Andria’s Comments (group member since Jul 03, 2012)

Andria’s comments from the What's the Name of That Book??? group.

Random guess: The Shattered Stone. The plot description sort of fits, there's an enchanted forest, a boy and a girl who get married at the end, a quest, and warring kingdoms, although the cover doesn't match his memory.

You can read the prologue and first chapter at google books:
http://bit.ly/2e7BEAl

Yay! Glad you found it. I'll mark this thread as solved and add the book to our group shelves.

FYI - I'm adding it as a children's book, not YA, because according to the description the main character is only 9 years old.

The Red Chalk, perhaps?

This may be a stretch, but Around the World with Auntie Mame - the 1995 edition includes a chapter called "Auntie Mame and Mother Russia."

See You Down the Road

Just guessing here, since I haven't read it but Winter has some elements that fit.

Mazemaker ?

How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, maybe?

Moll Meredyth Madcap, maybe? First published in 1913.

""The adventures of a madcap English girl who proves too much of a tomboy for the teachers at her school in England, and so is sent to join her parents on their rubber plantation in the Malay Peninsula."

Another possibility: 3:59

Or maybe Now That You're Here ? (although in this one it's a boy that goes into the parallel universe)

Parallel, perhaps?

Yay, I'm happy that was the right one! And I've shelved the book.

maybe something on this list? https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Among Friends, maybe? It's six HS students keeping journals, and there are several references to Killington.

Dorrie's Book

from Kirkus Reviews: " Dorrie wrote this book herself as a school assignment which helps us to excuse her indulgence in the material luxuries of being an only child--Dad's Caesar salads, Christopher Parkening playing Villa-Lobos on the stereo, a two bedroom apartment overlooking the Golden Gate bridge, and there's even an ingenuous admission that the adult world has pegged Dorrie as both an MGM (mentally gifted minor) and an obnoxious brat. Things change rapidly when Mom's long hoped for second child turns into triplets --placid Deirdre , screaming Randolph and hungry Raymond. The family, now double, moves into a rundown old house and onto a new regime of TV dinners and petty squabbles. And the new neighborhood brings them Genevieve and Harold. . . she's a big help with Randolph and both kids sort of attach themselves to the family after their mother abandons them. Dorrie, having lost her parents' attention is knee deep in self pity though under the circumstances it's hard to blame her. And you'll be ready to appreciate the cathartic fantasy ending she writes to her own story, which has Dorrie discovering twelve bodies and a treasure buried in the backyard and being adopted by an admiring police inspector who will train her to become a great detective. Dorrie's teacher marks her down for this conclusion (Mom explains that fiction is supposed to end with the loose ends tied up) but we find it marvelously liberating. Otherwise her garrulous precocity and, we expect, the reader's sheer relief at having been spared sibling problems of this magnitude, make this an empathic entertainment. Sachs has come closer to the homely truth of family life without resorting to the slightly frenzied humor one finds here, but, big vocabulary and all, Dorrie is still individual enough to survive such a whopping adjustment."

The Nurses ???

Possibly The Immortal Rules or Team Human?

Great! I've marked this question as solved and added the book to our group shelves.

I've marked this solved and shelved the book. Mimi, you may be interested to know there's a sequel: Snowy: A Sequel to the Cheerleader :)