The Fairy Rebel [Paperback]

The Fairy Queen strictly forbids fairies from using their magic power on humans. But after Tiki accidentally meets Jan, a woman who is desperate for a baby daughter, she finds it impossible to resist fulfilling her wish. Now up against the dark and vicious power of evil, this fairy rebel must face the Queen’s fury with frightening and possibly fatal results. “A compelling fantasy that will appeal to children, whether read aloud or alone.”
–School Library Journal, Starred

“Told in the grand fashion of early 20th century fairy tales, Banks’s story is a comfortable, old-fashioned read.”–Publishers WeeklyLynne Reid Banks is the author of the award-winning The Indian and the Cupboard.1

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If you happen to go to school just outside London, you might find yourself sitting next to a girl called Bindi. If you do, perhaps you think she is perfectly ordinary. She has brown hair and hazel eyes and is a little bit plump—notfat, mind you, just nicely chubby (though she gets teased a lot about it). She looks and dresses and talks the same as anyone else.

But I am going to tell you why she’s not really ordinary at all.

The story starts quite a few years ago. To understand it, you have to know a little about her mother and father.

Her father’s name is Charlie, and he’s a doctor. Not a surgeon, the kind who does operations, but a GP—the kind who comes to visit you when you’re ill. Her mother, Jan, is an actress—and not just any old actress. She would never tell you so, but she was once a star.

That was when she was younger. She was small for her age, and very beautiful. She could sing, and dance. She played young girls’ parts on the stage, in films and on television. Everyone said she had a wonderful future.

But then something awful happened.

One day she was acting in a television studio when a heavlsÄ