€œCarol Goodman€s Blythewoodis reminiscent of both Harry Potter and The Diviners, but in a way that doesn€t distract from the entertaining story within."*
After narrowly escaping death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, seventeen-year-old Avaline Hall is sent to Blythewood Academy, the elite girls€ boarding school in New York€s Hudson Valley that her mother attended years before. Ava hopes to solve the mystery of her mother€s death and its connection to the students who keep disappearing from Blythewood. But the school is not all that it appears . . . and neither is the handsome young man who saved Ava from the fire. What€s the meaning of the extraordinary powers Ava possesses? Who€s good and who€s evil? And who has the right to make that distinction?