Description
The fat, one-foot tall, miniature man with dragon wings that Kelly
catches in her refrigerator, his face smeared with her fourteenth
birthday cake, is not what she imagined a fairy would look like. But he
proudly claims to be a "perfect specimen". Kelly soon learns that she
herself is half-fairy, which means everything she has ever been told
about her absent father is a lie. Who was he and why has her mother
been lying about him? Kelly vows to find out, but her plans are
interrupted when US presidential candidate Marcos Witherings kidnaps
her. He is a half-fairy too, and he wants another of his kind to help
him in a twisted plan that far exceeds a simple desire to be US
president. Kelly escapes and flees to the underwater fairy kingdom of
Glendenland, where she must race to develop her fledgling "fairy
senses" before it's too late.
Awards: 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist
Praise and Reviews
"Frances Ruiz has crafted a delightful little story here, mixing
elements of Harry Potter and Anne McCaffrey with a batch of likeable
characters in an imaginative fairyland...Ruiz’s writing carries the
story along with a gentle simplicity that is both charming and
addictive...Long after I closed the book, I could feel my imagination
humming with golden fairy wings and underwater castles." --Erin
Stropes, Developmental Editor, Canada