Published 1998
★★★
I know I read a bunch of books in this series as a kid, but I no longer remember which ones—so I'm just rereading a few where the covers seem familiar. The contents of Keisha, the Fairy Snow Queen are in some ways familiar...but only because of Frozen! Here, Keisha is troubled over what to do when she catches another student cheating on a test. She takes to the magic attic and lands in a world with a problem—the magic crystal that powers the kingdom (or something like that) has been stolen, and the kingdom is freezing over as a result. Frozen was based on a Hans Christian Anderson story, so it wouldn't be unreasonable if the inspiration was the same here—he's not exactly obscure!
It's interesting to see that these books aren't all tied to real life—I don't know what the 'fairy' in the title has to do with it, but this one's definitely a story that relies on magic. It's also heavily moral-of-the-story-y, what with the whole plotline about cheating and right and wrong (which carries through in the snow-queen plot too), which I guess is about in line with the age range this series targeted. Will have to see whether other books in the series are quite so moralistic as well.
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