Beyond the spiderwick chronicles

The spiderwick chronicles is a The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of faeries that they never knew existed.

A second series, entitled Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, has also been written, with The Nixie's Song published in September 2007, A Giant Problem published in September 2008, and The Wyrm King published in September 2009.

The main cahrictor is a 11-year-old boy named Nick Vargas and lives with his brother, Jules, weird stepsister, Laurie, dad, Paul, and stepmom, Charlene, in his father's housing development. Laurie has read the Spiderwick Chronicles and believes in faeries. Nick thinks she is "lame" and wishes she would leave him alone. After finding a four-leafed clover (which allow people to see faeries) he sees a strange creature (later revealed to be a nixie) unconscious in his yard which he and Laurie carry into a nearby lake. The next day, the nixie, Taloa, gives Nick and Laurie the sight and sends them to find her six sisters who were separated when their pond was destroyed. Later they find the fireblasted pond and there are attacked by a giant creature they mistook for a hill.

They escape the giant when it is lured by Taloa's singing and becomes calm. They decide to ask the authors of the Chronicles for advice at a book signing and convince Jules to drive them. Once there, they are disappointed when the adults don't believe them and run into Jared and Simon Grace who decide to help them. Jared tells them about a giant expert who lived nearby and they plan to meet at his address. The place appears to be deserted and the kids take several papers including a diagram of a giant trap. While the giant is hypnotized by the nixie's song, the three kids tie the giant up. It thrashes around, strangling itself with the cords, and the kids are horrified at what they've done. Then an old man walks up and tells them that the giant isn't really dead and kills it with a machete. He also explains that he is a giant hunter and this is only the first of many giants to wake up and unless they help him, all of Florida will be destroyed.