The system is broken and if I'm not careful, it'll break me too. While my peers get excited for college, I brace for disaster. I've learned at Hawthorn Academy that danger can happen to anyone. To the jock. To the class clown. To my brother. Now I'm in the line of fire. All known extramagi must have their abilities tested. The way they do it is a horrifying secret. After witnessing one last year, I made a plan to expose the ugly truth. But there's a mind magus on campus now, threatening me. And he's totally within his rights to do so. Mr. Fairbanks leads the Board of Trustees, which demoted the headmaster and expelled my brother. Last year's threat was only a symptom of bigger problems. Half the Trustees play quid pro quo while the rest flex their authority for personal vendettas. Mr. Fairbanks blames me for his daughter's troubles. Mrs. Onassis says I poisoned her son's mind. And Mr. Pierce thinks I'm taking advantage of his children. All because extramagi are supposedly evil. But now I suspect we're scapegoats the influential families pin blame on. They say you make your own future. But can I survive the present first? Scroll up and click 'Buy Now' or 'Read for Free' to continue the adventure

The New Year started with a bang. Literally. Midnight came, and now, life as we know it will never be the same. The Sanctum are out to harm us. To harm me. Nobody is safe. I'd known that a scholarship to Hawthorn Academy would change my life. Guess I'd just never realised how much I could lose.

The Hawthorn tree. You can eat the berries. Taste the juice. But the seeds are the deadliest part. And I was going to become the seed. I was going to be the cyanide that destroyed Ollie and everything he valued. The Set-what was left of them anyway-were going to pay for what they did to me. For the torture they put me through. They drowned me. Drugged me. Humiliated me. But I was not going to let them take my dignity.

A world on the brink of war. All Avaline Hall wants is to enjoy her senior year at Blythewood Academy, the boarding school where she’s been trained to defend humankind from forces of dark magic. But when Ava is shown a glimpse into the future in the enchanted Blythe Wood, she discovers that the evil Judicus van Drood is rallying nations into a war that seems destined to destroy both the human and faerie worlds. Only Ava and her allies have a chance at stopping van Drood, but how many must die in the process? And how can Ava and the boy she loves be together when everything around them is falling apart?

I knew that a scholarship to Hawthorn Academy would change my life. It would get me away from a Mother who didn't love me, an alcoholic Step-Father I despised and a life filled with no meaning. At the Academy, I could make something of myself. Become who I've always wanted to be; the person I was destined to be. But I could never have imagined that things could be worse there. That The Sect and The Set ruled the school. Literally. They had a list of five rules that all must obey or face the dire consequences. Then there's Him. He is the forbidden fruit. The Beast I'm warned away from. The boy I feel a connection to, yet knew that I shouldn't. Hawthorn Academy isn't anything like I expected. It's obvious that I'm in danger. That somebody is out to harm me. I just needed to survive the next two years there. How hard could that be?

“Carol Goodman’s Blythewood is reminiscent of both Harry Potter and The Diviners, but in a way that doesn’t distract from the entertaining story within."* After narrowly escaping death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, seventeen-year-old Avaline Hall is sent to Blythewood Academy, the elite girls’ boarding school in New York’s Hudson Valley that her mother attended years before. Ava hopes to solve the mystery of her mother’s death and its connection to the students who keep disappearing from Blythewood. But the school is not all that it appears . . . and neither is the handsome young man who saved Ava from the fire. What’s the meaning of the extraordinary powers Ava possesses? Who’s good and who’s evil? And who has the right to make that distinction? *review of Blythewood by Forever Young Adult