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Lady Adelaide, a boxing kangaroo, helps to defeat the German army, thus becoming a heroine of the Great War. Morgan, Boys' Book of Science and Construction. Another possibility is N. Boys' Book of Mechanical Models, Windsor, editor, The Boy Mechanic Book 3 , They consist of articles with diagrams for building all kinds of things. Book 3 is subtitled " Things For Boys To Do" and has instructions for an aerial cableway, miniature tank, motor car, parcel delivery bicycle, etc.
Hope this helps - just discovered your wonderful site tonight! Tomie de Paola, Bill and Pete. Picture books about a crocodile and his bird friend who claims to be his 'toothbrush'. C I thought it might be this, but when I look at it, it doesn't seem to have the geometrical artwork that I think I have seen on a smaller book around here. This is picture-book size, with bold illustrations throughout.
Zic-Zac, the crocodile bird; a good neighbor story from the Nile. Messner, , Junior Literary Guild. Another title I find on the Net is: Zic-Zac and the Crocodile. Griffith, Helen, Alex and the Cat , Just a possibility - but Alex the dog thinks that being a cat is preferable to being a dog. The life of a cat does not require as much as that which is expected of a dog.
Meader, Stephen, Bulldozer , I think this is it. I remember the part where the hero es? Meader, Stephen, Bulldozer , , copyright. It is definitely Meader's Bulldozer. I am a librarian in New Jersey and we have a collection of Meader books. Merritt Parmalee Allen , Mudhen. It is a long shot, but it is the only book of boy stories featuring one character that I know.
The Mudhen played a lot of tricks, too. Robert Newton Peck, Soup series. Just a possibility - I can't identify the episode, but I've only read one or two of the books. Could this be an episode in one of Robert Newton Peck's Soup books? I know there's a chapter in Soup where he ties people up with rope, including his Aunt Carrie, which earns him a thrashing. The episode described sounds like something Soup would do. J amie Gilson , 13 Ways to Sink a Sub. I seem to remember the incident with string occurring in this book, where 4th-grader Hobie Hanson and his friends try to make their substitute teacher cry.
Gilson wrote several books about Hobie and his school friends. Although it was published in There are fire breathing Cockatrices and a Gryphon. Three cousins called Peter Penelope and Simon journey to the land of Mythologia where flowers never die and there are four sunsets a day. I think you have the title correct. Let me know if you want it You answered my query C , but I think you chose the wrong book.
I contacted a bookseller who has the book for sale and he said it definitely takes place during the Revolutionary war. I specifically remember that the period is the 's because the guy never tells the girl what side he is fighting on. The book takes place over the 4 years of the Civil War. The Revolutionary War lasted 8 years. John Lawson, The Spring Rider. There's a young girl and, I believe, her brother. I am the original stumper requester- the book has an elf that they call a brownie apparantly brownies and elves are the same thing and one is grandpa and he falls asleep on a shelf, another loses his glasses, Mrs.
Claus bakes cookies for the elves, they feed the reindeer and on brownie spill red paint. Sparkie with George Hinke illus. There are a couple of things that don't match. Gran'pa Elf just won't wear his glasses. The illustrations are vibrant busy oil paintings by Geo. At the end Santa returns to find that their cat has had kittens. Sparkie , Jolly Old Santa Claus , When I said that I was going by the 's reprint, which said it had the original story and all the original illustrations! Still I had a sneaking suspicion that it was revised because I vaguely remembered some things such as the spilled paint and the elves going to bed which were not there!
Nearly all the elves have been renamed, except Grampa. Claus in the kitchen with making cookies and when the work is all done she serves them cookies. If this is the book beware of the reprint! It is not the same but still very charming. There are sections missing and some new ones added. This sounds quite a bit like a book that I just recently refound for my son who was born in , so the right time frame. There is a lot going on in the pictures including pretty much every thing you mentioned. I think it was originally written in Finnish. The genre is defintielty not in the children's section!
It's definitely adult fiction I am starting to think it's probably in an anthology of short stories. This has some similarities to the short story "The Unknown Masterpiece" by Honore de Balzac , but I don't think anyone paints cats. In Balzac's story, a young painter persuades his beautiful girlfriend to pose for an older man, a painter who has gone mad over a masterpiece he has been working on. It's a great story and the poster would probably enjoy it. Here are some more details: The trap that the people designed was a large hemisphere suspended from a pulley.
I think the people wore pointy hats and rode horses. Could this be Color Kittens , the Little Golden book? This does sound like The Color Kittens, except that there were only two of them Hush and Brush , and I don't recall the colors as being pastels, necessarily. As I recall the story, Brush and Hush were trying to create green paint, and came up with pink and orange before they finally got the recipe right. They then fell asleep and had dreams about some other colors before waking up, getting pouncy, and spilling over all of their buckets, thus creating all the colors in the world.
Myers, Dragon Takes A Wife. There was an early edition of this book that might be what you are looking for. I totally remember that quote, also had the book in question. There was more than one in the series but the character boy dragon was called dennis the dragon and at least one of the books was named dennis the dragon. I think the first one was about him going off to school. This sounds like the story of the foolish fir tree who wished for leaves of gold, glass and lettuce.
Thanks for taking the time to send in this suggestion. The gist of the tree story is the same, but the book we're trying to find was prose. Any other thoughts would be appreciated. Bailey Carolyn , short story in collection - little fir tree? I tell my own version of this story. The tree is not a Christmas tree, however, just a fir tree in the forest. It wants to have pretty leaves instead of ugly needles. Then when given a chance to wish, it tries for something even better than the broadleaf trees. It gets crystals and the wind destroys them, gold leaves and a man picks them.
Then the tree decides to go with the original idea of green broad leaves, but a goat eats them. Finally the tree realizes that it is best to be happy with one's self. The story in the collection is entitled The Pine Tree and is the same referred to by Caroline Bailey. This version is not a Christmas tree by a pine tree in the forest that wishes for gold leaves, then glass, then green leaves and is finally happy with the original green needles. Ursula K LeGuin, Catwings series??? Boegehold, In the Castle of Cats? I'm pretty sure this is one of the Cosgrove "Serendipity" books - not sure which one, but sounds very, very familiar.
B everly Nichols, The Mountain of Magic. A caterpilar that was scared of becoming a butterfly hatches out, and flies furiously to warn them. I think he dies of exhaustion. I told my sister the name and she said that sounded familliar, but we may be confusing our information?? We both really only remember the pictures in this book, so we have little other reference to go by Thank you so much for your help.
Nice black and white illustrations. A classic kid's story of a family who inherits an apartment house in Palm Glade, Florida and the strange tenants and hurricanes that they have to deal with. But again many thank yous for any attempt at finding this book for me! Hopkins Apartment" or something of that nature I'm still in search of this colorful thing and actually have found pictures of a wall painted with the same illustrations in the book i'm trying to find,,,but still no title I don't think yours is the same Was your aunt from San Antonio?
If so, this may be the book you're looking for: I did check with UT Austin library research. They say my aunt's poem is not listed in this book so I guess it isn't the book I'm looking for. But thank you for your trouble. Some more long shot possibilities, found in the WorldCat database: The Sigmund Press, Washington high school, Dallas, Texas. Washington High School Dallas, Tex.
Govindan, Santhini, The ice-cream dragon and other stories. This may be too late a date, but I'm sending it because of the title. And Balban the Lion who hiccups.. If not, you can meet them now as they inhabit the magical world of this book. Nesbit's ' The Last of the Dragons and some others '. Smith, Dorothy Hall ed.
It may be this one on the solved list , if the story of The First Christmas Tree is a bit garbled - in that one the woodcutter father gets lost in the snow, and is guided home by Christmas lights on trees. It has colour illos and a peach? However, it could also be The Santa Claus Book, if the recollection is of the story Susie's Christmas Star, with the little girl following her own footsteps in the snow along a street. That one is Golden Books, , and also on the Solved list. This book sounds very much like one of the Christmas Ideals. I was a child in the 50s, and read my grandmother's.
She bought them every year. They are now softcover magazine format, but they used to be hard cover. Some booksellers specialize in them They would have color as we well as line and monochrome illustartions, stories and poems. They repeat a lot, so the individual story could be repeated later. Pine's Mixed-Up Signs features a similar idea: Pine makes new signs for the town, but he can't find his glasses, so he puts them up randomly all over the city, to comic effect. Now back in print. See the Leonard Kessler page. You suggested that the solution to my query might be Mr. Pine's Mixed-up Signs , but Kessler's illustrations didn't look familiar at all.
The book format, as I remember, was bigger than an easy reader with full-page spreads and much brighter, less sketchy illustrations than were pictured in the "Purple House" book. So, unless the illustrations were very different in the "Signs" book, this isn't it. I hesitate to mention this book because it is an easy reader so it isn't "bigger than an easy reader" and the illustrations are in four colors turquoise, yellow, black and white and may therefore not be "colorful" enough. Sam the owl befriends Gus the firefly, who can make shapes in the air by keeping his light on and flying about rapidly.
Sam teaches Gus to make words that look like neon signs. After a short period of innocent fun, the mischievous firefly uses his newfound talent to crash cars, confuse airplanes, and cause a stampede towards the local movie theater he writes the words "COME IN! The angry cook catches Gus in a jar and begins to drive the firefly out of town. His truck stalls on a railroad track just as a train approaches.
Sam the owl smashes the jar and liberates Gus, who prevents a collision by writing "STOP" in front of the oncoming train. All is forgiven and the two friends depart. Arnold, Tedd, The Signmaker's Assistant, If you're absolutely sure that the book is from the s, this can't be it, but it meets all the other criteria. This book is larger than an easy reader and full of big, colorful street scenes. Norman, a young boy who cleans brushes at the signmaker's shop, decides to make a few signs of his own when the signmaker isn't around to supervise.
Norman has a great deal of fun at the townspeople's expense, but realizes he has erred when they become angry and tear down every sign in the town, old as well as new. Chaos ensues and the townspeople chase the signmaker into the woods. Norman apologizes and peace and order are restored. Even if this isn't the book you're looking for, it's a worthwhile read, so check it out! Actually a particular sign I remember is more like a big billboard and something on it - a picture or phrase- is defaced in a humorous way. Possibly traffic signs are changed as well. Very colorful pics, busy and funny - sorry I can't remember more.
I remember the cover was salmon-colored, but I think that was just a library binding - now why can I remember that detail, but not more important ones? Thanks for the guess. Kind of a longshot, but the date is right. It is all fantastic nonsense, carried out with perfect harmony in the good read-aloud text and the details and atmosphere of striking color illustrations. The double-spread scene showing the Dopplers enjoying their new canals will occupy a small child a long time. In this story the whole town is turned topsy-turvy great green hooligan vine town, a really fun book.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Changeling. I could be wrong, but I know I read this book back in the 70's. I don't, however, remember the plot. This does sound like part of the answer but only part - the main characters are two young girls, Martha Abbott and Ivy Carson, but Ivy's young sister does play a part, and there is a memorable picture of a dark-haired girl crouched under a bush. The Carson home is large and dilapidated - the girls also explore the ruins of a burnt-out house. However I don't recall anyone called Luci or fleeing from a danger. In that one a very ordinary English family has one different daughter, called Melusine, who seems to have witchy powers and can ill-wish people.
At one point the children hide behind a hedge while a girl who let Melusine's guinea pig die is bucked off her horse. The house they live in in the country is rather old and dilapidated. At the end of the book they seek the vicar's help in driving the evil spirit from Melusine through a night of prayer, and after that she is called by her middle name, which is Joy. Boston last name , The Children of Green Knowe , s. I think this may be the book you are looking for. The first in the series of the Green Knowe books. I wonder if this could be The Dagger and the Bird?
Two children, Luke and Bridget shortened to Biddie search for their younger brother who's been stolen by fairies. If the poster has reversed the names in memory, but remembered that one name was shortened, it could fit. If it's a Christmas story, it's one that has been told in many versions. The Lutheran church put out a book and video called Red Boots for Christmas. It's also been called The Cobbler's Gift. The cobbler in these stories doesn't always show kindness, though, until the end in Red Boots for Christmas, he is a bitter, selfish man.
He is visited by an angel who says that God will be visiting him he goes around cleaning up, making a special meal and trying to find a gift for God in the meantime, assorted poor people come to his door and are either helped or not helped, depending on the version. In the end, he is upset because God didn't come then God or the angel speaks to him and says that the needy people coming to the door represented God, and that was the point.
He then offers the "child" a place to sleep a straw mat and then a breakfast. The "child" thanks him for his kindness and tells the cobbler that whatever he does that day he will be successful at and do all day long. When the cobbler arrives at his shop he begins to repair the shoes and proceeds to do so all day long, making a lot of money.
The greedy shopkeepers see this and ask him how this has come to be, so the cobbler tells them of the "childs" "wish". The wife tells the husband to find the "child" so that they can benefit the same way. The husband finds the "child" and takes him in for the evening providing him with a wonderful dinner, a feather bed to sleep in and a wonderful breakfast. As the "child" leaves he tells them the same as the cobbler.
So the shopkeepers rush to their store and clean out cabinets and drawers to hold all the money tey're going to make. Instead, all they do is empty boxes all day and they make no money. I saw this story in a small book, like a Golden Book in the early seventies, but I don't know who the author was or the name of the story.
I have looked for it for quite some time. I actually have three suggestions for this one. The first is the book Candy Land , which was a part of the Little Color Classics series and had a number of color plates of illustrations. No author was listed for it, but the illustrator was Hildegard. It was about a little girl named Betty and her friend Brunny who was a bear, not a boy and how they visited a land made of candy.
It was published in and has a similar story a girl named Lily visits a fantasy land of candy , but I do not know if it was ever published with color illustrations. Finally, there is In Wink-a-Way Land by Eugene Field , published in - it definitely had color illustrations and a picture of children picking candy from a field on the cover, but I do not really know the story. Hope one of these is what you are looking for. Baum, Frank, Magical Monarch of Mo. Sounds like it could be a chapter out of the Magical Monarch of Mo , written before s. In one chapter one of the princes is banished to an island made entirely of candy.
I have a few suggestions for you since they were offered to me as solutions to my stumper. I think President Smith turns out to be a good president the book is sometimes cited in bibliographies of utopian fiction , though. I don't know anything about the Goldsmith book beyond the title and fact that it's set some twenty years in what in was the future.
Have you looked through the Anthology Finder to see if anything looks familiar? Check out the Big Golden Book of Poetry I don't know which collection you had, but you can find the puffin poem here scroll down a ways. I remember the dog and cat got in a fight and there were bits of fabric all around when they finished fighting.
This might be it.. If the collection included The Owl and the Pussycat , it would not have been a book of poems by Field , since that one is by Edward Lear. The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat is properly called The Duel, and it has been included in many collections of childrens' poetry. Here are some possibilities - who knew there were so many Christmas horror books out there?? And I'm thinking the first books may all be the same book with different titles.
I don't have it in front of me, but here is what I remember. Ozzie is a fun-loving boy who irritates the adults around him with his incessant jokes, riddles and pranks, and his obsession with board games. When he gets into serious trouble at school, his parents think about sending him to a military academy, and Ozzie decides to run away. While climbing down the trellis outside his window, he falls into The Big Joke Game, a life-size board game that he must win in order to return to earth. With his "guardian devil" Bub at his side, Ozzie has many strange experiences and gains a degree of maturity before the book concludes.
Fun and interesting without being preachy or heavy-handed. See the Solved Mysteries "B" page for more information. Could it be any of these? Evers, Alf, The deer-jackers. On the far side of the mountain. I did just read more than I should have of this one: Crowell c My book is not any of the Jean Craighead George books, as she is one of my favorite authors I probably should have mentioned that in the original email. Its also not The Deer-jackers.
I also remember that the money that could be earned from the Ginsing somehow solved a problem-maybe in keeping the land that the cabin was on. I remember it well. I don't own a copy at this moment, so I can't give copyright date. The story of two boys who seek a the lost cabin of a "Sang Hunter" wild Ginseng hunter and the treasure of fine roots he left behind. The book features the lyrics of a mountain ballas about the Sang Hunter's ghost " I don't know if these will be right, but two books came to mind, although both seem a little advanced for fourth grade.
No Promises in the Wind Irene Hunt is about 2 brothers from Chicago during the depression, who run away and survive on thier own. Where the Lilies Bloom has several brothers and sisters living and surving on thier own by gathering herbs to sell, particularly Ginseng, they however live in the Appalachians not the Catskills. Don't know if these will help, Good Luck.
Lasson, Robert, Orange Oliver: Sorry, no ideas about the specific craft book, but I might point out that Canadians where I live anyway usually spell Mommy with an o, not a u. So maybe your book was a British import? I think you may be right, this book must have been a British import. Eva Knox Evans, Araminta. This sounds like a story I read in grade school, that was in one of our readers.
I remember the little girl walking through the city. I don''t remember the author or title, but I'll keep looking! Try Cars , c, Author: Cars and Trucks ,c, no author, Illus. It shows the front cover of all their books. I hope this helps. From what I have learned about the book I seek, at least I was able to input that info on another stumper that describes the exact plot of the book I am searching. Unfortunately, the book I found was British, with fussy illustrations and too recently published.
The book I need about an undersea tour was likely American, published in or , with illustrations that were more heavy black outlines and bold colors within. I was able to find Priscilla and the Prawn on the Internet, look at its illustrations, and was able to determine it was not the book, but I did relate that book info to stumper L , a quest for something that sounded identical. Won't give up on my book, and am desperate! Thanks for your site! Hewson, Isabel Manning, Land of the Lost, Could it be this one, from the Solved list?
The time is right, and there is an undersea kingdom, though I don't know whether it is only for crustaceans. Re stumper C, someone has posted a response, but the suggested book, "The Land of the Lost" by Hewson is not the book, as that book deals with fresh water, originates above ground, and the book I am seeking takes place completely in the ocean, with marine animals shrimp families, crab families, etc.
I remember that each marine animal family had its special color silk pillow on which to sit. Lewis, The Silver Chair. Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole are transported to Narnia where they must rescue Prince Caspian, who is under a spell and being held prisoner in a land deep underground. Not sure if this is the one -- they don't "swim through the earth" per se, but that phrase reminded me of the mayhemic scene in which they are trying to race to the surface.
It's possible the scene described is when the kids go to the 2-dimensional world? Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia. Digory and Polly become friends when he moves in with his uncle a maigcian who has magical rings that transport the children into and enchanted world. They enter this world through a pool in the woods and encounter a land of eternal winter.
This is the first book of seven entitled The Magician's Nephew. The more popular second book is The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe which has four children who live in Digory's home many years later. Their adventures start by entering the land of Narnia by stepping through the back of the wardrobe. This sounds like A Wrinkle in Time , although others will know better. Two siblings -- Meg and her brother Charles Wallace -- and a boy from Meg's school travel through a wrinkle in time to try to rescue Meg's father.
No tower in the title, but there's a lot of talk in the book of "tesseracts. It's unclear why the title of this stumper is "ck wallace", but if the stumper requester thinks this could be the name of a character, the book sought could be A Wrinkle in Time. Charles Wallace Murry, his sister Meg, and her schoolmate Calvin O'Keefe are transported through a tesseract to the planet Camazotz, where they hope to rescue Meg's father.
As for the "swimming through the earth" passage the stumper requester remembersthis description of the end of Meg's first tesseract trip is from page Alan Garner, Elidor , '60s?? This description reminds me of elements of Garner's Elidor , and of another of his books where there's a substantial underground section, although I don't recall any "swimming" called The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.
I don't specifically remember the 'swimming through earth' but that sounds very familiar. John White, The Tower of Geburah, I'm not sure about the swimming through the earth part, because it's been many years since I've read it and I don't own a copy to check, but I think the rest of the description fits. Marjorie Vetter, Journey for Jennifer, This is a guess - here's the only description I could find: Jennifer could feel her face stiffen as she watched Steve say good-by to the others.
Wasn"t he going to miss her at all when she was in the hill country? C You can't believe how many Google entries have concertina and toothache in them I gave up halfway thru. Have you tried any of Eleanor Frances Lattimore's books? She was born in China, spent her early years there, and that's reflected in a number of her children's books, which she also illustrated. A possibility--Little Pear has two sisters. Not sure, but it sounds similar. Thomas Handforth, Mei Li , This reminded me of a story in one of the Through Golden Windows books.
A little Chinese girl has adventures at a New Year's fair. I didn't see a reference to watermelon seeds, but they could have been in the original book. A young boy and girl see lights at night on an offshore island, row out to the island and discover a cave, and eventually, during a storm, solve the question of what is going on out there. Kahn, James, The Goonies , There was a novelization published of The Goonies , based upon the Steven Spielberg film.
Is that what you're thinking of? I actually bought Black Rock Cave a couple of years ago, but it was a cave that was entered from above and not under the water. My sister also mentioned that she thought someone in the book was perhaps from Scotland or it took place in Scotland. And she had a vague memory that it was from someone with 3 names like Robert Louis Stevenson perhaps. Elizabeth Heppner, Palace Under the Sea. Probably not it, but just in case Tracy is a diver, and does swim up into the palace. Could it be this book? Three children, Barnaby and his older sister I think her name is Jane and brother, hunt for the Grail of King Arthur in an undersea cave at the bottom of a cliff in Cornwall, in England, with the help of their Uncle Merry Merriman Lyon.
Again, I'm afraid that Palace Under the Sea is not the correct book. I got some more details out of my sister and it definately took place in Scotland and there were 4 children or young adults, possibly in it at least 2 are girls. It was in a book that had 2 stories by the same author. At least two of the children in it are actually from Scotland and it takes place in the late 's or early 's. I'll let you know if I get more information and thanks, again.
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No, I'm afraid this isn't the one either, although it was the closest so far. It was definately a cave that they had to swim underwater and into. Thanks again though for trying. They find a cave with a treasure in it. Not sure about swimming underwater to it. I believe they talked about stalactites and stalagmites in the caves quite a bit too.
This is now available as a reprint in paperback with an entirely new cover. The same kids travel along a river to where it narrows and becomes a fast-flowing gorge. The boat is swept by the river towards a roaring cataract — a "gigantic underground waterfall" as Jack describes it — and the children are terrified of being dashed to pieces. Luckily, they manage to swing the boat sideways into a cavern in the cliff, saving all their lives. The children follow tunnels leading out of the cavern and stumble eventually upon the underground remains of a magnificent temple dating from about seven thousand years ago.
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I can't really pinpoint why, other than the concept just didn't intrigue me enough I Free today on Amazon! I'm a terrible reviewer! Oh well, you get what you pay for, people. Zoe is a typical spoiled little rich girl. She's not evil, just unaware that other people live in her world, so to speak.
Her parents are distant, but she has a close relationship with her brother, Liam. Or she thinks they're close, anyway. One day Liam just disappears, and it seems to Zoe that no one is looking very hard to find him. Distraught, she takes it upon herself to discover just what happened to her brother. She manages to find out that he was working on a secret project with her boyfriend and one other researcher outside the city. Unfortunately, she needs help in order to maneuver safely outside the protected inner city that she and the other GAPs grew up in.
She needs a natural to help her, but the only natural she knows is her housekeeper's son, Noah. Not only does he dislike her snooty family, but apparently he's a leader in the anti-GAP movement. The only thing she's got going in her favor is that he needs money to help his family pay bills What starts out as a business transaction slowly turns into friendship, and then into something more. As they spend time together trying to uncover the truth, it becomes hard to control the way they feel about each other. The sparks begin to fly, and finally they give in and admit their feelings.
Conspiracy theories, death threats, and shocking revelations be damned! Together they decide that nothing is going to come between them. And then something super-duper shocking comes between them! But I'm not going to tell you what it is. Or whether or not they end up together. After thinking about it, I'd say this was a decent book. Not awesome, but certainly not boring. I would definitely read something else by this author again. Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book. This review can also be seen on. View all 14 comments.
Perception is a forgettable young adult sci-fi book about genetically enhanced people and their relations with non-genetically enhanced people. There is a murder mystery thrown in to mix it up a bit. The main character is a vapid girl named Zoe, who goes "undercover" in the world outside her genetically enhanced community to find out who murdered her brother. I had a number of issues with this book. First of all, when Zoe's brother dies, no one reacts like a normal person would. It was so odd. They were all like strange zombies, but not in an intentional, cool way.
It was in a "the characters all fall flat" way. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. Zoe is so shallow and irritating. She constantly talks about her blond hair and blue eyes and wonders how anything else could be considered attractive. She just bugged the crap out of me and I didn't relate to her at all.
She is kind of racist and stupid to boot. Also, the religion-science debate felt forced and haphazard. It wasn't the worst book that I have read in this genre but I didn't really enjoy it. I'll give it two stars because I can see how some people would get into the story. I agree with this reviewer so much that I sound like I am copying her review. I love futuristic science fiction especially gadety things like what the Jetsons have lol so this book was so perfect for me! I loved the world building. Zoe had a ComRing which was like the most awesome phone ever.
Plus some pretty awesome appliances. Zoe is a genetically altered person. Her life span is doubled since she received the GAP treatment. But like with any scientific advancements there are people that don't believe in the treat FREE http: But like with any scientific advancements there are people that don't believe in the treatment so they live on the "outside".
This creates lots of class differences and rebellion. Zoe's brother goes missing and she is determined to find out what happened to him. Liam was working on a secret project at the University with her boyfriend Jackson and another student. When she questions Jackson, he blows her off and seems to be hiding something. Zoe decides to disguise herself and venture to the outside for answers because of a clue she found in Liam's room.
She runs into her housekeeper's son, Noah Brody, who is quickly onto her. Noah is a natural and completely against GAPs but he agrees to help her get to the truth. Zoe Vanderveen, I love her name, was such a great sister. Whenever I read books or watch movies where a sister goes to amazing lengths to help her brother, I always tell my brother I would never do that. Even though Noah was a natural and had different beliefs, she didn't completely abandon hers for his.
I would be thinking along the lines of Zoe. An extra years and no illnesses sign me up, but Noah is less scientific and more spiritual. He still stands by Zoe and accepts her for who she is. Their romance was very sweet and easy to root for. Even though Zoe is with Jackson at the beginning it doesn't feel like a love triangle. Jackson is very cut off from Zoe as soon as Liam disappears. The mystery kept me glued to the pages all night. I had an idea who was involved but there was a way bigger conspiracy going on than I thought and each piece was unraveled very thoughtfully to keep a great pace throughout the story.
I love different POVs and I did eventually enjoy Noah's perspective but I would have rather it started sooner for me to get a feel for him before such a big switch. I was really connected to Zoe when all of a sudden I had to get used to Noah's voice. It was Noah's turn to make a decision about how involved he wants to get with Zoe and this conspiracy. Zoe will age completely different from Noah so their relationship will have many difficulties in the future.
All my questions were answered by the end but everything is not resolved and I am ready to see where it goes in the next book! Apparently, it was more than okay. I kissed him back, surprised by my eagerness.
His lips were soft and warm but his kisses were urgent. I wrapped my arms around his neck and grabbed onto his hair. He held my waist pulling me tight, body to body. If I'd questioned my humanity before, I didn't any more. The way I felt about Noah was very human. View all 7 comments. While reading this book, especially at the beginning, I felt like I was reading a Coles Notes version of the book. Sentences were short, and a lot of information was given without very much style.
It was like reading a summary of a movie. Anyways, I couldn't connect with the main character, Zoe, at all. She is naive and entitled. She complains multiple times about the unappetising smells she has to deal with from the food court that serves "food from all ethnicities". She constantly emphasi Hmm. So basically, Zoe's brother dies and no one reacts at all typically.
Noah, despite his status as the son of their maid, becomes suddenly irresistible, and they become partners in crime to uncover a conspiracy that involves pharmaceuticals companies, bio-engineering, and human cloning. Despite the interesting premise, the actual story fell flat.
The whole religion vs. Like, it just sort of cropped up, Noah would do a soapbox speech, and then it wasn't really mentioned again. Anyways, a super-quick read my e-book was only pages or so , but not super-impressive. Thank you to the publishers, who via NetGalley provided me with an e-copy of this book for review View all 9 comments. A book with a blue cover for my January challenge. That's what I was looking for when I discovered Perception on my kindle, and that's about how much I knew about it too, that it had a blue cover.
But I thought I'd give it a go anyway, and I'm just so glad that I did, that I found this gem hidden away on my kindle, maybe never to be discovered. I've so many books on my kindle I know I'll never get to read them all. That's the reason why I'm participating in these challenges, to try get through s A book with a blue cover for my January challenge.
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Lee Strauss was an author I'd never heard of, but on finishing this book, I discovered that it's a pen name of Elle Strauss, whom I have come across and have more of her books on my kindle. I'll be more inclined to get around to picking those ones up now. So, Perception is a sci-fi, with some mystery and romance too. Zoe is a GAP, a genetically modified person who lives longer than a normal person, never gets sick, is extremely beautiful, you get the gist, superior in every way.
GAP's are extremely wealthy and live in gated communities, a kind of utopia, away from the naturals, who live on the "outside. But when Zoe's brother Liam goes missing, and Zoe doesn't feel as though she can trust anyone. Liam's chip is gone, and even the police appear cagey. The only person she thinks might be able to help her is Noah Brody, the maids son, and he hates GAPs. But Zoe needs to find him. She ventures to the outside, LA, a place she's never been before, with fear and trepidation.
She finds the building where Noah was protesting, and spots him at a church not too far away. Disguised as a natural, she tries to get some information about her brother from Noah and his friend Dexter. It doesn't take Noah long to figure out who she really is, and to her surprise, he agrees to help her.
Such a great read, this book was everything I enjoy. The main characters were really great, though for the first few pages I didn't think I was going to like Zoe. She thought a lot of herself and felt she was better than anyone who wasn't a GAP. But when her brother goes missing, she comes back to earth with a bump. Noah, on first impressions, seems quite grouchy and hard done by. But when you get to know him, you realise he's only like that around the GAPs. But as these two warm up to each other, it's impossible not to fall in love with them. Both of them, especially Zoe, change their way of thinking completely, and as they fall for each other, it's just fantastic.
Before Zoe gets to know Noah, she doesn't find him attractive at all, but everytime she meets him, she feels like he's getting better looking each time. I really enjoyed how this romance was written. I didn't actually read the blurb of this book until after I'd finished the book, but it mentions "exploring the clash between faith and science," if I had read this beforehand, I might have thought it had a lot of religious undertones, so just to let you know, it doesn't.
I wouldn't hesitate in recommending this book. It's only 99c on Amazon and so worth it. View all 6 comments. I hate giving books one-star ratings - there is usually a lot of work that goes into writing a novel, and I try to respect that by trying to look for something I liked or at least appreciated in what I'm reading. Unfortunately, I didn't find that something in this book. The premise seemed right up my alley. Zoe Vanderveen is a genetically altered person a GAP - cheesy name, but I can overlook that whose brother goes missing.
After a rather sinister turn of events, Zoe is no longer sure who to t I hate giving books one-star ratings - there is usually a lot of work that goes into writing a novel, and I try to respect that by trying to look for something I liked or at least appreciated in what I'm reading. After a rather sinister turn of events, Zoe is no longer sure who to trust and who to believe. She ends up relying on Noah Brody, a "natural" whose grandfather initially collaborated with hers to create the concept of GAPs, but spoke out against it for ethical reasons.
All of this sounds quite intriguing, but the novel itself failed to deliver.