Written by: Lynne Reid Banks
First line: If you happen to go to school just outside London, you might find yourself sitting next to a girl called Bindi.
Why you should read this book: A chance meeting between Jan, a former child star with chronic depression and a deep desire for a baby to fill the void, and Tiki, a rebel fairy who wears blue jeans in defiance of her fairy queen's edict, leads to the birth of Bindi, an almost perfectly normal human child. But the fairy queen has rules—lots of rules—and the punishment for disobedience is fierce and terrible, if not swift. Now Tiki's life and Bindi's future are threatened by the wrath of a tyrant who demands love and and obedience and takes infractions very personally.
Why you shouldn't read this book: There's a bit of fat-shaming in there that would have gone unremarked when this book was published in the '80s but is kind of uncomfortable now.
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