Celia and the Fairies (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Celia: Ten year old female narrator of the story, a spirited young lady who's named after her grandmother, the original Celia who first discovered the fairies.
• Paul: Celia's younger meddling next door neighbor.
• Vicky McClutchy: A ill-willed evil woman who aims to buy Celia's dad's toy business.
• Mira: The small fairy who has been tasked with watching over Celia's home ever since Celia's grandmother was a child.
• Grammy: Celia's grandmother, the original Celia who grew up in the house she's now returning to live in.
• Jonathan: Celia's dad, the owner of Lovejoy Toy Company.
• Clem: Add a description of this character.
• Brad
• Boyd: The male fairy tasked to watch over Paul's home.
• Joanne
• Josie
• Jasmine
• Michelle

Quotes edit see section history

• “Doing the right thing isn’t always easy, but it’s always right”

• “Another picture showed Grammy and her husband on their wedding day. Both of them were very skinny and very young, so different from being old (Grammy) and dead (the grandfather she’d never met).”

  Celia

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• a shadow thing is a creature who stirs up bad energy and tries to influence what people say and do. They want people to steal and cheat and lie because then they can feed off the evil. They love greed and selfishness because those two things are the roots of human conflicts. We people live our lives going to work and school, doing all the things we do, never knowing that under the surface there are forces of good and evil at work. It affects everyone and everything.”

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• Doing the right thing isn’t always easy, but it’s always right. Remember that.”

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• Every time you get an idea to do something you shouldn’t, whether it’s to say a mean thing or cheat on a test, and then you don’t do it because you know it’s wrong, you’ve battled the evil and won. People are more powerful than they know.” “But sometimes the shadow things win?” “Yes, sometimes they win. They prey on people when they’re at their weakest, confused and tired and depressed.

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• She can only see things from her point of view, so she doesn’t understand how her actions affect other people. It’s a very sad way to be.”

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• Shadow things thrive on negativity, and fairies are just the opposite. They’re here on earth to do good.

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• “The good spirits try to help us and guide us to do what is right. That’s why dark things are always trying to destroy fairies. And that’s why the dark thing, disguised as a coyote, wanted to destroy Mira.”

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• “An epiphany is when you have a sudden understanding of something that hadn’t been clear to you before,”

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• Doing the right thing isn’t always easy, but it’s always right.”

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• doing the right thing is never easy, but it’s always right,”

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• That night when her parents came up to say good night, she told them not to turn on the nightlight.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Lovejoy World

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• "Shadow Thing": A creature who stirs up bad energy and tries to influence what people say and do. They want people to steal and cheat and lie because then they can feed off the evil. They love greed and selfishness because those two things are the roots of human conflicts.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Secrets of the Magic Ring.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Karen McQuestion (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Sarah Gibb (Cover Artist)

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths › Stories
• Books › Children's Books › Ages 9-12