Penny Miller arrives at Kingsbridge Academy ready for her Third Year. After last year's shenanigans, she's looking forward to a normal school routine. Well, as normal as it gets at a school for Magickal children. It starts out as expected, laughing with friends and piles of homework and running to classes. And, of course, Ursula DeWinter and her cronies being as awful as always. When something starts attacking the students in strangely familiar ways, Penny wonders if it doesn't have something to do with the new instructor, Professor Moonbeam, a Sorceror visiting from the United States. But...

Welcome to Kingsbridge Academy, a school for young wizards and wizardesses, just one of a network of Magick schools around the world. Here, the students face the same challenges as any young person. Who will win the Pelgwyddon match? When will that cute boy ask me out? Will a hideous monster jump out of my text book and try to eat me? How many times can one get detention cleaning out the Gryphon cage? Penny Miller, a Second Year, has her hands full. Her classes are harder this year, and she can barely keep up with her homework. Then she has to keep bullies like Ursula DeWinter, who has it in...