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Showing posts with label Bad Fairy Strikes Again. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bad Fairy Strikes Again. Show all posts
I had this one a few days ago but couldn't resist shouting it out again!
Bad
Fairy Strikes Again
A
Bad Fairy Adventure Book 2
by
Elaine Kaye
Middle Grade Fantasy
Thistle
Greenbud thought the nickname Bad Fairy was behind her, but she can't
escape it. Someone is spreading a rumor about her that just isn't
true and can ruin all of her hard work in getting into Advanced
School. What fairy would do such a thing? As if that's not bad
enough, Thistle's dad goes missing. Not a single fairy in Tinselville
has seen him. He's vanished like pixie dust. Her mom is distraught,
and Thistle is worried. Where could he be? Thistle and the Flutters,
along with Dusty and Moss, are on both cases. Can they find out what
happened to her dad and solve the Bad Fairy rumor? Thistle hopes so!
As we watch the boys, the wind picks up, making the fern lay flat, exposing us. We gasp and make a dash for the closest tree. Behind it, we huddle together.
“Boogles! A branch just hit me,” Weedy says.
The sky turns black. Wind swirls dust and leaves, and spits pebbles at us. This is not good. We have to get going now or else our payback will get blown away.
“Let’s go!” I scream and lead the group from behind the tree, but the wind makes it hard for us to move forward.
Rose and Lilly grab hands as they run, screaming, toward the creek. Lacey stumbles over a fallen twig, landing flat and hitting her face hard on the ground. When she doesn’t move, I race to her as sand and pine needles prick my skin.
I help Lacey to her feet. Luckily, she only has a few cuts on her face. A tiny bit of blood streaks down her forehead. She looks at me. Fear is bright in her eyes. She needs help. We all need help. I peer toward the creek. The boys are still there, frantically trying to lift the bag full of stones.
Shouting a warning and waving my arms, I hurry to the creek, trying to get their attention. Finally, Dusty sees me. He looks as if he’s been caught with his hand in the pixie jar.
I point to the sky and wave them to come our way. Rain starts to fall. Dusty pulls Moss from the creek. Fat drops of water pelt my head and wings as I wait for the boys to reach me.
“It must be a twisty!” Dusty screams. “We better find shelter.”
Bad
Fairy
A
Bad Fairy Adventure Book 1
Thistle
Greenbud is not a bad fairy. She simply doesn't like rules, and it's
just her luck that her homework is to create a new rule for the fairy
handbook. But first, she has more important things to do. Like figure
out how to get back at Dusty and Moss for playing tricks on
her.
Before
she can carry out her plan, though, disaster strikes and she finds
herself working alongside the very fairies she wanted revenge on. Can
they work together and trust each other, or will things go from bad
to worse?
Elaine
Kaye is the author of A Bad Fairy Adventure series AND A
Gregory Green Adventure series. She first created Gregory Green
after her son, who loved her homemade pea soup, thus inspiring the
story Pea Soup Disaster.
Kaye has worked as a
library assistant and teacher’s assistant in elementary schools in
the Sunshine State. She currently lives in Florida, but she has
called Michigan; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Okinawa, Japan home. She
is a grandmother of three boys.
Thistle Greenbud thought the nickname Bad Fairy was behind her, but she can't escape it. Someone is spreading a rumor about her that just isn't true and can ruin all of her hard work in getting into Advanced School. What fairy would do such a thing?
As if that's not bad enough, Thistle's dad goes missing. Not a single fairy in Tinselville has seen him. He's vanished like pixie dust. Her mom is distraught, and Thistle is worried. Where could he be?
Thistle and the Flutters, along with Dusty and Moss, are on both cases. Can they find out what happened to her dad and solve the Bad Fairy rumor? Thistle hopes so!
Elaine Kaye is interviewing Dusty, one of the fairies in Bad
Fairy Strikes Again, Book 2 in A Bad Fairy Adventure series. Dusty
is Moss’s best friend and Thistle’s ex-bully. Now, Thistle and Dusty are good
friends, but ssh! They don’t want their friends to know that just yet.
Elaine: Have you and Thistle done
anything exciting lately?
Dusty: We went on a stakeout!
Elaine: A stakeout where?
Dusty: At an old abandoned house in
the woods by the library. Brownies used to live there, but they left a long
time ago.
Elaine: But why did you and Thistle
have a stakeout?
Dusty: We wanted to find out what
Viner and Needles were up to.
Elaine: And did you?
Dusty: *rubs his hands together* We
sure did!
Elaine: *waiting* Well, are you going
to tell everyone?
Dusty: No way! They’ll just have to
read Bad Fairy Strikes Again to find that out. Isn’t that why you wrote about
Thistle’s adventure in the first place?
Elaine: That is why I wrote it.
You’re right.
Dusty: It sure was exciting, though.
Elaine: Were you scared?
Dusty: A little, but I had my
friends there with me—Thistle, Moss, Lacey, and Rose.
Elaine: The five of you make a good team.
Dusty: *smiles* We do. We’re always
ready for an adventure.
Elaine: And I’ll always be ready to
write about your adventures.
SNEAK PEEK
We are nearing the edge of our village limits when we see the abandoned house hidden in tall weeds. The night grows darker as we huddle in a fern thicket. “It sure is spooky out here,” Lacey whispers and shifts closer to Moss.
“Let's move in closer,” Dusty says. “Moss and Lacey, you go to the other side of the house. Find a crack in the wall to see inside. Thistle and Rose follow me.” He looks back at Moss. “If you see anything strange, flick your flashlight on and off three times.”
“Then what?” Rose asks, munching on another berry.
“We’ll meet…um…” Dusty looks around and then points. “Over by that fern thicket. Is everyone clear?”
We nod and fly as low to the ground as we can. Once we reach our positions, we hunker down and wait. Time goes by as slow as a worm while we wait. It gets darker. After a while, boredom creeps in.
“What's that?” Rose points behind us.
Dusty and I turn to see a shadow coming out of the woods, heading straight for us. Boogles! No, wait. There are two shadows!
PRIZES: 3 signed paperback picture books (Pea Soup Disaster, The Missing Alphabet, Slow Poke), three handmade bookmarks, plus a goodie bag and worksheets.
Elaine Kaye is the author of A Bad Fairy Adventure series AND A Gregory Green Adventure series. She first created Gregory Green after her son, who loved her homemade pea soup, thus inspiring the story Pea Soup Disaster.
Kaye has worked as a library assistant and teacher’s assistant in elementary schools in the Sunshine State. She currently lives in Florida, but she has called Michigan; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Okinawa, Japan home. She is a grandmother of three boys.
