After getting expelled for poor conduct he is offered a place at Groosham Grange, however this proposal was not by coincidence. It introduces a detective by the name of Daniel Hawthorne - a rather dark and dangerous man whom I actually met on the set of Injustice.

Then there is the teacher's soliloquy about how Christmas was never a Christian holiday and still isn't. However, when I did finish, I scoured the library to see if they had the next one in the series (with no luck! David has six older siblings, though we never meet any of them, making him the seventh son of the seventh son. Entretenida para el público infantil que es al que está dirigido, me hubiera encantado leerla de niño. It turns out the children all have one thing in common – they are the seventh son of the seventh son (or in Jill’s case, seventh daughter) and on their thirteenth birthday they will have to choose between joining the school or death.Upon hearing the news, his father reacts rather badly, forcing David to take refuge in his room to avoid the commotion. No necesitan esperar demasiado para darse cuenta de que el lugar a donde se dirigen es bastante macabro.

On route to his new school, he befriends Jill and Jeffrey and through their discussion it seems that they had each received a letter with differing information to portray this school ideally for their parents. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The letter Jeffrey’s parents received describes Groosham Grange as the perfect college for their son, but this time around it is explains that the school is akin to a military training camp. He’s just been expelled from Beton College (a parody of Eton College) and nervously tells his parents the bad news. It could almost be enjoyable except that every time you get interested in the plot, the author decides to throw a cheesy joke in.It uses simple and informative language which engages the reader and sets the finish of each chapter with the suspense of wanting to continue. Raro, son 3 chicos que los manda a una escuela internado llamada Granja Groosham, donde con los nombres es muy obvio que son los maestros, pero te lo mantienen “oculto”, este entretenida, pero si te quedas como con ganas de saber que paso después del cumpleaños, que clases que todo ya una vez que. Por ejemplo, la idea de una escuela mágica, o bien que aparezcan tres niños como protagonistas (dos niños y una niña). After cutting my teeth on the hugely popular show, Robin of Sherwood, I moved on to work with David Suchet and his brilliant portrayal of Hercule Poirot, writing about nine or ten episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot. Una de las cosas que más disfruto de este libro es que el autor -a pesar de ser un libro para niños- no escatimó en incluir y describir temas bastantes oscuros.

and later the French Prix Européen du Roman Pour Enfants ("European Award for Children's Fiction") in 1993. Harry Potter todavía no se publicaba y la Granja Groosham fue la primera vez que me encontré con una escuela poco usual y que se quedó en mi corazón.It wasn’t the ghosts, ghouls and vampires he should have been scared of – it was the bankers, the priests, the middle-aged married couples. Honestamente, si yo hubiera sido David, estaría fascinada de tener clases de latín, de francés, de "cocina" y de todas las cosas raras que enseñan ahí. But here I am, writing a book in which I have no idea what's going on, following in the footsteps of a character who refuses to tell me anything. When I met Anthony Horowitz a few years ago, he said that David Eliot was the character most like himself, and that David's bad report cards from school were based on bad report cards that Anthony himself had received as a boy.

En esta historia, un chico de 12 años de nombre David Eliot, es expulsado de la estricta escuela en la que estudia. When you read the second book, Unholy Grail, you will very much suspect that JK Rowling read these books too.

GG is actually a witchcraft school and David has no choice but to decide between embracing it or paying with his life. Cofradías de brujos, celebraciones paganas, muñecos vudú y vampiros, son solo algunas de la sorpresas que le esperan a nuestro protagonista.