
El has made it out of the Scholomance, the school that eats its students, but the world outside is no safer, and the secrets of how the wizard enclaves were built turn out to be worse than she feared.
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An orphaned boy raised under a staircase learns on his eleventh birthday that he is a wizard, and takes a train to a Scottish school that has been waiting for him.

Cambridge graduate student Alice Law needs her brilliant, cruel adviser, Professor Jacob Grimes, to secure her future in magick, but he has died in an accident she may have caused, so she sets out for Hell to bring him back, with her rival Peter Murdoch.

Alex Stern, a high school dropout who can see ghosts, is given a full scholarship to Yale on one condition: that she monitor the university's secret societies, whose magic is real, dark and dangerous.

Every ten years the Alexandrian Society, keeper of the lost knowledge of ancient civilisations, invites six young magicians to compete for five places, and this cycle's recruits must spend a year together in its London manor.

Christopher Chant, a lonely boy in a well-off family, can walk in his dreams into other worlds, and his charming uncle Ralph starts asking him to fetch things from them.

Rose Hathaway, a half-vampire training to guard her best friend Lissa, a vampire princess, is dragged back with her to St. Vladimir's Academy after two years on the run, where rivalries, gossip and something stalking Lissa are waiting.

In a London ruled by magicians, Nathaniel, a young apprentice humiliated by the powerful Simon Lovelace, summons Bartimaeus, a five-thousand-year-old djinni, and sends him to steal Lovelace's amulet.

Robin Swift, an orphan from Canton brought to Oxford to study at the Royal Institute of Translation, where silver and words power the British Empire, has to choose between Babel and the resistance working against it.

Simon Snow, the worst Chosen One ever chosen, starts his last year at the Watford School of Magicks dumped by his girlfriend and missing his roommate Baz, a vampire he is sure is plotting against him.

Quentin Coldwater, a gifted, unhappy Brooklyn teenager obsessed with a series of children's fantasy novels, is admitted to Brakebills, a secret college of magic in upstate New York, and finds that magic doesn't make him happy.

Nona Grey, a young girl about to be hanged for attacking a nobleman's son, is taken from the gallows by Abbess Glass to the Convent of Sweet Mercy, where nuns train girls of rare blood to kill.

Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children takes in children who found doors into other worlds and were sent back, and Nancy, newly returned from the Halls of the Dead, arrives just before her fellow students start to die.