The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association

This clever and captivating fantasy from bestseller Rozakis (Dreadful) puts a unique twist on the magical school trope by focusing on the harried, out of their depths unmagical parents of a magically gifted child. After kindergartner Aria gets bitten by a rogue member of aConnecticut werewolf pack, her mother, former accountant and recovering people pleaser Vivian, gets swept up into the often terrifying world of the East Coast’s elite private magical academies. In addition to more mundane issues like bringing the wrong thing to a bake sale, trying to befriend the school’s Queen Bee moms, and failing to make sense of discrepancies in the PTA accounting files, Vivian must manage her daughter’s now extremely dangerous habit of biting people and tendency to turn into a wolf during her meltdowns. There’s also the matter of an ominous prophecy that suggests Aria may be hastening the town’s doom. The resulting romp offers both a gentle satire of elite private schools and a sympathetic depiction of the struggles of caring for a special needs child. Often funny and always empathetic, this is sure to delight Rozakis’s fans and win her plenty of new ones. (May)