A review by heididt19
How to Ditch Your Fairy by Justine Larbalestier

4.0

This book is about a girl named Charlie living in a town called New Avalon. In this town most people go to either the arts or sports school. The normal schools are only for people who are extremely untalented. Charlie goes to the sports school and ,like the other students, is monitored on calorie intake and and other factors on a daily basis. In town a lot of people have "fairies" that give them special talents. For example Rochelle has a shopping fairy, Fiorenze has an every-boy-will-like-you fairy, and Charlie has a parking fairy. CHarlie does not like her fairy because people are constantly using her, and she always smells like gasoline. She protests her fairy by walking everywhere,which often causes her to be late and receive demerits. THis is causing her fairy's power to wane slowly but surely. Unfortunately Danders Anders kidnaps her to find good parking spaces which causes her to not lose her fairy and to receive more demerits for being late. Charlie discovers that Fiorenze does no like her fairy either, so they decide to use Fiorenze's Mother's research to find a way to get rid of them. Instead they swap. They both still don't like their fairies and so try near death o get rid of them, But will they succeed without actually dying, and what will happen if they do?

I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to someone. I learned some interesting words in this book such as pulchritudinous and quokka. There are also several made up words in this book also so be sure to check the glossary in the back and a normal dictionary. Overall a pretty good book for people who like watching characters develop.