Posted byu/TaibhseCait
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1990s/2000s or earlier? Child/teen Fantasy book with magic stone that transports 2 kids to another world through a plane crash, + a green skinned wizard character too.
Hi! I'm looking for a children/teen book that I read when I was younger that I'd like to find and re-read
Genre would probably be Young Adult, but I'm pretty sure that genre wasn't around then XD It would have been with the Michael Scott teen books and Tamora Pierce and such.
All I remember is part of the plot line of course...no useful title or author
I thought (probably wrongly) that the book was called something like touchstone, lightning stone, thunder stone, but no luck finding it. I think its definitely earlier than the 2010s, but beyond that, no idea about author etc!
So to start two teenagers (12 or 14 but definitely less than 16 I think) boy and girl, cousins maybe? friends, find a stone/rock in an abandoned quarry after or during a thunderstorm. (The stone glows?, something to do with lightning maybe?) ....I think they got some powers or something but I'm hazy on this part,
....but while they're on a plane it crashes except they wake up in a different world (fantasy/medieval with elves, dwarves, giants, magic - vaguely remember that someone was kidnapped & the dwarf is tracking them down while thinking about how elves would have been better at it? Maybe!)
They meet a young man when they first arrive, who was an apprentice or slave to a wizard and was cursed with green? skin. They have to help save the world or something... at the end they can travel back to their world (during the book they met at a forge? and after some magic they are informed that they could get home but decade(s) will have passed in their world, despite less than a year passing in the fantasy world...
and at the end they wake up in the farmers field the plane crashed in but decades later (possibly 20 years later) and the parents/aunt had still stayed by the phone waiting for news of them....
I would mention I live in Ireland and I read it in english. My brother has no recollection of it. I think I read it in end primary school or beginning secondary school so could even be before 2005-ish? But the book could have been written even before 1990s, I'm guessing there...
I think the cover was watercolour/ink art maybe?
Hope this helps! Please help. It is driving me nuts, I know I didn't make this up or dream it!
Books that aren't it include Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Motherstone & Demonata series.
edit: FOUND IT!!
Touchstone by Peter Regan
"In a remote quarry near their homes, Patti and Simon shelter from a summer storm. A bolt of lightning erupts at their feet and afterwards they find the Touchstone, 'white in color with a green vein, about the size of a large apple', which is to be their password to another world."
Somehow using keywords of quarry, lightning, another world, stone etc NEVER FOUND IT FOR ME! Neither did using the title touchstone on amazon or goodreads. UNTIL NOW. Found it on goodreads by searching "stone" and "touchstone" >> despite it not showing before. I saw the cover and was instantly THAT'S IT! XD
just now
1990s/2000s or earlier? Child/teen Fantasy book with magic stone that transports 2 kids to another world through a plane crash, + a green skinned wizard character too.
Hi! I'm looking for a children/teen book that I read when I was younger that I'd like to find and re-read
Genre would probably be Young Adult, but I'm pretty sure that genre wasn't around then XD It would have been with the Michael Scott teen books and Tamora Pierce and such.All I remember is part of the plot line of course...no useful title or author
I thought (probably wrongly) that the book was called something like touchstone, lightning stone, thunder stone, but no luck finding it. I think its definitely earlier than the 2010s, but beyond that, no idea about author etc!
So to start two teenagers (12 or 14 but definitely less than 16 I think) boy and girl, cousins maybe? friends, find a stone/rock in an abandoned quarry after or during a thunderstorm. (The stone glows?, something to do with lightning maybe?) ....I think they got some powers or something but I'm hazy on this part,
....but while they're on a plane it crashes except they wake up in a different world (fantasy/medieval with elves, dwarves, giants, magic - vaguely remember that someone was kidnapped & the dwarf is tracking them down while thinking about how elves would have been better at it? Maybe!)
They meet a young man when they first arrive, who was an apprentice or slave to a wizard and was cursed with green? skin. They have to help save the world or something... at the end they can travel back to their world (during the book they met at a forge? and after some magic they are informed that they could get home but decade(s) will have passed in their world, despite less than a year passing in the fantasy world...
and at the end they wake up in the farmers field the plane crashed in but decades later (possibly 20 years later) and the parents/aunt had still stayed by the phone waiting for news of them....
I would mention I live in Ireland and I read it in english. My brother has no recollection of it. I think I read it in end primary school or beginning secondary school so could even be before 2005-ish? But the book could have been written even before 1990s, I'm guessing there...
I think the cover was watercolour/ink art maybe?
Hope this helps! Please help. It is driving me nuts, I know I didn't make this up or dream it!
Books that aren't it include Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Motherstone & Demonata series.
edit: FOUND IT!!
Touchstone by Peter Regan
"In a remote quarry near their homes, Patti and Simon shelter from a summer storm. A bolt of lightning erupts at their feet and afterwards they find the Touchstone, 'white in color with a green vein, about the size of a large apple', which is to be their password to another world."
Somehow using keywords of quarry, lightning, another world, stone etc NEVER FOUND IT FOR ME! Neither did using the title touchstone on amazon or goodreads. UNTIL NOW. Found it on goodreads by searching "stone" and "touchstone" >> despite it not showing before. I saw the cover and was instantly THAT'S IT! XD
