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I'm at a loss so far. The one children's librarian here that I've had a chance to talk to had no new ideas... though she pointed me at a couple of interesting things. I also have been wandering around on NoveList, and assorted other websites, and haven't found anything that sounds remotely...

bumping this back up in the hopes that it rings a bell somewhere... I'm still thinking it was a pre-1970 book, paperback... cover may have been printed in just two or three colors... not the same page size as current adult paperbacks...

I can't come up with a title off the top of my head, but I'm going to do something looking around. If these aren't a series that we have, it sounds like something that we'd like (and therefore ought to have). We have quite a few current and older children's book. (In our house quite a few= a few...

Just dying laughing at this--- regardless of whether it was intended to ask fiction or non-fiction... it still leaves open the suggestion of it being NON-fiction... aka reality. Lol.... thanks for the laugh!

I had the Hundred Dresses book when I was in grade school... thank you for reminding me of another favorite!

You're welcome. I went through my own "what was the name of the bratty princess book?" myself here a while back. What let me find it, though, was I was pretty sure of the name of the country... and Saxony Coburn is pretty unique. Enjoy!

Might it be: A Royal Pain, by Ellen Conford? This was a favorite of mine... I "think" the dog and the ski instructor might be right, but can't remember. I remember her having to go get her picture taken for the national stamp, and the girl raised as a princess being awful to her... and...

Girl with Silver Eyes is good. I was going to suggest it. Roald Dahl's Matilda is good, too, but again, depends on age group. I'd call both of those 8-10 yrs or perhaps 8-12... but much beyond that in age, and the books are too young. Most after 12 will likely be reading young adult.

Frustratingly enough, I'm pretty sure I've read this... at some point in the past. Nope, no clue what the title is. Though for some reason the word "damned" comes to mind... but that wouldn't have likely been in a high school library.

None sound truely familiar to me... the second and third make me think I might have seen them mentioned at some point, and the Singers and Dancers rings a slightly stronger bell... but not enough to even point you in the right direction. I'd like to know what that last one is, if you find out...

All that comes to mind is The Glass Menagerie... or something similar. I had a Scholastic version of it when I was in grade school... I remember the picture was the girl placing the glass figurines on the cover, as if the cover were a window glass, and the shelf was in the window... Somehow...

No, I haven't. But I'll add it to my list. The title of that book may have had the word "hill" in it. I'm pretty sure the book was one I picked up used from goodness knows where... and the cover was dark... perhaps in blacks and reds? Definitely not a full-color cover. And paperback. And I'd...

Don't know but it sounds interesting, I'd like to know what it is too. Thought I'd bump it toward the top in hopes someone knows it.

This sounds like a slightly scrambled description of Anne McCaffrey's The Rowan. It's the first book in her Tower and Hive series. Rowan is a 3-yr-old who survives some sort of accident (mining, I think) and her telepathic screams are heard planet-wide by other talents. The story follows her as...

Still looking... Hello! I'm still looking for this book. I'm thinking it was published earlier then my previous guess, perhaps in the 50's or 60's. I believe the mansion they inherited was either in the Nob Hill or Pacific Heights area... I remember mention, as the boy was evacuating the area...

Hello! I'm looking for the title/author of a book I once owned, and lost in a house fire 10 years ago. I've tried googling it, and haven't managed to find it. Just can't get the right combo of search words, I suppose. Book was set beginning a short time before the great San Francisco...