Lucinda's Secret
core novel 2003 The Spiderwick Chronicles
Record
| First published | 2003 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.92 (41,885 ratings, collected 2026-08-20) |
| Page count | 114 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780689859380 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
In Lucinda's Secret, the Grace children travel to visit their great-aunt Lucinda, long confined to a psychiatric hospital after claims about faeries that no one in the family believed, hoping she can shed light on the disappearance of their ancestor Arthur Spiderwick decades earlier. Lucinda's cryptic, seemingly disjointed answers turn out to contain real clues once Jared, Simon, and Mallory learn to interpret them correctly, pointing the children toward faerie territory connected to Arthur's original disappearance. Following the trail Lucinda has unknowingly preserved for years, the siblings venture further into the hidden magical world surrounding their family's estate than they have gone before, in search of what actually became of their long-lost relative.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Spiderwick Chronicles
- Series: The Spiderwick Chronicles core; position 3 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Holly Black
- Author: Tony DiTerlizzi
Notes
- From the series record (The Spiderwick Chronicles): The original five-book middle-grade series, co-created and co-written with illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, following the Grace children's discovery of a hidden world of faeries and other creatures at Spiderwick Estate.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Spiderwick Chronicles: position 3 of 5: previous The Seeing Stone (2003) · next The Ironwood Tree (2004)
Sources
- Holly Black - Wikipedia
- Holly Black's own complete bibliography page
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spiderwick_Chronicles
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