Description

Unbeknownst to tenyearold Wil Wychwood he comes from a long line of mages But with the death of his grandmother and his world upended Wil moves to live with the Aunts and finds himself in MiddleGate where buses drive through brick walls and leaning houses dot streets named Wogs Hollow and Half Moon Lane The fourhundredandninetyfouryearold school Gruffuds Academy is out of this world too With classes in numeristics botanicals cartology and verbology and textbooks like Magykal Spelling Grammar and Palaver this is no ordinary schoolYet something dark brews beneath the veneer of this idyllic hidden city When Wil and his cousin Sophie rescue the sacred snakes of Narcisse they find themselves swept up in a dangerous plot The secret society known as the Serpents Chain is on the loose and Wil is carrying the very thing theyve been searching for Beware the Serpents Chain they were told but what does that mean What dangers await Wil and Sophie as they unravel this wicked mystery