Secret Spells

Everyone at the Extraordinary School is excited for the Winter Solstice Grand Tournament-especially Bea! But this year's tournament will be different: Extraordinary will compete against Spellshire Academy, and there's no magic allowed! Who will emerge victorious? And will Bea's friendship with her best non-witchy friend, Ash, survive the competition?

Everyone at the Extraordinary Academy is excited for the Winter Solstice Grand Tournament, especially Bea! She's been practicing extra-hard and is ready to rise to the challenge. But then Ms. Sparks decides that this year's competition will be different-there won't be any magic allowed! It will be a regular sports day, and the students at Extraordinary will compete against non-magic school Spellshire Academy. With magic firmly forbidden, which school will emerge victorious? And will Bea's friendship with her non-witch best friend, Ash, survive the competition? With black-and-white illustrations throughout. 

Told through Bea's diary entries, the Diary of an Accidental Witch series invites readers to follow Bea on a humorous journey of self-discovery as she learns where she truly belongs. Everyone at the Extraordinary Academy is excited for the Winter Solstice Grand Tournament, especially Bea! She's been practicing extra-hard and is ready to rise to the challenge. But then Ms. Sparks decides that this year's competition will be different -- there won't be any magic allowed! It will be a regular sports day, and the students at Extraordinary will compete against non-magic school Spellshire Academy. With magic firmly forbidden, which school will emerge victorious? And will Bea's friendship with her non-witch best friend, Ash, survive the competition? With black-and-white illustrations throughout. Critique: Told through Bea's diary entries, the Diary of an Accidental Witch series invites young readers to follow Bea on a humorous journey of self-discovery as she learns where she truly belongs. The "Diary of an Accidental Witch" also includes: "New Girl", "Ghostly Getaway", "Unexpected Guests", "Magic Every After", and "Halloween Ball". Nicely illustrated by Katie Saunders, the "Diary of an Accidental Witch" series is especially and unreservedly recommended for elementary school and community library fiction collections for children ages 6-9. --Midwest Book Review--Children's Bookwatch Perdita and Honor Cargill are a mother/daughter writing partnership and the authors of the series Waiting for Callback. Originally from the Scottish Highlands, Perdita spent many years as a lawyer before turning to writing fiction. Honor, having recently graduated from Oxford, is working on fiction and non-fiction writing projects as well as studying for a masters degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art. They both live in London.

Katie Saunders knew she wanted to be an illustrator when she had a picture published in Twinkie Magazine at the age of five. Katie worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time illustrator. Katie lives in Kent with her partner, two children, two cats, and a crazy sausage dog named Rolo.