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Rating: Characters: 18/20 Plot: 19/20 Originality: 20/20 Writing:18/20 Recommendation: 19/2 Overall: 94/100 or A Source: Library Summary: At the end of the school year, Kendra and her brother, Seth, find themselves racing back to Fablehaven. Grandpa Sorenson, the caretaker, invites three specialists — a potion master, a magical relics collector, and a mystical creature trapper…

Rating: Characters: 17/20 Plot: 19/20 Originality: 19/20 Writing: 18/20 (Kind of reminds me of my own) Recommendation: 19/20 Overall: 92/100 or A- Source: Library Summary: For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of…

Rating: Characters: 19/20 Plot: 20/20 Originality: 20/20 (A worthy epitome of ultimate creativity) Writing: 19/20 Recommendation: 19/20 Overall: 97/100 or A Source: Library Summary: In the sixth book of the Magykal series, Alther Mella has been Banished, a Darke Domaine engulfs the Castle, and a Darke Dragon is on the loose. Septimus must use all…

Rating: Characters: 20/20 Plot: 20/20 (Veryy veryy goodd)  Originality: 19/20 Writing: 19/20 Recommendation: 19/20 Overall: 97/100 or A Source: Library Summary: In this fifth book in the Magykal series, Septimus ends up on a captivatingly beautiful island, one of seven set in a sparkling sea. He’s stranded there with his badly injured dragon, Spit Fyre,…

Rating:Characters: 18/20Plot: 18/20Originality: 19/20Writing: 19/20 (Infallible as usual)Recommendation: 19/20Overall: 93/100 or A-Source: Library Summary: There’s trouble at the Castle, and it’s all because Merrin Meredith has returned with Darke plans for Septimus. More trouble awaits Septimus and Jenna in the form of Tertius Fume, the ghost of the very first Chief Hermetic Scribe, who is…

Rating: Characters: 20/20 Plot: 20/20 (Superb) Originality: 19/20 Writing: 20/20 (Impeccable as ever) Recommendation: 18/20 Overall: 97/100 or A Source: Library Summary: When Silas Heap unSeals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was…

Rating: Characters: 18/20 Plot: 20/20 Originality: 20/20 Writing: 20/20 (fabulous) Recommendation: 19/20 Overall: 97/100 or A Source: Library Summary: It’s been a year since Septimus Heap discovered his real family and true calling to be a wizard. As Apprentice to ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand, he is learning the fine arts of Conjurations, Charms, and other…

Rating:Characters: 18/20Plot: 20/20Originality: 18/20Writing: 20/20 (excellent)Recommendation: 19/20Overall: 95/100 or ASource: Library Summary: The seventh son of the seventh son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he was born by a midwife who pronounces him dead. That same night, the baby’s father, Silas Heap, comes across a bundle in the snow containing a new born…