The Wee Free Men

The Wee Free Men by Pratchett, Terry. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780385605335.

Up on the chalk downs they call The Wold, witches are banned - ever since the Barons son vanished in the woods. Anyway, as all witches know, chalks no good for magic. Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd - might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and its 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 Tiffanys young brother goes missing and Tiffany and the Wee Free Men must join forces to save him from the Queen of the Fairies-