Fablehaven
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| Fablehaven | |
| Author | Brandon Mull |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Shadow Mountain |
| Publication date | July 30, 2006- Unknown 2010 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Fablehaven is a New York Times best selling novel series written by Brandon Mull. Its name comes from the Fablehaven Fantasy Preserve, which it depicts within its pages. The Fantasy Preserve acts much like a nature preserve protecting the creatures of myth and legend from the outside world. It is a sanctuary protected by a contract of rules which each creature inside must abide by. The most common rules are focused upon "the law of the harvest" and "the law of retribution." The book mainly displays the latter, as the characters can often be found agitating the creatures within, thus allowing retribution to occur against them. If they physically harm a creature, the creature may physically retaliate. If they use magic, magic may be used against them. The Fablehaven books are published by Shadow Mountain, a division of Deseret Books.
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[edit] Story
[edit] Plot
The series begins as Kendra, a 13-year-old girl, and Seth, an 11-year-old boy, travel to their Grandpa and Grandma's house while their parents are away on a cruise. They do not want to go but have to. When they get there, they meet Dale, the caretaker, Lena, the maid of the house, and Grandpa. Grandpa tells them that Grandma is visiting their dying Aunt Edna. Grandpa sets up a puzzle with keys for Kendra and Seth to solve. Kendra figures it out, and the puzzle tells her to "drink the milk." She and Seth drink it and discover Fablehaven, the magical fantasy preserve. Now Kendra and Seth must face challenges such as defeating an evil witch and a demon, defending the preseve from an evil society, and stopping a plague that changes creatures of light into creatures of darkness.
For full plots, see each book.
[edit] Motifs
- Magical Milk
- Magical Milk has a big role in the series. The milk gives you the ability to see the magical creatures in Fablehaven. Seth was the first one to try the milk. Every time you go to fall asleep, you have to drink the milk or you can't see the magical creatures. If you are Fairystruck (like Kendra), you do not need to drink the milk. You become fairystruck if you become very close to a fairy (although Kendra is really fairykind).
- Magical Creatures
- There are many magical creatures in the Fablehaven series. Lena, a naiad, used to live in the house as the maid until the end of the first book. Seth is friends with several animals in the Fablehaven forest, like Newel and Doren. Grandpa warns Kendra and Seth many times that there are many dangerous animals too and to stay away from them. Midsummer's Eve is a day where all the animals in Fablehaven come out to create mischief.
- Magical Items
- Many Magical Items are used in the series. The first introduced were the magical knots that imprisoned Muriel at her ivy shack. Wands and potions do not make an appearance until Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star. One Item that is odd is the Silver Ball that Coutler shows to Seth. If you throw the ball, then tell someone to get it, the person will not be able to get it because he or she will lose focus. Kendra could do it the first time because she was fairykind. Coutler knows how to do it. You go to were the ball is, and move your hand around until you find it.
[edit] Books
[edit] Fablehaven
In the first book, Kendra (13) and her brother Seth (11) visit their grandparents, discover about a magical creatures perserve called Fablehaven, and help save it by battling an evil witch named Muriel and the demon Bahumat.
The series begins with Kendra and Seth being dropped off by their parents and arriving at their Grandpa and Grandma Sorenson's house. The two meet Dale, a caretaker of the property, and Lena, the housekeeper. They are shown to their room up in the attic, where there is a chicken named Goldilocks. The Grandpa (Stan) tells the kids not to go into the forest, and as a game to pass the time gives Kendra three keys. The game along with a few other things are left as clues for Kendra and Seth to discover that in reality, the house, forest, and surrounding areas is a secret preserve for magical creatures, both good and evil. Among the clues is a book Kendra discovers that says Drink the Milk. While still figuring out the clues, Seth disobeys instructions and investigates the forest. One time, he runs into an old ivy shack. The shack has an old lady in it with a large, old, wooden puppet named Mendigo. She talks to Seth but Seth gets scared and runs away. Grandpa explains that the old lady's name is Muriel.
Kendra tells Seth about the words "Drink the milk". Every morning the kids see Dale take milk out to the front yard and bugs go nuts over it. One day the kids go outside and ask Dale what he is doing. Dale explains that the milk is good for the bugs but terrible to humans. When Dale goes in, Seth drinks the milk. He says to Kendra that the bugs aren't bugs. They are magical creatures. Kendra tries and sees the same thing. Stan catches them though, and fills them in. He tells them that he is actually the caretaker of a magical fantasy preserve called Fablehaven. Seth believes him but Kendra does not so at first. He also tells them about the dark creatures in Fablehaven. He tells them a day called Midsummer's Eve is coming up and per the treaty with the magical creatures, on this day all the dark creatures come out. He then further warns that now that they know and while they drink the milk each morning, they can now interact with the creatures; however, they are also subject to the rules of Fablehaven.
Later, Stan's friend Maddox (a fairy broker) comes to Fablehaven. From this meeting Seth decides he should try to catch a fairy and does. However, he accidentally turns her into an imp, because she was trapped inside overnight. The other fairies take vengeance on Seth and turn him into a deformed walrus. As an effort to help Seth, he is taken to Muriel who is bound by knotted ropes. As long as a knot is left, she is bound. To grant her a bit of her magic back a person can undo a knot allowing her to cast her magic. It is done and Muriel returns him back to normal.
Dale takes Seth into the forest one day and he meets a big golem named Hugo. Hugo will do whatever Dale says. Seth tells him to throw a pumpkin as far as he can and he does. Later Lena tells Kendra that she used to be a creatrure called a naiad. They live in front of the Fairy Queen's Island. She got turned into a human and is now quite old.
Midsummer's Eve comes, to protect the house, fairies show up (although less then usual since a few are still upset at Seth) Grandpa says to not even look out the window, otherwise they would be tempted to open it. Late that night Seth hears a baby whining. Seth looks out the window and sees a baby about to be attacked by wolves. Seth opens the window and goblins come in. Goldilocks (a chicken) goes nuts. Dale comes in with a gun and drags the fight downstairs with the instructions to not leave their room. The next morning, the kids go downstairs and find their grandfather, Lena, and Dale missing. Kendra goes outside and finds Dale as a statue in the garden. The kids go back upstairs and find that Goldilocks has spelled out something. It is IM GRAM. Kendra and Seth figure out it's actually their grandmother,they take Goldilocks to Muriel and change the chicken back to Grandma in exchange for untying Muriel's last binding knot; Muriel is now set free. Grandma, all though happy not to be a chicken, knows that Muriel is powerful and evil and takes the kids to a troll named Nero and coerces him to tell them where Grandpa and Lena are by trading a full-body massage for the information. Nero tells them that they have been taken to the basement of the Forgotten Chapel.
Grandma, Kendra and Seth go to save the others with Hugo. While Grandma and Seth end up getting caught and Hugo is reduced to dirt, Kendra gets away and goes to the Fairy Queen's Island. She manages to make it to the island past the naiads in the pond, and begs for her family's freedom. The Fairy Queen expresses her empathy for Kendra's situation and agrees to assist her. Kendra fills a magical bowl with her tears, the Fairy Queen's tears, Viola's milk and blood, and her own blood, and feeds some to the fairies in the garden. The fairies are instantly transformed into taller, more powerful, versions of themselves, and take Kendra to the Forgotten Chapel to set her family free and entrap the demon Bahumat. After successfully trapping the demon underneath the now destroyed chapel, the fairies return the Sorenson family to the house and Lena is taken back to the pond and restored to her original form (as a naiad). Finally, all kiss Kendra and return back to their original size (also passing on some of their magical energy to Kendra).
The book ends with Kendra's parents coming to pick her and Seth up from the Sorenson's home, and Seth and Kendra leave with their new and magical memories.
[edit] Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star
In the second book Kendra and Seth go back to Fablehaven and have to fight The Society of the Evening Star, watch out for a big frog Demon named Olloch, defend the preserve from an evil woman named Vanessa, and get an artifact hidden in Fablehaven.
The story begins with Kendra getting a new student in her class named Casey, but he goes by Case. Kendra knows that Case is not normal and gets worried. One day while getting on the bus, she meets a man named Christopher Vogal(Errol). Errol does a card trick for her and Seth. Errol tells Kendra and Seth that Case is kobold. A demon that can be very deadly. Kendra wants to solve the problem about Case so they go with Errol to a vampire's mortuary. He says they need to get a frog statue but Seth needs to get it, Seth finally gets it and the statue bites him. Kendra gets a call from Grandpa saying not to go with Errol but to go with Vanessa. One of Grandpa's friends.
Kendra and Seth decide to go with Vanessa to Fablehaven. When they get to Fablehaven, Kendra and Seth meet Tanu and Coulter, more of Grandpa's friends. They find out that Tanu works with potions and Coulter is a magic relics dealer. Kendra and Seth get to know everybody and what they do. Tanu puts a fear potion on Seth and a shame potion on Kendra. Coutler shows them a Magic Silver Ball. Grandma shows them the dungeon and a powerful creature called a Jinn.
One day when Seth is talking to the Satyrs. Olloch shows up and tries to eat Seth. Hugo comes and saves Seth. Grandpa and Grandma get very mad at him. Later everybody goes to see Warren, Dale's brother. Kendra makes him smile since she is fairykind (The Sphinx tells her she is fairykind but before people thought she was fairystruck) and Dale becomes amazed. One night, Coutler takes Seth out to get the artifact that they need to get before The Society of the Evening Star does and an evil Revenant gets Coutler and turns him albino just like Warren, Olloch also comes and eats Seth but he was in a Magic Cocoon because Coulter gave it to him. He is swallowed but is safe because of the Cocoon.
One day when everybody is moaning about Seth being gone, Vanessa attacks Grandpa, and Kendra runs away to talk to Lena. Mendigo comes back from the moat and takes Kendra away. Some fairies make Mendigo do whatever Kendra says. One day Seth comes back from Olloch. He tells Kendra about coming out in Olloch's waste. Kendra and Seth decide to get in the house through the Brownie doors. Kendra and Seth get the key to the artifact from Vanessa, (Errol is there too) and go to Warren's house.
Seth decides to go and defeat the revanent with a courage potion. Seth takes the nail out of the Revenant's neck with plyers and Warren comes back from his albino stage. Warren and Kendra go to get Seth. They find that Seth killed the Revenent and is too weak to go with them. So they go to get the artifact, but only Warren and Kendra go into the inverted tower. When they are in the tower, Warren has to kill a creature called a Minotaur to get another key that unlocks a door. When they get in the room where the artifact is located, they have to fight a cat that has nine lives and keeps getting bigger every time you kill it. Vanessa and Errol come to fight the cat to but Errol gets killed by the cat. They finally kill it and Grandma and Grandpa get set free from the dungeon, and Vanessa gets put into the Quiet Box, a very secure part of the dungeon were if you want to put someone in the Quiet Box, you have to take the previous person out. Also, before Vanessa gets put into the Quiet Box, she says to Kendra "I will still remain your Pen Pal." Last, Kendra sneaks down into the dungeon. She has to get the keys from Grandma and Grandpa's room. She gets them.
The book ends with the note Vanessa gives Kendra.
[edit] Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague
In this book, the characters are faced with a deadly plague that turns the creatures of the light into creatures of the dark. However, when a fairy is affected it does not turn into an imp, but something darker. And must stay secretive from the Society of the Evening Star.
The story picks up immediately after the events of book two. Seth is walking through the forest even though he isn't supposed to. He meets Newel and Doren and Seth gives them battaries for their portable television. Newel and Doren now must pay Seth for the battaries. They go to the nipsies to get the gold. Nipsies are little tiny creatures that walk around kind of like elves. The Nipsies set up traps so no one can steal the gold. Hugo gets them over the traps. After they see the nipsies, they learn the good nipsies are being attacked by bad nipsies. Newel destroys the town of the bad nipsies and gets the gold for Seth.
Meanwhile, Kendra is at the Quiet Box thinking about Vanessa and her note and believes that she is telling the truth about The Sphinx. Slaggo comes and talks to her about Vanessa and the Sphinx. Later that evening, Seth is caught with the gold he took from the nipsies because he told Kendra about the gold and she told Grandpa. Seth tells Grandpa that he didn't actually steal the gold but Grandpa makes him take it back to the nipsies and Seth gets in trouble and is no longer allowed in the forest. Then Tanu, Coutler, and Warren return from a journey to find out more about other preserves.
They sit down and have a talk about their journey and tell about The Knights of Dawn. A group that tries to protect artifacts unlike The Socity of the Evening Star. They tell Kendra that want her to join. Kendra isn't sure because some of the people that are Knights might really be for the Society. Kendra thinks that she must go so Grandpa says when you go, Warren has to stay with her.
When they go to the meeting for the Knights of Dawn, they have to take a plane to Atlanta and a limo to a house. Before Kendra goes into the house, she is given a mask so nobody knows who she is. Inside the house, the group splits up. Kendra talks to woman from the Dominican Republic for a while until Warren finds her. Warren takes her into a room with the Captain so she can become a Knight. The Captain has a gold mask that can see through all the other ones. There she sees an elderly lady, a teenager named Gavin, and her Luitenant named Dougan. She takes an oath and becomes a knight. Then a meeting is held and the Captain tells everybody to tell him anything they hear about a preserve. Kendra keeps thinking it is the Sphinx. After the meeting Warren and Kendra talk to Dougan and he says that the Captain is not the Sphinx but Kendra and Warren aren't sure. Then Dougan says she need to go on a mission to another fantasy preserve called Lost Mesa in Arizona to retrive an artifact before the Socity does. Kendra and Warren accept it.
Back at Fablehaven, Seth and Mendigo are playing catch and are attacked by dark faries and Grandpa wonders what caused them to go dark justlike the nipsies. Tanu comes back froma journey to find a safe place for the good nipsies in a ghostly form and says Coutler has vanished when they were attacked by dark faries. Grandpa figures it is some kind of magical plague and Grandpa begins to believe that he is a bad caretaker. Grandpa and Grandma let Vanessa out of the Quiet Box and she tells them the Sphinx is evil and wishes them good luck at deafesting him and dealing with the plague and has to go back into the Quiet Box.
Soon Kendra arives at Lost Mesa with Warren, Dougen, and Gavin and thinks that it is a very nice place. Kendra and Gavin feed zombies with Neil, the man that drove them to Lost Mesa. Kendra doesn't like it. Then they go to a museum and Gavin sees a dragon skeleton and it reminds it of his dead father. At dinner, they discuss the mission. They must get an artifact guarded by a dragon and Kendra doesn't want to go. Back at Fablehaven, Seth and Tanu are playing checkers. Doren comes into the yard and says for Seth and Tanu to follow them. He says Newel got bitten by dark nipsies and is acting weird. When they reach Newel he is an ugly looking evil beast and gets in a fight with Tanu, Seth, and Doren. Tanu is bitten and starts to turn ghostly like Coutler.
One night at Lost Mesa, when Warren and evrybody is looking for the artifact, Kendra talks to a fairy. She learns that the group never made it to the top of the mesa where the artifact is located. The next morning Kendra decides to go with the group to look for the artifact. She finds stairs and the group decides to go on another look but hike up the mesa this time and try to get at the dragon that is guarding the arifact. When they go again, they get on the mesa and are attacked by a group of kachinas preforming a ceremony for the rain. Tammy, a member from the group dies. After they get away from the kachinas, they go into tunnels looking for the dragon. Neil is wounded. In a long tunnel, the group has to cross dangeorus creatures that are called Chokepods. The are little firey balls that float around in the air. Neil hits one and dies.
The group reaches the dragon and Kendra almost gets eaten. When they reach the place where the artifact is, Kendra finds a note that says the object is hidden in Fablehaven. Warren and Kendra only tell this Dougan. Back at Fablehaven, Seth goes to a demon's lair. The demon's name is Graules He learns about the plauge and that it could have started from another demon named Kurisock. Kendra and Warren return to Fablehaven and tells everybody what they discoverd. When Kendra returns, that night the Brownies become evil. The next mornig, the family flees out of the house. Barly making it because of all the booby traps the Brownies have set up. They flee the the Fairy Queen's garden. One of the few places that are safe from the plague. Many other animals are thier to. Kendra talks to Lena. Kendra gives Lena a picture of Patton, Lena's secret admirer. They both have a conversation about him and how it could effect the plauge.
Seth gets into a duel with a centaur after insulting him. Everybody goes to an Old Manor to get the arifact except for Kendra. Seth gets the artifact but everybody else is turned in to shadows by an evil hamadryad called Ephira. Seth pushes a button that makes Patton come back to life. Patton goes back to the garden and he talks with Kendra. Patton sees fights the centaur for Seth and wins. Lena sees Patton and returns for him. Patton tells Lena about the plauge and how Fablehaven is in great danger. Kendra and Patton decide to go to the Fairy Queen for help. She tells Kendra that they need to destroy the nail that Seth pulled out of the revenant with a tailsman for the plauge to go away. The Fairy Queen's shrine breaks up into tin pieces and Kendra finds that a small pebble from the shrine is the tailsman.
Lena decides that she will have to sacrifice herself because she will touch the pebble to the nail in the tree. Coutler comes back as a shadow and Kendra cures him because of her light that the Fairy Queen gave her. The group decides to try to destroy the nail the next day. When the group goes deep into the forest the next day, they are attacked by many dark creatures. Many light creatures fight them off but some turn into dark. A dryad leads the group to where the nail is but Ephira comes and guards it. Broadhoof, the centaur, dies. Ephira is coming to Kendra because she has the pebble. Kendra throws the pebble to Lena and Lena touches the pebble to the nail. Making Ephira and Kurisock go away. And turns all the dark creatures back to light. But leaving Lena dead.
Later, Patton decides to go to the pond one last time. And Grandpa and Grandma celebrate Kendra's birthday because they won't be there for the real one. And Dougan reveals that the Sphinx is infact a traitor.
The book ends with a letter that Gavin gives Kendra.
[edit] Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
Little of this book is known except that it is the fourth Fablehaven Book.
Comes out March of 2009
[edit] See also
- Brandon Mull (author)
- List of Fablehaven animals
- List of Fablehaven characters
- List of Magical Items in Fablehaven
