seriously stuck early on (minor spoliers maybe)

I have 3 of 4 items - Poke, fire extinguisher, minirobot - and I can't get past the girl who wanted 4 items nor the other girl who wanted my coin to see the fairies. I also have the coin and minimap and the little girl found her way back home to her ungrateful mom. I've been back and forth over all I can access twice, playing just under 3 hours. I feel like I either need battery or the stick for the Poke, or to get past the woman who's house got blocked by the earthquake. Any thoughts?

There's a question mark by the girl who wants a stone, or a coin, to get in to see the fairies. I can't give her the coin b/c I am saving it to give to the fairies. Two rooms before that is the guy who will give me a stone if I give him 1 more item - I have 3 and he wants 4. A couple of rooms above them is an item, it looks like a target or a rolled up piece of hard candy, and it's high on a ledge on the right. I suppose I need to get that item but it seems impossible. This is still in chapter 1. I tired to go into chapter 2 and 3 but it said I needed to finish chapter 1 first.
This is why - as much as I wanted to - I never played Myst. Puzzle solving is fun until you can't.

There's a blue power up - I think it makes you go sideways - about 3 rooms to the left. You come up in a middle room with 2 flying robots that shoot green balls at you. I've tried jumping on them and having them shoot each other but everything just passes thru. To the left is a curving tunnel with a blue light but it either times out before I can leave the tunnel or the little tiny blue lights make it disipate, hard to say. To the right of the 2 flying robots are 3 annoying jumping robots. There is a bottom path and a top path I can't reach. In the next room way up on the right is the item. There is a path way over on the left from the previous room, but even if I could get to it its too far to jump over. Maybe with the blue light I guess. There is also a hole coming down from the ceiling but when I tried to get to it by going up over and around via another route I couldn't get up there. Even if I could I would just fall straight down and miss the item anyway. Might be time to move on to another game.

thanks for the help

Somebody over on the Knytt forums answered this for me. I'ld done it in other areas so don't know why I didn't try it here.