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Colin ([personal profile] devildog2901) wrote in [community profile] findthatbook2018-02-03 01:51 am

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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[personal profile] greendryad 2018-03-07 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] soundofsunlight 2018-03-07 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't read Kingdoms of Light, but that sounds a lot like The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown.
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[personal profile] greendryad 2018-03-09 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my gosh--- you're right. I got the wrong plot synopsis for the wrong title. Silly me.

Thanks for the gentle correction.
Edited 2018-03-09 23:32 (UTC)
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[personal profile] soundofsunlight 2018-03-11 08:11 am (UTC)(link)
No problem :)