Synopses & Reviews
Winner of the Andre Norton Gryphon AwardWelcome to the Leslie Simonton School for the Magically Gifted. A school where students can expect the unexpected. But be careful. At this school the final exam could be a real...killer.
Review
A “most enjoyable book!”--Joan Aiken
"This is a most enjoyable book! It belongs to a genre of stories I adored when I was young; books such as A Girl of Limberlost and Anne of Green Gables. Tria, the heroine of A School for Sorcery, is faced with an outsized tussle: her elegant, spiteful roommate has a habit of turning into a black panther at times of stress, a hostile male student summons fearsome entities known as the Dire Women, and the whole sorcery course looks as if it will come to a cataclysmic end until Tria manages to call upon unexpected reserves of power. This is an elegant, complicated story, at times running into parallel action to perplex the pursuing reader. E. Rose Sabin is a writer to look out for."— Joan Aiken, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
“J. K. Rowling introduced us to the charms and secrets of Hogwarts; now E. Rose Sabin opens up a school for teens who posses equal talents. A School for Sorcery is an excellent study of teens and magic in a very unusual school.”—Andre Norton, SFWA Grand Master
Synopsis
When seventeen-year-old Tria Tesserel begins her studies at the Leslie Simonton School for the Magically Gifted, she is unprepared for the dangers she will face. Oryon--a classmate of formidable power but bent to dark purpose--decides to ally himself to evil. Conspiring with witches known as Dire Women, Oryon causes two classmates to disappear...imprisoned in a terrifying world beyond anyone's reach: except Tria's. Tria will have to make a journey unlike any she has ever known. A journey into the heart of Evil. A Starscape middle grade edition of the Andre Gryphon award-winning novel by newcomer E. Rose Sabin.
About the Author
E. Rose Sabin is a former teacher who now devotes her time to writing fantasy and science fiction. Her stories have won many awards and
A School for Sorcery—her first novel—won the Andre Norton Gryphon award.
She lives in Pinellas County, Florida, with her two dogs, BElana and Dax.