Wings
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When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a faerie and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls.
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Add a SummaryWhen laurel moves away her life turns upside down when she gets this lump on her back that keeps growing. She keeps hoping that it will go away, until one day it does!, but unfortunatley in it's place are huge flower petals growing from her back! She manages to hide them, but goes to a friend for help. They find out that she is a flower! No joke! She goes back to her old house for details were she finds out she is a fairy. Now she has to fight trolls and go through alot more than just trying to fit in at school to save her family and protect a gateway to Avalon. A lengendary place of nature and beauty where the fairies live.
Laurel finds herself in public school for the first time when she is a sophomore. She has been homeschooled in a small cabin in the forest. Her parents moved to Crescent City, in Northern California, about an hour away from her cabin to open a bookstore. At her high school Laurel meets David, and he invites her to join his group of friends. He also becomes her best friend. As she is getting settled into her new life, she gets a bump on her back - which grows bigger and bigger until she sprouts a pretty blue blossom. This blossom makes her look like she has wings. She manages to hide it from her family and the people at school, but she and David begin to investigate. He looks at cells of her blossom and her cheeks and comes to the conclusion that she is made of plant cells. Laurel goes back to her cabin home in search of answers. There she meets Tamani, a gorgeous young man who tells her that she is a fairy. She has been helping the fairies guard a secret that is by her cabin home. Later, her dad takes ill and Laurel and David risk their lives fighting trolls, who are trying to acquire Laurel's forest home. These trolls are scary! They are big, strong, and the main one is smart. WINGS is the first of four books, and it leaves us with Laurel living two different lives. Should she go back to her fairy life with Tamani, or stay and guard her adoptive parents and be with David, who Laurel also has feelings for?
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Add a Quote" Thank you for that glimmer of hope, however fleeting." Tamani to Laurel page 290
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Add a CommentAwsome book. It gives me faith concerning fairytails might be true maybe the world would be a bit more magical if they existed. Perfectly written in the 1st person and characters nicely described.
When I first read this book, I was already hooked. Very detailed, and spoken truly from the 1st person point of view. Loved every page.
Really enjoyed this first book in a series of 4. To add to an earlier comment from someone else - yes, it is somewhat similar to the E.D. Baker book (I've read it as well), but that one was more for a younger audience (older children to tweens), this one is definitely for teens and +.
Surprisingly good! At first, with a look at the cover I thought it was gonna be some kind of cheesy twilight story but it was actually a SUPER good read. About a girl who grows wings out of her back. The plot was certainly very entertaining and creative, I LOVED the book. I would totally recommend it.
I thought this really dragged. I found the writing to be a bit awkward too, and the main character was a pretty unrealistic "good girl". I do think that the mythology was pretty unique though, and that part was cool.
There's another book called Wings, and it's basically the same story, only no love triangle, and it's a pair of wings that grow out of a girl named Tamisin's back, who is the child of Nick Bottom and the Faerie Queen Titannia. it's really very interesting. It's by E.D. Baker
Well most of the teens enjoy this book and I'm a senior who enjoys a good yarn and this is one. I like that it's a different take on Fairies. Also brings legend into reality, very interesting. Of coarse my weakness is fantasy.
Amazing book, thats all I can say <3
definitely a gripping novel that you can't help falling in love with it (and the characters!). Puts a whole new spin on our very cliche thoughts about trolls and "faeries". Enough romance to keep you interested, but not enough to take away from the story itself. The only decision now is team David, or team Tamani.
i really liked this book it was very good i loved how she described all the people