Rebecca and the Horror Harvest: The Wingless Fairy, #5
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Three wizards have moved into Rebecca's district with nasty hobgoblins in tow. Why are they so helpful, giving free bags of potatoes to everyone? Rebecca finds out the tainted potatoes keep all that eat them under the spell of the wizards.
Rebecca and the house goblins struggle to destroy the potatoes, but the wizards are busy planting more of the horror harvest throughout the districts. Nearly everyone is now under their control. Rebecca is helped by the three old sisters and a bridge troll to take back the districts from the dangerous wizards.
Margaret Pearce
Margaret Pearce was born when the population of Australia was seven million – now it is some twenty-two million. Like many Australians, her forebears immigrated in the 1850's to find a better life for their children, part of the largest diaspora of the times.At seven when she found a lurid science fiction magazine, her unsupervised reading started. The cover had an almost naked female in a large wine glass and an interesting alien drinking her blood from a tap below. She has since been hooked on science fiction and fantasy. She completed a commercial course before being launched on an unsuspecting business world as a typist, stenographer and secretary before falling into copywriting. When she married, she commenced writing and even while raising children, found time to publish. When children grew, she decided to study for a arts degree as a mature age student and become a teacher, but writing continued to dominate her life.The Author lives in an underground house in the Australian bush, where she maintains her love of writing.
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Rebecca and the Horror Harvest - Margaret Pearce
The Wingless Fairy Series,
Book 5:
Rebecca and the Horror Harvest
By Margaret Pearce
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The Wingless Fairy Series, Book 5: Rebecca and the Horror Harvest
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C:\Users\Sandy\Dropbox\WEE\BOOKS\TEMPLATES\Chapter Headings\midgrade books\1mid-grade-readers.pngRebecca didn't hear about the mystery crop in the creek bottoms until it was too late.
It was Sunday. She and Miranda and Willyum were leaving for church. Her new Sunday dress was exactly the same as her other Sunday dress, only it was longer and a lot looser because Rebecca had been growing. It even had the same lace resewn on it. Willyum wore a new shirt cut down from her old dress.
She stroked her new dress. This was not a cotton that could be exchanged for cheese, vegetables or woven rugs. It would have cost real money to buy cotton this fine.
It's a lovely dress,
she said. Thank you Miranda.
It cost a silver coin for the material.
Where did you get a silver coin?
I don't remember,
Miranda said.
A man gave her a silver coin for use of the creek bottoms to grow potatoes,
Golly the house goblin said. Why has she forgotten?
Pretty sickly plants,
Billy the other house goblin said. A moon ago they were sown.
I notice everything that goes on around here because I am the house goblin,
Golly argued. But I didn't see them being planted.
Just be thankful that I am around at night,
replied the white owl, who was Rebecca's guard, Lord Be Thankful.
So what did you see?
Golly asked.
Nothing and no one, because the ground was turned over and the seed potatoes planted by magic,
Lord Be Thankful said.
Magic,
Billy stuttered. Why would anyone use magic for farming?
Miranda picked up Willyum. Come on Rebecca, we don't want to be late for church.
She never ever heard anything that the house goblins or the owl said.
There was a knock on the door. Miranda opened it. A man started to walk in without waiting for an invitation. Billy hissed and moved forward to drop a live ember on his foot from the fire. It flung back and Billy said Ouch!
as it hit him.
Golly blew clouds of smoke from the banked down fire. The man blinked and the smoke poured back into the cottage. The man only then stepped back from the open doorway.
Rebecca stared at him more closely. He was dressed in ordinary looking clothes, neither expensive or worn or ragged. Did he have brown hair or was he bald? Were his eyes grey or were they blue, or black? Why was he so hard to see?
It's a wizard,
Lord Be Thankful warned, huddling further down on her shoulder. Don't attract its attention.
Dear me,
the man said to Miranda in a gentle voice. I only dropped by to remind you that we are harvesting today, and we will leave you a bag as thanks for the use of your creek bottoms.
Miranda stared at him. You gave me a silver coin for that use,
she said slowly.
And we are very happy with our harvest,
the man said. He turned and left.
Sally the horse waited harnessed to the old cart. Rebecca followed Miranda out. George was away somewhere working at a mine so Rebecca was very proud of herself at being able to put Sally into the harness. Billy tucked himself into the cart with them.
I'm staying put,
Golly said. I want to see this harvest.
Come on Sally,
Miranda said.
Sally twitched her ears and started pulling the cart along the narrow lane that led to the school room that was used as a church on Sundays.
Be careful,
Lord Be Thankful whispered to Rebecca. He is still listening.
Rebecca stayed silent. Her eyes were nearly as round as her owl's. Something nasty was going on. What sort of potatoes would only take a month from seed to harvest? Why did the wizard think he could walk into their cottage without an invitation? At least the goblins knew what he was and tried to keep him out.
What had he done to Miranda to cause her to forget about letting him use the creek bottoms? More importantly, why did she need to forget? What was the secrecy for? Also, since when did a wizard go in for farming?
After we get home I will have to look at the creek bottoms, Rebecca decided. Something odd was going on.
You're very quiet, Rebecca,
Miranda said. Are you all right?
Just thinking how nice my new dress is,
Rebecca said.
Rebecca knew it was safe when Billy and Lord Be Thankful started talking. She stared at Sally's twitching ears, which meant that Sally was listening as well.
No proper farmer would harvest on a Sunday,
Lord be Thankful said.
I kept him out of the cottage with that hot coal,
Billy bragged. I won't let any of that sort into our cottage.
But he managed to get to Miranda and the smoke blew back from him,
Lord Be Thankful said.
I never leave Willyum and Miranda is always around Willyum and I didn't see him when he came the last time,
Billy said.
It is a very smart evil wizard,
Lord Be Thankful warned.
Yeah, he was wearing that nasty veil of illusion,
Billy said. That stuff always makes me feel like throwing up.
So this was why I couldn't see the wizard properly, Rebecca thought. She had heard about veil of illusion, but had never been taught a spell like that when she was a fairy.
And you landed the coal right on his proper foot,
the owl said. Good work, young Billy.
I will always defend my family,
Billy said proudly.
"Be thankful he