Wicked Nix by Lena Coakley illustrated by Jaime Zollars

Nix is the foulest of fairies.  When a "people"  begins to remodel an abandoned cottage in the fairies' forest, Nix is quite disturbed.  He resolves to deploy his fairy tricks.  Boldly he threatens the "man people" with scary warnings.
The only problem is Nix is not magical like most fairies and this man-people seems to know how to scare and harm fairies.  The other fairies are in Summer Country so he has no one to help him.  So he consults Rose the Wise, his friend  who is a "little-girl-people".
As the story progresses, mysteries about Nix's  life slowly unfolds and the ending is a pleasant surprise.
A short book with a fast moving plot.
*I was pleased to see that this book was actually printed and bound in the U.S.A.!

-Borrowed from the library.