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Title | Wish Upon a Unicorn
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Author | Vicky Blum
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Cover Art | Alan Barnard
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Publisher | Scholastic - 1999
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First Printing | Scholastic - 1999
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Title | The Shadow Unicorn
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Author | Vicky Blum
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Illustrator | David Bordeleau
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Publisher | Scholastic - 2000
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First Printing | Scholastic - 2000
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Title | The Land Without Unicorns
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Author | Vicky Blum
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Cover Art | ---
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Publisher | Scholastic - 2001
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First Printing | Scholastic - 2001
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Title | The Promise of the Unicorn
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Author | Vicky Blum
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Cover Art | David Bordeleau
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Publisher | Scholastic - 2002
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First Printing | Scholastic - 2002
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Title | A Gathering of Unicorns
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Author | Vicky Blum
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Cover Art | Julie Rocheleau
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Publisher | Scholastic - 2003
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First Printing | Scholastic - 2003
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Category | Middle Grade
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Arica, Wish, Connor, Shadow, Raden
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Main Elements | Unicorns, Fairies, Elves
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 Wish Upon a Unicorn
When Arica falls through a crack in her grandmother's kitchen floor, she finds herself in a strange world of fairies, trolls, elves and--best of all--unicorns.
The Shadow Unicorn
In our world Arica is a pretty normal girl, but in Bundelag she is half-fairy and friend to the magical unicorns. When she answers the unicorns' call for help, she finds that an angry young unicorn is helping the evil Raden take over the whole land... and is turning all the unicorns into stone! Can Arica save her friends? The sequel to Wish Upon a Unicorn, The Shadow Unicorn is Arica's second adventure in the magical realm of fairies, elves, trolls, and unicorns. With eleven gorgeous illustrations by David Bordeleau, this book is sure to enchant readers who love fantasy adventures.
The Land Without Unicorns
The Fairy Queen has given Arica a task of great importance. She must travel to South Bundelag, where the greedy humans live, in search of a valuable treasure: The Book of Fairies. It’s a book that contains precious spells, the fairy laws — even the names of all the living fairies. It’s up to Arica to bring the book back safely. It doesn’t help that her clumsy cousin, Connor, has followed her to Bundelag and the Fairy Queen has allowed him to stay. Or that Arica’s horse is really Shadow in disguise. Shadow claims to be repentant. But can Arica really trust him, or will Shadow betray them all? Another exciting installment in The Unicorn series.
The Promise of the Unicorn
Arica's evil uncle has poisoned her mother and escaped with her to Bundelag. There is only one hope. Arica must find a rainbow flower, one of the magical ingredients in the cure from the Book of Fairies. She's prepared to fight dragons to get it, and is sure that all of her friends - her cousin Connor, the elves, and especially the unicorns - will help her.
The she learns of the unicorns' ancient promise, and with a sinking heart, Arica knows that their magic can't save her this time. But at at the last minute, help may come from a completely unexpected source...
A Gathering of Unicorns
In a few short days, South Bundelag will invade the North with a vast human army. The Fairy Queen asks Arica and Connor to travel to troll country for help, while she plans a defence with the fairies, elves and ogres. But can even the combined forces of the magical creatures of Bundelag win against such powerful enemies? On the eve of the invasion, Connor finds a prophecy in the Book of the Fairies that convinces Arica she may be able to use her magic - and that of the unicorns - to move forward to victory. The battle begins...
This series starts off kind of bizarre, it's a bit hard to figure out what's going on. So Arica is living with her grandmother (though she mentions parents and they don't seem to be dead?) and her grandmother has a very odd house. Thus I assumed they are in a magical world, but then Arica talks about wearing jeans and going to school and normal things from our world. Anyway, Arica falls through a crack in her grandmother's kitchen floor...and lands in what she thinks is her grandmother's cellar where there are apparently trolls? And they kidnap her, taking her into another world where there are fairies and unicorns. At least once in the new world things start making sense!
At first I thought I would only be reading every second book, since that's all my library had, but I got lucky when I stopped by a used bookstore and it had The Promise of the Unicorn. I missed the introduction to the character of the Shadow Unicorn, and it seems there were a lot of events that happened in that book that was key that keeps getting referenced in later books, ah well, what can one do? I found I started to enjoy the story more in later books, a story of evil fairy uncles, of quests that only a young girl, boy and unicorn can undertake to save the world, and a secret crack in your grandmother's kitchen that leads to this world.
December 2023
More than four years later, OpenLibrary finally had a copy of book two so I got to encounter Shadow for the first time and learn about his back story. Of course, I've forgotten a decent amount of the original series by now but the more I read the more it started coming back to me. Either way it felt good to finish this series at last, a very enjoyable unicorn series.
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