How to Ditch Your Fairy

Author(s): Justine Larbalestier

Y.A Fiction

I have a parking fairy. I'm fourteen years old. I can't drive. I don't like cars and I have a parking fairy. Rochelle gets a clothes-shopping fairy and is always well attired; I get a parking fairy and always smell faintly of petrol. How fair is that?'Welcome to New Avalon, where everyone has a personal fairy. Invisible to the naked eye, a personal fairy is vital to success - but for Charlie, having a parking fairy is worse than having nothing at all - especially since she's not old enough to drive. From the author of the acclaimed Magic or Madness trilogy, this is a delightful story of friendships, fairies, and figuring out how to make your own magic.'A sparkling, made-of-awesome book with an acerbic, lovable and funny heroine. HTDYF has it all!' - Lili Wilkinson


Product Information

Mandy writes: In new Avalon, almost everyone has a personal fairy and in the highly competitive atmosphere of New Avalon Sports High, the fairy you have can make you or break you. Charlie has a Parking Fairy, which makes her quite popular with the adults in her life and with the monosyllabic senior school bully Danders Anders. She's forever being dragged off to places she has no desire to go and is accompanied by the faint smell of gasoline. All very uncool if you're a 14 year old girl. She'd much rather have her friend Rochelle's Clothes Shopping Fairy, or the gorgeous new boy Stefan's Getting Out of Trouble Fairy. Fed up, Charlie sets out to ditch her doxy fairy. After walking absolutely everywhere for 69 days, racking up demerits for being late and racking up public service hours to wipe out her demerits, she swears she can feel her fairy fading. Then Danders Anders 'kidnaps' her and she's back to square one. That's when she discovers her arch enemy Fiorenze is desperate to get rid of her All Boys Will Like You Fairy, so they put their differences aside and hatch a plan to swap fairies, with hilarious and predictably disastrous results. This is a fun, sassy read for 11- 14 year olds, with engaging characters and generous servings of amusing made up slang.

General Fields

  • : 9781741757378
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : 01 March 2009
  • : 194mm X 131mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Justine Larbalestier
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : A823
  • : 312
  • : Fiction