The Bane of Angelfall Academy

by Shanti Hershenson

"Much like creativity, magic works in bizarre ways."
As the daughter of two world-famous writers, twelve-year-old Devan Cyrano cannot believe her luck (or could it be misfortune?) when she is accepted into Angelfall Academy for the Writer's Mind, an elite boarding school for the most talented young writers in the world. The only problem is that Devan has not written anything remotely significant, instead suffering from a twelve-year-long plague of writer's block fueled by the pressures her perfect writer parents have placed upon her.As Devan explores Angelfall Academy's state-of-the-art technology and navigates the twists and turns of the school and its prestigious student body, their yearly writing contest, petty academic rivalries, and simulations meant to enhance (and perhaps take away) a writer's imagination, a peculiar plot-twist turns Devan's life upside down. She soon discovers that her stories are coming to life before her eyes, and the characters are beginning to speak to her, begging her to finish the novel she is struggling to write. This could be a writer's dream come true, except when the novel's villain appears and threatens to unravel Devan's entire existence.Now, Devan Cyrano must face the daunting task of finishing her first novel and surviving the sixth grade at a peculiar boarding school-while, similar to all of her favorite book characters, trying to save the universe as she knows it... For fans of Netflix's WEDNESDAY and DEAD POET'S SOCIETY comes an imaginative and spell-binding novel from fifteen-year-old author Shanti Hershenson.