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(More customer reviews)When a lawyer calls to tell Mr. Turpin that his father is dead, thirteen-year-old Mellie is only too happy to move away from her a school where she is teased and bullied to live in her Grand-Pere's inn. But when the Turpin family begins cleaning up the inn, Mellie discovers the family secret of an obligation to take care of the small persons with wings in exchange for a moonstone that has been in the family for hundreds of years. She is caught up (along with her parents and the boy next door) in a struggle by the small persons to regain their original magic at the cost of the Magica Artificia that has given them the illusion of beauty and comfort for the years since they gave up the moonstone. In the process Mellie allows herself to be friends with her neighbor and to cope with the bullying she has endured.
I love the opening chapters in this book that flash back to Mellie's childhood. As young Mellie, the unpredictable narrator, questions her reality, the reader is also unsure of what is real. Once the Mellie's motivation are in place the plot moves quickly with well-drawn characters, particularly Mellie as she convincingly navigates the ups and mostly downs of tweenage years. Descriptions of the fairies are vivid and delightful.
Caution: Mild language or inference of profanity and an ongoing reference to a "tampon incident".
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