Pure Dead Brilliant

Debi Gliori. Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, $15.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-375-81412-9

In Pure Dead Brilliant, Debi Gliori's follow-up to Pure Dead Magic and Pure Dead Wicked, things are as chaotic as ever at the family castle StregaSchloss. Twelve-year-old Titus is about to inherit his grandfather's entire fortune-if his Uncle Lucifer doesn't get his hands on it instead, and strange things start happening when Titus's mother invites her witch classmates to visit.

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