"The Spiderwick Chronicles" leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida ...
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Jan 15, 2012
Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Nixies Song.
Reviewer: Luke LaShelle
In the beginning Nick finds out that he now has to split his room with his new stepsister Laurie who says she believes in faeries. Next Nick and Laurie go outside to look for faeries and Nick finds a four leaf clover and it start to rain and Nick runs off without Laurie. Then Nick sees a mysterious figure that lies down on the ground looking dead. When Laurie finally gets back Nick try’s to point out the myst More...
Reviewer: Luke LaShelle
In the beginning Nick finds out that he now has to split his room with his new stepsister Laurie who says she believes in faeries. Next Nick and Laurie go outside to look for faeries and Nick finds a four leaf clover and it start to rain and Nick runs off without Laurie. Then Nick sees a mysterious figure that lies down on the ground looking dead. When Laurie finally gets back Nick try’s to point out the myst More...
Aug 26, 2011
Brina
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Die Spiderwick Geheimnisse gehen in die sechste Runde!
Laurie und Nick sind unglücklich. Nachdem Nicks Vater und Lauries Mutter zusammengezogen sind, sind die beiden Kinder genötigt, miteinander klarzukommen, was den beiden alles andere als leicht fällt. Allerdings haben die Zwei auch eine Gemeinsamkeit: Sie glauben fest an Elfen. Durch Zufall entdecken sie eine Kopie von Arthur Spiderwicks Handbuch und wissen zunächst nicht wirklich etwas damit anzufangen. Doch dann entdecken sie tatsä More...
Laurie und Nick sind unglücklich. Nachdem Nicks Vater und Lauries Mutter zusammengezogen sind, sind die beiden Kinder genötigt, miteinander klarzukommen, was den beiden alles andere als leicht fällt. Allerdings haben die Zwei auch eine Gemeinsamkeit: Sie glauben fest an Elfen. Durch Zufall entdecken sie eine Kopie von Arthur Spiderwicks Handbuch und wissen zunächst nicht wirklich etwas damit anzufangen. Doch dann entdecken sie tatsä More...
Jan 13, 2011
Alyssa
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This book started with Nicholas Vargas getting a new step sister who is Laurie Varcas. She is very strange and seems to really believe in faeries. She has many books on them, and loves to hunt them. The family goes along with her "whims" because they think it is cute that she believes in faeries, but don't actually believe in them. Then when Laurie decides to go out and hunt for faeries, Nick is made to go with her so that she won't be alone. Laurie tells him to look out for a four lea
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Dec 03, 2010
Drebbles
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Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas has had to make a lot of adjustments since his mother died and their father remarried. For one thing, he has to give up his bedroom to his new stepsister, Laurie. Nicholas doesn't have a lot of patience with Laurie, especially since she believes fairies are real. He tells her that her book about fairies, "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You" is fiction but she insists that fairies do exist. Much to his surprise, Nicholas f
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Jun 14, 2010
Sarah
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Nicholas Vargas resents his new stepsister. He had to give his bedroom up to Laurie and move in with his older, cooler brother Julian. Nick is also annoyed with Laurie's obsession with faeries and other mythological creatures. That all changes after he picks up a four-leaf clover and sees a figure lying unconscious in the yard of the development his father is building. Nick and Laurie haul the figure to the closest lake. This nixie, named Taloa, has been separated from her sisters. Taloa c
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Mar 10, 2010
Kelley
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I'm not sure where to place this series: kids or young YA literature? I think they would be appropriate for both elementary and young middle schoolers, although I see them being geared towards elementary.
The story starts out with a description (and lovely pictures) of a family, in which a new stepsister and stepmother have just become a part of. Nick, angry with his father for remarrying, decides right away that he will have nothing to do with his new sister Laurie. He claims tha More...
The story starts out with a description (and lovely pictures) of a family, in which a new stepsister and stepmother have just become a part of. Nick, angry with his father for remarrying, decides right away that he will have nothing to do with his new sister Laurie. He claims tha More...
Mar 15, 2011
Drew
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I read the first five-book series of The Spiderwick Chronicles, and saw the movie when it was released a few years later, but until lately hadn't felt much interest for the follow-up series of three. It seemed like a opportunist spin-off, and it felt like the first one tied itself up pretty nicely. Besides, they didn't REALLY have that much of an effect on me, as books that I found to be, as a friend put it, Lemony Snicket Lite. Then when browsing at the library, I found all three just sittin
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Feb 09, 2010
Mary
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I liked this book. I never read the Spiderwick chronicles. I don't understand why they had to use the term "Lard Ass" and use it as a caption for a picture. It was a cute little book. I don't think it should be a NYRA nominee.
The Spiderwick Chronicles leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father More...
The Spiderwick Chronicles leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father More...
Jun 29, 2010
Mister Bookgazer
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Hier werden zwei neue Hauptcharaktere vorgestellt: Nick und seine Stiefschwester Laurie, die fest an Elfen glaubt. Mit Hilfe einer Kopie von Arthur Spiderwicks Handbuch für die fantastische Welt um dich herum finden die beiden tatsächliche eine Nixe namens Taloa und bewahren sie vor dem Vertrocknen. Daraufhin verleiht die Nixe Nick und Laurie das zweite Gesicht.More...
Auf einer ihrer Entdeckungstouren wecken die beiden einen Riesen, der ihnen bis nach Hause folgt und nur vom Lied der Nixe b
Sep 14, 2011
Brina
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Die Spiderwick Geheimnisse gehen in die sechste Runde!
Laurie und Nick sind unglücklich. Nachdem Nicks Vater und Lauries Mutter zusammengezogen sind, sind die beiden Kinder genötigt, miteinander klarzukommen, was den beiden alles andere als leicht fällt. Allerdings haben die Zwei auch eine Gemeinsamkeit: Sie glauben fest an Elfen. Durch Zufall entdecken sie eine Kopie von Arthur Spiderwicks Handbuch und wissen zunächst nicht wirklich etwas damit anzufangen. Doch dann entdecken sie tatsä More...
Laurie und Nick sind unglücklich. Nachdem Nicks Vater und Lauries Mutter zusammengezogen sind, sind die beiden Kinder genötigt, miteinander klarzukommen, was den beiden alles andere als leicht fällt. Allerdings haben die Zwei auch eine Gemeinsamkeit: Sie glauben fest an Elfen. Durch Zufall entdecken sie eine Kopie von Arthur Spiderwicks Handbuch und wissen zunächst nicht wirklich etwas damit anzufangen. Doch dann entdecken sie tatsä More...
Jul 14, 2011
Mary
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I loved the Spiderwick Chronicles, and I really don't like Florida. The bugs, the roadkill, the overdevelopment of the state--well, enough of my attitude. If Holly Black can do fairies in Florida, she is true magic.
Nicolas has survived his mother's death by keeping a very low profile--not 'bothering' anyone. And then his dad goes and marries a woman with a daughter his age and life changes too much to suit Nicholas. His brand new stepsister takes his room over, Nicholas has to mo More...
Nicolas has survived his mother's death by keeping a very low profile--not 'bothering' anyone. And then his dad goes and marries a woman with a daughter his age and life changes too much to suit Nicholas. His brand new stepsister takes his room over, Nicholas has to mo More...
Aug 26, 2011
Brina
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Die Spiderwick Geheimnisse gehen in die sechste Runde!
Laurie und Nick sind unglücklich. Nachdem Nicks Vater und Lauries Mutter zusammengezogen sind, sind die beiden Kinder genötigt, miteinander klarzukommen, was den beiden alles andere als leicht fällt. Allerdings haben die Zwei auch eine Gemeinsamkeit: Sie glauben fest an Elfen. Durch Zufall entdecken sie eine Kopie von Arthur Spiderwicks Handbuch und wissen zunächst nicht wirklich etwas damit anzufangen. Doch dann entdecken sie tatsä More...
Laurie und Nick sind unglücklich. Nachdem Nicks Vater und Lauries Mutter zusammengezogen sind, sind die beiden Kinder genötigt, miteinander klarzukommen, was den beiden alles andere als leicht fällt. Allerdings haben die Zwei auch eine Gemeinsamkeit: Sie glauben fest an Elfen. Durch Zufall entdecken sie eine Kopie von Arthur Spiderwicks Handbuch und wissen zunächst nicht wirklich etwas damit anzufangen. Doch dann entdecken sie tatsä More...
Mar 29, 2009
Robert
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Holly Black, The Nixie's Song (Simon and Schuster, 2007)
Holly Black and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, having made something close to a mint with the Spiderwick Chronicles books, return to the scene of their respective greatest successes with, of course, Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, a projected trilogy of which this is the first volume. The action has shifted southward to Florida, where a newly-minted stepfamily finds one son and one daughter at odds with one another until the two More...
Holly Black and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, having made something close to a mint with the Spiderwick Chronicles books, return to the scene of their respective greatest successes with, of course, Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, a projected trilogy of which this is the first volume. The action has shifted southward to Florida, where a newly-minted stepfamily finds one son and one daughter at odds with one another until the two More...
Apr 08, 2011
Lynn
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I haven't read or heard the Spiderwick Chronicles so to listen to the story "Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles" seemed like I lost a few ideas and concepts but it was a good story and one that I found very interesting. I guess the kids had heard enough of the previous stories for they didn't feel at a loss at any time.
It starts in Florida with Nicholas who is angry that his father has remarried and now he has to share a room with his brother so his step-sister Laurie can us More...
It starts in Florida with Nicholas who is angry that his father has remarried and now he has to share a room with his brother so his step-sister Laurie can us More...
Mar 09, 2011
Emmanuel
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In Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicle - The Nixie's song, the author does a very good job on how he writes and puts the story together from describing the setting and the characters in details. He will make you imagine you are one of his main characters.
The story begins when a boy named Nick and a girl named Laurie end up living together after each of their parents get married. As soon as Laurie steps into the house and Nick sees her, he doesn't like her at all. Laurie tries to befri More...
The story begins when a boy named Nick and a girl named Laurie end up living together after each of their parents get married. As soon as Laurie steps into the house and Nick sees her, he doesn't like her at all. Laurie tries to befri More...
Feb 10, 2010
Amanda
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I've heard people rave about the series, but I don't see much in the first book. Maybe the others are better.
Although it is interesting to some level, several details seem forced and added as an afterthought. All the elements seem loosely lumped together, and the ending....agh. The first thing that entered my mind was, "Yeah, sure, whatever." Nick's character development somehow just didn't seem convincing enough for me to believe that "he had to change, too." I More...
Although it is interesting to some level, several details seem forced and added as an afterthought. All the elements seem loosely lumped together, and the ending....agh. The first thing that entered my mind was, "Yeah, sure, whatever." Nick's character development somehow just didn't seem convincing enough for me to believe that "he had to change, too." I More...
Jul 29, 2011
Definitely not as good as the Spiderwick Chronicles. I have several qualms: Laurie lies too easily and always gets away with it, there's language (albeit brief), and Jared (my favorite character from the original series) reappears as a total jerk. And somehow The Nixie's Song is, overall, just much less engaging. It's missing some of the magic from the original books. I'm a little bit curious to read the following two books, mostly because I'm wondering about Jared, but I don't know if I wi
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Jan 05, 2009
Mary
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Listened to on audiobook read by Andrew McCarthy - not such a hot narrator (hard to understand at times and odd emotional emphasis at others) but the story was good. Set in Florida, a step-brother and sister are learning to live together after their parents' recent marriage. She believes in faeries, he doesn't, until the day a giant starts to chase him through the swamps! Features guest appearances by the authors and characters from the original Spiderwick Chronicles. Fun, looking forward to the
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Sep 21, 2011
Natalie
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After reading the Spiderwick Chronicles I wasn't sure how I would feel about this sequel series: Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicles. Initially I was disapointed that this is not a series of short stories or starring the Grace children, but features our new protagonists Nick and his step sister Laurie. I was also a bit disapointed that there wasn't a more traditional "mother and father are married" dynamic since in the original Spicerwick Chrnoicles the Grace children are from a divoreced
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Jan 10, 2011
Clare
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Eleven year old Nick isn’t happy that his father remarried following his mother’s death, and particularly doesn’t like having to spend time with his new step-sister Laurie. Laurie lugs around a huge book about faeries, and Nick thinks she’s just wacky. Laurie doesn’t care much what anyone thinks of her, though she’s disappointed that having a real brother doesn’t live up to the ideal she had pictured for herself.
Then one day Nick finds a four-leaf-clover which allows him and Laurie t More...
Then one day Nick finds a four-leaf-clover which allows him and Laurie t More...
Oct 04, 2009
Janeen-san
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I am a HUGE fan of The Spiderwick Chronicles, and I was totally thrilled when I found out the authors were writing more! In the newest installment in the Spiderwick saga, there is more action, fantasy, and lies than ever before.
Nickolas Vargas has to share a room with his annoying brother, Jules, becuase his sister Laurie moved into his old one. Fuming mad, he ignors her when she begins blabbering about trolls, fairies, mermaids, and some kids by the name of Jared, Simon and Mallory More...
Nickolas Vargas has to share a room with his annoying brother, Jules, becuase his sister Laurie moved into his old one. Fuming mad, he ignors her when she begins blabbering about trolls, fairies, mermaids, and some kids by the name of Jared, Simon and Mallory More...
Jun 29, 2008
Amanda
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This is the first of three books in the Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles series. (Is it redundant to say series if you're already talking about chronicles?)
First of all, let me say that I adore the first Spiderwick Chronicles. I love the creatures, the realistic portrayal of siblings (despite some of the language), the design, everything. And I think that Arthur's Spiderwick's Guide to the Fantastical World Around You is exquisite. I even bought the calendar. Twice.
So you More...
First of all, let me say that I adore the first Spiderwick Chronicles. I love the creatures, the realistic portrayal of siblings (despite some of the language), the design, everything. And I think that Arthur's Spiderwick's Guide to the Fantastical World Around You is exquisite. I even bought the calendar. Twice.
So you More...
Mar 13, 2011
Christian
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I'm a fan of the Spiderwick Chronicles. I have fond memories of reading them on the subway from the Union Square Devil's Den to my apartment in Astoria. They read well, the story was good, and the illustrations were cute. This is also the first children's book-to-film adaptation that I'm actually inclined to see, because I think they can actually do this one right.
I was surprised this week while picking up Hale's Book of a Thousand Days to discover that there was a new Spiderwick serie More...
I was surprised this week while picking up Hale's Book of a Thousand Days to discover that there was a new Spiderwick serie More...
Nov 18, 2007
Abby
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In the first book of their spinoff series Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, Black and DiTerlizzi introduce Nick and Laurie. Nick is disgruntled because his dad has recently married Laurie's mom and now Laurie has moved in and taken over his bedroom. Laurie seems to have her head in the clouds, dragging around a well-loved copy of Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide and convincing Nick that she believes faeries really exist. On a search for said faeries, Nick gets more than he bargains for when he pi
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Oct 20, 2011
this book is a great book its exciting and has many action related seens. This book has many creature's and has many cool fun things in it. Like the mushrooms that form a circle around the house its a force field to block out all evil creatures. But the creatures in the forest on the outside are trying to get the ripe for the mushrooms to reverse it and break into the house to kill the children and there mom.
I recomend this book to 12 to 14 year olds or adults that like imagination maj More...
I recomend this book to 12 to 14 year olds or adults that like imagination maj More...
Nov 25, 2008
Snorkle
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Nick and Laurie are somewhat thrown together when their parents remarry. Nick is annoyed at having to share his life with his new stepsister, Laurie. But when they stumble upon a very interesting creature in the forest they must work together to save their home. Along the way they meet a few characters readers might already know and love...
This was a interesting story, I liked the added twist of having the real world collide with the fantasy, that was nice humorous antidote. The More...
This was a interesting story, I liked the added twist of having the real world collide with the fantasy, that was nice humorous antidote. The More...
Sep 13, 2009
Chad
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I thought it was fun. Nothing spectacular. I listened to this one, hoping to be able to read it to my kids. However, in the end, I just couldn't. The large moral problem with the book is that it paints telling the truth as a luxury. I was willing to give it a chance. Maybe the character learn not to throwing out bold-faced lies could get them in trouble. THat never happened. In fact, one character becomes more impressed with the other's ability to twist truth.
Nov 18, 2011
Janne
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Jun 10, 2011
Jared lived with his mom and dad. His mom die's and he get's a step mom, sister,and brother. He has to give up his room.Then the stepsister finds the book about fairies.They belived in the book.Then that night they discussed it at dinner.Then the step mom,brother,sister all went out for a walk.They saw fairies and discovered all the secrets of the secret world. but they were only at the beginning.
Jan 22, 2010
Jess
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A pretty typical middle-grade book. Of course it leaves you hanging so you want to read the next book in the series. I enjoyed the original Spiderwick Chronicles, so I had to give this series a try and it reminded me of the original. This would be a great book for those reluctant readers who enjoyed the first series and the movie. A nice quick read and the size would not overwhelm most young readers.
