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The Hobgoblin Proxy (Clemency Pogue)

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Wow! I feel like I'm in at the beginning of a whole new fantasy world! The first Clemency Pogue was so much fun (and witty and charming at the same time) I was really looking forward to the next one and it is FANTASTIC!

J.T. Petty starts explaining more about how Clemency's world of hobgoblins works and its funny, clever, and a bit startling! (I will never dock the tails of a litter of puppies again.)

This book (with the first one) is a great gift for 4th to 7th graders. It will let them know that you think that they're just as clever and witty and sophisticated as Clemency.

This gleeful sequel picks up where JT Petty's first novel Clemency Pogue left off. In it Clemency's boxer puppy is sick. When she summons her old friend Chaphesmeeso in order to save her ailing dog, she learns that something is amiss in the world of make-believe. Instead of dissolving into clay, a changeling has survived its switch, and is living in the human world in the guise of a child. Meanwhile, a child goblin-proxy is barred from moving forward in his training in the world of make-believe. These two small things, it turns out, may signal the end of make-believe, and the grown-up world, too.

Like the brilliant "Empire Strikes Back", in "Hobgoblin Proxy" we learn more about the fantasy world set-up in the first installment, but enter the dark side, where Hobgoblins meet the truly terrible Goblins, and children disappear in the night, all due to a logic not yet comprehensible to the main character. It's a page turner.

What I like best about this book is the way that Petty is slowly maturing his heroine. The adult world in which parents are flawed and pets really do die intersects with Clemency's make-believe world. In a thoughtful and sensitive way, Petty's main character begins to learn how to rectify these two worlds, and help save both of them. It's a perfect fantasy full of goblins, humor, clever word play, and delightful characters.

I loved Clemency Pogue, Fairy Killer. I got an early copy, which was cool, except it meant I had to wait even longer for this sequel than everyone else did... well, it was worth the wait.

This book is for the kids at heart. My wife and I took our daughter to see the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and were unsurprised that there were as many people our age watching the movie as there were kids. This book is like that- perfect for kids, but still a lot of fun for grown ups.

Our daughter is still a little young for tween books, but we're reading it to her already, and she'll undoubtedly read it to herself by the time she's six or seven :-D

CLEMENCY POGUE: THE HOBGOBLIN PROXY BY J.T. PETTY, ILLUSTRATED BY WILL DAVIS In Petty's irreverent, fantastical tale, The Hobgoblin Proxy, feisty fairy-killer Clemency Pogue is back! Looking for a new adventure, Clem summons her hobgoblin friend Chaphesmeeso, who brings Kennethurchin and a new mission for Clemency. Kennethurchin was stolen from his cradle as a baby and replaced with a changeling. Since changelings are made of clay, they dissolve when they're given a bath - but because Kennethurchin's changeling has never bathed, he's still at large. Now Kennethurchin can't become a hobgoblin, so it's up to Clem and Chaphe to track down the changeling and return him to the ground. But the changeling, who is already nine years old, has ideas of his own.