The Books of Magic #1: The Invitation (MSR)
Chapter One
What is the point of all this gross national product nonsense? What's it to me what the leading export of Chile is? There are some things I'd like to export to Chile, like Bobby Saunders for starters, but nobody's asking me, are they? No one ever does.
Does school have to be so boring? Is it a council requirement? There must be something vaguely interesting lurking inside all those books. Someone was interested enough to write them. Molly is bored too, I can tell from the way she's swirling her pencil around—she must be doodling in the margins of her notes, like she always does. Why can't we ever learn anything interesting, answers to the really important questions, like why things are so bloody random, or how is it decided who is born poor and who's born rich? And why are the wrong people always in charge? But school's no place to ask such dangerous questions.
Timothy Hunter pushed his glasses back up the bridge of his nose and tried to pay attention. No such luck. Social studies just could not hold his interest. Not when there were much more interesting ... read full excerpt from The Books of Magic #1: The Invitation ebook
