YA fiction. Two sisters move with parents to larger quirky home. Both want the same room because it has an alcove/tunnel/passageway? Younger sister falls from tree & breaks her arm/leg? Read in early 1990s.

[Margaret]

My daughter would like to find a YA book that might have been written in the ‘70s or ‘80s. She read it in the early ‘90s. Two sisters move with their parents to a new larger home that is quirky. They both want the same room because it has some sort of tunnel or passage-way in it. They end up sharing the room because neither would give. The younger sister at some point is upset and climbs out the window onto a tree and falls and breaks her arm.

[Ann]

Dawn's Wicked Stepsister in the Babysitters Club series by Ann M. Martin has Dawn and Mary Anne sharing a room with a secret passage. I don't think either of them breaks an arm, though.

[Kris]

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[Margaret]

Ann, thanks for the suggestion. It was not a series book though, and they were sisters, not step-sisters. Thanks though!

[Margaret]

Still looking!

[Rainbowheart]

How old are the girls in the story, teenagers or younger children?

[Margaret]

I think that they are teenagers, but not positive. Further questioning of my daughter reveals it might not be an actual passageway, but maybe more of an alcove? Also, the one girl could have broken either an arm or a leg. She says it was definitely not in a series!

[Kris]

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- What's the location (country, region, well-known city, small town)? Did they move a long distance, because of father's job, etc.?

[Margaret]

New clue! When they moved into the new house, they had driven a long time from someplace far away and they spent the first night sleeping in front of the fireplace in sleeping bags.

[Rainbowheart]

My Sister the Nightmare?

[Margaret]

No, sorry, that’s not it. My daughter thinks that the word “ sister” was not in the title.

[Capn]

If you feel like a browse...

Children's books about moving:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

Families moving with kids:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

:) Probably a low chance it's here, but hey, worth a shot.

Set in the US, probably? Any particular region?

Any names of any characters, or what the cover looked like? :)

[Margaret]

Also I think the story is told from the point of view of the younger sister.

[bookel]

Could it have been a Scholastic paperback or was it a library hardcover?

[bookel]

Authors to eliminate: Carol Ryrie Brink, Eve Bunting, Betsy Byars, Beverly Cleary, Vera Cleaver, Barbara Cohen, Molly Cone, Ellen Conford, Barbara Corcoran, Barbara Girion, Norma Klein, Stella Pevsner, Marilyn Sachs, Mary Francis Shura, Wilma Yeo, Carol Beach York.

[Margaret]

She thinks it was from the library, not Scholastic. We are checking these authors and lists, thanks, but no luck so far!

[Rainbowheart]

Kinda reminds me of Ten Kids, No Pets, but there's no broken arm in that.