The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062275127)

From the acclaimed author of The Real Boy and The Lost Girl comes a wondrous and provocative fantasy about a kingdom beset by monsters, a mysterious school, and a girl caught in between them.

If no one notices Marya Lupu, is likely because of her brother, Luka. And that's because of what everyone knows: that Luka is destined to become a sorcerer.

The Lupus might be from a small village far from the capital city of Illyria, but that doesn't matter. Every young boy born in in the kingdom holds the potential for the rare ability to wield magic, to protect the country from the terrifying force known only as the Dread.

For all the hopes the family has for Luka, no one has any for Marya, who can never seem to do anything right. But even so, no one is prepared for the day that the sorcerers finally arrive to test Luka for magical ability, and Marya makes a terrible mistake. Nor the day after, when the Lupus receive a letter from a place called Dragomir Academy--a mysterious school for wayward young girls. Girls like Marya.

Soon she is a hundred miles from home, in a strange and unfamiliar place, surrounded by girls she's never met. Dragomir Academy promises Marya and her classmates a chance to make something of themselves in service to one of the country's powerful sorcerers. But as they learn how to fit into a world with no place for them, they begin to discover things about the magic the men of their country wield, as well as the Dread itself--things that threaten the precarious balance upon which Illyria is built.

Author: Anne Ursu
ISBN-10: 0062275127
ISBN-13: 9780062275127
Publisher: Walden Pond Press
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.80w x 1.40d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.3
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 516779 / Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy

Award: Kirkus Prize - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2021
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2021 pg. 108
Booklist 09/01/2021 pg. 78
Publishers Weekly 10/25/2021
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2021 - Superior,Well Above Average