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Young girl murders two women after TBI with help of three men at behest of corrupt government official, deaths are met with celebration by local populace
Girl enters psychodelic phantasies while reading a book. Speaks of beaheading a government official.
Old man tricks friend into elaborate heist that culminates in outbreak of gang violence and the death of an endangered animal.
What is this one? I'm lost lol
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The Hobbit
I am so ashamed of myself for not getting this one! I had the book on tape as a kid, and listened to it so much that the tape physically disintegrated on one of them!
A teenager so obsessed with monsters he makes it his life goals to put one of each in a pocket-sized container, trying to prove his worth by letting them battle in meaningless cockfights.
They're not meaningless. You get badges. BADGES!
badges. BADGES!
Mushroom, mushroom
Then there is the classic, A young girl travels to a far off country and kills the first person she meets and then teams up with 3 others and plots to kill again.
Wizard of Oz?
Did she really meet... or plot, though?
Young boy from communal household is groomed into becoming a slave-owning capitalist, whose products endanger the health of the general population, through a series of industrial accidents.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A woman offers a lost boy some delicious sweets, but all she gets in return is the boy and his siblings consulting with a cat to murder her. After she's dead, all 4 siblings accidentally come out of the closet.
A strange young lad who speaks only in rhyme stalks an elderly man he just met, ultimately persuading the gentleman into eating a questionable off-color breakfast entree.
We need the real title as well!
I do not like them, Sam I Am. I do not like green eggs and ham!
A fish is ostracised by his community until he gives them a pound of flesh.
This child cannot befriend anyone, even in her wildest dreams.
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Coraline ?
Good guess, but not quite!
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
She's mostly upset at, or upsetting, everyone she meets for most of the book.
Is the OP describing Where The Wild Things Are? 🤔
What is the first one? A violent child hallucinating monsters. I don't recognize it.
Here's mine
A young boy with a bad home life gets sent to live in a school for magical kids, with moving photographs, and has to solve a mystery.
And no, it's not harry potter
Where the wild things are, for the OP? I don't know about yours.
Mine: a foot fetishist gets married.
It's not Harry Potter? Damn. Hmmm... is it the book people theorize JKR was inspired by? There was such a thing, was there? Or am i just making shit up?
Iirc, there were several books that she likely took inspiration from, ranging from things like a secret platform at kings cross, I don't remember the name of that one, a wizard of earthsea is possibly an inspiration for her whole wizard boarding school schtick, though to be honest, I'd be genuinely surprised if JK read a lot of Le Guin and came away with her politics.
But no, it's neither of those. This one came slightly after HP, but it's very, very different. Posted the answer in upside down text in another reply, if you want to check, or you can keep guessing lol
a secret platform at kings cross
This might have been The Secret of Platform 13, very fun book. She probably got the Dursleys from there too, and maybe Dumbledore and Hagrid. Its Wikipedia page has a section about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_Platform_13
Old man's wife dies and he goes on a trip to South America and starts a relationship with a child.
And a dog!
Is this Up?
What is up?
Little girl uses matchsticks to stay warm in winter without permission, so her grandma descends from the pearly gates of heaven to come and kill her.
The little match girl.
A naive homeowner invites an unhinged, highly demanding intruder into his home after offering a seemingly innocent piece of food.
What begins as a simple act of hospitality rapidly devolves into a relentless psychological hostage situation.
*his home -> her home, surely
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The Tiger Who Came To Tea ?
Not sure, I feel these kind of hostage situations are quite a common theme in kids books
I think it’s
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If You Give a Moose a Muffin… and the protagonist is a boy
wait. goldilocks?
Mystical mouse manifests murderous monster, maintaining munching moment.
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in collusion with the swine and livestock, a super-intelligent Spider manipulates a farmer--putting his household at risk of starvation--by weaving special patterns into her webs. Will he find the strength to outwit this probable government experiment's devious plan? No. No, he won't.
Supernatural leftists threaten an elderly capitalist at home at night.
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Mob boss in fabulous coat, repossesses all of our stuff.
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Hero repeatedly robs wealthy couple until he kills them when they catch him in the act. Their money lets him live happily ever after.
Jack and the beanstalk
Neglectful parents forget their child at an airport while airport security screws up. Neglected child finds them self in a different city and turns to crime to survive. Child unknowingly takes directions from a known child predator. Child also befriends a local homeless lady. Child then plans out an elaborate torture mansion on 2 dimwitted burglars.
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Home Alone 2
Child says their goodbyes as the moon approaches
Guy invites children into his chocolate factory, let almost all of them die.


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