Worst Love Spell Ever!

by Wanda Coven, Erin Ruth Walker (Read by)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Fans of Dork Diaries and Heidi Heckelbeck won’t want to miss Middle School and Other Disasters, a brand-new series following Heidi as a witch-in-training at her new magical boarding school. Complete with fun illustrations throughout, Middle School and Other Disasters: Worst Love Spell Ever is perfect for readers ready for the next step after chapter books.

In this hilarious second book in the Middle School and Other Disasters series, witch-in-training Heidi Heckelbeck wants her crush to notice her. Featuring black-and-white illustrations and doodles throughout and sparkly foil on the cover!

Heidi is settling in at Broomsfield Academy. She and Melanie are trying to get along and Heidi is getting used to her classes, all her new friends, and her very first crush, Hunter! The problem is: Hunter is really popular. How will Heidi get him to notice her? Her friends tell her to just be herself, but that sounds so boring! After all, Heidi is a witch-in-training. What good is having magic if you can’t use it? She knows she can find the perfect love spell to make Hunter fall in love with her. What could possibly go wrong?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781797162683
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Audio
Publication date:	08/29/2023
Series:	The Middle School and Other Disasters Series , #2
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 5.67(h) x 0.63(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Wanda Coven has always loved magic. When she was little, she used to make secret potions from smooshed shells and acorns. Then she would pretend to transport herself and her friends to enchanted places. Now she visits other worlds through writing. Wanda lives with her husband and son in San Jose, California. They have three cats: Hilda, Agnes, and Claw-dia.

Erin Ruth Walker graduated with a bachelor's degree in acting from Boston University and went on to perform in film, television, and theater. She enjoys lending her voice to multiple genres, including young adult, thriller, and fantasy.

Read an Excerpt

Chapter 1: Dream Boy

Editorial Reviews

2023-06-08
Heidi is a young witch attending middle school at Broomsfield Academy, a boarding school catering to both magical and nonmagical students.

Kids with magical powers must only use those skills for schoolwork, but Heidi can’t always control herself, like when she’s running late for class and needs to get dressed in a hurry. Her obsession with classmate Hunter McCann (aka Hunter McCutie) is threatening to take over her life. Melanie, her roommate and once her hometown enemy but now almost a friend, also has a crush on Hunter, who is actually a really nice boy. Heidi tries to hide her feelings from Melanie, but she pours out her heart to good friends Sunny and Annabelle. She also writes to Lucy, her BFF back home, about her situation. While Melanie is interested in flirting and makeup, Heidi’s closest friends give her good advice: “Just be yourself.” Nevertheless, Heidi keeps using witchcraft: first, growing long hair to attract Hunter (it backfires when her hair grows uncontrollably). She later attempts the love potion spell that inspires the title, hoping to isolate Hunter so that she can have him to herself. However, Heidi soon learns how harmful her behavior was. Readers looking for breezy fare will enjoy this second series installment, which uses varied size fonts, ample white space, and humorous digital grayscale illustrations. Most main characters present white.

An entertaining and funny take on middle school drama with a light magical touch. (Fiction. 9-12)

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