The silver crown
By: [by] Robert C. O'Brien. Illustrated by Dale Payson.
Contributors: Payson, Dale, illus.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Atheneum
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Fantasy.
Notes: On her tenth birthday, Ellen wakes up to find a silver crown on her pillow; a few minutes later her house burns up and her parents disappear, and she is launched on an adventure involving a trek through the woods, a castle full of brainwashed captives, and the powerful Hieronymus Machine which wants her crown.