The Field Guide By Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black

In this first book of The Spiderwick Chronicles, we meet Mallory, Simon, and Jared Grace. They are moving into their Great-aunt Lucinda’s house with their mother after their father has left them. They hear noises in the walls and upon investigating, find a nest of sorts inside one of the kitchen wall. They also find a secret room with a book about faeries. Is there a faerie in their new house? Or is it something worse? When Mallory wakes up the next morning with her hair tied in knots to the bed and bruises on her arms, it seems the noises in the walls belong to something other than mice or squirrels. After reading this first book of the series, you will want to go immediately to the other books to find out what will happen next.