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Would the second one be The Star Of Kazan? I never finished it, but it sounds quite similar and that would probably be what happened.
"Oh great! Let's pile up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them!"After looking it up on Wikipedia, I am certain that I was right and it was The Star of Kazan.
"Oh great! Let's pile up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them!"Yes! The second one was The Star of Kazan. Holy butts, thank you so much!! I'm going to go buy these two books the second I google enough to find out what the first one was. I can't believe I forgot, Eva Ibbotson isn't exactly a common name. Shame to discover she died, though.
Can anyone help me out with that first one?
The colors of paint thing reminds me of a book my sister read a couple years ago called Saffy's Angel. I haven't read it, but the plot summary I've read looks like it might be your book.
Oh my god, that's it. Those are the two books! Thank you so much, I could kiss you both!!!
~*~*solved, mother truckers*~*~
There's these two books I read as a kid in middle school that I've been dying to read again, but I literally can't remember the titles or the character names or authors. It kills me.
They are both childrens books. The first one is about a girl whose sister is studying for finals and turns the entire house into a post-it mania, with each room having a different theme for each class. Her name and all her siblings names are after different colors of paint, and she meets a girl who can't walk and they go to Italy to find something in an old house, but I don't think she finds it. Or maybe she does. I feel like this is really specific, so maybe someone can help?
The second one was about a girl who lives in Vienna with two old ladies and then her real mother comes to take her away to some huge German manor. The lady turns out not to be her real mother, the "mother's" son is some fanatical military nut, and the girl is really kindhearted and at some point teams up with a stable boy or a gypsy or something. There is some kind of crazy treasure involved here at some point!
If these books do not exist I am going to feel completely insane but also kind of impressed at my imagination.
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