The Wee Free Men

4.4 avg 306 votes

About this book

A riotous, wise, and gripping junior Discworld novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning author and acknowledged master of comic fantasy.Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd - might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening: a fairy-tale monster in the stream, a headless horseman and, strangest of all, the tiny blue men in kilts, the Wee Free Men, who have come looking for the new 'hag'. These are the Nac Mac Feegles, the pictsies, who like nothing better than thievin', fightin' and drinkin'. Then Tiffany's young brother goes missing and Tiffany and the Wee Free Men must join forces to save him from the Queen of the Fairies-

4.4 ★★★★☆ average of 4 sources · 306 votes
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4.4/5 · 306 readers · 317 pages · ≈ 5 h 52 m · Easy

How long does it take to read The Wee Free Men?

About ≈ 5 h 52 m — 317 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mThe Wee Free Men~5 h 52 m

How many pages is The Wee Free Men?

317 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320The Wee Free Men317

What genre is The Wee Free Men?

It sits on the Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction shelves.

Is The Wee Free Men in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Where does The Wee Free Men take place?

It takes place in 1990-.

Who wrote The Wee Free Men?

Terry Pratchett.

Time period 1990-
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