The Spiderwick Chronicles

Of course they made a movie.

If you don't know the books, you definitely ought to check them out, they are awesome. The story is not all that innovative, but the characters are very sweet, and there are a lot of aspects which make this story well worth the read and it's a pity that the books only take twenty minutes to finish. The story is about three children who move from New England to ... er, England, although I don't know where, exactly. They move to the inevitable Victorian mansion they inherited from their old and frail grandmother, with their now-single, recently divorced mother. The mansion is also ridden with fairy tale creatures. The dreamy, creative Jared sees them, but it takes a while to make his twin, the animal-obsessed, tidy Simon and his sister, fencing, angry Mallory, believe that the person responsible for all the broken things and all the pranks was not him, trying to annoy his mother for moving to Britain, but a group of fairies and pixies.
Although Jared rocks, of course, the real reason to read this book is Mallory.



She's the coolest character in the entire book.