Petunia would overhear because she always followed/spied on her sister. I'm also clinging to the hope that Lily and Snape had a secret, doomed romance, and when she got involved with James, Snape went off and joined the Death Eaters in a fit of babygoth drama.

t /sappy

That settles it, I want Jilli to write the next books, rather than JK Rowling.

Right and that would further Petunia's romance with Snape, because of the revenge factor, and maybe she secretly had a crush on Snape too (them both being somewhat of misfits), but he and Lily got together so she either pretended to hate him or did and thus refers to him as "that horrible boy" or whatever

The YA book with cloned girls named Anna was called, I believe, Anna to the Infinite Power by Mildred Ames, and socked me hard in the 5th grade. See Amazon:

Good god, I'd entirely forgotten this book! Now I want to read it again.

There was a lot of talk in SF circles starting about 12 years or so ago about the "disappearance of the mid-list" and about how it was increasingly harder for even established writers like Spider Robinson to get books published.

Almost all of his stuff was out of print for awhile...back when I started reading him adn couldn't find any of it. And of course, once I'd managed to amass a collection after years of haunting used bookstores, THEN they reprinted all of it. (And I agree with those who think he went downhill)

so there is a bunch of Sutcliff at the library -- which is a good one to start with?

Did anyone else turn into a 10 year old while reading the previous discussion of Moorcock love?

Just me then.

Beth, there's no particular order to the Sutcliffs. I'd start with the stuff written earlier, though: she started writing for younger and younger readers towards the end of her life.

If you can, Beth, you might start with The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers, in that order. The books are related and certainly among the best. Others you could start with are Dawn Wind and The Mark of the Horse Lord.

Me, Wolfram, cause I don't know who that is...might as well be Seymour Butts.

I love Jilli's whitefonted idea a few posts back. I'm so curious to know Snape's whole story.

I don't think I've ever posted in this thread, but I'm hoping y'all can help me remember the title of some books I read as a kid. It was a story (or maybe a short series) about a brother and sister with some sort of mental powers. They were on their own, running away from someone, and were looking for their parents or their people. I think the title maybe had "Mountains" in it and it might have been made into a kids movie. I know this is really vague, but I can't remember any more except that I loved the story.