books! so many books!

[schmerica]

This entry of marginalia's is making me really ridiculously happy and nostalgic. Mmmmmm, books. It's also causing me to start recounting lots of childhood reading with fox1013 (Bruce Coville! Mary Downing Hahn! Patricia MacLachlan! William Sleator!). Except, you know, that always lead to that book in the back of your brain that you can't quite remember. So I put this out there to see if any of you, by the slightest chance, can help us identify the itchy books in our brains.

pearl_o: That ... one book I now can't remember the title nor author but it's in that old farmhouse and the girl has a ghost friend and she keeps going back in time and being a ghost in victoria times watching her frined be alive, and then her friend is a ghost in her time because she's dead.
pearl_o: And they both had the same first name.
pearl_o: Which might have been Zoe.
pearl_o: *frowns*

fox1013: Hmmm.

pearl_o: It was "Somebody" and "Somebody Elizabeth."
pearl_o: ...Oh my god, this is going to bug me a lot now.

fox1013: was it one of the Caroline Cooney books?

pearl_o: no.

fox1013: She did some time travel.
fox1013: *thinks*

pearl_o: it wasn't like time travel time travel.
pearl_o: because when she went back she was just a ghost, able to watch stuff.
pearl_o: and it was just like going through one of the doors or something.
pearl_o: I think the same author might have had another book that was a historical kid fiction about dinosaur bones or something in Nebraska. With a brother who died.

fox1013: at least you remember this much.

pearl_o: *grins*

fox1013: My memory? It was a paperback book with a red cover; I read it in fifth grade; there was black and white tile on teh floor; bubble gum; a substitute teacher; four kids were the main focus; at the end of the day one fo those four took the substitute's place, as the substitute went from school to school to deal with teh bad kids.
fox1013: ...but not in teh creepy way that sounds.

pearl_o: *snugs you*
pearl_o: for some reason I think the author's naem was Pat something-that-stars-with-C.
pearl_o: But I could be totally off.

If you help us, we'll give you cookies. Really. I would never say anything like that wihtout real cookies to back it up. *smiles innocently*

Comments

[pages-of-paper.livejournal.com]

Stonewords by Pam Conrad? Maybe?

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Has to be Pam Conrad...because the other book is probably "My Daniel"

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed! Yay! Thank you!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, thank you SO MUCH! That's so it, it's not even funny. (Apparently my mind twist the really specific details just enough for me not to be able to find it searching myself -- I was thinking Zoe Elizabeth instead of Zoe Louise and Pat C-something instead of Pam C-something.)

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember "Stonewords." The problem is that I always got it confused with the one book *I* couldn't remember -- something else with "Stone" in the title, in which the little lonely girl at a farmhouse wakes up these creepy walking statues. Never been able to find it, alas.

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

Could that be Court of the Stone Children (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140342893/qid=1100744583/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-8460031-7862416?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) by Eleanor Cameron? Except I could have sworn it was by Viven Alcock. ... That's because I 'm thinking of The Stonewalkers (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395816521/qid=1100744686/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-8460031-7862416?v=glance&s=books). Did it have one of the statues getting hit by lightening and brought to life?

[ediebeedie.livejournal.com]

woah. I was just thinking about that book the other day.
crazy.
it is almost the christmas season. when do you think you will watch Prancer? HA!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Maybe we have a psychic connection!!!!!

And Prancer is a Christmas eve tradition, you know. Although lately my parents just grumble about us being lousy and nonChristmasy and don't make us watch. Hmm.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Hey, just wanted to let you know that if you get "stumped" about a book again, you should check out Stump the Bookseller (http://loganberrybooks.com/stump.html). They seem to know pretty much every children's book ever written. I found the one you're talking about here (http://loganberrybooks.com/solved-s.html) under Stonewords.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Hey, cool -- thanks for the link.