The Wee Free MenALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book * Horn Book Fanfare Book * Kirkus Reviews Editor’s Choice * SLJ Best Book of the Year By the beloved and bestselling grandmaster of fantasy, Sir Terry Pratchett, this is the first in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching. A nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality. . . . Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle—aka the Wee Free Men—a clan of fierce, sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men. Together they must face headless horsemen, ferocious grimhounds, terrifying dreams come true, and ultimately the sinister Queen of the Elves herself. . . . The five funny and fabulous Tiffany Aching adventures are:
Tiffany’s mentors, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, star in the novels Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade, and Carpe Jugulum. And don’t miss Terry Pratchett’s hilarious and wise Discworld novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, winner of the Carnegie Medal! |
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... eyes . Tiffany Aching was lying on her stomach by the river , tickling trout . She liked to hear them laugh . It came up in bubbles . A little way away , where the riverbank became a sort of pebble beach , her brother , Wentworth , was ...
... eyes , and dripping green hair like waterweed , and then the thing plunged back into the depths . By the time the water closed over it , Tiffany was already running along the bank to the little beach where Wentworth was making frog pies ...
... eyes , and brown hair . Nothing special . Her head might strike anyone watching - in a saucer of black water , for example - as being just slightly too big for the rest of her , but perhaps she'll grow into it . And then go farther up ...
... eyes narrowed further . Children like Tiffany were bad news . “ I can see you're a clever one , " he said . " But I don't know any teachers of zoology in these parts . Vetin'ry , yes , but not zoology . Any particular animal ? ” " Jenny ...
... eyes that told her to continue . “ They sneak about . Probably they often don't look like witches . And a witch coming here would know about the Baron , and so she'd wear the kind of hat that everyone knows witches don't wear . " The ...
Contents
Hunt the | |
The Wee Free | |
The Green | |
First Sight and Second Thoughts | |
Land of Winter | |
Master Stroke | |
Awakening | |
Land Under Wave | |
Authors Note | |
Back | |