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Title details for The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents by Nicki Pau Preto - Available

The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents

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by Nicki Pau Preto
Emily Marso
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A middle grade magic school fantasy perfect for fans of The School for Good and Evil and Witchlings, in which a girl with unparalleled power must work with her misfit classmates to save her new school.
Lavinia “Vin” Lucas is out of control and out of options. Stranded by parents who would rather use their average magical abilities to study dung beetles than raise her, Vin's been on her own for years. But she’s never been able to corral her own powerful, unpredictable magic. After years of detention, suspension, and expulsion from magic schools far and wide, she’s now being sent to the Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents. If she gets expelled, it’s the end of the line. 
Now, Vin is determined to behave. Except no one at Last Hope seems to want her to. Her new teachers—particularly the school’s kind headmistress—push her to explore her magic, and her mischievous classmates delight in every accident. And all the while, a mysterious fire sprite, a suspicious instructor, and her overwhelming abilities might just sabotage Vin. But for the first time, she is not alone.
So when a former student begins attacking the school, Vin must question just how much she knows about the headmistress and her new home. Is this place worth saving? And are her budding abilities—and every trick, trap, and deception in her friends’ delinquent arsenal—enough to protect Last Hope?

  • Creators

  • Series

    The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents

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  • Release date

    October 1, 2024

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593945988
      • File size: 289317 KB
      • Duration: 10:02:44

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 5, 2024
      A lonely tween finds her place among fellow misunderstood magicians in this empowering fantasy from Pau Preto (the House of the Dead duology). When yet another magical mishap gets 12-year-old Lavinia “Vin” Lucas expelled from her eighth boarding school in three years,
      the Worldwide Magecraft School Board remands her to The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents in rural New Jersey. Upon arriving, Vin expects to be an outcast, like always; instead, she finds a trio of loyal pals and starts learning to control her abilities thanks to headmistress Ava Hope’s kind, patient tutelage. Just as Vin begins to feel at home, however, someone tries to frame her for a series of increasingly dangerous and seemingly impossible accidents. Certain this is her last chance for a magical education and desperate to avoid expulsion, Vin teams up with her new friends to catch the real culprit. Propulsive pacing and a mischievous sense of humor characterize the close-third-person narrative of Pau
      Preto’s high-spirited middle grade debut. Inclusive messaging, whimsical worldbuilding, and an effervescent, racially diverse cast make up for the plot’s occasional predictability, and a tense epilogue cracks the door for a sequel. Ages 8–12. Agent: Penny Moore, Aevitas Creative.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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