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Terry Pratchett makes a standard fantasy trope fresh again in this surprisingly touching and dryly humorous YA novel set on the Discworld (the location of his fantasy series for adults). Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching, dairymaid and aspiring witch, goes on a quest to rescue her sticky and annoying little brother Wentworth from the Queen of the Fairies, aided by a talking toad and the Nac Mac Feegle, a tough, wild-living clan of six-inch-tall blue men. In the process, Tiffany comes to terms with the death of her grandmother, a wise old woman who may have been a witch herself.
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"Set in a chillingly unrecognizable 'fairyland,' this ingenious melange of fantasy, action, humor, and sly bits of social commentary contain complex underlying themes of the nature of love, reality, and dreams." - (Kirkus, 4/15/03)
"With its wry wit and acerbic collision of the mystical and the mundane,the latest book in Pratchett's internationally popular Discworld series of fantasy novels, this one specially for young adults, is good solid storytelling done in a style that reads like Celtic mythology fused with the girl power of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' with dialogue by Robert Burns." - Peter O. Kruckmann (New York Times Book Review, 6/22/03)
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