13 Treasures
Tanya is no ordinary girl. She can see fairies. But not the fairies we imagine. Evil fairies who cast spells on her, rousing her from her sleep and propelling her out of bed. At wit's end with her daughter's inexplicable behavior, Tanya's mother sends her away to live with her grandmother at...
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Tanya is no ordinary girl. She can see fairies. But not the fairies we imagine. Evil fairies who cast spells on her, rousing her from her sleep and propelling her out of bed. At wit's end with her daughter's inexplicable behavior, Tanya's mother sends her away to live with her grandmother at Elvesden Manor, a secluded countryside mansion on the outskirts of a peculiar Essex town. There is plenty to explore, as long as Tanya stays away from Hangman's Wood- a vast stretch of forest, full of catacombs and notorious for people losing their lives. Fifty years ago a girl vanished in the woods, a girl Tanya's grandmother will not speak of. As Tanya learns more about this girl, she finds herself dangerously close to vanishing into the fairy realm forever.Debut author Michelle Harrison weaves an intricate mystery into a beautiful and haunting fantasy that captures a rich world of fairy lore where only the color red can offer protection.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780316041485 (0316041483)
Publish date: April 12th 2010
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Series: Thirteen Treasures (#1)
Middle School book club selection! This presents the mean side of the faerie world, which I nearly always enjoy. I'll be interested to see how the narration plays to the middle schoolers. The story itself is fast paced but the narration is very British and definitely reads like it comes from a shelt...
Middle School book club selection! This presents the mean side of the faerie world, which I nearly always enjoy. I'll be interested to see how the narration plays to the middle schoolers. The story itself is fast paced but the narration is very British and definitely reads like it comes from a shelt...
Before I read this book, I was actually afraid of it. I had been anticipating reading it for so long, that I built it up on a pedestal in my mind. This was a bad idea, but I couldn't help it. So I didn't want to read it because I was afraid it wouldn't live up to my expectations. That, and my luck w...
Tanya sees faeries and they're not nice, in fact they're mischevious and often get her into trouble. Her parents are divorcing and her mother is finding everything hard to deal with so she sends her to her Grandmother who lives ina largve house beside a wood, a wood where people disappear. Fabian...
Goodreads Summary:No one else can see the evil fairies that rouse Tanya from her sleep, torturing her at the slightest mention of their existence, but they are as real to the 13-year-old as anything she's ever known. She cannot rid herself of them, nor can she ignore them. But it is her insistence o...