SOLVED. Children's or YA Time Travel. Girl travels forward in time from maybe Tudor era? Has scarlet fever (?) when she gets here and gets antibiotics, read roughly mid 90s. [s]

[Elizabeth]

Read it as an older kid in the midish 90s, didn't seem like it was super old but I don't know that it was exactly new either. I remember it started in the past, roughly Tudor-ish and I think England, but possibly anywhere roughly medieval to Renaissance. I think the girl was wealthy (princess?? Nobility of some kind?) - but it's possible I'm remembering totally wrong and she's actually a servant or something. She somehow time travels to vague ~present day~. I remember she was very ill when she got here and I want to say it was scarlet fever - but possibly plague or something else - I have a vivid recollection of a description or her tongue "like a strawberry". Whatever it was could be treated by antibiotics which blew her mind once she was taken to a doctor. Unfortunately this is literally all I remember about it. I was just trying to remember what my first well loved time travel story was and thought of this mystery book.

[Orsolya Könyvtáros (formerly Memp)]

The Princess in the Pigpen by Jane Resh Thomas.

pg. 22:
The doctor thrust a wooden stick into Elizabeth's mouth. "Oh, your tongue looks just like a strawberry. We'll do your bloodwork in a minute."

[Elizabeth]

Yes!! Thank you thank you! Man, no wonder I loved it, as an Elizabeth growing up on a hog farm in Iowa 🤣