# Can anyone ID these two books?

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**Created:** [January 11, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-these-two-books/776851 "2017-01-11T03:01:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-these-two-books/776851/1 "2017-01-11T03:01:34Z")

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1… A bunch of teens survive some kind of disaster and go see if they can find survivors. A chilling scene I recall had them finding a dead person who had fungus/mold growing on him.

2.Took place sometime in the 1920s-50s and had a boy going on adventures with an older female relative. At one point they show up at his parent’s house with a muskox or yak named Muscatel.

The first I checked out from the YA section in the early '00s and the second I read at a relatives in the same time period.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-these-two-books/776851/2 "2017-01-11T03:20:06Z")

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[A quick search found the second](http://tinyurl.com/h7akmj8).  
Around the World With Auntie Mame  
By Patrick Dennis

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**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-these-two-books/776851/3 "2017-01-11T03:31:52Z")

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> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> [A quick search found the second](http://tinyurl.com/h7akmj8).  
> Around the World With Auntie Mame  
> By Patrick Dennis

That’s one of them, thank you!

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**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-these-two-books/776851/4 "2017-01-11T03:33:24Z")

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If no one here comes up with an answer for the first one, I suggest going to Goodreads and asking in their Name that Book section. They’ve helped me locate several books I read as a teen and wanted to reread.

[What’s the Name of that Book??](https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/185-what-s-the-name-of-that-book)

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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-these-two-books/776851/5 "2017-01-11T03:53:57Z")

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[Here’s a list](http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/26883.Post_Apocalyptic_Teen_Fiction) of post-apocalyptic teen fiction that might be a place to start looking for #1.