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.

Fairy Realm: The Flower Fairies by Emily Rodda

This book is one of my Modern Fantasy books.

This book is about a young girl that is the daughter of a fairy Queen. She travels through the "Blue Moon" garden to get to the other realm. While at the realm she encounters many different types of people. In this story the Realm has acquired to much magic and the Griffins are guarding everything they want to guard, instead of what needs to be guarded for the queen. The fairies ask for help and Jessie has the idea to trick the Griffins into guarding the treasure house. Jessie and the fairies used the Chest of Magic wings to trick the Griffins into guarding the treasure house by telling them that these were the Queen's prized possessions and that it would take all the Griffins to guard them.. After getting all the Griffins to guard the treasure house, the magic was starting to get back to normal in the realm. Jessie had borrowed one set of wings to help her dance at her concert that evening and was planning on returning the wings the next day. When Jessie returned to the garden she was tired and went upstairs and took a nap. What Jessie did not realize is that the fairies came through the garden warn her. The Griffins over heard that Jessie had a pair of the wings and they came through the realm to retrieve the wings. By the Griffins and fairies all coming through the realm door, it cause problems in the human world. When Jessie wakes up she tracks down all the fairies and helps save them. Her grandmother returns the Griffins back to the realm with the fairy wings. After Jessie's concert, she learns that the fairy wings she danced with were not the magic ones and that she was able to dance. With this book I would use it to teach the students to have faith in themselves. They don't need magic or luck to be great at somethings.