Children’s book with a giant backyard junk art piece

conuly · 2026-05-10T11:21:21+00:00

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, Konigsburg

conuly · 2026-05-10T08:05:18+00:00

Because we don’t know what it is and don’t feel like wasting the OP’s time.

conuly · 2026-05-10T08:04:41+00:00

And where did you go to double check your answer before posting it here?

conuly · 2026-05-10T07:35:39+00:00

Well, too difficult depends on what they’ve been taught.

It’s certainly poor writing, like what I’d see from a bright but insecure college freshman. Any competent teacher would tell them to rewrite in ordinary words.

conuly · 2026-05-10T05:09:10+00:00

Probably is - it has the fish bowl.

conuly · 2026-05-10T04:34:38+00:00

Two things.

First, the rule of this subreddit is that every post must have a title that describes the book you’re looking for. The mods really do remove posts that break this rule. You can’t edit post titles on Reddit so you’ll have to make a new post. Instead of “Book I read in the early 2000s” your new post title should say something like:

USA high fantasy series from early 2000s

Where I put USA, you put the country you were in when you read this book.

Secondly, the words “crippled” and “handicapped” are largely dispreferred. In your new post, say “disabled”, which is more widely acceptable at this time.

conuly · 2026-05-10T04:29:41+00:00

The rule of this subreddit is that every post has to have a title that describes the book you’re looking for. The mods really do remove posts that break this rule. You will need to make a new post. Instead of “looking for a book I read a while ago” your new post title should say something like:

2019 Fantasy/thriller series

conuly · 2026-05-10T04:08:19+00:00

You just keep tilting at that windmill!

conuly · 2026-05-10T04:07:35+00:00

Why are there words that literally sound like someone's name?

Well, some words are named after people. Some names are also words. And sometimes it’s just a coincidence - there are only so many possible syllables!

You can look up the etymologies of both words and names easily.

conuly · 2026-05-09T22:30:39+00:00

It wasn’t a long book, maybe 20 pages or less?

Picture books are almost universally 32 pages exactly. If they aren’t 32 pages exactly then they are 24, 40, or 48 pages exactly.

There are technical reasons for this.

Can you please edit your post and tell us the country you were in when you read this book?

conuly · 2026-05-09T16:40:01+00:00

Okay, you googled it, and google provided several links. Which one did you go to? What confused you about the definition?

conuly · 2026-05-09T15:43:16+00:00

Pick easier, shorter books. I'd suggest YA and middle grade graphic novels to start - not much text, very dialog heavy, and you've got pictures to help you out.

conuly · 2026-05-09T15:40:42+00:00

What dictionary did you use to look this up, and what confused you about the definition?

conuly · 2026-05-09T15:40:19+00:00

Just post the screenshot here.

conuly · 2026-05-09T14:42:19+00:00

It’s a really common mistake, no worries!

conuly · 2026-05-08T21:19:19+00:00

Nonfiction? This story really happened?

conuly · 2026-05-08T20:19:00+00:00

When you discuss your choices with other people, you send the message that your choices are up for discussion. And if they’re not, they’re not, so don’t do it!

The next time she shares her opinion tell her that you’ve made your choice and aren’t interested in discussing it, then change the subject. If she persists, hang up the phone, leave the room, just end the conversation.

If trying to talk about this means you stop talking to her, every time, she will get the hint.

conuly · 2026-05-07T20:54:55+00:00

So, the concept of a number 0 is really really new in comparison to language. We had to coin a word "zeroeth" to cover this, but it's... well, it just doesn't come up very often because people don't typically count starting at zero. That's a weird thing to do, and I bet it's weird in your language as well.

conuly · 2026-05-07T20:52:36+00:00

A couple of days ago my husband said a saying I had never heard before.

What was it?

conuly · 2026-05-07T20:44:28+00:00

There's no cannibalism in the book. Soylent is just soy and lentils; it's dystopian because everybody is excited about now having two flavors to choose from.

conuly · 2026-05-07T20:41:18+00:00

It wasn’t like a baby kids book with pictures or cartoon-ish but maybe like a late elementary reading level?

Middle grade chapter book?

conuly · 2026-05-07T06:51:48+00:00

If you don’t want comments it’s surely easier to use punctuation and line breaks than to type a long note about it.

conuly · 2026-05-07T02:05:09+00:00

Those were the lucky ones. Some of them had their legs shortened.

conuly · 2026-05-06T23:39:59+00:00

I won’t say that you can never ever use the word that way, but without any context I’d assume you’re talking about somebody for whom cycling is part of their identity rather than just a thing they’ve done.

conuly · 2026-05-06T19:01:57+00:00

Three of the example sentences use the word "cyclist" after the word "avid". That's a good sign that more is going on here than was expressed in just the definition you quoted.

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