Picked this up 'cause I'd heard good things about it - boy, 300-odd pages never flew by so quickly - but mostly 'cause there aren't really many words on each page. It's actually for an audience a bit younger than "YA" - good for 8-12 year olds, I'd say.Fleeing from bullies who beat her up regularly,...
VERY different from what I'd expected. I'd expected a light-hearted, humorous book ala Handbook for Witches. What I got was a fascinating but rather dark book about two kids learning how to become wizards and in the process having to save the world from a terrible danger. At the very end of the book...