I am looking for a book which focuses on a child and his family. I think there was a big house and there were creatures around the house but the creatures weren't visible all the time. There was something that made them visible but I don't remember what it was. The child's family didn't believe him at first.
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The kids moved into a house inherited from a family member. There was a journal one kid found in an attack. The journal detailed a bunch of fantasy, fey-type creatures. The kids had a evilish brownie living in their house. The book was presented as something true that was mailed in to the publisher. There were two series.
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I read a book back in middle school. Can't remember the name of the book or the author or anything. Tried googling all the stuff I remember, but nothing ever fit it. It had a biohazard symbol on the cover, and it was sort of holographic, a bunch of whites and blues, looked kind of like how people interpret dream sequences or warp jumps in sci-fi animation or film. The book involved three kids, and they got a message one day or something, and they eventually decoded it to be lottery numbers, and they were told to buy a submarine with it and some other things. Some weird fog starts appearing all over the place, and these white creatures start beating up on everybody else. When they lose pretty much everybody, they're just kind of sitting in the submarine, and they send a message back in time, I think. It's been a few years. Anybody know what the book is or have any hints on it? Thank you~
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The plotline as a whole is completely lost to me, but it was a big inspiration to my preteen self at the time and has shaped my creative development up to now. I'll list some of the big points that I can recall from it, if anyone has the vaguest idea what book I am referring to I would be so appreciative for any guess! I just want to reread it.   Main character is a delinquent of sorts, goes to a magic school. I don't remember there being any pictures in this book. There is a threesome between the main character and his two friends I believe it is a talking rabbit that says something along the lines of "My dear child, you are incensed", followed by one of the characters saying something like "Damn right I am!" A character that had been mentioned earlier but never made an appearance (he was banned for doing bad magic I think) shows up to fight and he bites off another character's fingers. Main character seeks out a magical white stag near the end of the novel because the stag can grant a wish if it's caught because he wishes to reset his timeline. The stag is able to speak.
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I can't remember the gender of the main character.  I remember bits and pieces from different books, but I think they're all part of the same series. The pieces may not be in order or from multiple books.   Boy somehow ends up in a mirror universe that's darker and seems to have no people. He has to travel to a certain office(?) building and steal a book. I think this is towards the end of the book (I can't remember the events leading up to it). I think he finds the portal in a forest or something behind his school. He goes into the ocean with mermaids or something and has to save the ocean from pollution. Aliens exist and are observing Earth, because they think it's undeveloped and are waiting for them to be advanced enough. His mother ends up in hospital and he does something to save her. He goes to Ireland(?) and enters a mountain or something to find a race of people. I can't remember who showed him how, but I'm pretty sure she used magic. He goes to Mars and saves a race from war with themselves(?). This place was hidden inside an illusion. He's also grouped with a linguist that learned their language. He travels to another world where there's a prince. I can't remember, but I think it might've been part of a tournament. His sister goes to a robot planet through a portal. I think the actual planet was a robot/AI and had lots of little robots on it. Can't remember what happens here, but he goes there and saves her from something.   It was set a few years ago, when computers weren't common (his family got one early in the first book, I think).  Thanks in advance if someone finds it.
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There was a short story I read as a kid (between 2007 and 2009) about a world where people were raised from a young age with a microchip implanted in their skull which was trained over time to simulate the brain.  At some age, they would have their flesh brain tossed out in favor of the chip. But a month before the surgery, the chip would be set out of sync mode (so that it wasn't being corrected anymore based on how the flesh brain behaved).  Well, in this short story, the chip is set out of sync mode and this teenage kid then starts to realize that he can't control his actions. It starts with him disagreeing with his own choice of what fruit to buy at the supermarket.  So basically, the kid we listen to across the story is the consciousness that resides on the chip. He realizes this.  Then the surgery happens and the flesh brain is removed, and the chip is put in control.  Anyway, I don't remember the ending, but I remember I loved the story and it scared the hell out of me as a kid.  Existential, psychological terror is probably the best way to describe it.  Do you know what book has this story in it? Do you know what story this is?   Internet searches come up with nothing. I'm searching my house because I swear I don't remember tossing out this book.
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I remember reading a series of children's (or possibly young-adult) books some time between 2000 and 2010, about a girl (I think) who was able to commune with animals somehow. She was able to use their powers in the form of conceptualised weapons, although the use of such a weapon often didn't bear any real resemblance to the physical weapon it was named after. For example, I think the &quot;sword&quot; was a way of combining the power of lots of creatures together to do something - I think she used it to heal an animal. Other named weapons were the hauberk (or possibly halberd - I had only a vague notion of what these words meant when I read the books) and (I think) the shield, although I forget what they did. The girl in question has some natural affinity with animals. Over the course of the first book she learns that people exist who are capable of bonding with one particular kind of animal and gaining some of the powers of that animal; but she is special in that she can bond with any animal, and she learns to use this power over the course of the book. She learns that others like her used to exist, but she is the only one known at the time of the first book. I think some of the animals involved might be mythical. In one of the later books, there was something to do with a wind farm, and I remember a scene where it's mentioned that the wind turbines were spinning very fast in a catastrophic storm. There was definitely a kraken at some point in the series. I was in the UK, and I suspect the books were UK in origin. I want to say that the girl's name was Meg, but I'm only about 5% confident on that.
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Things I remember   I read this book in elementary school, but I don't know how much of a "kid's" book it is. Main character was male, and I think the title of the book may have been his name. I picture him as owl-like, but I know he had talons and wings at least. The book possibly started on his race's home planet, and they had to leave to live on space stations for some reason. Once they leave their home planet, there is a comment that their children will be born with flatter feet to accommodate walking on metal of the space station instead of gripping branches. I'm forgetting a chunk of the book, but the main character becomes separated from everyone else, possibly left behind somewhere on purpose. Somehow the main character becomes extremely powerful. He is able to fly through space on his own without a ship. Near the end of the book, he engages in a prolonged battle with some other hyper-powerful character (The fight might start on a water planet). Their fight spans the galaxy. Main character ends up in a black hole, omniscient and observing a planet (possibly Earth?). A boy from the planet dies and shows up where our main character is. Main character and boy talk about whether anything in life has meaning or affects anything.
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I'm trying to figure out a fantasy series I read in the early to mid 90's. It wasn't The Belgariad or Eye of the World but it is so similar that I forget its name.  A young simple boy gets caught up in in a quest. He is taught by a sorceress with a badass bodyguard. They are attacked by shadow-like creatures at an inn early on in the story. I remember something about red and white ribbons tied to peoples swords denoting which royal house they supported in one of the towns they travelled through…  Vague, I know. Help?
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Many, many years ago, I read a book where dinosaurs were assumed to have suvived the K-T event (or it never happened), and they evolved to intelligent species that used not only language (which combined sound, posture, and colour changes on their skin) but also used technology.  In the series, a human is captured or somehow gets integrated with one of the evolved dinosaur groups.  Again, from a very faint memory, the dinosaurs had a level of technology that would be about middle ages, and the humans were much more analogous to American Indian.  That's really all I can recall about the book, and I am trying to find it for my daughter to read.  Can anyone help me out?
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I'm trying to remember the name of a novel I read as a pre-teen.  If I recall correctly, it would have come out in the 90s (though it may have been a reprint).  The novel is set in modern times.  I recalled this because I've been reading a lot of urban fantasy lately, and this may be the first 'urban fantasy' book I read - our world, but with a touch of magic.  There's a somewhat clumsy, out of shape teenaged (or almost teenaged) boy who doesn't have a father.  His father had been a stage magician who was constantly frustrated by his son's complete inability to preform stage magic, despite a prediction saying he would have a great or powerful magic.  His father had died before the book started, I don't recall how long before.  The boy does something nice for an old woman (I don't recall what) and she gifts him a magical potion.  A drop of it, rubbed on his shoulder blades, will make him grow wings.  The book follows him for the summer, as he spends his evenings flying.  He makes himself a toga-like shirt out of some old curtains and spends time flying around at night.  I recall one scene where he learns about two children out in the middle of the bay (perhaps the book is set in San Fran?  I don't recall) in a rowboat with one oar.  He saves them (by pulling them back to shore using a rope they had with them) and gets mentioned in the paper as an angel.  At the end of the book, the potion has run out.  There's only a tiny little bit left, and when he rubs it in, it creates only a single feather.  Around that point, the boy realizes that he's no longer getting winded going up several flights of stairs and he's gained a lot of self-confidence.  From what I remember of the copy I read, the cover featured a shirtless boy wearing jeans standing in front of a mirror, looking at the large white feathered wings that had grown from his back.
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I remember starting, and losing, a book in the late 80s, early 90s, that I have been trying to  remember for a while now.  It's not much to go on, I realise, but the main crux of the plot, until I left the book in a phone booth :/, was an ice age (either implied or stated, I can't recall) was starting, and a (I think implied) glacier was moving closer to the main castle or walled city of the novel.   The setting was not specifically High Fantasy, but a medieval style setting.  The interesting thing I always remember about the book was that the antagonist appeared to be the ice itself, slowly, but inexorably, getting closer.
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I vaguely remember reading a young-adult book about a group of kids.  The kids turned out to be aliens, and the one identifying mark they had was that their blood was silver (or something else)?  I think the kids also have powers.  I vaguely remember a cover that had a gaping mouth and something that looked like they were supposed to be sound waves coming from it.  Does anyone know what this is?
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I'm looking for a book (or series of books) which I read as a kid (around 1995). I don't know a lot about the storyline anymore but I remember that there were two distinct alien races in the book with whom humans interacted. One of the races was lizard-like and had as a trait that they had sort of a bladder that filled up when they were upset. When it was full they would go to some sort of temple and release it. They then went completely berserk and fought each other. Sometimes, when they didn't make it to a temple in time, this could happen in the outside world. I think the other race focussed on bio-organic and space ship development and I think they were shaped like small pyramid, but I'm not entirely sure about the last part. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I read a book when I was young, it was about space alien cats. I believe the title was Quzzles, but I really don't know. The book was stolen from me before I was finished. I don't know much else about it.
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I can't really remember how long ago it was, but I think the book was marketed towards children/teens.  All I remember is the basic premise of the story.  Some story about these unusual little blue electric critters that only certain people could see, and these kids took it upon themselves to go about destroying them since they fed off energy or something like that.  Not sure whether they fed off people or off electricity... or both maybe?  I think the dominant method of destroying them was an electric baton that was taken from law enforcement.  I wanna call them buzz batons, but that's probably thanks to Artemis Fowl.
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I am looking for a fantasy book:  What I vaguely recall is:  A boy is sick with the root cause being magic within himself. He is semi-cured by someone and is told he needs to train with the wizards in the towers throughout the land. He finally decides to leave his family and train at the towers. I am pretty sure each tower in the land held different responsibilities, and someone or something was tearing down the towers in the lands.  The book was in English. I was thinking it was written in the 80's or 90's. This book was picked from old books people donated to the military (so it certainly wasn't "new"). This was a full book, not a short story, and I recall that it was part of a series: at least three books, probably more. The cover had some orange tint to it, and pictured a castle/tower in the background to the left side, while in the foreground there was a person riding a horse along a winding trail to the tower/castle.  Any help would be appreciated. This is not the Seventh Tower Series.
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I read a short story as a child that revolved around the people of earth observing a distant object in space approaching.  Over time as the distant speck got closer it was observed to be a giant bird and the earth itself began to tremble and quake as if our planet was the bird's egg.  Does anyone know the name of this story?