This 2014 Mark Twain award winner reminded me of Harry Potter. The "unwanteds" are children (teens and tweens) who live in a magical world and learn magic from various odd teachers. They even have an old mage rather than a wizard for the Dumbledore role.
The unwanteds are any children who show creativity and don't fit into the Quillian world where there is extreme lack of goods, water, and technology which was apparently lost at some point. The unwanteds are sent to off to die, but Marcus, the mage, actually has made the magical world to save them in. The inevitable conflict will arise between rigid Quill and the magical world.
While quite interesting, it still wasn't Harry Potter even though a British guy did the CD and could aproximate a Draco Malfoy voice for one of the characters. I guess I still miss that thrill of a new Harry Potter book coming out.
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