The Grimoire of Grave Fates
(Sprache: Englisch)
Crack open your spell book and enter the world of the illustrious Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary. There's been a murder on campus, and it's up to the students of Galileo to solve it. Follow 18 authors and 18 students as they puzzle out the...
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Crack open your spell book and enter the world of the illustrious Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary. There's been a murder on campus, and it's up to the students of Galileo to solve it. Follow 18 authors and 18 students as they puzzle out the clues and find the guilty party.Professor of Magical History Septimius Dropwort has just been murdered, and now everyone at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary is a suspect.
A prestigious school for young magicians, the Galileo Academy has recently undergone a comprehensive overhaul, reinventing itself as a roaming academy in which students of all cultures and identities are celebrated. In this new Galileo, every pupil is welcome—but there are some who aren't so happy with the recent changes. That includes everyone's least favorite professor, Septimius Dropwort, a stodgy old man known for his harsh rules and harsher punishments. But when the professor's body is discovered on school grounds with a mysterious note clenched in his lifeless hand, the Academy's students must solve the murder themselves, because everyone's a suspect.
Told from more than a dozen alternating and diverse perspectives, The Grimoire of Grave Fates follows Galileo's best and brightest young magicians as they race to discover the truth behind Dropwort's mysterious death. Each one of them is confident that only they have the skills needed to unravel the web of secrets hidden within Galileo's halls. But they're about to discover that even for straight-A students, magic doesn't always play by the rules. . . .
Contributors include: Cam Montgomery, Darcie Little Badger, Hafsah Faizal, Jessica Lewis, Julian Winters, Karuna Riazi, Kat Cho, Kayla Whaley, Kwame Mbalia, L. L. McKinney, Marieke Nijkamp, Mason Deaver, Natasha Díaz, Preeti Chhibber, Randy Ribay, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Victoria Lee, and Yamile Saied Méndez
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2:00 A.M.: WREN WILLEMSON, 16, SWORDSby Marieke Nijkamp
In a small room in the Swords Tower of the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary sat a young Sorcerer who--according to their stepfather--had been born under unlucky stars. Wren sat cross-legged on the bed while a dead spider crawled across the bedspread. Despite the late hour, Wren still wore their regular clothes. A dark hoodie, easily two sizes too large. Compression gloves on their hands. A bulky walking brace around their left ankle, which had dislocated again. They tugged strands of blue and silver hair behind their ear, and a small bubble of low magical light that floated above their bed flickered.
The light barely illuminated their bland, narrow room, with its pale walls and looming wardrobe. Wren had never made an effort to decorate. The only signs that a student lived here at all were the stack of textbooks near the door, a stack of sketchbooks on the windowsill--filled with endless patterns and paintings that Wren didn t share with anyone--and the rat skeleton on the bedside table.
The dead spider shivered before its legs gave out from under it, and it curled up again, lifeless and broken.
Wren grimaced. With a wince of pain, they tossed the spider corpse out the open window. The bubble of light above them wavered briefly once more, and their hands trembled.
Stop it, Wren hissed--and the light steadied.
Focus, they told themself sternly--but their hands kept trembling.
There was a restlessness inside them that set Wren s teeth and joints on edge. Even though the Swords Tower was quiet and the night calm, Wren felt like their bones were going to crawl out through their skin. Because every time they closed their eyes, their mind replayed the afternoon s encounter at the Gargoyle Keep, and every part of them wanted to disappear.
They d needed time for themself after spectacularly failing yet another telekinesis test, and the bestiary had been crowded with Cups
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students and their biology classes. So Wren had kept walking in the direction of the Gargoyle Keep to stare for a while at the majestic stone creatures--only to collide headlong with Professor Dropwort, Galileo s history teacher and the school s prime bully. He was the type of teacher who looked down his nose at any student who wasn t a legacy student, or at the very least a fine young cis man, whole of mind and body. Wren s mere existence as a Sorcerer was an abomination and an offense to his sensibilities.
Just like their appearance in the Gargoyle Keep had been an affront to him, apparently. He d stepped back, brushed down his clothes, and lifted his chin. Thinking of adding assaulting teachers to your list of failures, Willemson?
Wren had mumbled an apology and turned to walk away, when the professor s voice had stopped them. I ve spoken to your head of house, you know. Professor MacAllister tells me you re last in all your classes, in direct violation of your scholarship. There s no place for a disappointment like you here at Galileo.
The all-too-familiar words had landed like physical blows, and Wren had frozen in place, their hands clenched into fists, and their heart pounding the same rhythm over and over again.
Cursed. Unlucky. Failure.
Professor Dropwort had laughed. Run along now.
Wren still didn t know how they d made their way back to the Swords Tower, or their own room. They must ve eaten dinner, but the encounter kept plaguing them, even now. It hurt. It hurt so freaking much.
Cursed. Unlucky. Failure.
Professor Dropwort might have been a malicious malcontent, but he wasn t wrong about Wren failing their tests. Professor MacAllister had told Wren the same thing
Just like their appearance in the Gargoyle Keep had been an affront to him, apparently. He d stepped back, brushed down his clothes, and lifted his chin. Thinking of adding assaulting teachers to your list of failures, Willemson?
Wren had mumbled an apology and turned to walk away, when the professor s voice had stopped them. I ve spoken to your head of house, you know. Professor MacAllister tells me you re last in all your classes, in direct violation of your scholarship. There s no place for a disappointment like you here at Galileo.
The all-too-familiar words had landed like physical blows, and Wren had frozen in place, their hands clenched into fists, and their heart pounding the same rhythm over and over again.
Cursed. Unlucky. Failure.
Professor Dropwort had laughed. Run along now.
Wren still didn t know how they d made their way back to the Swords Tower, or their own room. They must ve eaten dinner, but the encounter kept plaguing them, even now. It hurt. It hurt so freaking much.
Cursed. Unlucky. Failure.
Professor Dropwort might have been a malicious malcontent, but he wasn t wrong about Wren failing their tests. Professor MacAllister had told Wren the same thing
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Autoren-Porträt von Margaret Owen
Created by Hanna Alkaf and Margaret Owen
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- Autor: Margaret Owen
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 12 Jahre
- 2023, Internationale Ausgabe, 464 Seiten, Masse: 13,9 x 20,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Delacorte Press
- ISBN-10: 0593705777
- ISBN-13: 9780593705773
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.06.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Spell-binding in every way... an anthology like no other!" The Nerd DailyEighteen heroes, individual yet not alone, beautifully find self-respect and force their school to change. Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Readers who ve been burned by less culturally sensitive wizard schools will rejoice... The range of racial, ethnic, gendered, variously abled, and neurodiverse identities in a magic school setting is vastly appealing, and meditations on 'chosen one' clichés and sly meta-commentary make this especially enjoyable for genre-savvy readers." The Bulletin
"[A] magical mystery." Publishers Weekly
"Highly recommended for readers who love genre blending, magic with morals, and a good whodunit." Booklist
"Exceptionally diverse and delightfully funny." School Library Journal
"A resonant message of hope for a better future, magical or otherwise." BookPage
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