Gr 6—10—Tansy Miller, 17, doesn't realize what a jerk her boyfriend is until she hears police sirens and the sound of his motorcycle driving away from the scene of a crime—without her on the back. From there things get even worse; she's tricked into implicating him to Hudson, the police chief's hunky son. She's been grounded indefinitely by her father, who she is now living with for the first time since she was seven. On top of all that, she is soon visited by her fairy godmother, Chrysanthemum Everstar, and Clover, a leprechaun. Unfortunately, her godmother is still in training, and the leprechaun cares more about visiting the pub than helping Tansy out of the difficult situations that Chrissy keeps putting her in. As Chrissy and Clover keep bungling Tansy's wishes, the teen encounters Robin Hood and his Merry Men before she is sent to the Middle Ages to live out the "Rumpelstiltskin" fairy tale. Tansy knows that in order to escape her fate, she'll have to promise the king's baby to the horrible little man, but what if she could find a way to change the ending so that she could escape back to modern times. Fortunately for Tansy, Hudson is with her throughout. The fracturing of different fairy tales makes this story a bit more interesting than a standard teenage romance, and the ending hints at a sequel.—Traci Glass, Eugene Public Library, OR
In this follow-up to My Fair Godmother, fairy Chrissy sends modern-day girl Tansy (plus her family and her crush) to the Middle Ages. There Tansy gets embroiled in the stories of both Robin Hood and Rumpelstiltskin. The plot is occasionally sluggish, but it features a likable protagonist who creates her own fairy tale (including moral) with courage and humor.
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