Wizard's Hall

by Jane Yolen

Summary

If you want to learn magic, Wizard's Hall is where you want to go. A place of jagged stone towers and long arching windows, it has enchantment waiting around every corner. (Not that you can count on the corners to hold still...)So when Henry mentions to his mother that he might like to be a wizard, she has him out the door and on his way to Wizard's Hall before he knows what's happening.

Henry arrives just in time, the much-needed 113th student. There's only one small problem: Henry (now known by his wizard's name, Thornmallow) doesn't seem to have much magic.

So how can he save Wizard's Hall from its greatest enemy?
He doesn't have the slighest idea.
So he does the only thing he can do.
He tries.