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Looking for a children's or young adult novel about three kids travelling to a fantasy land
I've been trying to remember the title of a children's or young adult book I read as a child about thirty years ago. (So it may be from '70s or '80s). I don't remember many of the details.
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Children's book about a man and a woman (a boy and a girl?) on a mountain with a dragon
This is a childhood memory viewed dimly decades later. I am pretty sure that I read it before 1990, and the odds are decent that it was written before that because it was a book either we or my ...
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Children/young-adult "fantasy" book from 1980s/90s that is really science fiction
I'm searching for a book I read as a child in the mid 1990s. Might be older, but had more of a 1980s than 1950s feel to it. I read it in Swedish, but it was probably a translation from English.
I don'...
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Children's/ Teen novel: Boy protagonist sent through a maze on futuristic space station that keeps getting harder. Read in 1980s
I posted this on Goodreads, but thought it might be good to get ideas from a more specialised group.
Age group: children / teens
Date: 1970s / 80s (read it mid to late 80s).
Origin: British or ...
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Child/YA sociopolitical dystopia with kids who find an underground source of powers
As a kid, maybe around 1982, my parents read a book to me about a group of kids forming some kind of (cruel?) society. I cannot remember much of it; maybe my parents stopped reading because they felt ...
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Book where sea-level change has caused an apocalypse and people use steamships to scavenge flotsam
I remember reading this book in about 2018, but it could be a little older.
The book focused on the crew of a steamship which made their living scavenging flotsam and burning driftwood to keep ...
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Boy goes on a space mission with a human-like dog/wolf partner and encounters a lizard planet
This book was part of a series. It was aimed towards children or young adults. Nothing violent or gory. My assumption is that it was written somewhere around 2010 as it is not an old book. It's ...
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Story about a wizard on an adventure with two children
In my childhood I read a children's book about a wizard who wakes from a long sleep after he lost to his arch nemesis, an evil wizard. He travels to find his enemy once again to defeat him this time. ...
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Identifying a Wizard of Oz-esque children's novel
I read this (English, medium-length) novel about 8 or so years ago, though the copy I received seemed a good few years older. I am Australian, so there is a higher likelihood that it was an Australian ...
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Dystopian collective farm that grows corn, possibly on space station. Workers must confess to & report all petty crimes
Another one I posted on Goodreads, but haven't got anywhere with.
Age group: children / teens
Date: 1970s / 80s (read it late 80s / early 90s).
Nation of origin: unknown (but probably not Australian).
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Children's story: Boy travels with knight to the castle
When I was a child in the 90's, we had some cassette tapes with some stories. This one was about a boy who rides with a knight to the castle, with the hope to become a knight. Things I remember from ...
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Name of children/teenager sci-fi book
About a boy (teenager) who put together an egg-shaped spaceship. A face-less person welcomed him into this “lost (and found)” world where it rained at night and you could do anything except skydive ...
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Children's book with overly warlike elves and fairies
A children's book, written in English, published in or by the 1960s, with no ilustrations as far as I remember, featuring elves and fairies that seemed overly aggressive and warlike to me.
A ...
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What was the name of this book?
in the 90's I read a children's/ YA book dealing with a boy who had to travel somewhere and he did so in a boat.
The book opened with a battle between the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans.
I remember a ...
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Looking for a mid 2000's children's fantasy book
I read a book in 2007-2009 in my primary school library in Australia. I remember it being a children's fantasy series, but it's possible it was one book or meant for older audiences.
It started with a ...
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