“The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Nixie’s Song” by Tony Diterlizzi & Holly Black

Just finished reading this one and thought I’d share. This one starts with Nick and Laurie (instead of the Grace children from the previous books)……Nick’s dad married Laurie’s mom which makes Nick and Laurie step-siblings. Laurie wants to go exploring with her book about faeries. Nick is forced to tag along by his father in an effort to get Nick and Laurie to hang out more and the adventure ensues. Nick seems kind like Jared Grace just a little bit. Laurie is more of a free spirit kind of person. You see both kind of change a little bit over the course of this book.

Synopsis: The Spiderwick Chronicles leaves the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and heads south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow.

But an expedition to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie with a giant problem—the huge, lumbering, fire-breathing variety—and it’s up to Nick; his stepsister, Laurie; and his big brother, Julian to figure out the best way to stop a host of rampaging giants before all of Florida goes up in smoke.