![]() ![]() ![]() The theme of making progress, rather than ignoring problems, is a strong one, gently presented. There are serious threads about bullying and alcoholism, and several flawed characters as in life, many problems are never fully solved, just exchanged for new ones. An evil temptress in disguise wants the magic too, and before she knows it, Mellie is turned into a frog, her grandfather is discovered alive, and her parents. Before long, Mellie is turned into a frog, a walking mannequin tries to take over the world, and a potential friend learns all about Mellie's previous humiliations. Ellen Booraem, a native of Massachusetts, now lives in Downeast Maine. ![]() Unfortunately, the inn is infested with Parvi, and Mellie's parents tell her the family has a thousand-year-old pact to provide a home for the creatures. After her estranged grandfather dies and her family inherits an inn and moves, Mellie, now 13, hopes her life will turn around. When five-year-old Mellie Turpin tells her kindergarten classmates that there's a fairy living in her bedroom, it leads the Parvi Pennati-a Small Person with Wings-–to move out in anger, as well as years of torment and bullying for Mellie. Published by : Puffin Books, (New York :) Physical details: 302 p. A former small-town newspaper reporter and editor, Ellen Booraem is the author of three fantasies for ages 10 and up: TEXTING THE UNDERWORLD (Penguin/Dial Books for Young Readers, 2013) SMALL PERSONS WITH WINGS (Penguin/Dial, 2011) and THE UNNAMEABLES (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Books, 2008). In a fairy story that's wistful, humorous, and clever, Booraem (The Unnameables) suggests that the real world-with its disappointments and failings-is still better than living with illusions. ![]()
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