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Where did he go with his beard on his knee, his shoes of brown and his godpapa's cup? He didn't tumble down, so he must have tumbled up. But, I really, Mr. Ticklefeather, "Better come down and play with me. I was born in Colorado in April of , so the date one of your other readers sent sounds about right. My mother recited this and Little Orphan Annie so often, that by the time I was five I had memorized them both.

Glad I could help. There needs to be a correction on the date. I was born in My mom read this to me and I memorized some of the rhyme before moving from my birth town when I was five years old. My mother said it was in a magazine, but could not remember which one. I checked out the magazines I thought it might be in, but never found it. Thank you so much for bringing this delightful poem back to me. Regarding the tapestry story, a similar one appeared in Children's Digest Magazine, probably between and , of a princess or lord's daughter about to be forced to marry against her will.

An expert needleworker, she tried to drown her sorrows while waiting for the inevitable marriage by working on an enormous tapestry. Upon stitching a likeness of her dog into the tapestry, her dog disappeared, the likeness being so perfect he couldn't exist in two places at once. Realizing what had happened, the girl stitched herself into the tapestry to escape the unwanted marriage.

This isn't Andre Norton's Through a Needle's Eye , about a girl crippled by polio who meets an old woman with similar needleworking abilities. Molesworth, The Tapestry Room, , copyright. Possibly this is the story of Hugh and Jeanne, two small children who find a way into the great tapestry via various means little rubber attachments on the feet or by wings. Try this link These are not the correct books.

The title I am looking for is The Magic Mountain. It is a collection of short stories. The first story in the book is also The Magic Mountain. The last story in the book is The Tapestry. Neither of the two suggestions fit the book I'm inquiring about. I believe the cover of the book shows the two children climbing a mountain, but I no longer believe the name of the book to be The Magic Mountain. It may be Children's Stories. The tapestry story still holds. Piers Anthony, Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn, Part of the Xanth Series, Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn involves 5 year old Princess Ivy, who while wondering the castle in bordem, stumbles upon the tapestry room.

Wanting to investigate a movement she saw, she finds a way to enter the tapestry in spirit form to help, leaving her body lieing on a cot beneath the tapestry. I, too, have sought for a book about 'Twinkle and Boo', two kittens who get into michief. I didn't have the right title! Dorothy Grider, The Little Ballerina , Might this be The Little Ballerina?

Check out more on the Solved Mysteries pages. Randy, a high schooler working on the railroads in the summer, finds himself tutoring a newcomer. Randy begins to suspect Burns of being a German spy. Stephen Meader is a very skilled writer of boys'' adventure book. Two beds were in the living room. Grandpa, Grandma, and Patrick's tallest sisters slept there.

In the back bedroom a bed sat between Grandma's trunk and Mother's cedar chest. Patrick slept in the middle of that bed between Mike and Tim. Patrick's new bed was delivered and put in the back bedroom. Mother could not walk between the beds. Grandma could not open her trunk. Grandpa knew what to do. He cut the legs of the cot in half. Then he slid Patrick's cot under the bed which now belonged to MIke and Tim.

When night came, Grandpa pulled it out again I've just given my copy away so can't check details but it's a Christian tale, set in England, where the girl who narrates it and her brother, Philip, live with their Aunt Margaret. She's naughty and rebellious till she finds God and peace. NOT the Tanglewoods Secret. While T he Tanglewoods Secret is a wonderful story, it is nothing like the description given in this query. In this story, it is a British? The girl struggles with rebelling against her aunt's child-rearing while her brother is a real saint.

Margaret Flora, The Tanglewood Animals, , reprint. Kenize Mourad, Regards from the Dead Princess: Novel of a Life , by Kenize Mourad. But sorry, that is NOT the solution. That story is somewhat parallel to the story about the Tunisian Princess but it's not the same.

Anyone have any other suggestions? Edith Unnerstad, Twilight Tales. I haven't read the book since my own childhood, so can't remember whether it fits the description in other ways. I think the ugly fairy was called a changeling, although I don't remember the name of the book.

I hope it helps spark a memory. Lyon, Elinor, Rider's Rock. Not a lot of information to go on, but perhaps this one "Since a tidal wave covered it years before, a seaside village has remained buried and intact beneath the sand. Then four children discover how to tunnel into the buildings and are exploring when another wave hits, with revealing results.

William Mayne's Low Tide has 3 New Zealand children trapped by a tidal wave, but they are lured out by a low tide to see a shipwreck, not any place with windows. Elinor Lyon , Rider's Rock, The cover you describe definitely belongs to this book The children are trapped in the house they have uncovered when another tidal wave hits and she saws her plait off to secure the window.

This was a favourite of mine when I was about 8. Lyon, Elinor, Rider's Rock , Follett , copyright. Helen Wind, Kitten Twins. Found this on your Solved page. Here's the only plot description I could find: Not a complete answer, but maybe it will contain some clues to help you. The title A Friendly Bear or The Friendly Bear turned up, by Robert Bright, BUT the description says that a boy goes to visit his grandfather to have him read a book, but there's a friendly bear there instead. So this may be throwing your search off.

A bear, not a town, but could be the one! Marjory Schwalje, I Walk to the Park. Published by Whitman in a possibility? I think the opening was something like "I walk to the park, and what do I see? Possibly one of these?? I am sure that this book is " Timothy Tiger to the Rescue ". Timmy must rescue him. From what I remember, these books were set in Asia, probably India from what I remember. I have an ISBN number for you as well: Diane Duane, High Wizardry. They take along Machu Pichu, a talking bird. I can think of two possibilities for this one, neither of which is a perfect fit.

The heroes of Eleanor Cameron's The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet take the chicken Henrietta along on their journey to save the planet Basidium, but the chicken doesn't talk. And in Emergence , by David Palmer , the heroine has a talking parrot, but most of the action takes place on Earth. Gerald Durrell, The Talking Parcel , Peter, Simon and Penelope stay in Greece and one day find a large talking parcel on the beach. It contains a parrot and his spider they both talk. They journey with the parrot into Mythologia where they help HH, the wizard who created Mythologia, to fight the cockatrices who are trying to take control of the country.

Was reprinted in under the title The Battle for Castle Cockatrice. I've never read this book, and I'm not positive about the title, but the cover shows a tiger in a tea cup. It's a small picture book. I noticed in this entry that someone offers a solution that is incorrect on two counts: The original post asks about an animal tea party in the jungle. The book offered as a possible solution which the poster admits they have never seen is definitely not about this subject, and so is not a match.

Sorry to be pedantic, but that answer steers the original poster to the wrong book, which is out of print, so not easy to check on. T Carlson, Bernice Wells. The junior party book. She has also written: This may be too old, but it's a possibility. It has ideas for theme parties for preteen girls and young teens. Pamela Sargent, Alien Child , Yeah, I found it!!! The only human left on earth being raised by aliens.

Or so she thinks until she meets the boy who has also been raised by an alien. The two learn together of the history of their species and try to determine its future. Thoughtful and raises a number of good questions. Alien Child is definitely the book. I love this site! I finally found this book! The Girl Who Tricked the Troll. A troll rides in on a black horse and causes trouble on a farm in Illinois. Two children try to get rid of the troll by asking questions he cannot answer. Eventually, they succeed in their task and, as part of the deal, he leaves the Barn and returns to the forest.

He sits beneath a tree trying to think of the answer to the question that the children had asked, and after a long time, he turns to stone. He still sits there to this day, as a funny looking rock. There is actually a site on the author and his other works, should anyone else be interested!

The Fourteen Bears in Summer and Winter. Could this possibly be it? The bears are not teddy bears, but are cuddly and friendly looking. They do all sorts of things ice skating, swimming, eating ice cream. My own treasured copy of the book given to me in the early 80's is much bigger than a normal picture book. If that it is the book, check out the Most Requested page. It's been reprinted and I have plenty of copies! I also read this book in a remedial reading class circa I think the book was called Teddy Bear Teddy Bear. I also remember there being a couple others with the same type covers but different subjects,one was a train I think.

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I'm pretty sure they were of well known titles but specially made for kids with learning disabilities if this helps. I don't know if this is the book the original poster wants, but it sure sounds like it! This is a long shot, but maybe it's what you are looking for? Peter Heath which is a pseudonym author's reall name was Peter Fine , Assassins from Tomorrow , This is almost surely Assassins from Tomorrow. I've not read it but know the premise was that time travellers killed JFK, and how many times can someone has spun a whole novel out of that?

It was an original pb from Lancer Books in and I believe there's also a Magnum Books pb a bit later. Thanks for trying, though. John Jakes, Time Gate , From the description online: Scientists in the near-future have a time-travel device that they use to research the past; the project leaders have to scramble to stop an intern who uses the machine to travel into the past in order to assassinate the president, a man promoting a nuclear disarmament treaty that the intern opposes.

Maybe it was some kind of poetry anthology that had Sally 'traveling' through various poems? Yes, now that I'm thinking back there was a few pages about the Pobble who has no toes and Aunt Jabisca So you might be right as fas as this girl "Sally" traveling through several stories and poems. Seems like there was also a page about a yak And from what I can remember "Sally' had short wiry red hair and freckles. And when she is talking with the cowboy and having tumbleweed tea, I think there is mention of Timbuktoo, and his 10 gallon hat. I can picture the cowboy in my mind, and the little girl Sally, her name could also be Elizabeth Anonymous, Go Ask Alice.

This book is written as the "diary" of a teen girl who gets addicted to drugs, runs away, winds up in a commune at one point, and I think maybe also winds up pregnant in the end. I'm not sure it really is a real diary - just written as if it were one. Could it be this? I think it was a real diary, thus the anonymous author? I'm fairly certain that the book described is not Go Ask Alice.

None of the details that the poster gave match the plot of that book. Dragonwagon, Crescent, To Take a Dare , It's about a runaway who takes up with other hippies, does drugs, and gets pregnant. I don't recall if it had a character in it named Curly Red, though. This definitely isn't To Take a Dare - the heroine of that book does drugs with her suburban friends before she runs away, but has stopped long before she settles in a town popular with leftover hippies.

So that might help in the process of elimination. This is a real long-shot, but I couldn't help noticing the similarity in names. If you check R53 in archives on this site - "Rat called not-polite", one of the possible solutions is a book entitled " Twirlup on the moon " by Laura Bannon. I thought of "Trilliwip" because I had read your intriguing post earlier. It may be a real stretch, but I thought I'd suggest it anyway.. Edgar Eager, Time garden. There are others in the series: Rescue was an anthology, while Mutiny was a novel. The short stories had appeared in Boys' Life magazine.

The stories continued to appear after the books were published, so if you remember something that was not in the books, you probably read it in the short stories. I remember the boys running afoul of a farmer named Jay Henney Haney? A short story in the s in Boys' Life re-visited this character. If you can find a library with old issues of Boys' Life, you may be able to get all of the stories. Ruth Chew, Summer Magic , Sarah and Timothy are transported into the past while visiting a display of an old house at the Brooklyn Museum. They stay with a couple named the Maartens and meet some Indians.

Just bought and read this Scholastic book. It's about three children who somehow travel in time through a combination of smelling a pillow they found in an old attic trunk and walking into a garden maze. It's a book I loved as a child, but I can't remember much more than that. I think the people they ended up living with in the past were former slaves who had joined a Native tribe, but I'm not sure if that was my interpretation or part of the book. Cabell, James Branch, Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice , I don't recall the specific scene with all of the old loves it's been many years since I read it , but it sounds very much like Jurgen's preoccupations.

Many reprints exist, and the book is available online with illustrations here and here. Thank you for solving this - it was driving me and my wife crazy. A little research showed that the copy that I had was a Dover Press reprint released in I want to buy a paperback copy, I did find it on Amazon, but I'll give you a chance 1st if you want to sell me a copy. Elizabeth Hart Ritter, Parasols is for Ladies. About 3 little girls in the Deep South who get brand-new colorful Easter dresses and matching parasols for Easter Sunday.

Elizabeth Ritter , The Three Parasols, Elizabeth Ritter wrote a 5-part series for Jack and Jill magazine that started in the November, issue. It was called "The Three Parasols," and I assume the book mentioned above is a book version of the stories. In it, three sisters, Gennie, Nolie, and Rellie, see the parasols in the store window and can't afford them. They end up earning the money by taking care of a cow and selling the buttermilk. At one point the money they have saved is lost it turns out that one of the little girls has buried it in the hope that it will grow into more money.

No mention of the mom making dresses that match, but I don't have all the issues of the magazine, or it might have been added to the book. That might help the seeker decide whether Parasols is for Ladies is the right book. Charlotte Steiner, Little John Little , This is the book, and I have it, but am having trouble locating it. It's a Wonder Book, and Charlotte Steiner did the illustrations as well as the story. As I recall the book, Little John Little is a very tiny fellow who, at the very beginning of the book, is inadvertently swept out the front door of his house by his normal-sized mother and proceeds to build his own tiny house to live in, I think out of matchsticks.

There's an illustration of him picking a huge to him blueberry from a ladder probably also made of matchsticks. He befriends a ladybug named I think Reddy, who becomes his pet. One day he goes swimming. I think I recall a picture of him diving from a lillypad into the water, near a frog. I think he then falls asleep on a leaf and is blown by the wind for some distance. He ends up near a cow eating grass who's about to inadvertently, again eat him when a bird swoops down and saves him.

She takes him to her nest high in a tree with her young ones. He thanks her and asks her to take him home, but she thinks he's better off with her and takes off. He gets help from a squirrel, who first takes him to her home in a hole in the tree and feeds him along with her children. I'm quite sure there's an illustration looking from outside -- where it's become dark -- through the hole into the lighted home, where Little Johon Little is eating at a table with the squirrel family. After that the squirrel gives him a ride down the tree. He's still feeling somewhat stranded, but I think a passing mouse gives him a ride home on her back, and I think I recall Reddy waiting at the door to the lighted home as Little John Little arrives.

I recall the last illustration being of Little John Little sleeping in the matchbox bed with Reddy up on the "headboard" which I think is the top of the matchbox turned up. The illustrations are great, very much like those in A Surprise for Mrs. Bunny, which Charlotte Steiner also wrote and illustrated.

In this German fairy tale, two sisters take turns working for Mother Holle, who lives at the bottom of a well. Text can be found online. If you search for "Mother Holle" you can find many websites that have the entire story online. I suspect the version you're looking for is a picture book, not a story in an anthology, so you might want to look at Mother Holly by the Brothers Grimm , retold and illustrated by Bernadette Watts Crowell, or Mother Holly: Yesterday, I suggested John W. A Retelling From the Brothers Grimm I'd like to withdraw that suggestion, as Stewig says in his introduction, "In all previous editions, pitch or tar fell on Blanche.

Because that would be difficult to remove, I changed it to barbs, bristles and burrs, which are miserable but not impossible to remove. These are all collections of stories, so if the stumper requester is looking for a book with a single story in it, Mother Holly by Bernadette Watts Crowell, may be the one sought.

Kingdom of the Cats. I read a similar story in a Reader's Digest collection of fairy tales. It was called "colony of the cats" or "kingdom of the cats," something like that. The good woman who took care of the cats was dipped in a barrel of gold, while the bad woman was dipped in oil and got a donkey tail in her forehead. Sinbad and Me is the title of the 1st book, then he wrote a sequel or two, one of which is entitled Mystery of the Witch Who Wouldn't. These books by Kin Platt are the ones you're looking for. Kin Platt, Sinbad and Me , Sadly out of print, and somewhat hard to find.

The dog is an English bulldog named Sinbad. He belongs to Steve Forrester, the protagonist of four young adult mysteries by Kin Platt: Steve does have an elderly friend, Mrs. Teska, who is a shopkeeper, and she appears in more than one book, but I can't remember if she's Polish.

I read these books so long ago that I'm not certain which one you're looking for, but it is probably either Sinbad and Me or The Ghost of Hellsfire Street. Please see the Solved Mysteries "S" page for more information. Elisa Bialk, Tizz is a cow pony , There are lots of Tizz books. They were published by Childrens Press. Two possiblities for T Sandra Ziegler's At the Hospital: I believe I know what book you are talking about.

What jogged my memory was when you mentioned ice cubes. I remember that specifically from the book. The picture on the front shows a girl with black shoulder-length hair in bed with a nurse leaning over her holding a tray. It seems to be the one you are looking for. Aren't these two the same book? Not sure if it would be either of these, but they have similar elements No, I'm afraid it's not " Castle in the Sky " Beyond the Midnight Mountains.

I have the paper back bought through a book club in ish as a child. Garth Nix, Shade's Children. I read this about a year ago, and can't find my copy now to check details, but it sounds a lot like it. However the date given is so may be too late to be the right book. Here is a description I found online: On that Sad Birthday, the child is the object of an obscene harvest - his brains and muscles are used to construct machine-like creatures whose sole purpose is to kill.

The mysterious Shade - once a man, but now more like the machines he fights - recruits the few children lucky enough to escape. He gives them food, shelter, and the training they need to fight the Overlords. But Shade's sent many children out on mission - and fewer of them are coming back. By luck, cunning, and skill, four of Shade's children - Ella, Drum, Ninde and Gold-Eye - have come closer than any to discovering the source of the Overlords' power - and the key to their downfall.

But the closer the children get, the more ruthless Shade seems to become Alexander Key, Escape to Witch Mountain, The story is about two orphans, Tony and Tia, who have moderate paranormal abilities. After their "granny", the elderly woman who took them in when they were very little, dies, they are placed by social services in a juvenile detention home under grim, unwholesome conditions. Both have repressed memories of their past, but discover clues -- a map and a huge amount of money -- hidden in the bottom of a leather box owned by Tia.

When a man claiming to be the brother of their deceased father shows up at the detention center to take custody of them, they instinctively know he is not their uncle and has ulterior motives. With the assistance of a tough-nut inner-city Irish priest, the pair run away, following the map's route leading towards the Blue Ridge Mountains.

As their memories begin to return, they realize that they are actually of extraterrestrial origin, and in the end they find their way to their own people. Alexander Key, Return from Witch Mountain. Actually I think it's the sequel. Alexander Key hadn't intended to write one but Disney made a feature film based on the first book and then did a sequel, Return from Witch Mountain, so Key wrote a book based on the script.

Tony and Tia have been living among their own people and improving their psychic abilities. On a visit to Los Angeles they are separated. Tony uses his gift to stop a couple of accidents and is seen by people who work for a mad scientist's experimental lab where he has kidnapped a number of telekinetic kids to work for him this idea was also used by Dean R. Koontz, in "Door to December". Tia enlists the help of a street gang to find and free Tony. The psychic elements and the story in general are much less subtle and more "showy" than the original naturally, since it started out as a movie.

The details match up -- the boy uses his telekinetic powers to prevent an accident and draws the attention of a mad scientist who wants to exploit the gifts of psychic children, etc. You might look this up on amazon. The film version starred Bette Davis and Christopher Lee, and is regarded as high camp, but Alexander Key did write the novelization you may have read, and put his own unique touches in. McCloskey, Robert, Time of Wonder , If it was a picture book, two Caldecott winners are possibilities: This is a long shot, but It was based on a movie.

The book includes "Diary of a Cadet Aboard the Christian Radich" [sail-training ship], along with diagrams of a square-rigger, old sailors' superstitions, nautical terms, and the explanation of sailing a square-rigged ship. It is definitely "a thin paperback with a sailboat on the front" -- the book is light blue and the sailboat is the Christian Radich under full sail, at an angle that makes her look tall and thin.

Clark text , introductions by Frank O. A Sailing Celebration, What year did you go to school? Could this be the book you're looking for? This book was published in association with Operation Sail, which celebrated the Bicentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence by gathering tall ships from around the world and sailing them into New York Harbor in time for the Independence Day celebration. Over 50 full-color photographs, plus additional photographs in black and white.

Paperback, with a picture of a sailing ship against the Manhattan skyline on the cover, blue borders. It's about pages long--I don't know if that's thin enough for you! I have recently remembered more details. Female love interest is named Florence. She has several brothers and one is named Gregory. He marries an Indian girl. From an online review: Enright, Elizabeth, Tatsinda , Try Tatsinda , by Elizabeth Enright.

It is a fairly short book, 65 pages. Girl lives in a magical kingdom. The trolls mine "greb" inside the mountain and don't go outside during the day. The girl's kingdom does shine in the sun. There are pictures showing crystal palaces and houses. I hope this helps. The main character is a young child and is living in basically the real world. No crystal palace, no kingdom, just an ordinary kid. Also, I don't remember anything like a kidnapping taking place at all.

It was the troll mountain or treasure far away that belonged to the trolls that was shining. Thanks for the guess anyway though. I'll keep checking back. I want to read it to my kids so badly! Conroy, Pat, The Water is Wide. This is a semi-autobiographical story written by Conroy later, made into a movie with John Voight, Conrak. He travels to Yamacraw, an island off the coast of South Carollina, to teach very poor, isolated, African-American children. I don't know when it was originally published, but the movie came out in Pat Conroy, The Water is Wide , The date is wrong, and the location, but the plot is similar.

Don't know if this is the book you are looking for, but here is the synopsis: A young schoolteacher struggles to bring literacy and selfrespect to a black backwoods South Carolina school in this affecting work. Thanks so much for the help! Thanks so much to you and the other responders for this wonderful service.

This is definitely the book being sought. It is set in the s, in Kentuckys rural tobacco country. He has pupils on the census, but only a third attend classes: The students have to purchase their own books and classes are held during the summer so that the district doesn't have to pay for textbooks or coal to heat the schoolhouse. Stuart is also in charge of maintaining the school grounds painting the school, putting lime in the outhouses and teaching his barefooted pupils to maintain public health no drinking from the same dipper, no chewing tobacco on the school grounds.

For all of this work, he earns about one-fourth as much as a worker at the local steel mill who has a third grade education! The Water is Wide has a similar theme, but it is set about forty years later in an impoverished rural community in South Carolina. This sounds a bit like Dorothy Edwards' ' The Witches and the Grinnygog ' , but that has a few more children, and the word in the title is 'Grinnygog', not 'Pucq'. Roberts, Susan B, Tim and Sue: James R Padgett, illus. Hi - I'm the one who originally posted this stumper. Today, someone sent me a website for out of print books and I found it.

It's on it's way so hopefully soon I'll know if this is the right book or not. They were long enough that when I read them for my competitions, it took about 10 minutes. Agapeland, The Music Machine , , reprint. Could this maybe be the Music Machine series from Agapeland? I remember them when I was growing up as Tapes or LPs with an accompanying book and each story was about a fruit of the spirit ie love, patience, self-control. Sorry I can't elaborate anymore. My memory's fuzzy on the details and I don't have any of them handy.

Maybe check out www. Thank you so much for your suggestion, but unfortunately it's not The Music Machine. But I really appreciate your kind input! Never give up on Google! After trying numerous combinations of search words, I finally found the book. I was able to buy it on-line, and even though I had last read it roughly 50 years ago, good grief!! Even though the solution did not come from Book Stumper, the site is wonderful!.

Almost certain this is the one: Kathy is a young tennis player with enough drive, attitude, and talent to go right to the top. And it seems that everyone around her has a stake in her success. So, when Kathy is presented with an opponent she can't beat, and a tragedy occurs, everyone's motives are questioned.

They all want victory badly-but would anyone really kill for it? Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni? Not sure if what you're looking for is fiction or nonfiction. Lionni's book is more about the fish that is friends with a tadpole. They both grow and learn to accept their differences - especially the fish's inability to travel outside the water.

I like the echoes to The Five Chinese Brothers here, but there are no travellers in that tale. Not a solution, but there are variations on this theme. This might be the one- three travelers save a princess from a wizard by using their special skills. Pyle , Wonder Tales Retold, The king sends his son to find a princess, and of course he must rescue her from a wicked magician.

Long can get as tall as he needs to, Broad can expand and suck up rivers in their way, and Sharpsight can break up rocks with his vision and well as see where the princess is being held. Allan Eckert, Song of the Wild , This is the book about the kid who can "throw" his mind into other animals. What a cool gift! James Otis, Toby Tyler. I haven't read this book, but I know it's about a boy who runs away to join the circus.

In the 60's, my sister had an edition from Disney which I think was a smaller hardback version. I think the cover had a dark pink background Frances Frost, Windy Foot series , late s, approximate. I think you may be looking for one of the Windy Foot books. Boy named Toby, Shetland pony named Windy Foot. Several stories about farm life in the late s early s.

Schmidt, Stanley, Tweedlioop , Tweedlioop - who certainly has an unusual name - is a peaceful alien who happens to look just like the squirrels on earth. It was a novel for adults, however. Perhaps it's your missing book? It was reprinted in , with a different cover. If it isn't the first suggestion, it could be this book, about another unusually named alien starting with T. Is there really a twirlup? Laura Bannon makes this ambitious little animal so believable that you'll feel sure he exists. Dippy, the kangaroo rat, who tells the twirlup's story, patiently puts up with being called Drippy, Chippy and Snippy.

Almost without knowing how, he finds himself working on the twirlup's wonderful scheme to launch a manned moon shot, or perhaps it's accurate to say a twirlupped moon shot. Swiftly, a lizard, unluckily becomes part of the project. He has never been one to keep a secret, and thus the climax of the twirlup's work and inventiveness has a more unusual audience than any ever gathered at Cape Kennedy.

Here's an amusing spoof on our ambitions to get to the moon. What's more, it introduces a whole colony of little desert creatures, Laura Bannon's lively imagination is at its best in this new tale, and her original sketches have been carefully completed by Will Gordon, a talented artist in his own right Mason, Smiling Hill Farm , Hi, this book might be the answer to the T poster.

Story of a pioneering family from Virginia who settles down in Indiana, their children grow up, etc. Lots of illustrations in black, red, and white. My children read this book when I homeschooled them and they enjoyed it. This one is from the Alice and Jerry series of primers, although it doesn't feature the Alice and Jerry characters. It actually has 4 squirrels on the cover. Long shot, but who knows.

Since nobody has suggested this one yet, I'll try. This is a book detailed picture book format, like the rest of Holling's books about a cottonwood tree in the Southwest, that plays a part in all kinds of events that go on around it. At the end it gets made into a yoke for oxen, and still has the marks, bullet holes etc. Holling Clancy Holling, Tree in the Trail. No, this isn't right but thank you for the suggestion.

The book was not a "picture" book although it may have had some artwork. Anyway, the tree was much, much bigger. I think so big that many people would have to stand around it to hold hands around its trunk. This might be the book you're looking for. I have a copy of it and it does mention people carved their initials and stuff in it, and the tree is very important to the people in the town. There are a few illustrations in the copy I have but it isn't a picture book. Thornton, Jane Foster, Close Harmony , When Harrison Hughes has a near-fatal accident, the band is left without a lead guitarist so super-talented Josh is chosen as his replacement, but will there be a place in the band for Harrison when he recovers and will Josh be Lexi's ticket to romance?

It's 2 in the Electric High series. One of the Cathy books by Catherine Woolley maybe? A Room for Cathy , 2. Miss Cathy Leonard , 3. Cathy Leonard Calling , 4. Cathy's Little Sister , 5. Chris in Trouble , 6. Cathy Uncovers a Secret. My guess is it's 3 or 4. Woolley is also the author of the Ginnie series. Andrews , Flowers In The Attic, Cathy, along with her mother, brothers, and sister go to live with her grandparents when her father dies. They go by train. At the end of the book, Cathy, her sister, and one of her brothers get on a train and run away.

There are five books in the series. I posted this inquiry-- it is not the V. I am not sure if it is one of the Cathy books as I have been unable to find summaries on any of them: I'm actually wondering if the girl's name was Cathy--??? Not sure about this one but thought it might be worth a look. The girl is actually in Switzerland at a boarding school, not France. Oh, I think I remember this one too though not the name of the book, unfortunately. Pauline is one of four girls, growing up in France.

She falls in love with an older man who is an artist. Her father is a doctor. Her youngest sister Cecile gets on a quiz show, and wins support for an aging horse loved by an older sister Bernadette.

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Rosamond du Jardin, Wait For Marcy. This is Wait For Marcy , late forties or very early fifties. There are several more in the series: Was already under V Could this be it? The title isn't similar, but Scholastic reprints often changed the hardcover title to something "more appealing". The summary is "After thirteen-year-old Ben and his pet coati Frito join a group of archaeologists looking for Indian artifacts in the Arizona desert, they help expose a ring of thieves.

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I don't know if they featured the same character, but it might be worth looking into. I don't know the name of this story, but it was a Twilight Zone episode, so it is probably in one of the published Twilight Zone anthologies. Rod Serling wrote a lot of those stories himself, so it might be worth doing a search under his name. This is a Twilight Zone episode and must have appeared in an anthology of stories based on the show. It has probably appeared in various sci-fi anthologies.

Actually, while many of the stories broadcast on "The Twilight Zone" were also rewritten as short stories and published in collections credited to Serling, I can't find that "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" was among them, at least under that title. Aside from the collections credited to Serling most or all of which were first published as Bantam mass-market pb originals , at least two collections were written by Walter B. Since I don't recognize the titles of the stories in that collection, I suspect he retitled the stories he adapted and this may possibly be among them.

Full contents of both are listed online. Descriptions online look like it's got spiral binding and 4 moveable pull tabs, but sorry - no plot description. Can you keep on searching for T?? Brock, The Topsy-Turvy Family , , copyright. Not on the same shelf with Lenski and Lovelace, but the title is right. The adventures of Tim and Debby Wiggins in their prairie pioneer home in Minnesota.

This book was reprinted in the s. Cover is yellow, with picture of Tim, Debby, a baby, a couple of geese, a dog, and a pig. Francesca Simon, The Topsy Turvies. Probably not your book as it is a picture book from but it is about a Topsy Turvy Family. I don't suppose you could be thinking about the books about the Peterkins family by Lucretia Hale? If you have any more detailed information about the content of the book- what the family was like that made them "topsy-turvy"- it would help in the search. Could this possibly be the Fairy book series by Andrew Lang? These had pictures on the front, and were different colors.

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See if these are familiar: I don't think these were grouped by the age of the reader, though. You may be talking about Alan Mendelsohn the Boy from Mars , which was pretty far out for a kid's book if I remember correctly. It involved a couple of outcasts, telekinesis and a few pranks. Shusterman, Neil, The Shadow Club , , copyright. This is a long shot, but I think this may be the book you're looking for. Richard M Koff, Christopher , , approximate.

Thirteen-year-old Christopher enters a supposedly haunted house on a dare where he meets a mysterious man who teaches him to use mental powers he never knew existed. Several episodes of the book feature Christopher misusing his new powers and his teacher taking him to task over it. Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Changeling , , copyright. Martha befriends Ivy, a poor girl from the disreputable Carson family, and the two of them build an imaginary world together. Google Books has considerable excerpts from the novel, including the duck-washing incident, at http: But, see above about my avoiding contemporary settings as a rule.

Here's what I loved. Nicole has this awesome casual writing style that just makes the book so darn easy to read and not it the dumb-down vocabulary kid's meaning of the term "easy". There's no work to reading it and I love love love that. I'm so tired to books that self-consciously remind me I'm reading them. Oh, you know what I mean. This one just moves along, like a movie, no concentration needed, and that is a really good thing. So comfortable was I, in fact, I didn't even notice until page 94 that it was written in first person, which I normally don't like.

From knowing Nicole online I wasn't surprised about this next point, but there's a metric ton of humor bubbling throughout Tempest Rising. And she gives us my personal favorite some seriously fabulous characters of doom! There's Grizelda the drag queen trapped in a lesbian's body named after a character from Cats? I found myself getting a little sad when we left the colorful cornucopia behind and had to get on with sex and plot and such. I could read a gossip column from the local paper just about these characters.

Jan 28, Ferdy rated it it was ok Shelves: Jane True's life is turned upside down when she finds out she is only half human. Jane is introduced to a new world of vampires, shapeshifters, gnomes and succubi. I had high hopes for this book and was largely disapponited.. Things I didn't like: I don't even know of any little kids that would say doo-doo?!

Jane had more chemistry with Iris. Unfortunately I was given the first 4 books as a gift.. View all 12 comments. When I saw this cover awhile back I immediately wanted this series. I enjoy a book that exudes it's personality in the cover art and provides you with a good sense of where it is headed. Girly, quirky, kitschy, humorous. This isn't really urban fantasy, not quite mystery either, pretty heavy on paranormal romance at times, I would say all three but non individually. Nothing about Jane True is all that kickass, she's more a culmination of events in her life rather than a cultivated character.

Jane allows her tragic past to define her and in Tempest Rising we see a 26 year old girl come to grips with who she is and who she wants to be. There is one particular aspect about Jane that I really responded to and that was the way she embraced her sexuality without shame or excuses.

All too often we see young female heroines who shy away from their sexuality and deny their wants and needs unless it comes prepackaged in a Disney Princess - all consuming love facade. I all but jumped up and clapped when Jane decided to act on her wants with a man who treated her with respect but without the illusion of a monogamous relationship. It was a mutually beneficial choice made by two consenting adults without the slightest hint of slut shaming.

Can we all take a minute and just appreciate the shit out of that? That really needed to be acknowledged. So some shit happens and Jane's true heritage is revealed to her, along with many of those in her tiny town of Rockabill, Maine. A vampire investigator named Ryu shows up after the mysterious death of a half-ling and he's all about wooing her.

Slow your roll, Ryu. But then… …anyways The world building is really fun, every mythical creature you can think of and some you wouldn't expect were all up in this. The pace and structure reminds me very much of the Sookie books but I liked those for the most part. I typically don't connect with a first installment in a series, but this one was really engaging.

Looking forward to starting the second! View all 4 comments. Jan 22, Chichipio rated it really liked it Shelves: Compared to my ratings of other books, this would be a 3. But since I got from it pretty much what I was expecting to get and enjoyed it, I'm giving it a 4. Let's clear something up right from the start. The cover has the drawing of a naked chick on it. That's right, no tattooed hottie in tight leathers waving a sword or dagger for this one.

Of a naked chick. So yeah, don't go into this expecting something serious, dark or intense. A good adjective to sum up this book wou Compared to my ratings of other books, this would be a 3. A good adjective to sum up this book would be, in fact, light. There's a mystery, a few deaths, an investigation, and the typical introduction of the paranormal world with its rules and inhabitants, but it's all handled lightly.

They serve as a backdrop for Jane's own story. There's also a lot of smut. Well, it's not that there are whole chapters describing every single encounter, but there is a part when they go at it frequently. However, it's not hot sex. If someone wants to read a book mainly for the smut, I wouldn't recommend this one.

This is one aspect of the novel that doesn't bother those of us that are reading it in spite of, rather than because of it. While it was a little too much, some of it was necessary once you know Jane's story. Dry spell would be an understatement. Luckily for me, it was just good ol' sex without any taint of insta-love or creepy stalking in the mix—or worse, a love triangle.

Just two adults hooking up. No impact on the story whatsoever. It all boils down to Jane. If you like her, which is something you can judge in the first two chapters, then you'll like the book. If she annoys you, stop right there because the focus of the book is never on the plot or other characters. She's goofy and self-deprecating without much whining and reacts to situations in the way I imagine a normal person would. The dialogs between the different parts of her psyche worked really well for me. Maybe because I have similar mental conversations, too.

Hmm… I'm not sure I should have mentioned that. There are tons of nerdy references to video games and TV shows or movies, too. It's not that they're particularly funny, but recognizing such things generates a certain rapport with the character. She's not usually trying to be funny, but when she is, it's usually about the lamest thing and the jokes are terrible. What makes this a good thing is that she knows it and often chastises herself for being such a dork. She's not always the damsel in distress, not because she's a super kickass heroine, but because she mostly doesn't set herself up to be the victim.

If she were in one of those horror movies where there's a group of people in a mansion trapped with a killer, I'm sure she wouldn't be the one crying "let's split up and try to find the guy! This book felt like a long prequel and, in this case, that's a good thing. Jane does a lot of personal growing and is left in a good place to start an the real? I'm curious about where things will go from here. Remember, whatever you think of Jane's personality from that excerpt will likely shape your opinion of the whole book. Life is too damn short. I knew early on that I was never going to finish this book.

The death knell went off every few pages. It failed to suck me in. It was not funny even though it tried to be. There was a stereotypical lesbian couple the butch one and the pretty one. Odd behaviour concerning a corpse -not necrophilia, though that would've been x more interesting.

The strange supernatural reveal and Jane's reaction to her mother's secret. I didn't feel any Pages read: I didn't feel anything for Jane. And the list goes on and on. Ryu, the vampire love interest. This comparison is also an insult to the Sookie series which was actually entertaining. Anyon - He caught my eye. I know he's a shifter even though we haven't been told but I expected him to be Jane's love interest.

And for some reason, I sense a love triangle forming at some point. I detest love triangles. Although my overall perception of this book was negative there were a few things I liked: Reading Tempest Rising was a struggle which I'm not prepared to continue. I know they say "no pain, no gain" but I think I'll gain little from finishing this so I'm not prepared to even try. View all 5 comments. This is definitely a prime example of that, for sure. This may be one odd book cover all of them in this series are, actually but it certainly does nothing to justify the story within.

I really enjoyed this book and am glad to say I have found a new series to be keeping my eyes out for. And the continuous internal monologue about her libido? I loved how the author wrote it though; not your typical love triangle. D Interested in more of my reviews? View all 3 comments. Mar 26, Jen Davis rated it it was amazing Recommended to Jen by: I truly, thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was original and unique. It was sexy and funny. It was unpredictable and smart.

The story centers on Jane True, a something misfit living in a small Maine tourist town. She works at a small bookstore, takes care of her sick father, and has an abiding love for the sea. Jane has been an outcast in the town her whole life. Her mother made big waves, first when she appeared out of nowhere, then disappeared in much the same way when Jane was a child. But t I truly, thoroughly enjoyed this book.

But things only got worse when Jane's high school sweetheart drowned. The community blamed Jane for his death and she suffered a breakdown she has only partially recovered from. She finds solace in the water. But when she finds a body during a late night swim, her world is turned on its ear. The dead man isn't human and that discovery is quickly followed by the revelation that she isn't entirely human either. Quickly, Jane finds herself immersed in the supernatural world and thrown together with Ryu, the vampire investigating the murder of the man Jane discovered.

This book has a little bit of everything. It's got mystery and intrigue surrounding the murder. It's got a great journey of self-discovery as Jane learns who and what she really is. It has hot sex. As many good things as it has going for it, I have to say that Jane's internal dialogue has got to be at the top of the list. Her voice is just fantastic. I get her pop-culture references, her sarcasm This is definitely a hit for me. While the book had a clear ending, it obviously has more story to tell.

And as much as I liked Ryu and I really did! I am all about Anyan. He and Jane simply must become more than friends down the road. Some of the characters: Jane True, Ryu, Anyan, and a wide cast of various supernatural characters. Jane True lives in Rockabill, Maine. She thinks she is an average plain Jane and is an oddball compared to the town folks. Jane tries to isolat Some of the characters: Jane tries to isolate herself, avoiding the stares of the town, enjoying the few friends she has and taking care of her dad in a co-dependent way.

Even though she tries to fit in, she knows that her desire to swim every night despite the fierce waters and cold temperature is a habit that she cannot break. After discovering a body in the grips of a whirlpool, Jane is forced to cross paths with the supernatural community. This is where we meet Ryu, a very hot, hunky, slightly egotistic vampire, and Anyan, a hellhound that is much more than your average hellhound is there such a thing? Lost In the World: It was hard to keep up with the cast of characters. The author introduces the reader to the characters at the same time Jane learns about the creatures around her.

I sometimes felt overwhelmed and wished I had a glossary of supernatural creatures so I could flip back to it. Will I read the next book in the series? This book was VERY funny at times. I rarely laugh aloud and I have to say I laughed more times in this book then I ever had before. Yes, that does sound like Sookie and it is a darn shame that people will compare Sookie to Jane.

The Sookie Stackhouse series is a great series, it is original, and nothing can compare to it. Tempest Rising should not be compared to it. While Jane True is similar to Sookie, the series involving the two similar women is very different.

Feb 27, Shannon C. A first time book from a new author, I was so pleasantly surprised by this book. This book reminded me in style to the Sookie Sackhouse series--quirky, fun, interesting characters and a fast moving plotine. Good mix of adventure, suspense, mystery and a little romance. I loved the range of the types of characters, e. Don't let the cover put you off the book--this is a very good, entertaining urban f A first time book from a new author, I was so pleasantly surprised by this book. Don't let the cover put you off the book--this is a very good, entertaining urban fantasy.

I liked seeing Jane learn about herself, her missing mom and the supernatural world as well as start to get over Jason's death. No 'mary sue', Jane is an interesting, imperfect character that makes you want to read the story. She showed her strength, humor, sadness and loyalty. I espcially loved her inner voice conversations between her 'virtue' and her 'libido'.

The next book when Nell starts to train her, I think we'll see even more growth from her as she learns how to use her power. Only niggle for me was the relationship between Jane and Ryu. Maybe it makes sense he can be a 'rebound guy' to help her get over Jason.

I'd eventually like to see her end up with Anyan. He seems to have the ability for a greater depth of feelings. I'm looking forward to the next book Tracking the Tempest, which will come out early summer Nov 26, Cathy rated it really liked it Shelves: I loved this book! It had a great balance of light and dark, humor and deeper emotion, romance and adventure. The author seemed really in touch with contemporary women and urban fantasy.

I loved the wit and humor in this book, and the new ideas of how traditional fantasy elements might manifest in out world. I really hope that all of my friends who like urban fantasy or paranormal romance will try this book, I can't image that anyone would regret it. Jan 26, Shelley rated it it was amazing Shelves: Now, Jane must enter a world filled with supernatural creatures alternatively terrifying, beautiful, and deadly- all of which perfectly describe her new "friend," Ryu, a gorgeous and powerful vampire.

It is a worl Synopsis: Review - Once in a while, a book comes along that has everything a reader enjoys about reading books. Romance, Excitement, Mystery, Funny dialogue, and very likable characters. This book, in my opinion, is that book. I love Jane True. She's feisty and has a snarky attitude. She finds her virtue and libido debating each other constantly throughout the storyline. Jane has also had a rough life. Her mother left her at age 6 to go back to the sea; or so we presume. Her mother came ashore one day naked as a jaybird and soon fell in love with Jane's father.

Jane's father has serious heart issues, which I might say, comes from losing his wife and watching how people have treated his only daughter for the past 20 years. Jane lost the love of her life Jason to a horrible accident that she continues to blame herself for, and which nearly cost her her own life as well. She spent 4 days in a coma, and people thought she was a murder suicide plotter.

She now works for a book store called Read It and Weep with a pair of women who, themselves, aren't all that liked by the community of Rockabill, Maine. But, they are Jane's true friends. I love Grizzy's character. Can't help it she's just so atypical for this genre. Then things start to change for Jane. While she is swimming, she discovers the body of Peter Jakes, a so called writer. She brings him to shore, only to have regrets later.

Which brings to Ryu to town. Ryu is a vampire investigator looking into his death. Ryu opens Jane's eyes to the community around her that she didn't realize were different like her. She's told about her mother who's a selkie, which makes Jane half human or a half-ling. Anyan also has a different history as well. He was once the leader of a group of Cover Operators, and Ryu was part of that group.

We later find out that Jane has the natural ability to manipulate water, which explains how she is able to get around the Sow, a local landmark. But her strength hasn't been determined yet. She's supposed to be trained by Nell in the next installment. Jane and Ryu's romance heats up to a sizzling pace and then they find themselves traveling to Quebec to find out why the half-lings have been targeted, and other investigators were killed looking into Peter's death.

It seems that Jane was on the killers list, but somehow has escaped up to this point. In Quebec, Jane meets Nyx, Ryu's older cousin and evil witch extraordinaire. Orin and Morrigan who are the King and Queen of the Alfar. Morrigan advises Jane to learn her powers so she isn't left without any defenses.

Nyk and Jarl both are playing dangerous games, and Jane is right smack dab in the middle of them. The funniest part of the book, is when Ryu takes Jane to the Love Lagoon, and she gets higher than a kite on the power within the water itself. I especially love the part where she calls Nyx a bitch. I enjoy the Mythology that is used by Ms Peeler throughout this book. She's got everything from vampires, to selkiies, to incubus, and succubus as well as dryands and jinn.

I can't wait to read the next installment in this series Tracking the Tempest. I was a little skeptical going into this, mainly because I had an issue with the cover looking very YA and none too appealing. Peeler also makes the mistake of telling, not showing — by including endless descriptions, scene summaries and internal monologues that make the book drag. But it is bearable. Even though, to be honest, I think a better book would have been based on the back-story of Jane's Selkie mother and human father.

Jane is boring hence the name? She is also thoroughly uncouth — at one point she hocks her gum out the window while her sexy vampire lover looks on. Jane True just comes across as a hillbilly. We need new blood, new ideas, new voices. But, when Jane finds something or rather someone floating in the see her life is turned upside down and she realises she may not be the only person in Rockabill who isn't quite normal.

This book has been on my to-read shelf since it's release, and for some reason or another I had just never got 2. This book has been on my to-read shelf since it's release, and for some reason or another I had just never gotten round to it.

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For a number of reasons, one of them being I thought this was a young adult, a genre I only occasionally dip into. But don't be like me and let the cover fool you, this is most definitely not a YA. Which should have been exciting, UF is one of my favourite genres, but I think I would have almost preferred this book if it had been a YA, something about the book just didn't capture me.

There were a few reasons why I found this book a little big like a slog through the snow, one, was that it was really slow, which seems standard in the first book of an UF as there is so much world building going on, but in the case of this book, I was just bored. The other big reason was Jane, the person from whom's perspective we were reading from.

I found her intensely irritating. Peeler did that thing where her "inner libido" was talking to her, which was a bit to close to the inane "inner goddess" that Ana from Fifty Shades likes to burn our brains with. Instead of finding Jane's inner monologue amusing, I just found her really wearisome, which is an issue when the story is told in first person.

Although the story itself wasn't particularly original, it did start to get a little bit exciting after the halfway point where we begin to see some action. I'm almost tempted to read the next book, after all, first books in UF series aren't always the best, unfortunately I won't be in any rush to continue Jane's story. Jan 23, Lois Bujold rated it really liked it. I would give this a four for the general page-turn-ability, but a three for the unsatisfactory mush of an ending, leaving none of the main emotional or plot issues resolved and instead, all too obviously, saving them for the sequel.

Book Ones should not be squandered like that, drattit. See Rivers of London for a Book One that works as a both book in its own right and a series starter; but then it was using Coming-of-Age and not Romance for its mode, which may have fought its material less. Tem I would give this a four for the general page-turn-ability, but a three for the unsatisfactory mush of an ending, leaving none of the main emotional or plot issues resolved and instead, all too obviously, saving them for the sequel.

Tempest Rising had a nice set-up -- urban-romantic-fantasy tropes set instead in a coastal Maine village; our spunky heroine turns out to be, as she first discovers in Chapter Two, a half-selkie. Which could have gone in all sorts of interesting directions -- the swimming scenes and the local stuff were great -- but kept veering off into chick-lit banalities instead. I resented the time and space they stole from potentially more interesting explorations of the hidden fae world being built, which was underdeveloped.

The village in coastal Maine was far more engaging than the Seelie Court in its compound in rural Quebec, actually. And both were more interesting than the luxury-hotel interlude, Cinderella-like as it seemed to be intended. I can't tell by what is here if that is on some ironic purpose or not. Too many kinds of story crammed into too few pages, starving each other for space? I might give this one more volume, to see where the author goes with the grab-bag of stuff she has in hand by the end of this one, and all the loose ends and trailing mysteries.

But the second volume will have some redeeming to do. This was the first e-book I tried to download from my local library onto my Kindle. I hit a few snags, but eventually worked them out myself without help from the on-site tech support younger generation, which was heartening. Aug 29, Kelly rated it it was amazing Shelves: Jane True is a fresh new voice among urban fantasy heroines. I don't want to say too much, for fear of spoilers, but if you want a book that's sassy, funny, and full of less-seen mythic critters, this one is for you.

Be sure to pick it up come November! Or a petting pool. Or a fornication fountain. But never a sex grotto. Jane True is awesome!!!! Somehow I always find that my favorite protagonists are the self deprecating, bullied types. Jane is just that. She's scarred by a reputation as "crazy" even though she's far from it, earning her the self proclaimed title "Pariah" of Rockabill Maine. Unfortunately the judgmental town folks are missing out on Jane, and anybody who hadn't read this series is missing out as well.

She's never going to be a slave to fashion. I hadn't wanted Ryu to buy me anything and I certainly wasn't comfortable accepting such expensive gifts. So I didnt see what everything costs. I bet each pair of those red-soled shoes Christian Loubitin cost at least a hundred dollars. So you needn't worry, my sweets, I thought down at my battered old converse.

Mommy will never replace you. She says things and reminds herself of the consequences later. From a great distance, I heard someone shout "Nooo! It's all a lie," the voice continued, panicked. It was a very loud voice, I thought, as my stomach continued to heave. Very, very close, in fact. That's when I realized that the voice was mine. And all eyes if the Alfar Court were on me. I should have worn the underpants, I thought, as my brain began to understand the implications of what my mouth had just done.

Because I am so going to die. All eyes were on me: Ryu's eyes expressed the latter sentiment-he was staring at me like he'd never seen me before in his life. I blinked, still able to believe I was the one who spoke. Crawl under the table! Ryu was a breathe of fresh air. I kept waiting to find something I didn't like about him but he's great; he kind, sexy, generous, plays Jane's Kiki like Jimi Hendrix played his guitar protective, witty, intelligent and Definitly someone whom you want on your side in battle.

I look forward to more adventures Jane encounters and I'm hoping Ryu is along for the ride as well. Nicole Peeler has created an imaginative world with a protagonist I'm rooting for the whole way through. Through her writing Peeler makes me want to crawl into this book and investigate right along side of Jane, that's how appealing this book is.

I absolutely Loved, Loved, Loved this book! View all 34 comments. Jan 30, Kt rated it it was amazing Shelves: Jane True has never fit into her small town. She has always been an outcast, but when tragedy struck years ago, she became the ultimate pariah.

She is very careful to hide her differences as best she can, but it isn't much help. So, it wasn't too shocking for her to find out there is a reason for her strangeness, she isn't completely human. When other half-breeds start ending up dead, she teams up with sexy supernatural investigator, Ryu to find the culprit. With Jane afraid she might be next, h Jane True has never fit into her small town.

With Jane afraid she might be next, her previously boring life takes a turn into the exciting yet potentially deadly area. She must learn the rules of the new world if she wants to have any chance at surviving a place where most would rather see her dead for her half-breed status. Jane's character is completely ruled by her past. She is so damaged from both the town's ostracization and the loss of the love of her life.

Because of her own grief she actually believes she doesn't deserve to be accepted. While this may make her a flawed character, it also allows for a lot of potential growth. Overcoming one's past can be more challenging than any present obstacle, but I have faith in her ability to finally put the past behind her.

Only then will she be able to truly accept who she is and her new role in the supernatural community. I think she has the potential to do great things, and will bring in a sense of "heart", something the rest of them are missing. They are just a little too far detached from humanity, and I think Jane can help bridge that gap. I loved the dynamic between Jane and Ryu. I think he was the perfect character to help ease her into the supernatural world, as well as coaxing her out of her shell.

I'm pretty sure in the beginning it was just his nature and attraction that drew her to him. However, as it went on, you could tell by hid behavior that he wanted more than just a quick fling from her. I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen very often with his kind, due to their unique "food" source. Perhaps I am seeing more than is there, but I think he does genuinely care for Jane and wants her to be happy. I cannot believe I didn't read this book sooner! It was such a fast paced, enjoyable read. This is just one of those books that makes you laugh yet still is able to be serious enough when danger presents itself.

I'm really looking forward to reading more in this series and watching Jane grow. This book should entertain both Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance fans, as it is a good blend of both genres. Major kudos to the author for this fantastic debut Urban Fantasy! Nov 14, Shannon Savhage Temptrest rated it liked it. Okay, I gave myself a couple of days to get my thoughts organized for this review because the book was a little strange, and I couldn't really decide what I felt about it.

Jane True thinks Okay, I gave myself a couple of days to get my thoughts organized for this review because the book was a little strange, and I couldn't really decide what I felt about it. Jane True thinks she's just another strange girl living in a small town, until she finds a body when she is taking her usual swim in the ocean by her home.

She finds out that there is more to her and her small town in Maine than she could have ever dreamed of. I liked this book, and I didn't like this book. I liked the romance in this book because it didn't overwhelm the overall story, but I didn't really like Jane True and her beau Ryu as a couple. I thought the character Jane True had some funny and interesting personality traits that I like to read in my heroines, but she lacked some general likeable traits that I also crave like boldness and charisma.

Ryu was an interesting and likeable character in the beginning of the story, but his "charm" sort of wore down toward the end of the book, for me anyway. Now, Anyan, the barghest part man, part dog was the most interesting character in the book. I liked his mystery and his emotional and physical presence in the story.

All in all, "Tempest Rising" was a little strange and at points a little dry, but interesting enough to continue reading.

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