A Hawk in Silver

A great many of the strengths of good fantasy and an ability to make the implausible solidly real and engrossing. There are a few creaks in the plot but it's powerful stuff in the main. Holly and Chris are drawn into the fantasy when a found silver coin becomes the object of attention from others and finally dissolves into dust. They become involved in a feud between two Faerie peoples begun in a far distant past. The tensions here and the tensions in the 'real' world are nicely balanced and there is a strong physicality about the whole book. The climax of the big battle is both tense and powerfully resolved. A good addition to the valuable but not overlarge selection of fantasy books that this age group can feed on.