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|title=The Windvale Sprites
|sort=Windvale Sprites
|publisher=Faber and Faber
|date=November 2011
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571304087</amazonuk>
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|summary=If you, like me, thought this was a vanity project, then be prepared to be staggered. A boy discovering fairies has hardly been covered in a better way.
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|aznuk=0571304087
|aznus=B005LVNEBK
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The 'hurricane' of 1987, that Michael Fish famously dismissed while it was en route, brought a lot of destruction, that we know. But what hasn't been known before now is that it also brought a dead body to Asa Brown's attention - the dead body of a fairy. Looking into things at the local library the lad finds more and more clues that a local eccentric, two hundred years previously, had been the only other person to know of the sprites' existence. But what the clue trail leads to, Asa would never possibly suspect...
I must thank the publishers for my review copy.
For a different species of sprite, we fancy [[Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children by Conn Iggulden and Lizzy Duncan]] will entertain those slightly younger than Crook's audience. While for those just a bit older, why not let their hero encounter gods instead, with [[Wishful Thinking by Ali Sparkes]]? You might also enjoy [[Red by Libby Gleeson]].
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