What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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The Broken Citadel
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SOLVED. YA Fantasy about a girl who visits another world through a window in an abandoned house [s]
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Eeee! I think I just found it!! I searched and search keywords and found The Broken Citadel by Joyce Ballou Gregorian. GoodReads doesn't have the white cover but I found it on amazon.See:
Oh - and apparently it's the first in a series. I'm going to have a find a copy myself!
Wow!! I've been searching for this book for years! I can't believe you found it! Thank you so much!!!!
The book goes through a few quests, starting with a girl (I believe her name is Sibbie or something like that) is walking home from school one day in our world, and she sees the door to an abandoned house she always passes is open. She enters the library of the house and is drawn to a book. Inside that book is a map of a world she doesn't recognize, but when she looks out the window she is looking on a beach.
She climbs out the window and it disappears behind her. She meets up with a man and they go together to rescue a princess from a tower in the middle of a lake. at some point after that they kill what is basically a brontosaurus, and she is saddened by this.
I remember something about a trader, who keeps his money in a box with lots of very sophisticated locks on it, but she just says something like, "if I wanted to steal the money, I could just break the box."
In the end of the book you discover that (view spoiler)[She is actually the princess. Her mother is a wicked queen, and when she was born it was prophesied that the queens daughter would be her doom. so since she was prevented from harming her own blood by ancient magical spirits (called yinri or something like that) she attempted to send her daughter to another world, but thought she failed. turns out she switched her daughter with another baby from that other world. Sibbie is her daughter, and the princess she thought was her daughter that she failed to send, was really the child of Sibbies parents. (hide spoiler)]
Anyway, this was a fantastic book, and I'd love to read it again, but I simply can't find it. It was 500+ pages, and the hardcover I checked out from my high school library was about the size of the last "Harry Potter" or "Dark Tower" novel, but was a pure white cover with only the title and a simple sketch of the eponymous bird.