![]() The person to take it to was the deputy head, Mr. It was possibly just a joke, and Miss Cadwallader had no sense of humor to speak of. He decided not to take the note to the headmistress. He looked out over the bowed heads of Class 6B and wondered what to do about it. Crossley rubbed his ginger moustache unhappily. It was written in capital letters in ordinary blue ballpoint, and it had appeared between two of the geography books Mr. THE NOTE SAID: SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS IS A WITCH. Mind you, each book in the series does have a different 'flavour'.A very nice read, up to Ms Wynne Jones's usual high standards.Recommended. In an universe where magic practitioners are persecuted and burned at the stake, this leads to a fraught week where accusations and untamed magic abound, until the Chrestomanci is called in to save the day.Although I found the ambience of this book (a school story with cliques and bullies and lots of people keeping secrets) very different from other Chrestomanci books, it had me laughing out aloud at points. ![]() ![]() Though this is part of the Chrestomanci series (book 5), we don't see the connection until around the final quarter of the book.At the beginning of Witch Week, a supernaturally powerful time of the year between Hallowe'en and Guy Fawkes day, an anonymous note claiming that one of the class members is a witch lands on a teacher's desk. In fact, the story takes place on a parallel Earth where magic is forbidden (as opposed to merely hidden). This is a school story about magic but not a la Hogwarts. ![]()
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