#i think there was the obligatory 2000s youth media book where they were all in a rock band together

[pangolinheart]

I don't know what book you're talking about with a magical rock and a talking ferret but I am HERE for it whatever it is!

Okay it was REALLY bothering me so I googled it! It was called Avalon: Web of Magic. It looks like it's gotten updated cover art since I was in elementary school, but I remember being in 2nd grade and going to a book fair and seeing this on one of the tables and being enamoured with it:

I guess it also got a graphic novel spinoff at some point? And as recently as 2020 there were plans to make it into an animated series? I'm amazed by that fact. It was definitely a product of it's time (2001) and there was a whole mish-mash of magical tropes, but it was the first fantasy book series I had ever read (also I think the first book with human main characters...) and 7-8 year old me loved it.

The character I was talking about was named Emily (she's the redhead in this picture) and she was kind of the "healer" of the group? Every character had different kind of magical links with different individual animals, and I guess according to the Wiki she didn't ~technically~ have a bonded animal like the other two, but she had a bond with a unicorn and the aforementioned ferret, Ozzie (Ozymandias) who was actually a warlock that had been transformed into a ferret. I think her magical stone started as an aventurine. Anyway I don't know why but she popped into my mind when I was looking at that reblog meme so it must have been some sort of repressed memory lol.

I remember really liking another of the three, Adrian, who was goth and had a cats eye stone and most of her animal familiars ended up being wolves. I remember being very disappointed for some reason when she got a fantasy boyfriend.

I'm shocked I can still remember all of the main characters' names.

Anyway this is one of those things that I feel probably explains a lot about me as a person.

As a bonus, here's are some 's one of the updated cover art (looking at the old ones.. the update was probably a good choice lol)