What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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ABANDONED. YA book, possibly medieval fantasy, part of a series 3-4 books
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The description of the 4th book sounds like "The Crown of Dalemark" by Diana Wynne Jones, which is the 4th book in the Dalemark Quartet. The first book does have a sister and two brothers that travel as a bard family with their parents. When their father is killed, the mother goes back to the keep of an old suitor and the kids run away.
The complete series is Cart and Cwidder, Drowned Ammet, The Spellcoats, and Crown of Dalemark
Thanks Laray! The names don't ring a bell, but I will add those to my reading list.
It's cousins, not siblings, and I don't remember the plot, but there's mead and a ring and a lute in Pamela Dean's Secret Country series. The first book is: The Secret Country.
Do you remember the cover?Any other fantasy elements, like witches, dragons, or trolls?
What country were you in when you read this book? Language?
I'm with Laray. The fourth book sounds exactly like The Crown of Dalemark.
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It was a series of books, I think 3-4. The only thing I recall from what was possibly the first book is just the main characters (a sister and her two brothers) having to escape from their house after their grandmother's death. They meet a teenage boy.
The only book I have more of a memory of is what I think was the 4th book. Instead of starting in what I'm going to call medieval, it started in the modern time. Girl is in a museum, and after looking at a painting of a boy with a lute (who was unknown) she ends up in the time frame of the previous books, where people mistake her for another girl (some kind of warrior, I think) and the young teenager from the first book accompanies her. I remember her having to drink mead (water not being overly safe) and her finding it wasn't as bad as she had thought. She wore a ring that showed the other girl as something - I think an heir? And the teenager wore a faked ring, which was later revealed to be the real ring, the girl wearing the fake. The girl was younger than the one she replaced (the boy treated her kinder after her secret about not being the same girl coming out) and when she eventually finds herself back in the present, she recognises the person in the painting was the lute player she made friends with in the past, and that someone from the past was there in the museum physically (I think he was possibly the one who sent her to the past in the first place?)
I'm not sure on the date, all that I know is that this was in the school library, so from around 1999 to 2004. The books were in the higher library, which I shouldn't have had access to until I think 2001.