ISO a beloved childhood book

[Amy Z]

Yikes!  Crushes on boys, girls, and books are clearly an inspiring 
theme--I'm never going to catch up with this list.  The childhood 
books thread, though, reminded me of a book my sister and I both loved 
as kids:  Arabel's Raven by Joan Aiken, with typically hilarious 
illustrations by Quentin Blake.  We first discovered it through 
excerpts in Cricket Magazine.

It is inexcusably out of print, and my mom and I have both looked for 
it for a gift for my sister in the past, with no luck.  Now that she's 
about to have her first child I wish even more that I could track it 
down.  So if anyone ever comes across a copy, or better yet two, post 
a newsflash here.

Amy Z