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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > The identify that story/book thread: Home of the gas pump boy
 
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penguin mania
Jun 20, 2007

..he might just be crazy enough to do it...

teamdest posted:

alright maybe someone can help me, this has been driving me mad for close to six years now, and i'm at my wit's end!

there are two stories i remember reading, that i really enjoyed years ago but cannot remember the name of.

the first one was possibly in an elementry school short story collection, and was about (i think) the sun becoming a red giant in the far future. the earth is being evacuated, and the story follows a poor family who are crammed aboard one of the "cheap" starships and launched out into space. when they finally reach a planet the youngest child on the ship is chosen to name it, and she (he?) chooses the name "sunshine" or possibly "sunlight". additionally, there is some kind of grass on the planet that is very sharp and cuts their feet when they first run out onto the ground, and they call for boots. that's all i can remember.


This is from the first page, but I'm pretty sure no one's answered it. It's The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh. I read it in elementary school as well, and enjoyed it so much that I bought a copy when I came across it several years later. You're right about the youngest character being a girl. Search reveals she names the planet "Shine."

teamdest, you'd better love me forever. (Although who knows whether or not you've given up hope by now...)

e: Also, ItalicSquirrels's recollections on p. 5 are entirely spot on. I'm 100% sure this is the book.

penguin mania fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Jun 6, 2008

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penguin mania
Jun 20, 2007

..he might just be crazy enough to do it...

Fedaykin posted:

In elementary school my teacher read a book to my class and all I can remember about it is the following.

A girl is uncovering an old trail in her backyard that goes into the woods. The trail was made by Indians or something and is made of stones.

I think the title had a bird's name in it and it was red.

Sorry, this isn't much to go on but that's all I remember.

How about Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech? Uncovering trail in backyard, check. (Not sure about the stones part.) Bird in title, check. Red, check. Don't know if a teacher would read it aloud to the class, though, it's rather long for that unless it was over a long period of time.

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