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2 Short Stories in Children Sci-Fi Anthology -The story I remember better is about a drug that increases a person's intelligence. The society gave the drug on a small group of people first as a test, and then to everyone. For some reason the main characters in the story are immune to the drug. Their parents are in some type of support group, at least a magazine or something is mentioned. The kids want to prove they are just as good as a the smart people so they create a plan to disrupt some government, Madagascar's I think. ( Cut for length )Another Short Story -It wasn't very long and in a supernatural/ghost anthology -The plot is that a man is going to see his fiancee's grave. For some reason the skeletons come out of their graves and start writing on them. One man writes that instead of being a good husband, he was a horrible one. The man's fiancee writes that she got pneumonia (?) when she was walking to see another man and that is why she died. I think the guy faints in the end. A Children Fantasy Story -The premise is that the "real" world reflects a magical world. The main character is a girl and a boy from the other world talks to her through a mirror. The boy mentions he could see her through the bathroom mirror, but didn't watch when she was taking a shower or something (I remember this creeping me out). He takes her to the magical world. ( Cut for length )A YA Story -The characters go to a really strict school. Part of the dress code is that guys must wear pants and girls have to wear pants or knee-length skirts. -A group of guys make some kind of club. One of the things they do is wear skirts to school to protest. I remember that they had trouble finding skirts to wear. They got them from a used clothing store and there were only ugly skirts. One of the skirts had palm trees on it. ( Cut for length )
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Not the Mennyms, though that was an awesome series.
I read a YA book in '97, probably published sometime in the mid-nineties, about an unhappy orphan girl. It may have technically been a children's book, but it was so steeped in depression, I got the impression it was for older readers. I remember it being a softcover, about 300 pages, with the yellow Scholastic border around the cover illustration, but I could be wrong about this.
The orphan girl ends up living with an older woman in a dilapidated mansion in the country. The older woman is a tea-drinking Victorian lady type, though I think the book was set in modern times. The girl didn't get much attention. She had a bad temper, and her hands were always cold and chapped--she chewed her cuticle skin. In the house, she found a dollhouse full of living dolls who became her only friends. They had sweet, silly, whimsical personalities. I think she got mad at them and stopped visiting them for a while because they were too silly.
Eventually, the girl leaves the dollhouse people behind. Maybe she breaks them? Or she makes a real friend so she doesn't need them anymore? Or the lady she lives with takes them? I remember the girl had to keep it secret that she played with them. I don't think this book had a very happy ending--It made me cry.
*Got it-- Behind the Attic Wall
...apparently a better-known book than I thought, judging by the Amazon page.
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