There are good life lessons in this book. Lessons on accepting others who aren't like you or who aren't what you thinks someone should be. Lessons that being different isn't always bad. I haven't read the previous books or any other book in this series. My nephew had this book and I read it over a holiday.

WARNING: SPOILERS MAY LIE AHEAD

It set in a magical world and that may offend some. The main character is Elinor "Nory" Horace. Nory feels she's a disappointment to her dad, a prestigious headmaster. Nory's magic isn't conventional so instead of being admitted to her father's school, she's sent to another school--one that has classes for "upside down magic".

However, I didn't feel like that Nory's school did a good job with its pupils. The field trip did more to get the students to feel like their powers were normal and had a place and could be harnessed or used than the school apparently did. For example, instead of allowing the flyer to fly and helping him learn to control his flying, they give him a backpack of bricks to keep him down or put him on a leash like a dog. They also forget his backpack in the parking lot at school and forget him more often than not.

It was nice to see Nory and her father come to an agreement. ( )

Adorable. I want to go to this school and then 🐉 camp. I love how welcoming it is and seriously, baby dragons? 😍 ( )