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mikelgb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-12-07 11:00 PM
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HELP! I'm looking for a young adult fiction - no title - no author
I need help remembering the title of a book I read in 4th grade and would like to revisit. That means it must have been published before 1993. Here are plot points or details I remember:

- a boy is in class and is called to the principals office
- when he enters the principal's office he is in another dimension
- he soon is given or finds a plate that will materialize any food he speaks
- I believe his quest is to vanquish a wolf or dog-like creature
- To do this he must adventure to find three strands and combine them to form a special weapon
- One of the strands is obtained from a woman who gives him a satchel. At first the boy is disappointed that he did not obtain a strand as expected from the woman but then he realizes the string that is around the satchel is one of the strands

cover:
I remember a cream or light yellow colored hardcover book with a red sun a wolf creature and a mountain in black outline I think

I hope this is enough information to elicit a title from someone who may have read the book.

Thanks for your help DU.
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momster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 12:22 AM
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1. Alexander Key?
He specialized in books about boys and girls moving through magic or inter-dimensional whatsits into alternate realities. His best known book (and only one still in print) is The Forgotten Door. I don't think that's the one you are looking for...but Key might be a good author to sample to see if it jogs your memories.

Otherwise, I suggest searching out an on-line young adult review site and submitting your question to the group. Many book groups have a 'that book with the red cover" type question sections and the mind of the collective can sometimes come up with amazing solutions.

Good luck!
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mikelgb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 10:13 AM
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2. Thanks for the suggestions.
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mikelgb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 10:29 AM
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3. I do not think it is Alexander Key although they look very good
can you reccomend a review site.

I also looked for and was unable to find a bookfinder site where you can search the text of books.
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momster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 12:44 PM
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4. Suggestions -- I got suggestions!
www.allreaders.com (search by plot, setting or character)
http://www.readerville.com
http://www.sff.net/ (this is *the* site for sff writers/readers. Somebody there may have loved the book too...)

Also, haunt your local used book stores. It's strange how often I've stumbled over a book that I'd been thinking of the day before. Bookstore really are inter-dimensional cross-wave zones.

Speaking as a writer myself (published about 25 books to date), it's warming to realize that something you wrote years ago might be remembered always by someone you've never met. I sincerely hope you find the 'one' you are looking for...and that the author is still around so you can tell him/her how much that book means to you.
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mikelgb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 03:13 PM
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5. Thanks.
The search is great but I still haven't found it...

it is hard because I am judging the books by the titles but it could easily be a normal title not directly related to the plot
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mikelgb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:21 PM
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6. STILL cannot locate this title
I am begining to think that it only exists in my head or is long since out-of-print
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momster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 04:14 PM
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7. One last thought
do you have any idea of any name at all in connection --- a character maybe? If you kinda, sorta maybe thought the boy's name was "???", it might help. Or the name of the place he went to, or anything else that's quite specific.
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mikelgb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 06:11 PM
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8. I have tried so hard to come up with something like that
my memories of it are mostly mental images of the settings and scenarios I built in my imaginataion while the book was being read to me.

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MountainLaurel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 12:03 AM
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9. Go to your local public library
And ask the children's or YA librarian. It's his or her job to know this stuff, and he or she will have access to various databases where you can search this sort of thing easily. Also, there are all sorts of librarian listservs where they can get input from thousands of colleagues across the county.
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mikelgb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 11:08 AM
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10. FOUND!
"The Hero From Otherwhere" - Jay Williams

THANK YOU DUER Reader Rabbit!
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zingaro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 12:37 AM
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11. Cool!
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