Fairy Realm: The Rainbow Wand by Emily Rodda

This book is one of my modern fantacy books.

With this book it is the tenth book in the series. The book still takes place at the "Blue Moon" garden and realm. In this book, Jessie's grandmother is out of town. Jessie and her mother are going to pick up the grandmother, when the nosy neighbor asks to stay over because her house is being repainted. While the neighbor stays at the house, she invites a your girl over to babysit her. Since the neighbor is staying at Jessie's and Jessie doesn't trust her, she talked her mother into letting her stay at the house with the neighbor. The neighbor asked Jessie to run to the store to get ice cream for all of them. When Jessie returned from gettin the ice cream, she noticed that there was a note left by the neighbor saying that the little girl had gone missing and that the neighbor had gone looking for her. Jessie searched the yard and garden and found the girl's hairclip by the door to the Realm. Jessie frantically entered the Realm and searched for her. She went to the palace to ask for help. Her fairy friends told her she could go talk to the wizard and ask him if she could use the rainbow wand to find the little girl. On her way to the wizard, her friends told her about how when the wizard was testing the wand his young daughter went missing because she went outside the realm. When she arrived to the wizard's place, he refused to let her use the wand until Jessie told him that his daughter would want him to lend it to help find the little girl and protect the Realm. The wizard allowed him to use the wand and told her that the wand is always set to find his daughter, but for a short time it could be used to find another child. Jessie was supposed to say that the lost child has returned home to return the wand to it's orginal position. Jessie and her friends followed the wand and found the little girl with some of the fairies in a field of flowers. Jessie took the girl and returned to the garden with her. When Jessie and the girl returned from the Realm, the nosy neighbor was waiting the garden for them. The neighbor had arranged for this to be a trap. She had called the local news and they were on the way to see the Realm. Thanks to Jessie's teacher stoping by, she was able to show the news people that it was all fake. Jessie was relieved when the news did not believe the neighbor and that all the evidence had disappeared. When Jessie's grandmother returned home, she looked at the teacher and knew she was a missing child from the Realm. Jessie's teacher turned out to be the wizard's missing daughter. The teacher was returned to the wizard and everything at the garden and Realm were returned to normal and saved. I would use this book as a lesson to the students about putting their noses in other peoples business is always a dangerous thing, and you should not do it.