Trying to remember a book...help!

[agnes!]

My DD is trying to remember a book she read and liked very much in grade school. She would like to read it again or see if if it was the first of a series but can't quite remember the title. If anyone thinks they might know the title or author or series, please post your ideas and links here !

Here's what she remembers about the book:
*science fiction/fantasy
*There's a boy who creates a door to another world.
*Door-creators cannot go through their own doors.
*The boy's best friend is a girl and she goes through his door.
*The girl's mother is from the other world.
*The girl & her mother might have really bright red hair.
*The door that the boy creates is in either a cornfield or some kind of field.
*They eventually have to create a door into someone's mind/memory, and then go through that memory into someone else's mind.
*The other world has mist and no-one can go through that mist.

Does this ring any bells with anyone?!?
agnes!

 

[HugsForEeyore]

Hmmmmm! I am a children's librarian on duty right now at my library, and me and my fellow librarians are having a hard time with this one! Still thinking ......!

 

[agnes!]

Oh, thanks for even trying HugsForEeyore. I'm worried that children's librarians can't even find it... if you guys can't figure this out, all hope is lost !

agnes!

 

[jama]

go to
http://forums.abebooks.com/abesleuthcom

they usually can help with recalling books!

 

[Diane♥Disney]

Kind of sounds similar to Bridge to Terabethia

 

[Minnie_me]

My 13-year old DD, who is an avid reader, thinks it might be The Hundred Cupboards by N.D. Wilson?????

http://www.amazon.com/100-Cupboards...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1289084818&sr=8-1

 

[agnes!]

She says that the book isn't any of the ones suggested so far. Anybody else? Pleeeeeeeeeease ?

agnes!

 

[yoopermom]

Sounds like a mixup of Wrinkle in Time with something else. That is a multibook series. Good luck!
Terri
(yet another librarian...)

 

[HsvTeacher]

Would it by any chance be The Giver by Lois Lowry? It was the first of a series including Gathering Blue and Messenger.

It is about a boy and his friend Fiona, who has red hair.

 

[SueM in MN]

It sounds to me like
"The Golden Compass" (original title was “The Northern Lights”) by Philip Pullman

I have read the whole series and parts of this sound like a book further in the series (the mist that no one can go thru and the doors to other world.)
The main character is a girl named Lyra and there are doors to other worlds. As I mentioned, more of that is in further books in the series, so she may have read one of the further on books. There is a stone knife that can be used to cut a door into another world. I only have a copy of the first book, and the knife is in the 2nd book “The Subtle Knife”. I seem to remember something about the maker of the door not being able to cross thru it.
I can’t explain about Lyra’s mother without giving up the plot, but it would be safe to call her from another world.

 

[a1tinkfans]

OP; I don't know your book, but sure hope you find it!

This reminds me of something....a book I had to read in grade school and then my teacher had us write to the author. Mine was a book called The Hotwater Bottle Mystery by Alan Delgado and I did indeed write to the author. I recall he was in England and penned me a beautiful note. Funny part...I asked for a picture of him since it was not on the cover of the book. He responded by telling me to "imagine" him, as I imagined the scenes in his book.
I never forgot that.
Well, fast forward....many years later....as an adult of a child in grade school I tracked that book down on alibris dot com and was able to share it with my child.
We are both avid readers...Our love of books continues ...greatly impacted by that wonderful author many years ago....(and an awesome teacher too!)
Thanks for the "memory" reminder! I still have that book packed away.....who knows, perhaps one day a grandchild will also read it!

 

[agnes!]

Sounds like a mixup of Wrinkle in Time with something else. That is a multibook series. Good luck!
Terri
(yet another librarian...)

Sigh...she says not^^.
And not The Golden Compass or The Giver or any L'Engle book.

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I think maybe the suggestion that she somehow mixed up two different books makes sense...but we haven't given up yet.

agnes!

 

[agnes!]

Sounds like a mixup of Wrinkle in Time with something else. That is a multibook series. Good luck!
Terri
(yet another librarian...)

Bumping this back to Page One.

DD told me that the reason she wants to try to remember some particular books (there's more than one now) from her grade-school years is because reading was one of her happiest memories from then and she doesn't to lose the good memories completely (she doesn't have very happy memories of grade-school ).

agnes!

 

[Agri]

It would probably help to know when your daughter was in grade school and if the book was new or old when she read it.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

It sounds a little bit like The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key, which is an old classic and nice standby.

 

[agnes!]

It would probably help to know when your daughter was in grade school and if the book was new or old when she read it.

She's a Senior in High School now, but was also reading quite a bit ahead of her grade-level. The general timeframe would be approximately 2001-2005. She thinks the book was a hardcover and says it's not The Forgotten Door - but thinks it sounds like something she would have liked at the time .

This is a kid who read The Hobbit and then made it halfway through the Lord of the Rings trilogy when she was in 2nd Grade (she said at the time that she just couldn't make it through all the description & darkness in Two Towers) and read the Narnia books and all the L. Frank Baum Oz books before the end of 4th grade.
She thinks she read this book around 3rd-4th Grade.

Maybe strike the red-haired girl?... but she does say the girl looked like her mother and the two were somehow 'different' from everyone else.

agnes!

 

[minniecarousel]

go to
http://forums.abebooks.com/abesleuthcom

they usually can help with recalling books!

I highly recommend this site as well. A few years ago, I was looking for a book I read as a child (& that was a loooong time ago!). Someone on one of their forums directed me to the right book. I think it was the first chapter book I may have read.

 

[agnes!]

go to
http://forums.abebooks.com/abesleuthcom

they usually can help with recalling books!

I highly recommend this site as well. A few years ago, I was looking for a book I read as a child (& that was a loooong time ago!). Someone on one of their forums directed me to the right book. I think it was the first chapter book I may have read.

Thanks for the tip, just posted there, but I still have faith in my fellow DIS'ers .

agnes!

 

[SueM in MN]

Something else mixed up with "The Magician’s Nephew” ( book set in time before “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”)?

Does she remember anything about where it was set or the cover of the book?

 

[agnes!]

Something else mixed up with "The Magician’s Nephew” ( book set in time before “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”)?

Does she remember anything about where it was set or the cover of the book?

Sorry, no, not The Magician's Nephew, she remembers the Narnia series very well.

She's pretty sure it was a hardback and that she got it at either at the school library or the local county library.
She says the book was about 1-1.5" thick.
She thinks the cover might have been blue somehow.
The mist that no one could pass through (no creatures in it, the mists were impassable not a menace) was the reason for the doors.
The guy who created the first door (for the girl's mother to come through to this world) is a painter.
The boy might have worn glasses, he wasn't popular (not a lot of friends).
The boy & the girl had to find a man from the boy's past, might be someone's father.

She says it isn't the 1st book of the Golden Compass, she only maybe got through the first chapter.

She says she might possibly be mixing up two different stories.

agnes!