Stones to Ashes by Kailin Gow

An Academy for Alchemists in Training...Established by Merlin himself."What do you learn here...at the Academy?" Wirt asks. "Magic? The responsibility to use your powers responsibly?""Uh...something like that", his roommate Spencer said. "More like how to rule worlds."Wirt, is used to being shuffled from foster home to foster home, adopting a devil-may-care attitude toward the world along the way. Now he's in a school he can't escape, learning to develop his latent magical abilities, for what use, he doesn t know...to save his world or to destroy it...The Original Alchemists Academy Series first published in 2012 for age 10 and up by ALA YALSA Award-winning and STEM Author and filmmaker Kailin Gow. For More Information on Books for Middle Grade, Teens, Young Adult, Women, and Non-fiction books; visit Sparklesoup.com.