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The mermaid Soop has sent a flood to Fairy Haven! Water-talent fairy Rani must bring Soop a wand or the Home Tree and all the Never fairies will be swept away. But wise Mother Dove isn’t sure which is worse, a wand or a flood. Wand wishes, tantalizing wand wishes, are risky. The most innocent wish can cause untold trouble. And not even Mother Dove knows that wands have hearts and minds–kind hearts or cruel hearts, sympathetic minds or minds filled with spite and mischief.
Rani, Tinker Bell, and Ree, queen of the Never fairies, set out on a perilous quest for a wand, a journey that takes them across an ocean to the palace of the terrifying Great Wanded fairies. Many obstacles stand between the questers and success: Tink’s disappearance, a mermaid’s magical song, wand madness, and even Never Land itself. Meanwhile, the floodwaters are rising. . . .
In this thrilling sequel to Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, Newbery Honor—winning author Gail Carson Levine has spun a riveting fairy tale about the dangers of dreams coming true. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Gail Carson Levine | | Hardcover:
| 208 pages | | Publisher:
| Disney Press | | Publication Date:
| July 31, 2007 | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.45 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 21 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Better than the 1st book but has it's disappointing moments.Sep 17, 2009
I'm not gonna do a summary becaue other reviewers hve already done a good job with that. I just wanted to say,
PARENTS BE FOREWARNED:
There is a scene in the book where a fairy dies by drowning. She's not a main character in the book and the incident is brushed off in like 2 sentences but to a little girl or boy it might be quite jarring. If you are planning to read this book to your child you might want to watch out for it and skip those sentences. (Or not. If I had a kid I probably wouldn't censor the book and just be like 'Well the fairy died because Tink, Ri, Rani and Vidia were selfish.' or something like that.)
Another qualm I had was the love-triangle between Tink, Terrance and Peter Pan. As far as I know, Disney fairies can't reproduce since they are born fully grown from baby laughs. And I felt it completely unnecessary to include themes like jealousy, romance and unrequited love in a book aimed at 5 year olds. Please! Let these girls enjoy being children!!!! Do they really need to read about romance this early on in life??
Besides the two points above, this was a pretty good book. I like it better than the one about the egg.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Simply awfulJul 31, 2009
This is perhaps the worst "children's" book I have ever come across. The story is meandering and hard to follow, and the dialogue style - awkward and awful. I don't want to be reading to my 5 yr old about mean mermaids, "good" characters that readily break promises and fairies drowning in floods. That's as far as we got - I refused to read more. Now I know why the book was in the bargain bin at a close-out discounter. I wouldn't even donate it and subject some other child to this dreck. This will be the first book I've ever thrown away.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 No regretsDec 25, 2008
I purchased this for my 10 year old daughter. She really enjoyed reading this book. She read through the entire book in less than a week...and wanted to read more of the same. No regrets in the purchase.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Wand MadnessSep 09, 2008
Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand
By Gail Carson Levine
Soop is a mermaid in Neverland. She is threatening to flood Neverland, unless the fairies get her a wand.
Tinkerbelle, and the other fairies are sent on a quest to get a wand from the Great Wandies. The wandies are willing to give up the wand to help save Fairy Haven. The wandies decide it would be best if they put the wand to sleep.
Each fairy is allowed to have one wish, on the way back to Fairy Haven. One fairy wishes to have wings, so she can fly, and then turns around and wishes for Soop to be her friend. Tinkerbelle wishes for Peter Pan to fall in love with a clam shell.
The fairies get carried away with wishes and they all get `wand madness'. This means, they can't stop using the wand.
The magic of fairy dust has always been enough for the fairies, until the wand takes over.
The mermaid, Soop, turns one fairy into a bat, by singing her song, before she can warn the mermaid that wand wishes are permanent. Soop makes it so her friend cannot speak, or read, the friend wishes that Soop can't be heard.
When the fairies sneak in and take the wand from the mermaids, the wand is in a dream state. The wand makes the fairies grow and shrink, grow and shrink.
Tinkerbell tries to tame the wand. Will she be able to control the wand, without getting wand madness, again? Will the fairies be able to return to their normal size? How can the fairies return the wand and return to their calm, peaceful kingdom?
Although, this book is very fast paced and exciting, at first, it was a little hard to follow. It took awhile before I realized I was reading about Tinkerbelle and Neverland. I think it would be best to read Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, first.
Jill Ammon Vanderwood
author: Through the Rug
Through The Rug: Follow That Dog (Through the Rug)
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
We LOVE this series!!!Jun 02, 2008
We love the whole Disney Fairy series. These larger books are wonderful for reading to a 5-7 year old! My daughter and I read them every night, and it takes about 3 weeks to finish one of the big ones. I only wish there were more in the series, we are almost done!
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