Alan Lance Andersen
The first novella-length Wizard Academies book relates fascinating tales of magickally-gifted kids at a school that isn’t quite right ...Some wizard schools are highly-accredited and well-respected. Others are smaller but serve elite clientele with high academic standards. By way of contrast, Gallimaufriars Academy in Cumbria barely meets Ministry of Wizardry criteria.Corwyn Daniels faces problems a bit more challenging than most wizardlings encounter:* How do you catch a Black Dragon?* What’s a Pestheckler?* Where did the school’s prized Sand Djinn Dervish go?* Why is Gwynn ap Nudd hunting Misty Callaghan?* How do I cast a spell when the Wild Hunt’s after me?Corwyn really has his work cut out for him. You’ll delight in the magickal misadventures of a boy from the LEAST influential Wizard Academy in Britain -- run by professors that other schools refer to as ''a bunch of rumpots, crackpots, and pooka-mazed halfwits ...''