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Chan, Gillian.
THE TURNING
Tonawanda, NY : KCP Fiction, 2005
IL YA
ISBN 1553375750
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 Ben Larsson is a very angry young man.  After his mother's death, things start to really go downhill for him.  And now his long lost father has come back into his life.  And he takes Ben away from every thing he knows and moves him to England.  There, Ben meets Wyliff who is one of the legendary Green Men.  He is nine feet tall and half man/half tree.  Why can Ben see this man.  And all the fairies too?  Can it have something to do with his Icelandic grandfather?
SUBJECTS:     Fairies -- England -- Fiction.
                        Family problems -- Fiction.
                        Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
 
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