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Year of the Griffin
Year of the Griffin
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
It is eight years after the tours from offworld have stopped. High Chancellor Querida has retired, leaving Wizard Corkoran in charge of the Wizards' University. Although Wizard Corkoran's obsession is to be the first man on the moon, and most of his time is devoted to this project, he decides he will teach the new first years himself in hopes of...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780064473354
ISBN-10: 006447335X
Publication Date: 8/1/2001
Pages: 400
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: HarperTrophy
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Eight years after the end of Mr. Chasney's offworld Pilgrim Parties, the Wizards' University is in a shambles. Wizard Derk's griffin daughter Elda and her fellow first-year students encounter tyrannical tutors, boring lectures and truly terrible refectory food. But things get even worse when the University sends a letter to each of their families begging for funds. Now Elda and her friends must contend with a band of trained assasins, a flock of renegade griffins and an unexpected trip to the moon. Even with all the magical means at their disposal, will they make it through their first year?
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Another one I re-read a lot. Humorous, thought provoking, imaginative.

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This book is a really fun read. The characters are interesting and sympathetic. The situations they get into keep me giggling. I'm a Harry Potter fan and this story of magical mischief at school is right up my alley.


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