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Tooth Bandit

This title is part of an early chapter book series under the Branches division of Scholastic. Tooth Bandit is the second book in the Stella and Night Sprites series.

Stella can see sprites and fairies with her glasses and her adventures with them are chronicled in this series. In Tooth Bandits, Stella discovers that sprites are taking coins that the Tooth Fairies leave under children’s pillows. They use the coins to decorate their scooters. she hears all of this from a shy night sprite called Piper, who she catches trying to swap a paper clip for Stella’s coin. Stella shows Piper and the other sprites how to decorate their scooters with glitter, sequins and stickers, thereby saving future coins from possible thievery. She also helps shy Piper make friends with the other sprites.

While the language is very appropriate for the target audience and the illustrations are well done, the story will appeal to a small group of readers who might be really excited by fairies. The story drags a bit and the reader may wish for less sweetness and more excitement. Make this an extra choice.

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About Candy Ranney

Candy is an elementary school librarian in Shelton, WA at the school where she was a student (so many years ago!). Her library is unique in that she brings her background and love of biology to her students in many ways. Not only does she have an awesome selection of science books; she also has a beaver, bobcat and mink sitting on her shelves and a variety of jarred specimens for her students to study. When she's not in the library, she is taking care of her baby trees on her tree farm and hanging out with her family and many pets.