It's rare to find music-based fantasy stories, and this one will delight the music-lovers in your reading circles.
Amelia uses her flute to charm chickens in the neighbor's coop, while dreaming she can earn a place via audition into the Mystwick School of Musicraft. Her deceased mom was a student there, and she just knows she's destined to study and live there, too.
Except she totally flubs the aud, can't even make a spoutling grow with her flute's music magic. She goes home, discouraged, and makes up a song while lying under a tree that reminds her of her mother. The air sparks and a breeze swirls, but she stops the song, leaving the musical magic unfinished (hint: you're not supposed to do that, as it's bad, very, very bad).
Then an invitation to the school arrives at her doorstep and the bus picks her up and…it's all too good to be true. It is. It's a terrible mistake. She shares a name, the exact name, with a girl who died in an accident and was a stellar musician and best friend of …her current roommate. The administrators give her a few weeks to audition again and see if she can pass and prove herself worthy of a spot at the school.
In the interim, with help from her new friends, she discovers she's a bit of a "composer," a rare breed of musician capable of writing their own songs. But it's forbidden to compose music, as it can go very wrong, very quickly.
Then a dark cloud forms and the ghosts inside threaten the school. It takes a bit for the teens to figure out what Amelia's done, exactly, but it's up to her to put everything right and save the school and all her friends.
There's a second one due out and we can't wait for our library to get it and read it! Enjoy!
