How to Ditch Your Fairy by Justine Larbalestier

Cute, kicky and fun to read. That's "How to Ditch Your Fairy" in a nutshell.

Charlotte Adele Donna Seto Steele is a 14-year old all-star athlete training at a special sports-only high school in New Avalon (a made up place kinda like the US, but also sorta Australian - just go with it). In her world, it's normal to have a PR class in high school (you're going to need it). Statistics class ... oh, we're all about the numbers in sports, aren't we? And many people have some kind of personal fairy working magic in their lives. That's just the way it is.

Except Charlie's got a parking fairy - every car she's in finds a primo parking spot instantly. Other people have never-getting-into-trouble fairies, or finding-loose-change fairies, or grip fairies, or ... well, anything's better than a 14-year old with doos parking skills. (You'll walk away from this book with a pulchy new vocabulary, too!)

It's a fun book. The kids act like kids (not necessarily responsibly) and their troubles seem monumental to them at the moment. But it's fun, funny, and the fantasy elements aren't unbelievable.