ABANDONED. about a forest, and a girl who runs into it, meets a witch, saves a boy...apples?

[Kendra]

This was a pre-teen sort of book I think, the sort of thing I read as a teenager, but normal teenagers didn't.
The audiobook reader was a woman, and it was told from the girl's perspective. I think she was attacked and she ran into the forest to get away?
The cover was mostly green, and I think there was either an archway or the cover picture was just inside an arched frame type thing. The girl was on it for sure, and she may have been wearing pink.
I remember a bit about an apple! The girl was warned against eating apples and then at the end that's what saved them. There was a guy she found/accidently rescued and a witch, and possibly a sad excuse for a dragon.
I know that's not a lot to go by, but it's really fuzzy in my head! I would love any sort of help finding it, I've been looking for ages! And this group is the best shot I've had for a while at finding the answer :D

[Snail in Danger (Sid)]

Any idea what year it was, approximately, when you read it?

[Kendra]

Ummm the year book two or three of Harry POtter came out :D
So around 1999, or shortly thereafter...

[Diana]

This probably isn't it, but this sounds a bit like The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis. It has a girl and a boy (but they come there together), a forest, a witch, and there's a bunch of stuff about apples at the end.

[Miranda]

Your description kind of reminds me of The Silver Crown by Robert C. O'Brien but it's been years and years since I read it so I'm not sure.

[Lucy]

I think it sounds like Magician's Nephew too. Could the sad excuse for a dragon be a flying horse? there is a flying horse in Magician's Nephew. At the end of the book, the boy and girl ride it to the garden where the apples are growing on the Tree of Knowledge - kind of a Garden of Eden thing. They take an apple back to help heal the boy's mum. They are not allowed to taste the apples themselves. It's probably not The Silver Crown - no apples or witches in that book - although it is a fantastic story!

[Kendra]

Nope, not the Magician's Nephew, though I LOVE that one! I'm starting to think I'm mixing up the apples with another story...there doesn't seem to be Anything that matches my description! Yet I thought I remembered it so WELL :D Thank you all for your efforts! I'll look into the Silver Crown, haven't heard of that one!

[Michelle]

No, it's not The Silver Crown. I know that much at least. But Silver Crown is a great book, definitely recommended.

[Madalyn]

It sounds a bit like Talking to Dragons but I don't remember anything about apples in it.

[Nancy]

My thought was C.S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew, too. There are apples, there is a girl and a boy and a witch, too.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Kemendraugh, are you still looking for this book?

[Kendra]

I sure am :D Sort of gave up on it. Why, did you have a lead?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

No but you should bump the thread every couple months or so - you never know when someone reading through threads will know your book.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Still looking?

[Tab]

Maybe, Dragonsbane of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles series

[Mir]

Tab wrote: "Maybe, Dragonsbane of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles series"

That sounds like the same book as Dealing With Dragons, although I don't remember apples being important.

[Arielle]

bumping

[Krista]

I agree with the poster above that it could be Talking to Dragons. The boy is the narrator (and the only audiobook I know of is full-cast), but there is a girl main character (who's a firewitch, and running away), and a baby dragon, and I'm pretty sure at one point the boy warns her not to eat some kind of magical fruit.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Still looking?"

No response in 5 years. Moving to Abandoned.