He, too, finds her irresistible and wants to protect her, but he is already torn between two powerful feuding Courts. Estranged King Oberon and Queen Titania both want Jenny for their own ends, and the creatures she meets on her quest to rescue Tom are not what they seem, especially the Guardian of the Edge, Jack, to whom Jenny is irresistibly drawn. Full of gorgeous beauty, the realm also holds danger, treachery, and intrigue. The small stand of suburban trees becomes a gigantic forest as she runs, and Jenny finds herself trapped in Faerie. When preparing to leave for university, Jenny decides to visit the spot of Tom's snatching, and while there she hears music, the kind only her prodigy of a brother could make, and she runs into the wood searching for him-despite her terror. No one believed her story, her parents have withdrawn into sorrow for their missing son, and she is ostracized by her peers. At 17, she has struggled for years with what she saw. Gr 7 Up-As a child Jenny saw her older brother Tom swallowed up by trees that came to life.
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