Request #265 From Jeanne

I have been trying to find two books that I cannot remember the names of.

1) set in medieval times, a Lady is left in a crumbling tower with a rose garden and one attendant.  A male thief comes to the to the tower and takes her hostage (I think). It’s a very short novela, and I read it around 1990 or 1991 so it may have been printed in the 80s. It read like a ya romance. 

2) I read this book around 1994 from the school library, but I think it may have been printed much earlier. A boy from a large city with an alcoholic mother. He takes stolen car radios from car thieves, and fixes them/sells them. Someone gets hurt in one of the thefts, he gets the radio and before he can get rid of it his mom is taken to jail or rehab by the police. He’s then sent to live with relatives in the country and had to adjust/go to therapy. Eventually the police realize that he was involved with the stolen radio and his relatives help him through the resulting legal stuff but that’s where my memory goes hazy.