The Last of the High Kings

By Thompson, Kate

Publishers Summary:
In turmoil over learning that she is a changeling, eleven-year-old Jenny Liddy makes a deal with a devil creature, and in doing so, she endangers the human race, but her own cleverness, her human and fairy fathers, and the last of Ireland's high kings help to make things right.

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ISBN
978-0-06117-595-4 978-0-06117-596-1
Publisher
Greenwillow


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on July 1, 2008

Gr 7-10 This sequel to "The New Policeman" (HarperCollins, 2007) picks up with J.J. as an adult with children of his own. Eventually it is revealed that he and his wife, Aisling, traded babies with a fairy couple. Since there is no time in Tír na n'Óg, the land of the fairy folk, the fairies' baby had to come to Earth to gro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Magazine

Reviewed on May 1, 2008

It would be hard to beat the ingenuity of The New Policeman (rev. 3/07), but this sequel is equally intricate and even more cohesive while deepening our perception of established characters and the relationship between the Irish fairy world of Tír na n'Óg and the human world. Having solved the time leak between worlds, protagonist J.J. Liddy is now grown-up with a family of his own. Well, sort of grown-up—the fairy quota in his genes seems to take ov...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Guide

Reviewed on January 1, 2008

J.J. Liddy (<i>The New Policeman</i>), now grown up, is the guardian of a changeling named Jenny. Jenny, J.J.'s son, and an aged neighb...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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