false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173381619m/280277.jpg 280277 19 The Grace kids--13-year-old Mallory and 9-year-old twins Jared and Simon--get to catch their breath in the third installment of the Spiderwick Chronicles, as they visit their "crazy old" Aunt Lucinda for some help in deciding the fate of the troublesome Field Guide <p> Fresh from near-fatal goblin and troll attacks in the previous book (<I>The Seeing Stone</I>, the children are torn over whether to hang onto their long-lost great-great-uncle's book or to turn it over to the menacing faeries. Thimbletack--the house brownie who's transmogrified into an angry "boggart"--has lost his patience with the kids, and he starts subjecting Jared to increasingly nasty pranks. Hoping that Lucinda might know something about Uncle Arthur's fate (or at least have some advice on how to fend off the faeries), the three children talk their mom into a trip to the asylum for a visit--but there they learn their situation might be even more dangerous than they imagined. (And, as readers of the series know, the kids <I>already</I> thought they were in hot water.)<p> Holly Black doesn't dish up the action quite as fast as she did in the first two books, but Spiderwick fans won't be disappointed: We learn more Spiderwick family history, we get an ominous glimpse of events to come, and Tony DiTerlizzi introduces a few new faeries to the menagerie in his ever-evocative pen and ink--including a special treat, the Cheshire-esque phooka. ("You've lost your uncle! How careless.") Ages 6 to 10) <I>--Paul Hughes</I> 268824 book 1 10 2003 Lucinda's Secret (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 3) total:3535|5:955|4:1244|3:1112|2:197|1:27| 3535 13508 4244 177 0 1 false true Thu Jun 19 17:39:48 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 17:56:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Oct 24 17:40:10 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 06 17:04:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 20 08:26:20 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 08:37:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 12:50:37 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 12:39:03 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 28 12:38:26 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 11:03:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 25 00:21:01 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 23:00:26 -0700 2008 4 1 false false Thu Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 04 07:34:08 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 14 14:09:58 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 13:12:56 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 08:48:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 11:14:11 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 11:19:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 true false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 31 11:11:12 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 11:36:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 06 10:09:37 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 10:09:50 -0800 2008
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