"Ords. You only ever hear about them as kids. You only ever about them in that whisper-down-the-lane way." When twelve year old Abigail Hale is judged to be an ord, possessing no magic whatsoever, it is expected that her family will want to get rid of her or auction her off to adventurers. Instead they send her to a secret school for ords whose chief sponsor is her super-magic older sister, Alexa. Ords are shunned in normal society and Abby has been expelled from her school so she agrees to go to the nation's capital. The romance-reading heroine meets King Steve and is instrumental in capturing Barbarian Mike and saving the school. Five ords have been captured and sold away. Will a sequel detail their rescue? Loved the cover and the applicability of using this book to illuminate prejudice.
Mark Twain Award Preliminary Nominee 2014-15
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