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Title: The Ironwood Tree (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 4) by Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black ISBN: 0-689-85939-2 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dwarves, Goblins, and the Not-Jared
Comment: It's Mallorys first fencing match and she is extremely nevous. Jared, Simon, and their mother go to cheer her and her team on.
Jared finds himself rumaging though Mallory's bag. He draws a knife to the Not - Jared, a farie copy of himself, just as the principle shows up. When the principle sees Jared holding the knife up to the Not - Jared, it's not the Not - Jared that she sees. Instead, she sees a terribly frightend little boy.
Then Mallory goes missing, and that begins a chapter called IN WHICH SIMON SOLVES A RIDDLE. Then Jared trades his mathbook for his sister, and the dwarf king says, "you traded for your sister - not your own freedom."
Then the big goblin/ ogre has a meeting with the dwarves - which causes the book to have a wonderful yet terrible ending.
Rating: 5
Summary: A gripping adventure
Comment: Mallory is facing her first real fencing challenge since the Grace family came to the Spiderwick Estate, and the twins and Mrs. Grace are going to her school to support her. Nothing strange has happened to the Grace children, and their uncle's "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You" is still missing. Perhaps the attacks on them by the creatures of the Faerie world have stopped for good. In fact, things have been so quiet that it almost seems as if none of their previous adventures happened at all. Except of course that they have a griffin in their garage still recuperating from an encounter with some goblins.
Then the nightmare begins, and it is so strange that Jared wonders if he's losing his mind. While the fencing duels are taking place, Jared observes a boy rummaging through Mallory's bag. On closer inspection he sees that the boy looks like Simon and yet "his" Simon is still sitting in the stands with their mother watching the fencing. Are there now two Simons?
Jared goes to investigate and comes face-to-face not with a copy of Simon but with a copy of himself. And yet this duplicate is malevolent and clearly something from the Faerie world. Jared pulls out his knife in self-defense --- just as the Principal arrives. The Faerie creature, or shape-shifter, has in the meantime changed into a sorry looking little boy with blond hair. Now, all that the Principal sees is Jared threatening a terrified child. Jared is in the soup again and this time he knows he is in real trouble.
Then, to add to this already unpleasant situation, the twins discover that Mallory is missing. Clues that they find and an ominous message written on a rock that says "TRADE" make it clear that Mallory has been abducted by the Faerie creatures and that they will have to trade the Guide for Mallory in order to get her back. There is a problem, however: the Grace twins don't have the guide anymore.
The boys remember that the map they found some time ago said that dwarves lived in the quarry that lies near the Spiderwick Estate. They are sure that the rock with the message on it was from the quarry as well. Clearly this is where they have to go to find Mallory. What follows is a frightening and remarkable adventure in the world of the dwarves, under the ground and far from the reassuring light of day.
Once again Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black have produced a gripping, somewhat scary, story in their series about Mallory, Jared and Simon Grace. Wonderfully paced, and with new insights into the character of Jared, THE IRONWOOD TREE is hard to put down once one has begun to read it. At the end we are left hanging and with a definite understanding of what the Faerie creatures want. Unfortunately for the Grace children, this desire sounds decidedly unpleasant.
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Rating: 4
Summary: A great book
Comment: I have read the 1st three books and I didn't expect what happened in book four. I think that this book was awesome because it was more exiting and had more faeries than the others. I can not wait for the fifth book to come out.
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Title: Lucinda's Secret (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 3) by Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black ISBN: 0689859384 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Seeing Stone (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 2) by Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black ISBN: 0689859376 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1) by Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black ISBN: 0689859368 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 10) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist ISBN: 0064410137 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, Anthea Bell ISBN: 0439531640 Publisher: Chicken House Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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