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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... watching the river with a thoughtful expression . I'm not scared at all , she thought . How strange . I ought to be scared , but I'm just angry . I mean , I can feel the scared , like a red - hot ball , but the angry isn't letting it ...
... 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 , and farther , until the track becomes a ribbon and Tiffany and her ...
... watched the water carefully . Was it getting darker ? Was it getting greener ? Was that just waterweed down there ? Were those bubbles just a trout , laughing ? No. She ran out of her hiding place with the frying pan swinging like a bat ...
... watching . And she was the silence of the hills . Perhaps that's why she liked Tiffany , in her awkward , hesitant way . Her older sisters chattered , and Granny didn't like noise . Tiffany didn't make noise when she was up at the hut ...
... watched her in doggish amazement . Granny wasn't particularly at home around children , because they didn't baa . When Tiffany had stopped crying out of sheer lack of breath , Granny had put her down on the rug and opened the oven , and ...
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 | |