From Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black’s The Spiderwick Chronicles: Lucinda’s Secret.
The faeries have become a real problem for the Grace children (Mallory, Jared, and Simon). After discovering a faerie field guide written by their great, great uncle (Arthur Spiderwick), their lives have been forever changed and they now know that the world is not as safe as it seems. After being kidnapped, targeted, and attacked for the information they discovered in the field guide, the siblings decide to seek help from the only human with knowledge of the faerie world: Arthur’s daughter, Lucinda. She no longer lives in the family house that the Grace family moved into, because Lucinda was attacked years ago by faeries and placed in a nursing home since no one believed her. When the Grace children ask Lucinda for more information about the guide, she instead offers only warnings, cautioning the children to destroy the field guide and leave the Spiderwick mansion before they too are attacked by magical creatures seeking the guide. While frightened by Lucinda’s warnings, the children continue to seek more information from the guide. When Jared, Simon, and Mallory find an old, magical map, they follow it and find themselves in mortal danger again as Jared is captured by elves desperate to find and control the field guide. If the Grace children (especially Jared) hope to have any chance of escaping this latest magical crisis, they will have to use all the information they have learned from the field guide and work together to outwit the elves that seek to hurt them.
The third installment in the Spiderwick Chronicles really begins to impress upon the readers the danger and seriousness that the Grace children’s adventure holds. The book is filled with vividly captivating descriptions and constant development for the three young main characters. Lucinda’s Secret is a quick, fantastical read that will keep fans of the series on the edge of their seats until the very end.
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