From New York Times bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a riveting new five book series that defies what you think you know about the world of magic. Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail. All his life Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him. So he tries his best to do his worst and fails at failing.
Callum Hunt completes the Iron Trial. Now the Magisterium awaits him. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future. The Iron Trial is just the beginning for the biggest test is still to come.
From the remarkable imaginations of bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a heart stopping, mind blowing, pulse pounding plunge into the magical unknown. From the imaginations of bestselling authors Black The Spiderwick Chonicles and Clare the Mortal Instruments trilogy comes a heart stopping plunge into the magical unknown.---from the publisher
304 pages 978-0545522250 Ages 10-13
Keywords: dark fantasy, fantasy, magic, school issues, urban fantasy, paranormal, part of a series, 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old, 13 year old
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All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. To succeed at the Iron Trial and be admitted into the vaunted Magisterium school would bring bad things. But he fails at failing. Only hard work, loyal friends, danger, and a puppy await.---from the publisher
