The Wee Free Men

The Wee Free Men is the first novel in Terry Pratchett's YA series featuring the young witch Tiffany Aching, but it works as a standalone novel as well. The story is a good mixture of adventure, humor and emotion, and it features an intelligent, resourceful heroine. The basic structure of the story (Tiffany's quest to rescue her little brother) was very familiar, but no less enjoyable for that. The humor was quite silly, and often featured puns or the antics of the rowdy Nac Mac Feegle. I especially appreciated the way Tiffany's process of coping with her grief for her grandmother's death was combined with the adventure, through Tiffany's memories and the lasting effects of her grandmother's life on her community. I think this is a novel that would be especially enjoyed by younger readers, but that has plenty to offer older readers as well.

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