Description: Praise for MISS ELLICOTT'S SCHOOL FOR THE MAGICALLY MINDED: "Chantel is a magical heroine to be celebrated, deportment notwithstanding." - Kirkus Reviews "This fantastical adventure is a sheer delight, featuring a smart, kind, and brave heroine." - Booklist (starred review) "This book features a strong plot and well-developed characters. Readers who enjoyed Blackwood's earlier works will not be disappointed. Hand this to fans of Diana Wynne Jones and Shannon Hale. This clever fantasy is a strong purchase for most middle grade collections." - School Library Journal "The familiar premise--a magical school where girls train to become proper young ladies--gains some startlingly Dickensian elements in Blackwood's deft hands...[The] shift in perspective opens up readers' perspective as well--one more act of storytelling prestidigitation in a story rife with unexpected reveals and thrilling surprises." - Horn Book Magazine "This extraordinary fantasy...has everything a reader might desire: thrilling suspense, a courageous and smart heroine, an elaborately constructed plot, a vivid setting and a moral grounding and nuance reminiscent of Kristen Cashore's marvelous "Graceling" books for teen readers." - Buffalo News "'Magical maiden' Chantel's biggest challenge in her education to become a proper and correct sorceress is 'deportment.' A magical-school story with welcome diversity (Chantel is black), unexpected reveals, and thrilling surprises." - The Horn Book Praise for JINX'S MAGIC: "As Blackwood extends Jinx's experiences to other lands, she adds layers of complexity that hint at future developments. The next installment can't come along soon enough." - School Library Journal Praise for JINX: "In this expertly paced, beautifully written fantasy, Blackwood elevates familiar fantasy elements with exquisitely credible characters who inhabit a world filled with well-drawn magic and whimsy." - Booklist (starred review) Praise for JINX: "Blackwood fills her tale with drama and delightfully funny dialogue." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for JINX: "Readers will thrill to journey with Jinx. - School Library Journal (starred review) Praise for JINX: "[Blackwood] puts her central three [characters] through a string of suspenseful, scary situations before delivering a properly balanced closing set of resolutions, revelations and road signs to future episodes." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Praise for JINX: "Flowing dialogue, easy interactions between the characters, a mixed Diana Wynne Jones/Lloyd Alexander vibe, and a setting both familiar and original make the novel immediately inviting and compelling." - Horn Book Magazine Praise for JINX'S FIRE: "Blackwood offers a story of enchanting texture and depth, and series fans will be elated to have another outing with the sweetly sardonic hero, whose conscience is almost as troublesome as his grasp of spells. Fans of Cornelia Funke should add this to their stacks." - ALA Booklist Praise for JINX'S FIRE: "A solid conclusion to a trilogy...threaded with proper amounts of heroism, humor and ingenious twists of character." - Kirkus Reviews Praise for JINX'S FIRE: "Blackwood keeps an astonishing number of balls in the air for this third book, exploiting facets of her versatile magical world by means of multiple alliances, complex plans of attack, and sticky wizardly puzzles to solve. It's the puzzles within Jinx himself, however, that give the tale its heart." - Horn Book Magazine

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