

Legendborn
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After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.
A flying demon feeding on human energies.
A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down.
And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.
The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.
She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.
ISBN: 9781534441606
JLG Release: Nov 2020
Awards & Honors
2021 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award
Book Details
ISBN
9781534441606
First Release
November 2020
Genre
Fic
Dewey Classification
F
Trim Size
9" x 6"
Page Count
512
Accelerated Reader
Level 5.2; Points: 24;
Scholastic Reading Counts
N/ALexile
N/AFormat
Print Book
Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Margaret McElderry
Potentially Sensitive Areas
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Underage Use , Language: Strong Language , Language: Racial or Ethnic Epithet/Slur , Sexual Content: Mild Sexual Content/Themes , Violence: General , Violence: Graphic Descriptions
Topics
Secret societies, Genealogy, Demonology, African Americans, Black people, Colleges and universities, Magic, North Carolina, Retellings of Arthurian legends,