When Fairies Go Too Far (Oona Bramblegoop's Sideways Magic, 4, Band 4) - Softcover

Korsh, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0593533739 ISBN 13: 9780593533734

Verlag: Penguin Young Readers Group, 2025

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The fourth book in this hilarious chapter book series about an incorrigible underwear fairy, full of bright purple text and illustrations.

Has Oona Bramblegoop’s magical mayhem finally gone too far sideways?

Oona is thrilled to be a Fairy Council Member and her assignment is so much fun—making new rules for the fairy binder. She has tons of ideas! But her friends aren’t so sure these rules are needed, and then Oona finds out they’re causing a dangerous magical crisis.

She’ll have to find a way to stand up for what really matters if she wants to save her friendships and Blackberry Bog.

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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CHAPTER ONE

“Fellow fairies,” said Oona Bramblegoop,standing as tall as her six inches could make her, “joining the fairy council has been a dream come true. So when the head of the council asked me to revise the Fairy Binder, well, that was a dream cometruer. Today, I bring you twelve additional rules. The first is . . . The first is . . .” Her mind went blank. Crudmuffin.

She shuffled through her note cards and dropped them all over the floor. Double crudmuffin.

Oona should have this whole speech memorized by now. As the newest member of the council, she needed to be extra fairytastic. She needed to prove she belonged.

Luckily, she was still at home, practicing in front of the mirror. Oona picked up a bowl of cotton candy casserole and took a couple of bites. Cotton candy casserole—or Triple C, as she liked to call it—always helped her focus. Then she sorted through each card until she found the rule she needed. She cleared her throat and started again. “The first rule is—”

Just then, a kaleidoscope of butterflies flew in through her window, each carrying a ribbon. At the other end of all the ribbons was a package wrapped in rainbow tissue paper. A present!

The butterflies dropped the package in Oona’s hands and hovered near the ceiling. Oona guessed that they wanted to know what was inside almost as badly as she did. They were social butterflies after all, and they were excited to go tell the other fairies what gift Oona Bramblegoop, Underwear Fairy, had received.

She tore off the paper. There was a box covered in sparkly jewels. Who could this be from? It was her quarter birthday next week. Maybe her little cousin Horace had sent her something?

She lifted the lid and gasped. Inside was a fairy council ID card, laminated and everything, with Oona’s picture and her name written in sparkly script across the top.


FUN BUTTERFLY FACT: Social butterflies spread the news and gossip of more than just fairies. They also share info on elves, mermaids, unicorns, and even slugs and frogs. However, they avoid sharing leprechaun news because leprechauns are such pranksters. When one leprechaun reported that his sister “had tooted so much, her butt fell off,” the butterflies pretty much stopped listening to them altogether.


“Woo-­hoo! Hot snickerdoodledogs!” Oona shouted, spinning around with the card heldhigh over her head. This was it! It was official. The butterflies swirled around her and went out the window.

She knew that every fairy in Blackberry Bog would know about her special card quicker than she could say pixie kicks, and that was fairy fine with her.

Before today, Oona had thought that the best day of her life was when she met Lucy, the one and only Tooth Fairy. Oona had always been in awe of Lucy. Plus, once Lucy learned about Oona’s talent for providing protective underwear that kept the wearer from falling down with AUTO WEDGIE power, she had helped Oona be named the official Underwear Fairy. They had worked as a team from then on. They had become best friends!

But lately, Lucy had been too busy to be besties. Oona wasn’t sure what she was busy with, but whatever it was, they weren’t working on it as a team.

Oona’s face got hot with the thought of another day feeling left out. She pressed the ID card against her cheek. It felt cool and smooth and wonderful.

Oona had an important meeting with the fairy council. She would be busy, too.

Turning back to the mirror, Oona tucked the card in her pocket and then pretended she was talking to an imaginary fairy. “You’re all out of glitterberry muffins? What a shame. You don’t have any left at all? Not even for a member of the”—­card flash—­“fairy council? Oh, you’ve found one for me? How lucky.”

Ooh, she loved this ID card.

And she loved making up new rules. One of the best parts was it didn’t even need magic.

Magic was tricky for Oona. Her magic always came out sort of sideways. At her first fairy council brunch, Oona had magicked up napkins. The spell seemed simple enough, but when all the members unfolded their napkins to eat, she was horrified. The napkins were shaped like underwear! Seeing Molly, the head of the fairy council, with a pair of underwear tucked under her chin made Oona want to crawl into a mole hole. She was relieved when Molly laughed it off, but she definitely didn’t feel like she belonged that day.

But then Molly had decided that adding rules to the Fairy Binder was an important part of the preparations for Blackberry Bog’s yearly Unicorn Reunion, and that Oona should do the job. Oona couldn’t believe her luck. She had always been full of ideas, and now ideas were all she needed to please Molly.

Plus, Molly seemed to love each rule Oona made up more than the last. She was becoming Molly’s right-­hand fairy!

Uh-­oh. Oona had been so caught up in her thoughts, she’d lost track of the time. The fairy councilmeeting had already started!


CHAPTER TWO

Oona grabbed her note cards and her wand. Then she flitted out the door and skimmed down the spiral staircase leading from her fairy nest to the ground.

Halfway down, she had to jump over a slug sunning itself on the steps. Two more slugs slid along the handrail. And near the bottom of her stairs, there was a whole slew of slugs! That could only mean one thing—­her little cousin Horace must be close by. He had replaced her as Slug Fairy after all.

“Horace? Horace!” she called, checking behind the tree trunk.

“Coming!” a clump of bushes called back in Horace’s voice. She parted the leaves and there he was, hip-­deep in brambles.

“What are you doing in there?” asked Oona.

“Taking a shortcut?” Horace shrugged.
“I see. Are you stuck?”


“Not me. It’s this big old thing!” Horace was tugging a wagon behind him, and it had gotten wedged in between two extra-­bushy branches.

“Well, I’m in a hurry, but I have time for one spell.” Oona raised her wand to help him out.

“I really just need a hand—­” Horace blurted, but Oona was already saying magic words.

“Hickory dickory duck,
You’ve gotten something stuck,
But if those branches sway,
They’ll get out of the way!”

Suddenly, Oona was almost knocked over by a line of ducks pulling a cannon. They all climbed into the cannon but one, who struck a match and lit the cannon’s fuse.

“Uh-­oh,” said Oona, plugging her ears. Sideways magic was often needlessly noisy. Yes, she had mentioned a duck, but why the cannon? Argh. Horace covered his eyes.

The fuse burned down, and BOOM, ducks rocketed by Horace on both sides, flattening down all the tangling sticks and leaves as they zoomed past.

“Am I dead?” Horace asked, his eyes still covered.

“Not a scratch,” said Oona. A messy spell, for sure, but it worked.

“Thanks, Oo,” he said. He dropped his hands, grinned, and started to pull the wagon again.

“What’s in there, anyway?” she asked. “I hope it’s not slugs—­they’ll be completely terrified!”

“Nope.” He reached into the wagon and, after pulling out a stray duck, he showed her a giant book. “It’s the new Fairy Binder. I just got my copy.”

Horace loved reading the Fairy Binder and...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0593533739
• ISBN 13: 9780593533734
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Altés Marta
• Anzahl der Seiten: 145
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: G.P. Putnam's Sons; https://www.penguin.com/putnam/; ; 1745 BROADWAY Attn: Madison Forsander; NEW YORK; NY; 10019; USA
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