A very cute pre-teen book about wizards and family. The Heap family was told by the midwife that their newest child, Septimus (the seventh son of the seventh son), died. On the same night, Silas Heap (the Heap father) finds a baby girl lying in the snow and takes her home.

Ten years later. Jenna Heap, the baby girl found in the snow, is being hunted so the Heaps go into hiding. During their struggle keep free from the Hunter, they discover that Septimus is NOT dead. But he can't really be this slimmy un-magyked weasle of a boy can he??
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this book was a good book but it was not my favorite ( )

Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com

If you've been looking for a series that combines the magic of Harry Potter with the imaginative characters of Artemis Fowl, then Septimus Heap and his first book, MAGYK, is definitely the story for you. A quick, delightful read that can stand on its own, MAGYK is, without a doubt, an intriguing page-turner.

Septimus Heap, the seventh son of a seventh son, died shortly after birth. Born to a family of Wizards, there's no telling what he might have become, as his lineage as a seventh son would have made him unbelievably magical. But on that winter night when Septimus died, his father, Silas, found another newborn child in the forest. They named her Jenna, and she grew up thinking that she was the daughter of Silas and Sarah Heap, and the sister of six older brothers--Simon, Sam, Edd, Erik, Nicko, and Jo-Jo. Early on, though, Sarah had her own ideas of who Jenna really was, especially when she heard the news that the Queen had been murdered. Jenna Heap was, undoubtedly, the Princess.

Over the next ten years, darkness came to the Castle and the Ramblings, where the Heaps lived. With no Queen, evil came in the form of the Supreme Custodian, who along with his cohorts banned magic and ended the happiness the Queen's people had once known. As the Heap family attempt to ride out this time of darkness, the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, Marcia Overstrand, learns of the plot to kill the Princess, which will allow evil to truly take over the Palace. It seems that the only thing keeping DomDaniel, the Dark Wizard, from returning to the Castle is the presence of the Princess, and he plans to remedy that.

What follows is the flight of Jenna, Nicko, the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, and a Young Army recruit known only as Boy 412 to the Marram Marshes, where Aunt Zelda Heap, a White Witch, will be able to keep them from harm. As events unfold and DomDaniel does everything within his power to track down the girl standing between him and a ruling darkness, the Heap family will have to do everything within their means to stop him--and at the same time stay alive.

MAGYK is a delightful, entertaining story filled with action-adventure and fantasy. With a very large cast of characters who are as diverse as they come, this is one story not to be missed. If you like Harry Potter, you will definitely enjoy Septimus Heap. Filled with twists and turns, this is a story you'll stay up reading long into the night. And although at times predictable, you'll quickly be drawn into the life and times of the Heap family and their magical world. ( )

This book had a lot of twists and it wasn't predictable. ( )

A very predictable story about Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, who comes to be known as Boy 412. Moments after he is born to Sarah and Silas Heap, he is pronounced 'dead' and wisked away. Of course, he is alive and brought to the orphanage where DomDaniel's minion awaits to bring him to the evil master's realm. DomDaniel hopes to use Septimus's powerful and unique Magykical powers to rule the world. Soon after Septimus's kidnapping, Sarah and Silas find a baby girl with violet eyes abandoned outside their cottage. Little do they know, she has secrets of her own. They adopt and love her as their own, naming her Jenna. Jenna and Boy 412 fatefully meet; setting off on a magykical adventure to right all the wrongs which were once created long ago. Magyk is a good story for those kids just getting into chapter books filled with fantasy and mystical stories, as it is much too predictable for the older, savvy fantasy reader ( )