I'm looking for a name of this book I read during Middle School I believe about a girl living in a book...?

I never finished it because I lost the book! All I remember is in the beginning, when I started to read the first chapter, it started out as the girl (main character) and the other characters realizing that the book is opening and that their characters should get into character for the reader. It seems they were aware that they were in a book and were always awaiting for the reader to come back and continue reading. I also remember reading about this girl running through the pages to get back to where she was, where the reader left off... because when the book is closed, all the characters go back to living their lives, talking, hanging out, etc. until the reader gets back. I thought it was very interesting, and whenever I would read it, I felt as if I was holding a tiny, little world in a book, in my hands...

If anyone remembers the name of this book, please do tell me. I would really like to continue reading it...
Thank you very much in advance :]

2011-03-31T07:26:58Z

Thank you very much "Tiandron"! That is exactly the book I am looking for! :)

tiandron2011-03-31T06:52:27Z

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The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley (the Sylvie Cycle books)

The Great Good Thing

Sylvie has been a twelve-year-old princess for more than eighty years, ever since the book she lives in was first printed. She's the heroine, and her story is exciting—but that's the trouble. Her story is always exciting in the same way. Sylvie longs to get away and explore the world outside the confines of her book.

When she breaks the cardinal rule of all storybook characters and looks up at the Reader, Sylvie begins a journey that not even she could have anticipated. And what she accomplishes goes beyond any great good thing she could have imagined....