A Boy in the Fairy World (Oona Bramblegoop's Sideways Magic, Band 2) - Softcover

Korsh, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0593533674 ISBN 13: 9780593533673

Verlag: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2024

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In the second book of this hilarious, highly illustrated chapter book series, lovable Underwear Fairy Oona has to call on all of her sideways magic when she accidentally leads a human boy up to Blackberry Bog. Text and illustrations are printed in blue!

Oona loves being the Underwear Fairy, which means she gets to deliver magical safety undies with wedgie power that keeps human children from falling down and hurting themselves. But when she gets trapped in the human world by Marco, a boy who wants to take a photo of her to prove fairies are real, she’s horrified—don’t let humans see you is one of fairydom’s most important rules!

Luckily, her cousin Horace and best friend Lucy (also known as the Tooth Fairy) help her get free. But then things get even more disastrous—Marco follows them back up to Blackberry Bog!

Can Oona and her friends get Marco safely back to the human world before he does too much damage—and before the Fairy Council finds out?

Packed with Fun Fairy Facts, humor, and lots of heart, this magical series celebrates finding friendship and your place in the world, even if you fit in a little sideways.

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Kate Korsh holds a BA in English Literature from Princeton, where she studied creative writing, and a master’s in psychology from Phillips Graduate University. Her writing can be found in L.A. Parent Magazine, where she has published numerous articles. She was also an elementary school teacher for ten years, as well as being a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She attended the most recent royal wedding and doesn’t need much persuading to tell that story. Kate lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children, who seem to magically always have clean underwear in their drawers. Follow her on Twitter @korshkate.

Marta Altés is the author and illustrator of many books for children, including the Dork Lord series by Mike Johnston, and picture books My Grandpa, Little Monkey, and Five More Minutes. Originally from Barcelona, she received her MA in children's book illustration at the Cambridge School of Art, and she lives in London. Learn more at marta-altes.com and follow her on Instagram @martaltes.

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Chapter One
“Solid work tonight, little fairy,” Oona said to herself. “You may not be important just yet, but you’re getting there.” She put her wand in its case, turned off her glowworm lamp, and snuggled down into her nest, ready to snooze.

WOOOOOOP, WOOOOOOP, WOOOOOOP! CLANG, CLANG, CLANG, CLANG!

The sound was deafening, but covering her ears only made it louder because the alarm was inside Oona’s head. It was her extra fairy perception, or EFP for short, signaling a Level 13 emergency.

“Oof, not now,” said Oona.

Oona Bramblegoop, otherwise known as the Underwear Fairy, had just returned from a full night of supplying magically protective underwear to clumsy children. Now all she wanted to do was pull a blanket of cloud fluff over her head and dream about glitterberry cakes. Her EFP, however, had other ideas.

WOOOOOOP, WOOOOOOP—

“Okay, okay! Crudmuffin!” Oona muttered at her own brain. She sat up and focused on the alarm. Immediately, the noise stopped and the source of the emergency appearedbehind her eyelids.

It was her very first human customer, a boy named Marco. He needed replacement underwear full of AUTO WEDGIE magic to keep him safe. Marco was so clumsy that without magic wedgies to snap him to attention, he would get banged up faster than dress shoes at recess. Oona understood. She often felt like a troll in a china shop herself.

There was just one problem. The sun was about to peek over the horizon, and it was forbidden for fairies to leave Blackberry Bog in the daytime.

The proper fairy thing to do would be to wait until nightfall, but Oona had never been very good at doing the proper fairy thing. Besides, if she waited until tonight, Marco would probably look like he’d been inside a giant pinball machine. If there was one thing Oona couldn’t stand, it was the thought of her humans getting hurt.

Nope, she decided, she needed to go RIGHT NOW. If she hurried, she could get down there and restock his underwear drawer before he woke up.

Oona grabbed her wand and skimmed back down the staircase that wrapped around her tree, her wings helping so she stayed just above the steps.

FUN FAIRY FACT: Even though fairies can fly, they spend most of their time a few inches above the ground. The higher they go, the more tired their wings get. And since wings are also where magic is stored, most fairies like to keep their wings fully charged.

At the bottom, she almost crashed into her little cousin Horace. Fortunately, he also wore magical underwear from Oona, so a wedgie scooted him backward and out of her way.

“Good morning, Oona! It’s a great day to be a fairy, isn’t it? Want to talk about slug stuff? Help me plan the slug spelling bee? The slug swim meet? Make slug snacks together?”

Horace had recently earned his first official job as Slug Fairy. Slug slime was the main ingredient in the coating that kept all of Blackberry Bog invisible to the humanworld. Since slugs were at their slimiest right after breakfast, Horace liked to get an early start on slime collection. He already had a slug on each shoulder and one on top of his head.

“Can’t today, Cousin. Next time.” Oona began flying toward the human world entrance.

“Where are you going? Isn’t it almost bedtime for you?” Horace called after her.

“Emergency,” Oona said over her shoulder.

“Emergency? What kind of emergency?”

The next thing she knew, Horace was rightnext to her, half running, half flying with his newly sprouted stubby wings.

“A bathroom emergency? You should probably head back to your nest. That’s where the closest bath—­”

“No, Horace! Not that kind of emergency.” Ugh. Oona did not have time for this. But she knew Horace well enough to know that ignoring him wouldn’t help. She stopped and explained the situation in as few words as she could.

“But . . .” Horace looked like she had told him that ice cream was extinct. “You can’t go down there now. It’s almost daytime! If the fairy council found out, you’d be suspended from magic for sure! And if a human saw you—­”

“No one is going to see me. And as for the fairy council . . . well, areyou going to tell the fairy council, Horace?” Oona raised her eyebrow and put her hands on her hips.

“Me?” Now Horace looked like Oona had saidOkay, ice cream’s not really extinct, but the only flavor is mint chocolate booger. “You know I would never!”

“Then they won’t find out,” Oona said simply. She started off again.

“I’m going with you,” he said.

“No, you’ll slow me down.”
“I can help!”
“No.”
“Fine. I won’t go with you. I’ll just go next to you at the exact same time.”

Crudmuffin. There was no getting around the fact that stubbornness ran in their family.“Okay, you can come, but no more questions,” she said. “Now, we’ve just got to make one quick stop.”

Horace and his slugs followed as Oona darted into a willow grove and paused at the biggest, droopiest willow. They were in front of Lucy’s house.

Lucy was not only Oona’s best friend—she also happened to be the one and only Tooth Fairy. Oona pressed her finger to her lips. Horace nodded.

“Is Lucy coming with us, too?” Horace whispered.

“No, I just need to get her fairy dust. In case there’s trouble.”

“Wow. You think she’s going to let you have her locket?”

“She doesn’t have to let me. She’s asleep.”

“Wait. You’re going to steal something from your best friend?” Horace wasn’t whispering anymore.

“Shhhhhh! Horace, what did I say about questions?”

Horace stopped, cleared his throat, and said again, this time with a period, “You’re going to steal something from your best friend.”

“Not steal. Borrow. I’ll have it back before she knows it’s gone.”

“Why not just ask her?”

Oona, pink with frustration, pulled Horace away from Lucy’s nest. The truth was, she didn’t want to ask because Lucy would probably say no. But Oona couldn’t admit that.

“Because . . .” She smiled as she thought of a reason that showed how really good and generous she was being. “If she doesn’t know, she can’t get in trouble.”

Horace pulled his eyebrows together, thinking hard about that one.

“Now, are you in or are you out?” Oona asked.

Horace looked like he had just decided to eat the booger ice cream. He bit his lip. “In.”

“Great. You’re on lookout duty. Stay here.” Oona flitted inside.

Oona crept past Lucy. Sure enough, she was sleeping after her night of collecting teeth. Oona loved her friend, but Lucy would never understand what it felt like to be unsure if you mattered. Lucy already had more tooth customers than a leprechaun had tricks. It was hard to figure out who loved her more: the children of the world or the rest of the fairies. She was the most popular fairy of them all!

But Oona was a brand-­new fairy with a brand-­new job, and finding customers had turned out to be harder than she thought. The biggest hitch was that most children were just used to going to the Band-­Aid drawer a lot, and if they didn’t know...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0593533674
• ISBN 13: 9780593533673
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Altés Marta
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
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