Upside-Down Magic (Upside-Down Magic #1) (1)
Meet the Upside-Down Magic kids in the first topsy-turvy adventure of this New York Times bestselling series, now a Disney Channel Original Movie!It's never easy when your magic goes wonky.For Nory, this means that instead of being able to turn into a dragon or a kitten, she turns into both of them at the same time-a dritten.For Elliott, the simple act of conjuring fire from his fingertips turns into a fully frozen failure.For Andres, wonky magic means he's always floating in the air, bouncing off the walls, or sitting on the ceiling.For Bax, a bad moment of magic will turn him into a . . . actually, he'd rather not talk about that.Nory, Elliott, Andres, and Bax are just four of the students in Dunwiddle Magic School's Upside-Down Magic class. In their classroom, lessons are unconventional, students are unpredictable, and magic has a tendency to turn wonky at the worst possible moments. Because it's always amazing, the trouble a little wonky magic can cause . . .
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I think I was expecting something more sophisticated, but it seems this was meant for late elementary school/early middle school, rather than roughly the same audience as Harry Potter or Fablehaven. It felt a bit...cliche. It simply happened to be useful that she could turn into a winged dragon-kitten, and that everyone's wonky magic saved the day. It seemed like an un-nuanced lesson that she couldn't simply be "normal" if she wanted to, and that to be wonky was inevitable, and to suppress it was bad. She doesn't go to the school she wanted to go to, even if her power was impressive and she was able to control it well enough to save a classmate. It felt like inescapable essentialism enforced by her social environment. I don't think the status quo was really challenged. Of course, I did read this a few months ago, so I might be missing some details.
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