# Can you identify this book? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-book/374581 "2006-09-29T04:36:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-book/374581/1 "2006-09-29T04:36:44Z")
I don’t remember much about it. I know I read it around middle school. It was a book about this kid who discoveres a loch-ness type monster in this lake. I think. I know the author wrote a simliar book about a sea monster. On one of the covers, it shows a person swiming while a huge monster fish is swiming up underneath them to eat them. Much like the cover of jaws but its a darker blue/ green sea. I wish I could remember more about it. Arg. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-book/374581/2 "2006-09-29T06:19:12Z")
[QUOTE=Surbey] I don’t remember much about it. I know I read it around middle school. It was a book about this kid who discoveres a loch-ness type monster in this lake. I think. I know the author wrote a simliar book about a sea monster. On one of the covers, it shows a person swiming while a huge monster fish is swiming up underneath them to eat them. Much like the cover of jaws but its a darker blue/ green sea. I wish I could remember more about it. Arg. Any ideas? [/QUOTE] A guess: [The Terrible Churnadryn](http://item.express.ebay.com/Antiques_Antiquarian-Collectible-Books__Eleanor-Cameron-TERRIBLE-CHURNADRYNE-First-Ed-SIGNED_W0QQitemZ7029720739QQddnZAntiquesQQadnZAntiquarianQ20Q26Q20CollectibleQ20BooksQQcmdZExpressItem)? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-book/374581/3 "2006-09-29T14:07:17Z")
Not sure if there was a book that [this](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091810/#comment) movie was based on, but the plot is similar. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-book/374581/4 "2006-09-29T15:03:01Z")
I’ve read a similar book, maybe the same one. IIRC, the book I read the kid finds a dino egg which hatches. There is a scene where an American tourist sees the dino and claims she saw the Loch Ness Monster. The kids dad watches a lot of cowboy films on TV. There’s a scientist who doesn’t believe the kid’s claims, because dinosaurs are extinct. does any of this sound familiar? I think the title was “The summer of the dinosaur.” There’s a book of that title by Willis Hall, but I’m not 100% certain its the one I read. [http://tinyurl.com/rna7c](http://tinyurl.com/rna7c) ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-book/374581/5 "2006-09-29T15:24:01Z")
Nope sorry. None of these are it. I’m only 19 so I think this book would have been around in the mid 90’s. For some reason, I think there was a third book. There were three books in this “series” but they didn’t have much to do with each other besides the fact that they were about sea monsters. What I can remember from the first book, the one with a lochness, is this. I get a feeling that it had been captured by some guys underneath the water and this kid went down an unintentionally saved it. But I can’t be sure. What I do remember is that it was the first book I read where a person was killed. At the time, it was very tramatic. I think that the lochness ate a person or part of them while they were swiming. I know it was extremely terrifying. Well, for as young as I was. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-book/374581/6 "2006-09-29T15:38:34Z")
I found it. I spent alot of time searching for it this morning and I came across a book that I recognized. It was called \*\*The Doom Stone \*\*[Here](http://www.amazon.com/Doom-Stone-Paul-Zindel/dp/0786851511/sr=1-11/qid=1159543944/ref=sr_1_11/102-0366691-8150570?ie=UTF8&s=books) Once I hit on that, I knew it was by the same author. Although the covers a little different than the version we had, it was [Loch](http://www.amazon.com/Loch-Paul-Zindel/dp/0786851503/sr=1-5/qid=1159543944/ref=sr_1_5/102-0366691-8150570?ie=UTF8&s=books) by Paul Zindel The other book was [Reef of Death](http://www.amazon.com/Reef-Death-Paul-Zindel/dp/0786813091/sr=1-7/qid=1159543944/ref=sr_1_7/102-0366691-8150570?ie=UTF8&s=books) Thanks for the help guys