Lost books

[angelia]

I read these 2 books about 8ish years ago, so I don't remember the titles but I remember the details and google isn't helping me at all.
Book #1: All I can remember about this book is that it about a girl and a unicorn, they travel through a few tapestries. Not a picture book.
Book #2: I remember a lot more about this book. It is about a boy and a few friends who are in a town that has a door that is guarded in town that is separated by a stream or river with eels that eat people and their faces change based on the person's face that they ate. I think the book had a small leopard or something next to the door. I remember the door took them to like a fantasy place and he found like his uncle in there that he thought was dead.

Any help at all is extremely grateful, I've thought about this so much for the past few years.

Comments

[bookblather]

The first one might be Into the Land of the Unicorns, by Bruce Coville.

[mythicmistress]

The second book you mentioned sounds like it could be the first book of DJ MacHale's Pendragon series. I'm not 100 percent sure though, I haven't read them in a while.