Description: "In her second year at Last Hope, Lavinia 'Vin' Lucas balances new friendships, secrets, and her growing powers while outwitting a corrupt school board and warding off a threat to magical world in order to save her school and friends"--
Review Quotes: "Readers will enjoy revisiting this world for more shenanigans, schemes, laughs, magic, and mystery. The true heart of the story--and the school--lies in the affirming values of trust, forgiveness, belonging, community, and second chances. An entertaining blend of thrilling magic and hijinks."--Kirkus Reviews
"A charming cast of magical underdogs find their place in this captivating series." --School Library Journal Praise for The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents "The heart, humor, and hijinks of middle grade are at their best in The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents. A story full of found family, magic, and learning to believe in yourself, it's sure to appeal to fans of Jessica Townsend's Nevermoor series."--Kalyn Josephson, New York Times bestselling author of the Ravenfall series "An absolute masterpiece full of breathless magic and charming characters. Readers will find the pages all but turning on their own as Nicki Pau Preto leads us from wonder to mystery and everything in between."--Scott Reintgen, New York Times bestselling author of A Door in the Dark "Brimming with magic, mystery, and heart, this story was an action-packed delight from start to finish. Vin is a lovable heroine worth rooting for, and Nicki Pau Preto delivers a fresh, fascinating new world that any reader--delinquent or not--would want to belong to."--Jessica Khoury, Author of The Mystwick School of Musicraft and the Skyborn series "This engaging magic school story has hijinks, humor, mystery, and action . . . An absorbing, mischief-filled fantasy"--Kirkus Reviews [An] empowering fantasy...Propulsive pacing and a mischievous sense of humor characterize...Pau Preto's high-spirited middle grade debut."--Publishers Weekly "The perfect book (and new series) for middle-grade readers who love series like The School for Good and Evil and Harry Potter."--Booklist