About this deal
Sent to Groosham Grange as a last resort by his frustrated parents, thirteen-year-old David Eliot quickly discovers that his new boarding school is very peculiar. Certain children are born with magic talent but they need to attend this school to unlock their magic. We’ve never polluted the environment or experimented on animals or cut back on National Health spending.
You may think this is similar to Harry Potter and in a way it does involve boarding school, wizards, initiation, etc - but it is quite original and it understands witchcraft in the more traditional sense (less fun and more Middle Ages style). It wasn’t the ghosts, ghouls and vampires he should have been scared of – it was the bankers, the priests, the middle-aged married couples.
The characters in this book are stereotypical and flat--you've got the fat kid who seems like he will be a bigger secondary character but then disappears halfway through the story.
We've never polluted the environment or experimented on animals or cut back on entitlement programs for the disadvantaged.However, on all attempts they failed and on their 13th birthdays, they were converted to the magical side at Groosham Grange. Sent to Groosham Grange as a last resort by his parents, David Eliot quickly discovers that his new school is a very weird place indeed. It is story about a boy David Eliot who is seventh son of seventh of seventh son and thus born with magical abilities of which he is completely unaware of.