false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175479468m/519048.jpg 519048 14 In the Spiderwick Chronicles' second book, things get even more exciting--and kind of scary--for the Grace kids, as the strange faerie world hinted at in <I>The Field Guide</I> blooms to full life around them.<p> After making tentative peace with Thimbletack (a coveralled house brownie who's "the size of a pencil"), Jared chooses to ignore the creature's pleas that he destroy his great-great-uncle's mysterious tome, <I>Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You</I>. Thimbletack warns, "You kept the book despite my advice./Sooner or later there'll be a price." Sure enough, the brownie soon sniffs out a "fell smell in the air," and the disappearance of Simon's new cat starts to make sense. And if the chapter titled "IN WHICH Mallory Finally Gets to Put Her Rapier to Good Use" doesn't get your heart racing as fast as the kids', just wait till you get a load of the troll. ("Cooome baaack. I haaave something for youuu.")<p> The series' already-fast pace picks up quickly in the second installment, and we can begin to imagine what other sorts of trouble these three will turn up as they learn the rules to this odd (and dangerous) new world--while, of course, trying to explain away the strange goings-on to their mother. Next up, book three, <I>Lucinda's Secret</I>. (What's her secret? I want to know. Now! (Ages 6 to 10) <I>--Paul Hughes</I> 2210660 book 1 5 2003 The Seeing Stone (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 2) total:3957|5:1069|4:1396|3:1249|2:213|1:30| 3957 15132 4700 264 3 3 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 17:49:45 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 17:51:02 -0700 2007 4 1 false false Thu Jul 23 08:49:42 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 12:38:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 12:50:11 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 12:30:06 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 19:25:53 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 14:19:37 -0800 2009 In this new invisible world of faeries things are happening that the Grace kids need to protect themselves from. Simon's cat is missing, Jared has gotten a detention at his new school and Mallory is practicing her fencing. Jared makes ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 28 12:38:20 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 17:59:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sun Jan 25 08:37:42 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 08:38:21 -0800 2009
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