People think magic is waving a stick and making your vegetables turn into candy. Well, if that’s magic, try it out! Your vegetables will look disgusting. Well, more disgusting than before. The ‘wand’ will cause the veggies to get sprinkled with bits of dirt from your dumb substitute for a magic stick. Magic isn’t as simple as it seems.
My name is Coraline Rose and I attend a magical school called Hoteluxgic, which is short for Hotel Deluxe Magic. As comfortable as the name might seem, it’s not your ideal regular magical education. The headmaster, Mr. Finch, who is basically an evil sorcerer, is not only unfair and wicked, but also very dull. He barges into everyone’s dormitories every couple of hours to see if we’re doing what we’re supposed to be doing. He’s happy to give detentions to people who don’t smile at him. Mr. Finch only comes in every two hours, so we’re free to do whatever we want for one hundred nineteen minutes.
Who gave Mr. Finch the principal job if he was so clueless? He probably jinxed his inspector so he was accepted. He absolutely hates children- even the good ones like me- but a few detentions doesn’t stop anyone from being reckless. I used to be a kid who was a model student, never got in trouble- but that stopped in one night.
All of this started with one, single book. Not just any book.
An atlas.
The atlas.