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Wings: A Fairy Tale | 
 enlarge | Author: E.d. Baker
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 64364
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 1.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 1599901935
EAN: 9781599901930
ASIN: 1599901935
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
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Product Description
When Tamisin discovers real wings growing from her back she wants to know what is making her supposedly normal life so weird. But before she can piece together the facts, she is kidnapped by goblins and brought to the land of fairies, goblins and many other magical creatures… including her real mother, Titania, the fairy queen. As she falls in love with Jak, who’s half goblin, and realizes the depth of her human parents’ love for her, she finds that having a set of beautiful wings suddenly sprout from your shoulder blades isn’t all bad, and there are many good reasons to fly….
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An Engaging Adventure July 13, 2008
Tamisin has always suspected she is different from other girls. She has pointy ears and sparkling freckles and sees half-human beings no one else seems to notice. Or maybe she is just crazy. But when wings sprout on her back, any lingering doubt disappears.
In search for answers to the questions her parents don't have, Tamisin follows Jak, a mysterious boy from her school, into a parallel world where fairies and goblins live.
Soon Tamisin and Jak are fighting for their lives while trying to solve the puzzle of her origins and the reason for the prize someone has put on her head.
I found Wings to be an intriguing tale with sympathetic characters and fast paced action, even if the logic within the story doesn't always work--Tamisin is more upset because her parents have never told her she is adopted than because she has just grown wings--and, on occasion, the characters seem to act in a certain way because the plot demands it, but don't have a reasonable motivation to do so. For instance Tamisin runs into the sea of grass because she doesn't trust Jak. Then after meeting the Lamia, she decides she trusts Jak after all and goes back to him. But nothing has happened in between to make her change her mind.
Yet, overall, Wings is an engaging story that will leave you smiling.
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