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  • The Secret Destiny of Pixie Piper by Annabelle Fisher
  • Kate Quealy-Gainer, Assistant Editor
Fisher, Annabelle The Secret Destiny of Pixie Piper; illus. by Natalie Andrewson. Greenwillow,
2016 [320p]
Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-06-239377-7 $16.99
E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-06-239379-1 $9.99
Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 4-6

Fitting in at school is Pixie Piper’s most fervent desire; unfortunately for the fifth-grader, her homemade clothes, her embarrassing parents, her acorn-shaped house sitting next to a museum of toilets, and her tendency to spout verse pretty much doom her to social ostracism. At a Renaissance Fair (yep, her parents are that type of embarrassing), a Mother Goose imitator and apparent fortune teller prophecies that Pixie will be a Goose Girl; later that night, Pixie’s mom admits that they are, in fact, descendants of Mother Goose and that now it’s up to Pixie to keep MG’s legacy of rhymes, wishes, and hope from falling into the hands of the Sinister Sisters. While Pixie’s narration could stand to lose a few exclamation marks, her bubbly enthusiasm is pretty darn charming, and it serves her well when she must face down the evil Raveneece Greed. Various subplots—one about the new toilet in the toilet museum, one about a school bully—offer comedic relief as Pixie sorts out her new role as a Goose Girl. Sweet, silly, and just scary enough to give the story tension, this will please readers both familiar and unfamiliar with Jack and Jill or Humpty Dumpty. Reviewed from an unillustrated galley. [End Page 466]

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