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	Title:	Atremis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
	Author:	Colfer, Eoin
	Date Published:	2002
	Genre:	Fantasy
	Grade Level:	5 - 8
	Booktalker:	Mary McCarthy
	Awards:	Former Blue Spruce Award Nominee

Booktalk:
Ah, the troubles of your average teen: - Heading up an international crime syndicate. - Having to ransom your mother's sanity with a hoard of stolen fairy gold. - Thinking up dangerous and wicked schemes, desperately trying to make enough money to fund the search for your missing father. Wait a minute; you mean every thirteen-year-old doesn't have these problems? Fowl. Artemis Fowl. The name strikes fear in the hearts of humans and fairie folk alike. A criminal mastermind. A human without a conscience. A teenager without a heart. Except he loves his parents. When his father was declared missing two years ago, his mother sank into insanity and depression. Artemis used all of his abilities to steal the fairy's gold and ransom back his mother's sanity. And made a forest full of otherworld enemies in the process. Now a band of Russian criminals has revealed they are holding his beloved father for ransom. Artemis must leverage all of his resources, legal and otherwise. But his mother's sanity has returned, along with her sense of fair (and foul) play. She puts him into counseling, where some of his natural criminal instincts begin to dull. How can Artemis gear up for this icy adventure, to save his father from the Russian Mafiya, when his mother and his counselor are breathing down his neck? Short. Holly Short. Once, she was a rising young Captain in the LEPrecon Squad (That's Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance for you humans). Then that foul Artemis Fowl got in the game, kidnapping her and stealing a hoard of gold. Now she's been demoted to boring customs stakeouts. She is one steamed elf, from the tips of her wings to the tips of her pointed ears, out for revenge and out to clear her name. In her world, the magical folk are getting restless. The goblin B'wa Kell Triad is guilty of smuggling contraband from the human world, and Holly suspects Artemis Fowl may be behind it all. She must put down his Goblin rebellion no matter what. Artemis and Holly both have jobs to do, and they cannot hope to succeed alone.