It’s better to love people than wealth. I love Dad, Mom, Kendall, Sandra, Nick, baby Stetson, and especially Hudson. I wouldn’t trade them for a mountain of gold.

“I love the word ‘especially,’ ” he said. “And I love the person who wrote it.” Then he bent over to kiss me.

From the Honorable Master Sagewick Goldengill To the Department of Fairy Advancement To the Esteemed Department,

I am in receipt of student Chrysanthemum Everstar’s extra-credit report and have reviewed it thoroughly. Although I give Miss Everstar high marks for her part in eliminating that menace of an ex-fairy, Rumpelstiltskin, it has not escaped the UMA’s notice that were it not for some swift action by the mortal, Tansy Miller Harris, Rumpelstiltskin would have regained his full powers and undoubtedly wreaked hav-oc on both the human and fairy realms.

As the UMA is strictly against unleashing vengeful ex-fairies on society, they have insisted I turn down Miss Everstar’s current application to Godmother University. It did not help matters that Clover T. Bloomsbottle has already paid the next hundred years’ union dues with coins made from the cursed ex-fairy. None of the receptionists will go near it.

However, we think Miss Everstar shows impressive potential. Please have Madame Bellwings give her another assignment.

Yours austerely,

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Sagewick Goldengill

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Revenge of the Cheerleaders

My Fair Godmother

Copyright © 2011 by Janette Rallison All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or trans-mitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

First published in the United States of America in April 2011

by Walker Publishing Company, Inc., a division of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.

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Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Rallison, Janette.

My unfair godmother / Janette Rallison.

p. cm.

Summary: A fairy godmother- in- training is sent to help angry seventeen-year-old Tansy, who reluctantly is staying with her father and his new wife while her mother and sister are traveling, but the unfortunate result of this intended help is chaos and confusion.

ISBN 978-0-8027-2236-2 (hardcover)

[1. Fairy godmothers—Fiction. 2. Magic—Fiction. 3. Time travel—Fiction. 4. Middle Ages—Fiction. 5. Stepfamilies—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.R13455Mz 2011 [Fic]—dc22 2010025482

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ISBN 978-0-8027-2262-1 (e-book)