A Fairy's Guide to Disaster: Away From Whipplethorn, Book 1
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (938 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00BBTRYOO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 550 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Finally agreeing to let Matilda take some responsibility, her mother gives her a list of emergency procedures for babysitting. She can lock the doors, but that doesn't keep the kids in or spriggans and the fly-eating phalanx fairies out. Huge adventure. Minutes into her first job, humans appear in isolated Whipplethorn Manor. Her mother won't let her forget any of that. Being a babysitter isn't much of a dream for the average 13-year-old, but Matilda is anything but average. Matilda's up for an adventure, if only she could hear it coming.. The only problem; humans aren't on the list. Matilda Whipplethorn is about to get what she's always wanted, and it's a bad thing. So for Matilda, adventures are in short supply. They tear her home, the fireplace mantel, right off the wall of Whipplethorn and Matilda's afternoon babysitting job goes long term. When the mantel ends up on display in an antique mall, the security that Matilda always took for granted is gone. Tiny fairies. She's half a centimeter tall, invisi
"Lots of Fun!" according to R.A. White. This book was fun and well written, and I stayed interested throughout. I've never read fairy books or watched fairy movies, and I admit I didn't have super high hopes of getting an intelligent story, but the world was well defined and imaginative. Instead of being a 'save the world' story, it's about a few fairies that are separated from their parents when the building they live in is demolished. There's plenty of banter,. Mrs. Kimberly S. Napier said Fun book about fairies. A Fairy's Guide to Disaster (An Away From Whipplethorn Book 1) by [Hartoin, A.W.]Matilda Whipplethorn has been asked to take on a big challengebabysit Gerald, the fairy nobody likes. As she tries to talk her way out of it, her mother shows her a list of everything that could go wrong and how to handle it. Unfortunately, the list does not include people coming into Whipplethorn Manor and taking her home with her, Gerald and. Courtney Hancock said Cover is Misleading.. I was very disappointed in this story, the cover and the name suggested something other than what we originally thought it was going to be. If my children were older, I believe that they could have gotten more into the story, but with the way that the "fairies" talked to each other we had to stop reading before we even reached the end.I am not saying that others could not read and enjoy this novel. I am sure that it would