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Hi again!  This post is going to be about (as it says in the title) The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black.  It is called “Chronicles” because it’s split into five books.  Strange, because it is all in one movie.  Enough about that.  Onto the actual book, I mean books.

The books are about three children named Jared, Simon, and Mallory.  They live with only their mom (their parents were divorced).  They move away from NYC to a place with a name so unimportant that it’s not even shown in the book or the movie.  Anyway, in that unknown place, Jared, Mallory, and Simon’s house is huge.  It’s like a castle.  (By the way, I forgot to tell you this; Jared is NOT happy about moving.)  There’s something strange about the house too.  There is a circle of what looks like mushrooms surrounding the house.

J, S, and M go into the house.  There was something moving inside the walls.  This might be a list of what might be in there:

Squirrel

Rat

Mouse

Another animal: Probably

Jared, still unhappy about moving, started to bash holes in the wall with a broom (he probably had a tendency to do that).  Mallory gets mad at him (not surprising) but then clubs the broom into the wall and a huge chunk falls out (surprising).  Slightly interested, she starts pulling stuff out of a hollow space that the chunk was covering.  The hollow space (in other words called a hole) is full of lots of different things, including a key.  Jared picks that key up.  Mallory finds some other interesting stuff in the hole, but after a while she stops and goes away.  Simon goes away also.  Jared is the only one left.

That night, Jared creeps into the hole.  He finds some ropes going through it.  Then he realizes that the hole was a box.  He climbs in and pulls the ropes.  He feels himself going upward, and then finds himself in a hidden room (probably the reason why he didn’t notice the extra space while looking at the house from the outside was because the house was so big in the first place).  The room has a chest.  That is, as in a treasure chest.  Jared still has the key that he found in the box.  He uses it to open the box.  In the box there is a book.  It’s called Authur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the World Around You.

All right, I have to end this post.  I barely managed to stop.  It might be hard to do it again.  If I kept going, I might not be able to stop until I got to the end, and then there would be no point in you buying the books.  And the point of writing a post about it is to get you to.  Here, with this you don’t even have to search the web.  Or you can watch the movie.  Sorry, no link here.  I think that these are very good books because they are very suspenseful.  But you can have your own opinion.  Anyway, I’ll end this article now so that I don’t accidently start to continue the story.  Bye!