Post-worldquake, when electricity is infrequent and the Internet is extinct, but magic is flourishing, five students at the Tusitala School for the Gifted, Troubled and Strange pool their resources and magical abilities to defeat an evil publisher who intends to use the power bound up in books to destroy the universe.
Effie and her school friends are pulled in different directions but must find a way to reconnect if they are to stop the Diberi from destroying the worlds.
Effie Truelove and her school friends Lexy, Wolf, Maximilian, and Raven must put their magical skills to the test. The Diberi, a corrupt organization intent on destroying the world, has returned and has something sinister planned at Midwinter.
Effie Truelove has just been expelled from magic class and now she can t even get back to the Otherworld the place she most loves and where she feels she belongs. If she can find a copy of The Chosen Ones by Laurel Wilde to give her father then she might be able to fix everything. The only problem is that there are suddenly no copies of the book anywhere.
"The first book in a middle grade series about three young heroes who go on a quest to save a collection of magical books from an evil villain who plans to dominate the world"--.
"The first book in a middle grade series about three young heroes who go on a quest to save a collection of magical books from an evil villain who plans to dominate the world"--Provided by publisher.
Lily Pascale, having finally landed a great job teaching crime fiction at a small university, is drawn into a real-life mystery when her fellow instructors start turning up dead and her boss, the eccentric Professor Valentine, starts acting crazy.
When Alic Butler begins receiving odd messages in a simple code from someone at PopCo, a profit-hungry toy company that has sent Alice and its other top creative minds out to a secluded Thought Camp, she begins to wonder if they are from her missing father or from someone who knows she hold the key to finding a valuable treasure.
