I have done little to no research on these, I am being lazy.

[slemslempike]

I have questions I have been idly pondering for a little while. I haven't really tried to research them, I'm sorry. Think of it as a quiz! Or ignore me and I will eventually find some bothered to be and hie me to google. Or post in the book-finding comms, but for now, some specifics and some vagues:

Which YA book is it where the character goes to a museum and sees a sign for "the most dangerous animal in the world" and is scared to look behind it, but then it turns out to be humans? I think maybe a BSC book? Or the Paula Danziger one where Matthew Martin's class has a sleepover in a museum?

Has anyone read a children's book where they are trying to think of a name for their school, and the character wants it to be a suffragette she's done research on, and the school governors think that her militancy means she shouldn't?

What is a computer game from the early nineties or before, that I think wasn't on a PC though I can't remember what system it was on, where you might have been going around an Aztec place and there were puzzles sometimes?

What is a compter game that I'm fairly sure was on a PC, that I played in the early/mid nineties, where everything was ice, and there were blocks of mazes you had to get through to get to the different levels, and sometimes there was a boat? It turns out that this is "Arctic Adventure", from apogee, and I have now downloaded it and DOSBox, and it is GREAT. It is everything I remembered.

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[gair.livejournal.com]

I do not know the answers to any of these, but I have the Paula Danziger book so I can check that one, at least!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Shamefully, I do too, but they're upstairs, and I am lazy

I am re-reading It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World at the moment. I do like Paula Danziger.

[gair.livejournal.com]

There is no need to be ashamed! I have downloaded WHOLE ALBUMS off the internet rather than find the CD that I own. It is just that I am going upstairs to find something to read in the bath next.

[gair.livejournal.com]

It is not Earth to Matthew, I can report. I have a memory of this too, but not attached to anything that might be helpful...

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

I remember that game! It ran on the Sinclair Spectrum, and I think it was called "Aztec". In fact, I think I may even still have it in a box xomewhere.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Aha! I think that is the one I was remembering, and once I manage to get shockwave working I think there is a version here. Axtec Underworld.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Ah, it turns out it's not the one I was thinking of. I think mine was more platformy, and you didn't have things running around like that, but had to go up vine ropes, and things. Hmm.