Away with the Fairies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781962112413)

Leprechauns are real. So are fairies. But leprechauns aren't always jovial, fairies are neither tiny nor weak... And assumptions are dangerous in a world where keeping bargains is not optional.

Eleven-year-old Bommer resents being stuck watching his younger cousin Laura when there are only two weeks of summer left before school begins. Then he sees her take the hand of a winged red-haired girl and disappear from King's Island, in Limerick, Ireland and a thrilling adventure through Fairy Lakes-home to fairies, leprechauns, and other magical beings-begins.

With the help of a friendly leprechaun, Bommer and his two best friends, Kev and Tighe, step through a portal to the Fairy Lakes, where the fairies are fiercely protective of their own domain and the fairy queen has no sense of humor, to rescue Laura from her kidnapper.

Does she actually need rescuing?

Bommer is sure she would never leave her family and everyone she knew behind if the fairy wasn't controlling her. Kev and Tighe agree. Besides, some of the leprechaun's wives and daughters have also disappeared.

Are the fairies on a kidnapping spree?

Away with the Fairies is a funny, fast-moving fantasy adventure rooted in Celtic mythology and 1970s working-class Ireland, where friends matter but family is everything and the hardest part of a rescue may be admitting your assumptions could make you fail them both.

With themes of friendship, family, feeling invisible, and finding the place you truly belong, this is a book both adults and children will love.