Top products from r/whatsthatbook
We found 55 product mentions on r/whatsthatbook. We ranked the 2,440 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
2. In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories (I Can Read! Reading 2)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 4
Great product!
3. Puzzle Island (Child's Play Library)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 3
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4. The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 3
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8. There's No Such Thing as a Dragon
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 3
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15. The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 2
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17. Ready Player One: A Novel
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 2
Great product!
18. Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were: Creatures, Places, and People
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 2
Is it The Last of the Really Great Whangadoodles? I totally read this as a kid, but it's u/RiggSesamekesh's extra details that helped me find the name. I remember so distinctly the scene where he tells the kids to look up instead of looking down like everyone else, and that scene still crosses my mind when I'm walking around sometimes.
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles?
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Really-Great-Whangdoodles-Anniversary/dp/0064403149/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479268301&sr=8-1&keywords=the+last+of+the+really+great+whangdoodles
I found it. It's "The Weaving of a Dream" https://www.amazon.com/Weaving-Dream-Picture-Puffins/dp/0140505288
Now I just need to find that one picture. THanks a million!!
This book may be Weaving of a Dream by Marilee Heyer.
If not, this seems to be a Chinese tale called 'The Magic Brocade'.
Cheers!
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
http://www.amazon.com/Really-Great-Whangdoodles-Anniversary-Edition/dp/0064403149
Sounds like Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
Found it. Pretty excited. No big deal. ..
http://www.amazon.ca/PUZZLE-ISLAND-pb-Paul-Adshead/dp/0859534030
I second Encyclopedia Brown, but it could also be Two Minute Mysteries, by the same author, but instead of having a main character like E.B., they were stand-alone stories.
This is definitely it, OP -- the story in particular is "The Case of the Home Bakery", from the first Two-Minute Mysteries.
Kind of a long shot, but is it Fire-Us?
It sounds very similar to Enchantress of the Stars . The author Sylvia Engdahl wrote a series in this universe,. The Wikipedia description is not super great either for the book.
Edited: it has been a long time since I read the book. The amazon description is better. enchantress of the Stars
Found it Arrow to the Sun. here it is on amazon.
> Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were
You can browse inside that book at Amazon, https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Things-That-Never-Were/dp/0140100083
Never mind, I found it. I guess I just hadn't looked hard enough. It was "The Outer Limits - The Vanished"
How about this one? http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0375851372?pc_redir=1413710460&robot_redir=1
Singularity by William Sleator!
Enchantress from the Stars? http://www.amazon.com/Enchantress-Stars-Sylvia-Engdahl/dp/0142500372#productDescription_secondary_view_pageState_1418509244301
Is it Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were: Creatures, Places, and People by Robert Ingpen and Michael Page?
Was it this?
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Other-Scary-Stories-Reading/dp/0064440907
maybe this one?
Puzzle Island
Journey to the River Sea fits some of those details.
Not quite what you describe, but there is a guillotine: A Deadly Game of Magic
Ready Player One?
http://www.amazon.com/Earthquake-Terror-Puffin-Novel-Kehret/dp/0140383433
I've read this before. Sounds similar but it has been a while since I read it.
It's about the Pueblo people and not the Aztecs, but Arrow to the Sun has a very similar plot to what you described? Came out 1977.
Is it Enchantress from the Stars? Link to description
Wizard's Hall, Jane Yolen? [Amazon link] (https://www.amazon.com/Wizards-Hall-Jane-Yolen/dp/0152020853)
https://www.amazon.com/Westing-Game-Puffin-Modern-Classics/dp/014240120X
The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics): Ellen Raskin ...
The Westing Game?
Puzzle Island by Paul Adshead?
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories, maybe? It was my favorite from grade school.
It might be Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks.
>The first half of the book, focusing on Cadel's meteoric rise through each grade and his problems relating to his classmates is the stuff of sheer genius. Cadel's use of psychological manipulation of his classmates, teachers and anyone else he comes into contact with is purely delightful. Seeing how Cadel figures out how to disrupt traffic patterns in his first attempts at evil plots is wonderful, but the real stroke of genius is Cadel's opening an on-line dating service to draw in unwitting victims and to raise money (Cadel keeps the would-be suitors separated geographically so they don't become any the wiser that it's a scam).
In A Dark, Dark Room and other scary stories, by Alvin Schwartz. The story you want is the titular one, 'In a Dark, Dark Room.'
Happy haunting!
There's No Such Thing As A Dragon by Jack Kent
The Vanished (The Outer Limits series) by John Peel is similar, but it begins with a boy waking in his room, alone. I'm not sure if it was published in other languages.
https://www.amazon.com/Outer-Limits-Vanished-John-Peel/dp/0812575644