Laurel finds herself inexplicably drawn to him, and he provides many of the answers she has been seeking. On a trip back to the family home, Laurel's world is forever changed when she encounters Tamani de Rhoslyn. The two soon discover that Laurel's whole body is of plant cells and that she is a plant. It turns out that Laurel is actually a more advanced evolution of a plant more or less a faerie. Their only clue is that when she was about three years old, she was found on her parents' doorstep in a basket, with no knowledge of where she came from. Hesitant to confide her recent affliction to her parents, Laurel seeks help from David, and together they investigate the strange phenomenon of her 'wings' or blossom.

Things are looking up until a bump between Laurel's shoulders sprouts into a small bud on her back. While she misses being outdoors all the time, she's getting along pretty well at her new school and soon befriends David Lawson, a handsome and sweet boy who understands Laurel and her strict vegan diet. They move is because of her father buying a bookstore, which was always a dream for both of her parents. So when she moves to Crescent City, California to attend public school at Del Norte High School, Laurel has some large adjustments to make. The series concludes with Destined which was released on May 1, 2012.įifteen-year-old Laurel Sewell has lived her whole life on her family's land near Orick, California and the Redwood National and State Parks, where she was homeschooled by her hippie parents, Sarah Sewell and Mark Sewell. The third book in the series, Illusions, was released May 3, 2011. The sequel to Wings, Spells, was released on May 4, 2010. Wings went on to become an international bestseller in 2010. It was also a Publishers Weekly Bestseller and made Pike the best-selling non-celebrity children's author to debut in 2009. Wings was released in the US, UK, & Canada on May 5, 2009, and became a New York Times Best Seller in its first week of sales, reaching #1 on the Children's Chapter Books list in its second week.

It is the first of four books about a fifteen-year-old girl who discovers she is a faerie sent among humans to guard the gateway to Avalon. Wings is the debut, young-adult faerie novel by author Aprilynne Pike.

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