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1LyzzyBee
Hi all! Hope you can help me...
I'm remembering a children's / teens book which I'd have read in the late 70s / early 80s. It had a family of children (I think) and one of them finds a little ivory shape, narrower in the middle than at the ends, which is the key to... something. It's not The Indian In The Cupboard and I don't think it's The Ogre Downstairs... but by a writer like Lynne Reid Banks or Diana Wynne Jones.
Help!
I'm remembering a children's / teens book which I'd have read in the late 70s / early 80s. It had a family of children (I think) and one of them finds a little ivory shape, narrower in the middle than at the ends, which is the key to... something. It's not The Indian In The Cupboard and I don't think it's The Ogre Downstairs... but by a writer like Lynne Reid Banks or Diana Wynne Jones.
Help!
2Sakerfalcon
The castle of bone by Penelope Farmer?
4HollyMS
I just wanted to say that there's a really great group on LT called Name that Book ( http://www.librarything.com/groups/namethatbook#forums ). Just in case you were ever looking for a book again!
5LyzzyBee
Hi there, I know about that now, I posted the original message almost a year ago. But thanks!
6susanb1
Was the book suggested the one you were looking for?
If not, another possibility might be String in the Harp by Nancy Bond in which siblings find the tuning key for the harp of the Welsh bard Taliesen
If not, another possibility might be String in the Harp by Nancy Bond in which siblings find the tuning key for the harp of the Welsh bard Taliesen
7LyzzyBee
I'm pretty sure it's the Castle of Bone, sorry I didn't make that clearer! now to find a copy...
8Sakerfalcon
A string in the harp is a great book though, very worth reading if you like Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising sequence. I'd never heard of it till I moved to America, but if I'd found it as a child I think I'd have reread it often.
Hope you enjoy rereading Castle of Bone if you track down a copy!
Hope you enjoy rereading Castle of Bone if you track down a copy!