WEIRN BOOKS SC VOL 01

Svetlana Chmakova, writer and artist of the award-winning Berrybrook School titles, returns to an old property of hers, rebooting it for a new series of graphic novels. It has many of the familiar trappings of a middle school drama - crushes, rivalries, insecurities and so on - but is set ina  town filled with supernatural folk, where the kids attend a night school provided especially for those with abilities beyond the norm. Ailis and her cousin Na’ya both attend the school as weirns, witches who have a being called an Astral attached to them at birth. When strange (well, stranger than normal) things start happening, the two set out to get to the heart of the mystery, no matter the danger. Fun stuff with some nice spooky overtones.