Kyle Kingsbury, rich, handsome and popular, plays a mean practical joke on an outcast girl in his class, who is really a witch named Kendra in disguise. The witch then curses him for his cruelty. He starts to turn into a beast; however, because he performed a small act of kindness shortly before his transformation when he gave an unwanted rose corsage to a girl working a ticket booth, she gives him two years to break the spell, or remain a beast forever.
The masterpiece of William Henry Davenport Adams, born in London on 5 May 1828, who was an English writer and journalist of the 19th century, notable for a number of his publications. This story is about magic, alchimy and John Dee - a great scientist and well-educated person.
Part of the series featuring debonair enchanter Chrestomanci, this comic fantasy follows two orphans, one of whom is a witch, when they are summoned to live in a castle full of necromancers. Ages 10-up.
Someone in 6B is a witch. And, in the alternate reality described in Diana Wynne Jones's Witch Week, that's not at all a good thing to be. Jones plunks her readers directly into the life of Larwood House, a school in a present-day England that's a lot like the world we know, except for one major difference: witches are everywhere, and they are ruthlessly hunted by inquisitors.
At Larwood House, a school for witch-orphans, witchcraft is utterly forbidden. So when a note is found declaring that someone in class 2Y is a witch the rumour-mill goes into overdrive. So, when the son of history teacher Mr. Wentworth disappears and a note is found signed by the mysterious Witch of 2Y, the dreaded Inquistors are called to investigate.
