Review
Charlie has a parking fairy. For a fourteen-year-old who can’t even drive, a parking fairy is pretty useless. Charlie would much rather have a shopping fairy like her best friend or even a bathroom fairy. At least that way she’d never have to go to the restroom in the middle of a movie. Charlie always smells like gasoline and people constantly bug her to go places with them so they can benefit from her fairy and get great parking spaces. Charlie has had enough. She has decided - NO - vowed to get rid of her fairy.
One way Charlie thinks she can ditch her fairy is to prevent it from doing its job. She isn’t going to ride in any vehicle until her fairy is gone. The problem? Walking everywhere is causing her to be late to school so she is racking up demerits faster than she can get ride of them.
Another situation causing Charlie stress is a new boy at school. Steffi is handsome, interesting, and seems to be showing interest in her. UNTIL he sees Fiorenza and her stupid “All The Boys Like You” fairy.
Charlie develops a drastic plan. She even teams up with her nemesis, Fiorenza, to take care of her fairy problem once and for all.
HOW TO DITCH YOUR FAIRY by Justine Larbalestier is a delightful story about fairies, friendship, and first love. Some nonsense words are interspersed throughout the book to replace selected vocabulary. Determining the meaning of a word is easy by using the context of the sentence, but for those who want to be sure, there is a glossary at the back of the book. The author has even included a cool list of common fairies.
One way Charlie thinks she can ditch her fairy is to prevent it from doing its job. She isn’t going to ride in any vehicle until her fairy is gone. The problem? Walking everywhere is causing her to be late to school so she is racking up demerits faster than she can get ride of them.
Another situation causing Charlie stress is a new boy at school. Steffi is handsome, interesting, and seems to be showing interest in her. UNTIL he sees Fiorenza and her stupid “All The Boys Like You” fairy.
Charlie develops a drastic plan. She even teams up with her nemesis, Fiorenza, to take care of her fairy problem once and for all.
HOW TO DITCH YOUR FAIRY by Justine Larbalestier is a delightful story about fairies, friendship, and first love. Some nonsense words are interspersed throughout the book to replace selected vocabulary. Determining the meaning of a word is easy by using the context of the sentence, but for those who want to be sure, there is a glossary at the back of the book. The author has even included a cool list of common fairies.
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