

The Girl who Owned a City

[kaspirant]

Originally Posted by sapphire_chan

Okay, adding to the list:

TV show, 80's about a department store after hours and the main characters are the store mannequins and a mouse? Nevermind, found it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today's_Special

I loved that one too~!! The old grandpa security guide puppet cracked me up!!

[vbactivist]

okay...does anyone remember a tv show called "love sydney" - I knwo there was a girl and her grandfather ---sort of punky brewster esque but not a comedy...

[Flor]

Originally Posted by Periwinkle

Oh I wish! Someone else found that one too. No, alas that's not it. This was a book I read (read to me) as a very little girl of maybe 4 or 5 so I think the latest publishing date could be 1974 or 1975.

It's been driving me nuts. Here is more of the story I can remember.

OK, so there is a little girl named Weenie Witch who is taken care of by a bunch of older (mean maybe?) witches. They all have different jobs kind of like fairies would in a book, like put the dew on the plants or whatever, and they ride moonbeams (or silk thread??) down from the sky. In the book, Weenie Witch gets in trouble somehow (not clear on the plot) and she is rescued or gets herself out of trouble somehow. I remember she (or someone) gets caught in "cobwebs" - I clearly remember that term being used because in my family we always said "spider webs" and so it stuck out to me. I am WRACKING my brain and that's all I can come up with. Publication date no later than mid-1970's since I was reading as a little girl and was born early 70's.

If I find this book (or someone else does!) I am literally going to buy it if it kills me because I have been looking for it for 2 years now for dd and ds!!!

Did you see that the original publishing date is 1960? Probably a new cover design.

ETA: But I see you found the title. Cool!

[Flor]

Originally Posted by KristiMetz

Maybe someone can help me with one!!! It's been bugging me for months now.

I read a book when I was a young girl... it was about magic, and it had a really long title with lots of words in it (lots of adjectives I believe). Basically, the girl dabbles in magic and it all goes horribly wrong (but with a happy ending of course).

It's not by Ruth Chew, or Madelaine L'Engle (probably butchered that spelling).

Does anyone know what it was??? I just loved that book. There were others in that series, by the same author and with the same protagonist, and they weren't about magic but they all had really long titles.

Long title made me think of this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440441625

[jayayenay]

Originally Posted by kaspirant

I didn't finish reading the thread...but how about this one?

The Girl who Owned a City

OMG....That's IT! Thank you!!!

I don't remember much about the book, but the reviews are pretty bad! I wonder if I liked the whole book or just the idea of there being a world of only kids...

I'll have to check it out from the library and see how awful the writing really is!

[Hera]

Is the pancake witch movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks?

I loved that book, The Girl With the Silver Eyes.

I thought of the Electric Grandmother too, that was a freaky movie.

I'm thinking the snowglobe one sounds like Edgar Eager or E. Nesbit, but a google search is fruitless.

[ananas]

Originally Posted by andreac

I loved that book!!

So did I!