Comments on: Young Adult Book

Question: Young Adult Book

butternut — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:46:56 -0800

MeFi Book Detectives: It's a young adult novel I read back in the 80s, about a melancholy girl who travels back in time to a shamanic tribal village and is initiated into womanhood there. I think she apprentices with the medicine woman. It has been lingering in my unconscious brain for a long time and I feel like I need to read it again. Do you know it?

By: loquax

loquax — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:09:40 -0800

Did it involve Irish kids who went back in time and spoke Gaelic and hung out with Finn MacCool and whatnot?

By: butternut

butternut — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:21:50 -0800

no, but I did read that book! That was also a favorite of mine. There was a sequel to it, too.

By: peep

peep — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:47:13 -0800

Saturday the Twelfth of October! LOVE that book. Very hard to find. Norma Fox Mazer is the author.

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:26:31 -0800

Did she somehow stumble through a portal from Central Park in NYC? If so, I read it when I was 14, but I don't remember the title.

By: peep

peep — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:40:00 -0800

Yes! SpecialK, you and I are talking about the same book, and I'm sure that's the book Butternut is thinking of, too.

By: tastybrains

tastybrains — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:29:40 -0800

If we're thinking of the same book (and wow, that brings back memories!), it *is* the Norma Fox Mazer book, and the only place I can find it listed is Half.com, if you're looking to buy a copy.

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:19:32 -0800

The only thing I remember was her trying to learn the language and wishing she had some tylenol when her adopted sister was sick. Amazing how memory works, though. .. even more amazing that others remember it and that peep actually remembered the title and author.

By: butternut

butternut — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:51:30 -0800

HOLY CRAP. You've done it. I can't believe it, but this is it!!! Peep, Special K -- I thank you.