This book I've read...

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This has been bothering me for untold eons now. You people are all wonderfully smart. Maybe you know.

There was this book I read, way back at the dawn of time. It was a YA book, and it mostly perplexed me at the time, but I was delighted to read it. I would be very delighted to read it again, except I haven't the faintest idea what it was called, or who it was by.

I remember details. I remember that it had a boy and a girl as Protags in it. I remember that the girl wound up creating a couple of beings, who turned out to be too human and grew violent. I remember that the book involved tapestries which were our lives and the lives of the world. The only specific scene I remember was the boss explaining that the tapestry had a black thread, representing evil, which ran through the tapestry and couldn't be removed without unraveling the tapestry. I want to say that the girl removed it when she was making her beings, but I don't know for sure. I'm VERY sketchy on this.

Anyone who gets this right will get a Really Amazing Prize. I mean, as if my undying gratitude weren't enough. (Yes, folks, my gratitude is undead.)
 

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What a thoroughly cool idea. Someday, I'll put two bucks toward it, unless anyone here knows what I'm blathering about.
 

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Hey Pee Dee, you could also check out the ABEbooks Booksleuth board. It isn't archived, but you can post your query in the Children's section of Booksleuth for free (once you've registered your username).
-Barbara (barbaramlg on abe)
 

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Here are some sites that have at least some book search capability. (I haven't rooted out the ones that obviously won't apply, BTW.) Some have message boards or "stump the expert" boards. In my limited experience, the book searches where people get involved seem to be the ones that end happily with a title and author’s name. I also suspect a good children's librarian will know your book.

http://www.iblist.com/ is the Internet Book List
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchEntry is the advanced search page at AbeBooks
http://www.bookfinder.com/ is the search page at BookFinder
http://forums.thebookforum.com/ is the Book Search message board at The Book Forum
http://www.logan.com/loganberry/stump.html is the Stump the Bookseller board at Loganberry Books (fee)
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
http://classiclit.about.com/mpchat.htm
http://www.pw.org/

If none of these works out, there's a woman at the IMDb Books board who knows children's and YA literature very well and has solved similar riddles many times. Posting requires membership at the site (which is free), but if you don't want to bother, PM and I'll ask for you.

Maryn, wishing she'd written down every title
 
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