The Wee Free Men: The BeginningWhen Tiffany Aching sets out to become a witch, she faces ominous foes and gains unexpected allies. As she confronts the Queen of Fairies and battles an ancient, bodiless evil, she is aided (and most ably abetted) by the six-inch-high, fightin', stealin', drinkin' Wee Free Men! Laugh-out-loud humor and breathtaking action combine in the books that launched the unforgettable adventures of a determined young witch and her tiny but fierce blue friends. |
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Page 5
... didn't appear to know it,and it was pouring rain as fast as a winter storm. Miss Perspicacia Tick sat in what little shelter a raggedy hedge could give her and explored the universe. She didn't notice the rain.Witches dried out quickly ...
... didn't appear to know it,and it was pouring rain as fast as a winter storm. Miss Perspicacia Tick sat in what little shelter a raggedy hedge could give her and explored the universe. She didn't notice the rain.Witches dried out quickly ...
Page 11
... didn't have to do with sheep, that Tiffany had remembered it.Besides,it was exactly right.That's what the mountains looked like in the winter, when they were all in white and the snow streams blew like veils. Granny used old words and ...
... didn't have to do with sheep, that Tiffany had remembered it.Besides,it was exactly right.That's what the mountains looked like in the winter, when they were all in white and the snow streams blew like veils. Granny used old words and ...
Page 12
... didn't say at least one of them every week.They didn't have to be funny—they were father jokes.Anyway, however they were spelled, all her ancestors had been Aching to stay, not Aching to leave. There was no one around in the kitchen.Her ...
... didn't say at least one of them every week.They didn't have to be funny—they were father jokes.Anyway, however they were spelled, all her ancestors had been Aching to stay, not Aching to leave. There was no one around in the kitchen.Her ...
Page 13
... didn't include the big farm diary, which in Tiffany's view didn't count as a real book because you had to write it yourself.There was the dictionary.There was the Almanack,which got changed every year.And next to that was Diseases of ...
... didn't include the big farm diary, which in Tiffany's view didn't count as a real book because you had to write it yourself.There was the dictionary.There was the Almanack,which got changed every year.And next to that was Diseases of ...
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... didn't wear any occult jewelry, or have a glowing magical knife or a silver goblet with a pattern of skulls all around it,or carry a broomstick with sparks coming out of it,all of which are tiny hints that there may be a witch around ...
... didn't wear any occult jewelry, or have a glowing magical knife or a silver goblet with a pattern of skulls all around it,or carry a broomstick with sparks coming out of it,all of which are tiny hints that there may be a witch around ...
Contents
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The Wee Free Men | 65 |
The Green Sea | 86 |
The Shepherdess | 99 |
First Sight and Second Thoughts | 113 |
Land ofWinter | 148 |
Lost Boys | 166 |
Master Stroke | 183 |
Awakening | 204 |
Jolly Sailor | 214 |
Land Under Wave | 231 |
SmallLike Oak Trees | 247 |
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