Hey, YA People

[EUOL]

My sister's trying to find out what the name of a book is.  She remembers reading the summary on the back cover, but was never able to find it again.

It was a fantasy book about two sisters, one who was adventurous and one who wasn't.  The adventurous one gets sick, and the other one has to go find some kind of magical flower/medicine that will cure her.  

[Master Xaio]

And that narrows it down to... how many books with that storyline are there? I mean, even Redwall cashed in on that.   But anyway, no idea.  Is it a recent one? Whats the cover art?

[fuzzyoctopus]

Yeah you're going to have to give us a LOT more than that.  Heck, I've been looking for a YA book for almost 10 years now that I can't find the name of, and I even remember the name of one of the main characters.


Edit: While the topic is here, my book is about a girl whose family takes in foster children, and one day a little boy is left on their doorstep.  His name is Floris (I remember because strangers in the book kept making 'florist' jokes) and he turns out to be a prince from some sort of fairie realm, and the girl protagonist ends up helping him get back and goes there for a little while.

[stacer]

Actually, EUOL, I think I know the name of that book. It's The Two Princesses of Bamara, by Gail Carson Levine, who also wrote Ella Enchanted. I've never read it, so I could be wrong that it's exactly the right book, but I know that's the plot of the book. Their father is off on some hunt and the sister has to go find him or something.

But fuzzy, don't know yours.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Oh that's great; you know that one off the bat, but an entire library, 10 years of searching and Google can't find my book.

I swear, I'm giving it another year and then I'll figure it never existed, and I'll write the darn thing myself.  Then at least if it exists I'll get hit with a lawsuit.

[stacer]

Well, sometimes my memory's hit or miss.    Plus, it helps that Two Princesses of Bamara is a relatively recent book that I've nearly bought three times, but put back on the shelf because I was able to buy three paperbacks for the price of the one hardback. Come to think of it, it might finally be out in paperback. But I digress.

If you want, I can pass the description on to my childlit list. They're a bunch of children's librarians, teachers, and people like me, and they're great at stumpers.

[EUOL]

Good job, Stacer!  Lauren (Moriosta on the board) said that that was the right book.  She recognized the cover.

[fuzzyoctopus]

If you want, I can pass the description on to my childlit list. They're a bunch of children's librarians, teachers, and people like me, and they're great at stumpers.

Please do!  I would love to know if I hallucinated the story or not.

[Spriggan]

Isn't that book written by a french 14 year old girl Stacer?

[stacer]

This is the reply I got:

Hi Stacy

This is a book by Annie Dalton, called Out of the ordinary.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0064470814/ref%3Dnosim/speculativefic05/002-3688227-6868851

Is this it?

[stacer]

Isn't that book written by a french 14 year old girl Stacer?

No, Gail Carson Levine's a 50-something mother. She's been writing since the late 80s.

[Spriggan]

ok, this is the one I was thinking of.  All I could remeber from the article was that there was a sick girl.  http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/04/22/teen.author.ap/index.html

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

and she's french you idiot! WHy do you think she has zis outrageous accent?

[fuzzyoctopus]

Is this it?

*points hysterically*

Yes!  That's it!  I even got most of it right, after only having read it once, 10 or more years ago.

[Tekiel]

Hehe, I just went through the same thing.  I'd read a book in fifth grade that I really liked but couldn't remember now.  I looked on google and asked all the people I knew if they could remember a book about a fairy who gives a couple a little girl with a pink lock of hair.  At one point, the girl wishes for too many toys and is almost crushed by them.

Anyway, I finally found the book by browsing around DI.  I was so excited I almost shouted out for joy right there in the store!  The Fairy Rebel by Lynne Banks.

While on the subject, there's this fantasy book, and the main hero starts off by running around the streets (I get the impression he was a bit of a street rat) and it talks about how he can smell blood and death all around him.  Then the plot goes to other characters, blah, blah, blah, main character is now with a girl and they are travelling to the main bad guys.  A black gryphon attacks him, he kills it, and it is reborn as a white, good gryphon.  Something about the bad guys tower, but instead of going up, they go down, tower is destroyed and they get out just in time.  

Well, if it sounds familiar to anyone I'd really appreciate the help.  Sorry, but I don't know any of the characters names.  I know, I know, not enough to go on, but maybe someone here has read the story and will know what I'm talking about.