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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
unexplainedEnemy
Since: Apr, 2016

From what I can remember about the book, it started with the protagonist having her birthday, only to come home and discover that her house had burned down and her family had died in the fire. I think she found some sort of silver ring that took her to a magic dimension, and I think the book was probably written/released sometime in the 1950s or 1960s?