Thea: We’re both a little late on 13 Treasures, but it is a book that both of us have had our eye on and agreed to review when it first came out…two years ago. We have been meaning to read it for a long long time and decided that now was the time since that the third book is coming out in the UK. Why did we read this book: This book has been on our radar for ages: we love the cover, the story sounds fab, plus it got good reviews AND it won Waterstone’s Children’s book prize in 2009. How did we get this book: Ana got a review copy from S&S UK and Thea bought her copy. And, after disturbing an intruder in the night, it emerges that someone else shares her ability …The manor’s sinister history is about to repeat itself … But Tanya has her own secret: the ability to see fairies. Together, Tanya and Fabian decide to find the truth.

His grandfather was the last person to see her alive, and has lived under suspicion ever since. Fabian, the caretaker’s son, is tormented by the girl’s disappearance. Fifty years ago a girl vanished in the woods nearby – a girl Tanya’s grandmother will not speak of.

While visiting her grandmother’s house, an old photograph leads Tanya to an unsolved mystery. Stand alone or series: Book 1 in a trilogy Publication date: January 2009 / April 2010 Publisher: Simon and Schuster UK/ Little, Brown US

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