Philippa Fisher and the Fairy's Promise (Philippa Fisher Series #3)

by Liz Kessler

Overview

Can Philippa and her fairy godsister keep the link between worlds from closing forever? A thrilling third tale about a magical friendship. (Ages 8-12)

Philippa is excited to spend her vacation with her friend Robyn, but she has no idea just how much excitement awaits. When a magic spell carved on a mysterious circle of rocks transports Philippa to fairy godmother headquarters, she learns that her own mother is in danger. To protect her mom from a serious accident, Philippa must pretend to be a fairy, while Daisy, her fairy godsister, returns to Earth as Philippa! And that’s just the beginning of their adventure. After passing a harrowing test of their loyalty to each other, Philippa and Daisy undergo a fantastic journey to rescue a lost fairy who has devoted her powers to maintaining the portal of the stone circle. With time running out, and the worlds of humans and fairies at risk of being severed, Daisy finds herself facing an extraordinary choice that has the power to change her life forever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763652500
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	11/02/2010
Series:	Philippa Fisher Series , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	940,409
Lexile:	580L (what's this?)
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Liz Kessler is the author of three novels about Philippa Fisher as well as the New York Times best-selling Emily Windsnap series. She lives in Manchester, England.

When Liz was quite young (about eight) she wanted to be a poet. She grew up and did lots of other things, but then in 1999 she suddenly realized she wanted to write a book. She says, “It was as though I’d remembered what I’d always wanted to do, and I’ve never looked back.”

About mermaids, she says, “I am fascinated by the sea and all the mysteries of the ocean. It’s so huge and there is so much of it that we haven’t discovered and know nothing about. To me, mermaids represent the possibilities of what might just exist, on the edges of our imaginations and our world.”

Liz recently spent a year traveling around Europe in a camper van with her best friend and her dog, Poppy. She lives in England.

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Editorial Reviews

The power of friendship bucks the rules and regulations of the Above the Clouds command center—ATC for short—in this convoluted third installment in Kessler's airy series exploring the gateway between the fairy and human worlds. Daisy, the shape-changing sprite of Philippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister (2008), has gleaned insider information that her human friend Philippa's mother is about to undergo a terrible accident and sends messages to warn the girl—a strictly prohibited intervention. Philippa and her family again happen to be vacationing near her friend Robyn's home, and the girls receive Daisy's alarming message at a fairy "portal" stone circle called Tidehill Rocks. Thanks to Daisy, the mom crisis quietly dissipates, and, with shifting POVs, Philippa and Daisy subsequently set out on a cockamamie search for a stone fairy, stolen from the circle, in order to reestablish a lost harmony between the two worlds. Overall, this outing gets bogged down in technical details of fairy-human interaction (the acronyms alone!), and the tune of tightly knit friendships sounds with tedious regularity. Young, bullied Tommy, however, is a new character with some future. (Fantasy. 8-12)

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