Artemis Fowl

What a boy: Just twelve years old, but with the mind of an adult, Artemis Fowl sets out to improve the fortune of his criminally inclined family. However, instead of robbing a bank like everyone else, he pursues a much more cunning and almost unbelievable plan: with a trick, he comes into possession of the Book of the Fairies. And he discovers a secret that no human has ever suspected.

Deep underground live the subterranean beings, the fairies and trolls, gnomes and dwarves, fairies and goblins from fairy tales. Yet they are anything but fragile. With the power of their magic, they have managed to make a home in a labyrinth deep within the earth, and only when they want to renew their magical powers do they catapult themselves to the surface of Ireland, riding on magma flows with the latest rockets.

Artemis has chosen no easy opponent to save the Fowl family estate and honor with a pile of fairy gold. But when he succeeds in taking Holly Short from the Underground Police as a hostage, the earth dwellers realize that they are not just dealing with a twelve-year-old criminal, but with Artemis Fowl, the master thief.