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**// 13 Treasures //**

Author: Michelle Harrison Genre: Fantasy fiction Length: 355 pages Recommended Grade Range: 5 – 8 Year Published: 2010 Age level: 9 – 12 AR Points: 11 Reading Level: 5.3  Other Books by the Author: none

The main character, Tanya, is capable of seeing fairies. She gets frustrated and annoyed but is always kind, clever, polite, courageous, and trustworthy when she can help it. As a thirteen year-old girl, Tanya is not very close to her strange grandmother or her angry and unhappy grandfather, and has an unusual relationship with her mother. Fabian, the caretakers’ son, is always lonely due to lack of friends, but he and Tanya find that they get along well and have trust in each other. Mad Morag, an old, mysterious woman is said to be either a helper of big situations, a curser, a witch, or a mad, crazy old lady. The fairies are clever, cautious, mischievous, annoying, dominating, and controlling, having powers and being secretive. The many characters make the story more interesting.

Tanya’s wish is to get away from fairies, but her strange behaviors with them cause her to be sent away to her grandmother’s house. There, Tanya finds secrets of fairies and learns about her connection to them. Of course, she also runs into more fairies. All of the information leads her to set off to find a long missing girl, helping another very troubled girl in hiding who needs help trying to free her brother from the fairy realm, gets tangled up in a dirty, deadly trick and deep danger, finding out more about her mother, grandmother, other ancestors, fairies, and the two girls, and stalking with Fabian through the dangerous woods countless times. Soon Tanya learns that her life is in deep trouble due to her grandmother, Warwick’s reclused father, and the missing girl’s past, and experiences enough adventure to change her life.

My opinion of this book is that it is very interesting, attention capturing, and unique. I like how the author wrote the book based on her belief of something unrealistic. I think the book is also amusing, entertaining, and has good vocabulary words. The events happening throughout the story are very creative, and the author makes the story and its characters seem real. This book makes it seem like fairies have a greater possibility of being real.

I enjoyed this book a lot because there were many things I liked about it. The many unique characters all had their own story, and it helped me imagine them. I liked how Tanya’s discoveries lead her to more, and reminded me of pieces of a puzzle. The exciting events of the book kept me reading, and the subject of this story is very different from others. The ending of the story revealed many surprising secrets and I never wanted the story to end.

I would recommend this book to anyone looking for adventure, mysteries, or just a book to keep them excited. It is a lively, fascinating book for anyone to read, and I know it can be enjoyed by many others besides me.

I would rate this book 9 / 10. The reason I rated it like this is because it is captivating, unique, and contains very creative ideas, although I think it could be a little more interesting.