Anyone possibly able to help identify this book I read as a child?

[Posey]

I would've been around 10, so late 1970s. It was a bit post nuclear or similar war. We weren't actually told. It was a bit futuristic. Children being transported from all they knew, taken abroad, it was hot. The title was something like a couple of letters followed by a couple of numbers.

I know that is very vague, but it was one of the first books I read that wasn't Enid Blyton's or horse books or Watership Down or what all the other girls were reading. And I loved it.

Not something like Z is for Zachariah? I can't remember what that's about exactly but it was vaguely futuristic...and scary I think!

No, definitely just letters and numbers....which may have been the number of the "ship" they were being transported on. Isn't it frustrating?!

I don't think I've heard of it then-sorry!

I don't know, i read a similar sounding book called rite of passage.

I also have a book i would like to trace. it had a crystal tower in it, vague i know but i remember i loved it and wanted to read it at home (it was read to us in class). we read it at primary school aged 10.

Only book I remember about post nuclear war had the children living in Osmotherly - a tiny village in the North York Moors!

Thanks for the ideas! I probably will never remember it and it's probably out of print now!

Plague 99?

Sadly not! Thanks for the idea

Daybreak 2250?

Nope! It is definitely just letters and numbers, as in a code, not any proper words.

F.67??

reminds me of Homeward Bounders by D. Wynne Jones... but can't be if it's number/code

Chrysalis - I know, no numbers, no letters but otherwise a good fit!!

Chrysalids - oops

Chrysalids was brilliant!

Readysteady - possibly the last of the Dark is rising Trilogy by Susan Cooper. Posey, sorry no clue...

mumtooneson I do believe you could have got it there
Just trying to find something about it, but the cover certainly looks familiarish!
Thank you so much

Ah, SeventhEverything, Rebecca's World was out of print last time I looked! i have still got it - minus a few pages from the beginning. I always remember the Bad Habit guys who wanted to bite your nails for you

YesYesYes
The cover is exactly it...I was going to say there was a girl with a teddy on the cover but wasn't certain.

How come I remember that tiny detail 30 odd years after I borrowed a book from my grandma's library one summer holiday?
Thank you

I found the cover that was exactly like the one I read, the first picture I saw wasn't quite right! Just in case my last 2 posts didn't quite tally!

Col-Sec?

IQ 69?

oops, too late