The Serpent's Spell

Unbeknownst to ten-year-old Wil Wychwood, he comes from a long line of mages.

But with the death of his grandmother and his world upended, Wil moves to live with "the Aunts" and finds himself in MiddleGate – where buses drive through brick walls and leaning houses dot streets named Wog's Hollow and Half Moon Lane. The four-hundred-and-ninety-four-year-old school, Gruffud's Academy, is out of this world too. With classes in numeristics, botanicals, cartology and verbology, and textbooks like ...