2013, first published 2012
Witch-hunter Katy befriends witch Sophie at the Turlingham Academy.
Sophie did not know that she was a witch
until she finds a birthday present and letters from her grandmother hidden in
her mother’s office.
In this story we have many of the school story tropes: midnight
feasts, overzealous prefects, new students. However this is tempered by there
being a girls’ school and a boys’ school on the same premises and the reference
to modern day year, 7, year 9, Year 10 etc.
This differs from the Harry Potter and the Worst Witch books
in that Sophie is a lone witch in an ordinary school.
There are love interests- girls have crushes on boys and
boys are fascinated by the girls. There are
also delicate relationships we normally see in texts
for teens.
It is 244 pages long, with blocked text and an adult font
but double-spaced.
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