What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Secret in the Stones
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SOLVED. YA fantasy - "stones" involved, character Esmeralda, boy falls through fountain into story world [s]
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Sorry, but can I sort of bump this up? I've been looking for this one for years. Or does anyone know someplace else that I could go for help?
Yeah, feel free to bump this every month here, but more often that is not likely to help.There are of course Groups here on GR that are focused on YA books, you could ask on some of them. There are also Listopias here, and those have tags - you could maybe search by different keyword tags. For example if you search by 'gast' you might get books about that kind of being.
It does sound like an interesting & memorable book, and you do give lots of clues. Someone knows it - we just need to get the attention of that someone! :)
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Heavens yes, don't give up! I posted my first one June of 2009 and we found it last month!I bump usually every couple of weeks...
The part about a character falling into a well to another world jogs something in my mind. I may have read or seen a book like this, but ugh I can't remember! Sorry!edit: I meant fountain not well
Omg! I think I found the book you are looking for!Circle of Threeedit: oh and the second one is called The Secret of the Stones, which also goes with the stone part you mentioned.
I created a series page for these books by Erica Farber, now we just have to hope Allie checks in. If she doesn't soon, we can send her a PM.
I was hoping someone would do that when I noticed the books' lack of a series page, since I didn't have time to actually create one then. Thanks!I also really hope this is her book because as soon as I saw the cover on amazon I was pretty sure this was the mystery book; upon reading the description, it only made me even more certain.
I've just sent her a PM, with a link to this thread. If she doesn't respond in a few days I guess we'll move this to abandoned.
Sounds about right. Thank you, everyone!
You're welcome. I'm glad that was your book! :)
The title likely didn't have the word "stones" in it, but it was part of a series and the series title may have mentioned stones. The book was young adult fantasy, probably published in 2000, give or take two years.
I remember a few characters - there was definitely a girl called Esmeralda. She was a gypsy and running away from something or someone. There may have been a boy called Nico with her. There was also a boy possibly named Colin from "our" world who fell through a fountain at an art museum (on a school trip?) after seeing a stone at the bottom, and he landed in the same world as the other characters were in previously.
Colin ends up at some sort of army camp and proceeds to humiliate himself pretty soundly. There's a drill sergeant type who makes him do a lot of pushups.
Someone Nico knew was killed early on in the story, which is why he had to flee.
Phrases I remember are Esmeralda describing breathing in one nostril and out of the other, and talking about how marigolds open the heart.
Esmeralda encounters a creature, person, something called Calliope toward the end of the book and is concerned that Calliope is something called a "gast."
The cover was bordered on the left by a column of different colored round stones set in gold squares. There was a boy on the cover, I think, as well as a tame bird of prey of some kind. This bird shows up in the story too (I think it was Nico's pet?).
That's all I remember. It seems like a lot, but I can't seem to find anything about it... Any and all help would be appreciated.