The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett is a comic fantasy novel set in Discworld, Pratchett’s fictional setting that carries across his fantasy novels. The narrative follows a nine-year-old girl named Tiffany Aching who discovers her underlying strengths and her true identity after a chance encounter with a green monster, a meeting with a witch, and then the abduction of her little brother. Tiffany must use her newfound knowledge and her resourcefulness—with the help of a clan of small people called the Wee Free Men—to find her brother and bring him back home. Themes explored in the novel include responsibility, learning, and not taking things at face value.
Called the "master of humorous fantasy" by a critic for Publishers Weekly, British author Terry Pratchett won the prestigious Carnegie Medal in 2002 for his novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated ...
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