The Spiderwick Chronicles · Book 2

The Seeing Stone

Published
1 January 2003
Pages
144
ISBN-13
9781665928687
Type
novel
Cover of The Seeing Stone

About this book

The Seeing Stone is co-written by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, the 2nd book in The Spiderwick Chronicles series. Published in 2003, it follows The Field Guide and precedes Lucinda's Secret in the reading order.

Key facts about The Seeing Stone

Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi wrote The Seeing Stone, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2003. The book has 144 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781665928687 to find the main one.

The Seeing Stone is book 2 of 8 in The Spiderwick Chronicles series. The series has 8 published books. However, the series starts with The Field Guide (2003).

Additionally, Holly Black writes The Modern Faerie Tales, The Curse Workers and Magisterium, plus 3 more series. Those series sit on our fantasy and romantic fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Thief of Night is the latest published Holly Black book on file, from 23 September 2025.

About Holly Black

Holly Black is an American author who has spent over two decades as one of the defining voices in young adult fantasy, moving between menacing faerie courts and other dark, richly imagined worlds. See every Holly Black book in order.

Its place in The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Seeing Stone is book 2 in the The Spiderwick Chronicles series. It follows The Field Guide. It is followed by Lucinda's Secret. See the full The Spiderwick Chronicles reading order.

When the Grace children move into their late great-great-uncle Arthur Spiderwick's crumbling, secret-filled estate, the youngest, Jared, discovers a hidden library holding Arthur's life's work: a field guide to the real, dangerous faeries living in the woods around the house. Reading it awakens the attention of the creatures it describes -- brownies, goblins, ogres, a treacherous shapeshifting hobgoblin -- and the Grace siblings are pulled into a war to protect the guide, and themselves, from a faerie world that…

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