the spiderwick chronicles leave the oldfashioned charm of new england far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot florida sun elevenyearold nicholas vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soontobe completed mangrove hollow but an expedition to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie with a giant problem the huge lumbering firebreathing variety and its up to nick his stepsister laurie and his big brother julian plus a familiar face from the original spiderwick chronicles to figure out the best way to stop a host of rampaging giants before all of florida goes up in smoke