findthatbook | Fantasy book, read before 2011 in an elementary school.

Although I read this book in my elementary school, I believe its demographic was that of teenagers. The details that I am about to list are very vague and I apologize for that but its been 7 years since I read this book and my memory of subject is very hazy.

The genre as listed in the subject is Fantasy
I read it around 2011, but the publish date was most likely well before then

details that are still lingering in my memory are that i believe it was about 3-5 teens or young adults on a "quest" in search of magical "artifacts" or items. I don't remember if these items had any sentimental value of the characters or played a part in the history of the characters. With searching for magic items, enemies are usually in pursuit and this is no different, for the duration of their journey they are followed by not so friendly people and attacked by pirates when on a bout at some point in the story.

At least one character was a male and 1 female, the other characters i am unsure.

At the time of me reading the story, it was a hard back book.

Thick chapter book from what I can remember.

Rectangular shape

the cover, if i'm not mistaken had circles on the front of it with the gems or magical items they were looking for.

Four gems possibly red, blue, green, and yellow or some other final color.

I apologize again for providing very little detail and quite vague details of the ones provided. I have been stuck searching for this book for a long time so if anyone can help find this book I would really appreciate it. Thanks to anyone willing to help.

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From:

fred_mouse

Have discussed this with an early 20s family member, to see what they can come up with. Their conclusions:

Very tentative possibility is the Sun Sword Trilogy by Belinda Murrell, but that doesn't really fit with the idea of a single book and it doesn't appear to have been released as an omnibus. There are ocean battles, but with people who are better described as privateers than pirates.

Another long shot would be a Deltora Quest Omnibus -- in the first 8 books they are after gems, in the next 3 they are after magic items, and in the last four they are hunting and destroying magic items. But no pirates. Not sure exactly which books might have been collected together, but there is definitely a collection of 1-4

But other than that, nothing really comes to mind. Gems apparently turn up a bit, but not in conjunction with the other details.

From:

devildog2901

Thank you for replying so quickly, I hope deltora quest or Sun sword trilogy turns out to be the book that I'm looking for because I don't remember much more if anything.

From:

fred_mouse

You're welcome. Good luck with finding it.

From:

archangelbeth

If it's a Deltora Quest book, then https://www.amazon.com/Deltora-Quest-Complete-Boxed-Books/dp/0545098106 has a picture of some of the books.

From:

devildog2901

Thank you as well, the pictures don't ring a bell but my mind might just be making things up at this point. I'll just have to read it and see.

From: (Anonymous)

Hi, is it possibly Candara's Gift (Book 1 of the Kingdom of Gems) by Jasper Cooper?

They are attacked in a boat, but by ravens not pirates.

From:

fred_mouse

This is a very long shot, but there are enough details that are almost but not quite right -- is it possible that you are thinking of the first book of The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper? The villains are on a boat, there are three kids seeking the magical artefact.

The later books in the sequence has circular items that are being searched for, but there are six of them, and they are different materials.

From:

greendryad

It could be Kingdoms of Light by Alan Dean Foster.

Each charater has a jewel or a gem embedded partly inside their bodies. One has the jewel embedded in its forehead, another in its foot, another in its bellybutton. They are pets/slaves of a witch, and they escape from her bondage to figure out how to get the jewels out. Eah jewel is a different color.