[LM_NET] can you name this book?

[Staci Perkins <perkinss@HAYSCISD.NET>]

An English teacher at my school would love to know the name of this book she read 
when she was younger. Any ideas? I haven't found it yet. Thanks!

Genre: Fantasy Fiction

The story begins as a teenage girl goes to live somewhere away from home.  
(Because, I think, her parents are dead, and her sister is either being courted by 
someone of nobility, or is working in the palace.)  There is some mystery about the 
forest she travels through on her way there, and the head
of the household is a young man with a little daughter or younger sister, I'm not 
sure which one.  One day the little girl goes missing.  Most people think the 
protagonist wasn't watching her closely enough, and that she fell down a well...but 
it turns out she was taken by elves that live
underground.  The well is actually one of the "entrances" into the elven kingdom.  
Eventually the protagonist ends up in the elven kingdom, living as a servant.  The 
elven queen is cruel and calculating, but over time, teaches the protagonist some 
skills, including the ability to move with grace
(she used to be incredibly awkward and clumsy).  At some point the protagonist 
discovers the elves are planning to sacrifice the little girl on Midsummer's Eve.  
In the end, the little girl is rescued.  When the protagonist's sister comes to 
visit, the protagonist thinks the young man will fall in
love with her beautiful sister...instead, of course, he's fallen in love with the 
protagonist.


S. Kimball Perkins,  MLS, M.Ed
Librarian, Simon Middle School, Hays CISD
perkinss@hayscisd.net   
512-268-8507 ext. 2526
http://simonlib.edublogs.org/
http://simonms.edublogs.org/

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." - Logan Pearsall Smith

“Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but 
because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” G. K. Chesterton

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