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[vr_trakowski]

Martha Bacon's The Third Road.  It's difficult to describe, and while it seems to be available through Amazon, there's no description that I can see.  I don't know that it's that out of the ordinary for a '70s children's fantasy, but for me it was special.  

Three children go to visit their unusual grandparents in California.  They find a unicorn in the paddock among the horses, and that is just the beginning.  There's magic and history and time travel, a lapdog and Quetzacoatl, players and priests, and all of it is the way to the Third Road and Hy Brasil.  The enchantment mixes with reality and the adults don't disbelieve. 

I so wanted to find the Third Road myself.  Haven't yet, but I keep hoping. 

Comments

[spockside]

Try www.abebooks.com. They have descriptions, although not images, and I did find several copies there.

[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have a copy! Thanks though. I was wondering how someone else would describe it, but at the moment Abebooks doesn't seem to have a synopsis.

Love your icon, BTW!