![]() ![]() ![]() Not that there aren’t pranks and envelope-pushing quips aplenty. Sure signs that the creative wells are running dry at last, the Captain’s ninth, overstuffed outing both recycles a villain (see Book 4) and offers trendy anti-bullying wish fulfillment. A quick-reading, stand-alone, deliciously spellbinding series opener. overcome all such obstacles, as well as their sly, dangerous, but bumbling adversaries, and Boy 412’s (thoroughly telegraphed) true identity comes out. Tongue firmly in cheek, Sage creates a vividly realized world in which pens and rocks can display minds of their own, and a forest “still had a bad wolverine problem at night, and was infested with carnivorous trees.” Ultimately, Jenna and Co. Along the way, she and her protector, ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand pick up not only an assortment of fugitive Heaps, but an orphaned pipsqueak dubbed “Boy 412”-who gradually exhibits stunning powers of Magyk, as the local brand of spellcasting is dubbed. ![]() The revelation comes as she’s being swept to safety, her life forfeit to a crew of thoroughly knavish baddies headed by Necromancer DomDaniel. Ten years after a complicated bit of baby-switching, young Jenna learns that she’s not a member of the tumultuous Heap household (six boys, just imagine), but a hidden Princess. Heads up, Harry, there’s a new young wizard on his way up. ![]()
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