everyone In New Avalon Has A Fairy. Though Invisible, A Personal Fairy Is Vital To Success. It Might Determine Whether You Pass A Math Class Or Find The Perfect Outfit. But All Fourteen-year-old Charlie Can Do Is Find Parking Spaces—and She Doesn’t Even Drive. At First, Teaming Up With Fiorenza (who Has An All-the-boys-like-you Fairy) Seems Like A Great Idea. But When Charlie Unexpectedly Gets Her Heart’s Desire, She’ll Have To Resort To Extraordinary Measures To Ditch Her Fairy.
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set In A Futuristic Fantasy City, This Book Puts A Fun Spin On Fairy Tales: Fairies Exist, But You May Wish They Did Not. Charlie Has A Parking Fairy, Which Means Any Driver Charlie Is With Can Always Find A Choice Spot (which In Turn Means That Every Time The Brutish Star Jock At School Gets Behind A Wheel He Nabs Charlie). Charlie Walks Everywhere, Hoping To Ditch Her Fairy And The Jock-but Then She Racks Up Tardiness Demerits At Her Strict Sports School. When Fiorenze, Whose All-boys-will-like You Fairy Has Captured Charlie's Crush, Also Wants To Get Rid Of Her Fairy, They Team Up To Steal Secret Research Compiled By Fiorenze's Mother, An Expert On Fairies. It Takes Larbalestier (the Magic Or Madness Trilogy) A Long Time To Reach This Point, But From Here The Pace Quickens. The Girls Switch Fairies, Creating More Trouble And Pushing The Girls To Some Serious (and Seriously Funny) Extremes. Suggesting Rather Than Exploiting The Fictional Possibilities Of Charlie's City, Which Has As Many Rules As It Has Fairies, This Vividly Imagined Story Will Charm Readers. Ages 12-up. (oct.)
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- Teen & Young Adult
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Fantasy
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Author : Larbalestier, Justine
Language : English
Published :2008-09-16
Number Of Pages : 288
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1599903016
ISBN-13 : 9781599903019
Item weight : 0.85 lb
Dimensions : 1.1 in x 5 in x 7.8 in
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