The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents

The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents is a middle-grade magic school fantasy perfect for fans of The School for Good and Evil and Witchlings, featuring a girl with unparalleled power who must collaborate with her misfit classmates to save her new school.

Lavinia "Vin" Lucas is out of control and out of options. Stranded by parents more interested in using their average magical abilities to study dung beetles than in raising her, Vin has been on her own for years. Her powerful, unpredictable magic has led to years of detention, suspension, and expulsion from various magic schools. Now, she is being sent to the Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents, where expulsion might mean the end of her magical education.

Determined to behave, Vin finds herself at a school where no one seems to want her compliance. Her new teachers, particularly the kind headmistress, encourage her to explore her magic, while her mischievous classmates revel in each magical mishap. Meanwhile, a mysterious fire sprite, a suspicious instructor, and her overwhelming abilities threaten to sabotage her efforts. But for the first time, Vin is not alone.

When a former student launches an attack on the school, Vin is forced to question everything she knows about the headmistress and her new home. Is this place worth saving? And will her burgeoning abilities, alongside every trick, trap, and deception her delinquent friends can muster, be enough to protect Last Hope?